doko.ai 🎄

llm-based japan travel assistant

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Project Overview

doko.ai is an llm-based travel assistant designed to provide users with up to date and relevent information about Japan travel.

Project Timeline

#TODO
in progress

add more tool uses and routing to enchance agent capbabiilties

moving over to agentic assistant. working on various tool calls along with documents. doko.ai can now look up live weather and provide exchange rate deatails.

School
09-23-25 to 12-10-25

busy with school work for fall quarter

Deployment & Testing
opened on 08-01-25

deployed to Vercel. tested several questions. while it does work, it is slow because of reasoning

Connecting Front and Backend
opened on 07-19-25

connected FastAPI backend with frontend. using deepseek as llm of choice because of its cheap token costs

Frontend UI
opened on 06-12-25

started to design and build out UI with Next.js and Tailwind CSS

Model Finetuning
opened on 06-03-25

finetuned Granite 8B model using MLX framework and AWS sagemaker. didn't achieve significant improvemnt in responses so pivoted to using RAG system instead

started reddit posts processing. cleaned, summarized and assembled q and a style pairs for finetuning

Project Start
opened on 05-16-25

started development of doko.ai. initial planning and architecture design. set up Next.js frontend and FastAPI backend infrastructure.

Upcoming

  • Add agentic features
  • Reindex RAG database with updated information
  • Add page for flight prices
  • Add dashboard page

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