Case study · Building in public

From research fragments to a defensible product decision.

SUVANÉ Research is a human-in-the-loop AI implementation case: discovery, data modeling, retrieval, structured synthesis, evaluation, deployment, and operational safeguards.

ProblemResearch is abundant. Decision context is missing.
UserHealth product, innovation, and care teams.
OutcomeA traceable pilot recommendation—not another summary.

System workflow

01

Discovery

Turn a vague research need into a bounded product decision: should a care team run a pilot?

02

Normalize

Map papers and reports into one evidence schema: population, intervention, outcomes, strength, limits, and implementation meaning.

03

Retrieve

Search source chunks and records together, then require every synthesis claim to remain traceable.

04

Synthesize

Generate a fixed decision brief with explicit uncertainty and a refusal path when evidence is insufficient.

05

Evaluate

Test retrieval coverage, citation correctness, unsupported claims, answer consistency, and usefulness to target professionals.

06

Review

Keep evidence ratings and publishing under human control; log source, prompt, model, output, and approval state.

Architecture direction

A modular monolith before a platform.

The live decision surface now calls a FastAPI service with deterministic retrieval, structured Pydantic contracts, verified evidence records, and an explicit insufficient-evidence path. Postgres/pgvector, ingestion workers, and reviewer state remain later milestones.

Verified sourcesDeterministic retrievalDecision briefSource traceabilityHuman judgment

Evaluation plan

The demo is not complete when it produces an answer.

Retrieval

Did the system find the evidence needed to answer the question?

Grounding

Does every material claim match and cite a retrieved source?

Calibration

Does confidence fall when evidence quality or coverage is weak?

Decision utility

Can a professional identify the next responsible action?

Current status

Live retrieval connected. Evaluation is next.

The current checkpoint connects the product surface to a deployed FastAPI service and six-record verified corpus. The next milestone is a 10–20 question evaluation set covering relevance, citation correctness, refusals, and decision utility.