Sathi is a next-generation academic synchronization platform designed to eliminate the chaos of fragmented university communication. It replaces messy WhatsApp groups and lost emails with a centralized, AI-powered hub for deadlines, announcements, peer discussions, and up-skilling resources.
Sathi dynamically routes users based on their institutional role:
- Management Portal: Administrative control to create and manage Class Sections.
- Class Representative (CR) / IC Portal: Empowered dashboard to broadcast official academic tasks, announcements, and trigger automated email reminders to specific sections.
- Student Portal: A personalized, time-aware dashboard displaying personal workload alongside official section deadlines.
- AI Syllabus Scanner: Students can upload an image or PDF of their syllabus. Powered by Azure OpenAI GPT-4o Vision, Sathi automatically extracts assignments and deadlines, syncing them directly into the student's Cosmos DB task list.
- Community Brain (Contextual RAG): A floating AI assistant integrated into the community tab. It uses a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline to fetch real-time context from peer discussions, campus events, and resources before answering questions. If unresolved, it auto-drafts a new community post.
- Automated Reminders: Built-in Cron job system utilizing
nodemailerto blast 24-hour deadline warnings to assigned students.
- Time-Aware Dashboard: Tasks automatically categorize into "Due Today", "Upcoming", and "Overdue" with visual urgency indicators.
- Peer-to-Peer Community: Global tabs for Discussions, Hackathons/Events, and Up-skilling resources with a real-time upvoting algorithm.
Sathi is built using a modern, scalable Serverless architecture.
- Frontend Framework: Next.js (App Router)
- UI/UX: React 19, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Framer Motion (Micro-animations)
- Backend API: Next.js Route Handlers (Serverless Node.js)
- Database: Azure Cosmos DB (NoSQL)
- Authentication: Google OAuth 2.0 & Institutional Nodemailer OTP Validation
- AI Integration:
@azure/openaiSDK - CI/CD: GitHub Actions deployment to Azure Web Apps
Follow these instructions to run Sathi on your local machine.
- Node.js (v20+ recommended)
- Git
- An Azure Account (for Cosmos DB and OpenAI)
- A Google Cloud Console project (for OAuth)
git clone https://github.com/Rahul-14507/Sathi.git
cd Sathinpm installCreate a .env.local file in the root directory and populate it with the following secure keys:
# Google OAuth Configuration
NEXT_PUBLIC_GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID="your_google_client_id"
GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET="your_google_client_secret"
# Azure Cosmos DB
COSMOS_ENDPOINT="your_cosmos_db_uri"
COSMOS_KEY="your_cosmos_db_key"
# Nodemailer / Email Auth Service
EMAIL_USER="your_email@gmail.com"
EMAIL_PASS="your_app_password"
# Azure OpenAI (Sathi AI Features)
AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT="https://your-resource.openai.azure.com/"
AZURE_OPENAI_KEY="your_azure_openai_key"
AZURE_OPENAI_API_VERSION="2024-08-01-preview"npm run devOpen http://localhost:3000 in your browser to see the application running.
Sathi utilizes 4 primary NoSQL containers:
- Users: Stores domain profiles, roles (student/cr/management), and section mappings.
- Tasks: The core workload engine. Stores official CR broadcasts and personal student tasks.
- Community: Stores crowdsourced posts, events, and upskill resources with a
votestracking map. - OTPs: Transient collection with Time-To-Live (TTL) indexing for secure, short-lived email authentication codes.
Developed with ♥ for the Hackathon.