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Complete catalog of 30-hour hackathon blueprints and public-good AI systems for the Philippines. Search keywords, filter by strategic pillar, or inspect technical stacks.

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Safe and Resilient Communities ★ 4.60 • Medium
#01

SagipAI: Turning national typhoon bulletins into 'what my barangay should do now'

SagipAI translates PAGASA and NDRRMC bulletins and hazard maps into hyperlocal, plain-language action advisories in Tagalog, Bisaya, and Ilocano, sent to residents by SMS, Messenger, and voice call. When residents reply with SOS messages and photos, an LLM and vision triage dashboard helps barangay DRRM officers decide who to rescue first.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: Next.js + Leaflet dashboard, FastAPI, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Gemini or GPT-class LLM with JSON output, a multimodal model for photos, Google/Meta TTS, Messenger Platform API, SMS gateway.
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Sustainable and Connected PH ★ 4.55 • Medium
#26

TubigAI (AgwaSense): Hyperlocal Municipal Water-Rationing & Dam Deficit Navigator

During El Niño droughts when Angat and local reservoirs drop to crisis levels, TubigAI optimizes municipal water rationing schedules using network pressure simulations and sends citizens exact, street-level water availability forecasts via SMS and chat so communities never wake up to dry taps without warning.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python (FastAPI, NetworkX, NumPy, SciPy), Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Leaflet/Mapbox GL, Twilio/Semaphore SMS API (or mock SMS interface), Supabase (PostgreSQL).
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Sustainable and Connected PH ★ 4.50 • Medium
#27

Tanim-Init: Drought-Adaptive Crop Switch & Smart Irrigation Copilot for Farmers

When El Niño cuts irrigation water to zero, Tanim-Init uses satellite soil moisture data and AI forecasting to advise smallholder Filipino farmers when to switch from water-heavy paddy rice to high-value, drought-resilient crops (like mungbean or sorghum), delivering hyper-local farming steps via SMS in their native dialect.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python (FastAPI, Rasterio, GeoPandas, Xarray), React / Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Leaflet/Mapbox, Twilio/Semaphore API (SMS), ElevenLabs or open-source TTS for Filipino voice, SQLite/PostgreSQL.
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Future-Ready Workforce ★ 4.40 • Medium
#16

SkillBridge PH: A 10-minute voice interview in Filipino that turns your experience into a TESDA path and a local job

SkillBridge PH interviews workers by voice in Filipino, Taglish, or their local language, pulls out the skills they already have, and matches them to TESDA courses and nearby job openings. It is built for people AI is displacing, starting with BPO agents, and it gives PESO officers a ready-to-act profile for every worker instead of a blank form.

#SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Next.js or Flutter web, FastAPI, Whisper (large-v3) or Google Speech-to-Text for Filipino, Gemini or GPT-class LLM with JSON output, multilingual-e5 embeddings, pgvector or Chroma, Twilio or Semaphore SMS gateway (Smart network in production).
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Trusted Digital Government ★ 4.40 • Easy
#21

BantayScam: Forward the text, get the truth in Taglish

BantayScam is a chatbot where any Filipino can forward a suspicious SMS, link, or screenshot and get a plain Taglish explanation of whether it is a scam, and why, within seconds. Every report is anonymized and added to a live trends dashboard so CICC, LGUs, and telcos can see new scam waves while they are spreading, not weeks afterward.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python FastAPI, Gemini or GPT-class multimodal LLM, Tesseract or Cloud Vision OCR, sentence-transformers + HDBSCAN, Supabase/Postgres, Next.js + Leaflet dashboard, Telegram/Messenger Bot APIs.
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Sustainable and Connected PH ★ 4.40 • Easy
#28

InitAlert PH: Hyperlocal Heat Index AI for School Safety & Outdoor Labor Protection

When El Niño sends Philippine heat indices soaring past 45°C, InitAlert PH predicts localized classroom and workplace thermal stress 48 hours in advance, auto-drafting localized DepEd school shift advisories and alerting construction sites so students and workers don't suffer heat stroke.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python (FastAPI, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn), Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Leaflet/Mapbox, Semaphore SMS API, Supabase.
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Safe and Resilient Communities ★ 4.25 • Medium
#03

BahaWatch: Every CCTV and phone camera becomes a flood gauge

BahaWatch uses vision AI to estimate street flood depth from existing CCTV feeds and crowdsourced phone photos, using cars, people, and posts as built-in measuring sticks. It builds a live community flood map and warns commuters and drivers which roads are passable ("gutter-deep," "knee-deep," "not passable to light vehicles").

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python, YOLOv8-seg / Segment Anything, a multimodal LLM (Gemini/GPT-class), FastAPI, PostGIS, Mapbox/Leaflet, OSRM for routing, Messenger Platform API, SMS gateway.
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Smarter Public Service ★ 4.25 • Medium
#06

Serbisyo Copilot: Know exactly what to bring, before you line up at city hall

Serbisyo Copilot is a Taglish/Bisaya AI frontline assistant that tells citizens exactly which requirements they need for a barangay clearance, cedula, business permit, or building permit, then uses vision AI to check that uploaded documents are complete and readable before they ever reach the counter. Sensitive data is redacted on the device first, so LGUs cut repeat visits and queues while staying compliant with the ARTA Act and the Data Privacy Act.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: Next.js PWA, Gemini or an open multimodal model (e.g., Qwen-VL) for document understanding, Tesseract/PaddleOCR, Transformers.js or ONNX Runtime Web for on-device redaction, a vector DB (pgvector), Supabase, and Messenger Platform API.
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Future-Ready Workforce ★ 4.25 • Hard
#18

Tutor sa Bulsa: An AI tutor that works over plain SMS or fully offline, so no learner is left behind by bad signal

Tutor sa Bulsa gives students in low-connectivity barangays a patient, DepEd-aligned AI tutor they can reach by text message from any phone, or through a small on-device model that runs without internet. It explains lessons in Filipino, English, or the learner's own language and quietly tracks mastery so teachers know who needs help.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: Kotlin or Flutter Android app with llama.cpp or Google MediaPipe LLM Inference, Gemma 2B or Qwen2.5-1.5B (int4), SQLite with a small embedding index, FastAPI with a Gemini or GPT-class LLM for SMS mode, a Semaphore or Twilio SMS gateway for the prototype (Smart A2P in production).
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Sustainable and Connected PH ★ 4.20 • Medium
#11

AniAI: A crop doctor in every farmer's pocket, speaking their dialect

AniAI lets a Filipino farmer take a photo of a sick rice, corn, banana, or coconut plant and, within seconds, learn what disease or pest it is and what to do about it. The advice takes the weather into account and arrives by SMS or voice in Hiligaynon, Cebuano, Ilocano, or Tagalog, even where signal is weak.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: TensorFlow/Keras → TFLite, React Native or a PWA, FastAPI, Gemini or open LLM (e.g., Llama/SEA-LION) with a vector DB, Google Cloud TTS or open TTS, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Leaflet.
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Future-Ready Workforce ★ 4.20 • Hard
#20

Tindahan Copilot: Snap a receipt or a shelf, get Taglish business advice, and build a credit history

Tindahan Copilot turns a sari-sari store owner's phone into an inventory clerk, demand forecaster, and business coach: take a photo of supplier receipts or shelves and the AI does the bookkeeping. Over time, the store's verified sales patterns become an alternative credit score that opens fair loans to micro-entrepreneurs banks have ignored.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Flutter or React Native (or a PWA), FastAPI, Gemini or GPT-4o-class vision LLM for receipts and shelves (YOLOv8 as fallback), Whisper for Taglish voice, LightGBM or Prophet, SHAP, PostgreSQL, Semaphore or Twilio SMS.
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Sustainable and Connected PH ★ 4.20 • Hard
#29

KuryenteWatch: Hydropower Drought & Grid Stress Forecaster for Brownout Prevention

During El Niño droughts when low dam water slashes hydroelectric generation right as heatwaves drive peak air conditioning demand, KuryenteWatch uses AI to predict grid Yellow/Red alerts 24 hours in advance and automates commercial demand-response load shedding to prevent rotating blackouts.

#SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python (FastAPI, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Statsmodels/Prophet), Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Recharts / Tremor, Semaphore SMS API, PostgreSQL.
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Safe and Resilient Communities ★ 4.15 • Medium
#05

LindolReady: Snap your house, know your earthquake risk before the 'Big One'

LindolReady lets any homeowner photograph their house so AI can flag earthquake weak points (soft stories, unreinforced hollow blocks, heavy overhangs, missing ties) and give a vulnerability score with practical, affordable retrofit tips. Combined anonymously, the scores give LGUs a street-level risk heatmap for the West Valley Fault "Big One."

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Next.js PWA, a multimodal LLM (Gemini/GPT-class) plus an optional YOLO classifier, FastAPI, PostGIS, Leaflet/Deck.gl heatmap, Messenger Platform API.
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Sustainable and Connected PH ★ 4.15 • Medium
#12

ConnectPH Map: AI that finds the Filipinos the internet forgot, and ranks where to connect them first

ConnectPH Map combines satellite building detection, population estimates, and network coverage data to find unconnected communities and geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDAs) barangay by barangay. It then ranks where fiber, a new tower, satellite, or a free WiFi hotspot will connect the most people for each peso. It turns "Connect the unconnected" into a ranked, data-driven rollout map for PLDT/Smart, DICT, and LGUs.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: Python, GeoPandas, H3, PostGIS, PyTorch (U-Net/SAM-based segmentation), scikit-learn/XGBoost, OR-Tools, FastAPI, deck.gl/Leaflet, Gemini or an open LLM.
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Future-Ready Workforce ★ 4.15 • Easy
#17

Guro AI: A MATATAG-aligned teaching copilot that gives Filipino teachers back their evenings

Guro AI produces MATATAG-aligned daily lesson logs, quizzes, worksheets, and reading passages in Filipino, English, and local languages in minutes, and it auto-fills the forms teachers spend nights on. Teachers stay in control of the content, and Guro AI handles the paperwork so they can focus on learners.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: Next.js PWA, FastAPI, Gemini or GPT-class LLM, multilingual-e5 embeddings with Chroma, Google Cloud Vision or Tesseract OCR, docx and pdf generation libraries.
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Trusted Digital Government ★ 4.15 • Hard
#24

Kamay: Filipino Sign Language and voice access to every government counter

Kamay translates Filipino Sign Language (FSL) into text and speech, and turns a clerk's speech back into captions and FSL, so Deaf Filipinos can transact at a city hall, PhilHealth, or SSS counter without waiting for an interpreter. It also adds voice navigation to government kiosks and e-services, so blind, low-vision, and low-literacy citizens can use them too.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: Python, MediaPipe Holistic, PyTorch/TensorFlow (LSTM or small Transformer), OpenAI Whisper, Gemini or other LLM, Coqui/Google TTS (Filipino), React web app, Rokid SDK or Android display.
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Safe and Resilient Communities ★ 4.10 • Hard
#02

MATA: Hands-free AR damage assessment that writes the RDANA report for you

MATA ("eye") puts a vision-AI damage inspector on Rokid AR glasses, or a phone camera as a fallback, so that responders walking through a typhoon- or earthquake-hit barangay can detect and classify structural damage just by looking. It then auto-drafts the official RDANA (Rapid Damage Assessment and Needs Analysis) report hands-free, cutting the time before aid can be requested from days to hours.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: Rokid SDK / Android (Kotlin), YOLOv8/RT-DETR for detection plus a multimodal LLM (Gemini/GPT-class) for severity explanations, Whisper for STT, FastAPI, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, React dashboard, ReportLab for PDF generation.
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Smarter Public Service ★ 4.05 • Hard
#10

Daloy: AI that keeps cities and commuters moving

Daloy turns existing CCTV feeds and PUV GPS data into real-time vehicle counts, then recommends adaptive traffic signal timings and better jeepney and modern PUV routes and dispatch for LGUs and the MMDA. It works with the cameras cities already own, with no new road sensors needed.

#Computer Vision #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Ultralytics YOLO (check license, AGPL) or RT-DETR, ByteTrack, OpenCV, Eclipse SUMO with TraCI, Stable-Baselines3 or a max-pressure heuristic, Python/FastAPI, Kepler.gl or Deck.gl, PostGIS, and Gemini for report generation.
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Smarter Public Service ★ 4.00 • Medium
#09

Kalusugan Triage: Smarter queues and safer referrals for barangay health centers

Kalusugan Triage helps barangay health workers (BHWs) and RHU staff take symptoms in Tagalog, Bisaya, Ilocano, or Hiligaynon, flag danger signs, and put patients in the right priority queue, so the sickest are seen first and urgent cases are referred quickly. It is a decision-support and queue tool, not a diagnosis tool, and it links patients to PhilHealth Konsulta and referral facilities.

#SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: React PWA with IndexedDB (offline), Whisper/faster-whisper or a Filipino fine-tune, Gemini or SEA-LION for extraction, a Python rule engine, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Grafana/Recharts, and an SMS gateway.
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Smarter Public Service ★ 3.90 • Easy
#07

Hinaing AI: Every citizen complaint heard, routed, and resolved on time

Hinaing AI collects citizen complaints from the 8888 hotline, LGU Facebook pages, and SMS, then automatically classifies, de-duplicates, summarizes, and routes each one to the right office with an SLA clock running. LGU leaders get a live sentiment and trend dashboard that turns thousands of messy "hinaing" into clear action items.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python FastAPI, Gemini or Llama 3 / SEA-LION for multilingual classification, sentence-transformers (multilingual) for clustering, PostgreSQL + PostGIS, React with Leaflet and Recharts, a Twilio/Semaphore-style SMS gateway (Smart in production), and the Facebook Graph API (Pages).
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Future-Ready Workforce ★ 3.90 • Easy
#19

InterviewKo: AI mock interviews that coach Filipino jobseekers on what they say, how they say it, and how confident they sound

InterviewKo runs realistic, role-specific mock interviews for BPO accounts, OFW deployments, and entry-level jobs, then gives instant feedback on answer content, English fluency and pronunciation, and confidence. It brings the coaching that well-connected applicants get from mentors to every fresh graduate with a phone.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #AR Glasses
Stack: Next.js, WebRTC or MediaRecorder, FastAPI, Whisper (word timestamps), Gemini or GPT-class LLM, Azure Speech Pronunciation Assessment or wav2vec2 forced alignment, MediaPipe Face Mesh (optional), ElevenLabs or Google TTS.
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Sustainable and Connected PH ★ 3.85 • Hard
#14

IsdaWatch: Safer seas for small fishers, sharper eyes on illegal fishing

IsdaWatch sends municipal fisherfolk daily SMS advisories in their dialect on where fish are likely and whether it is safe to go out. It also uses satellite night-light (VIIRS) and vessel-tracking data to flag commercial boats illegally fishing inside the 15-km municipal waters. One platform protects both the bangkero's life and his livelihood.

#SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python, GeoPandas, xarray, scikit-learn/LightGBM, OR-Tools, FastAPI, React + Leaflet/Mapbox, Gemini or an open LLM, open TTS, SMS gateway mock.
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Trusted Digital Government ★ 3.85 • Medium
#22

PondoLens: AI red flags on public spending, explained for every citizen

PondoLens reads public procurement data from PhilGEPS and COA audit reports, flags patterns like split contracts, repeat winners, and overpricing, and explains each one in plain Filipino or English. It gives journalists, auditors, LGU officials, and ordinary taxpayers the same early-warning view of where public funds may be leaking.

#SMS & Voice #AR Glasses
Stack: Python (pandas, scikit-learn), PostgreSQL + pgvector, Gemini or other LLM for extraction and explanation, Unstructured/pdfplumber for PDFs, Streamlit or Next.js + Recharts.
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Trusted Digital Government ★ 3.80 • Easy
#25

PrivacyCheck LGU: Automated Data Privacy Act audits for local government websites and forms

PrivacyCheck LGU scans an LGU's websites, online forms, and Facebook-linked sign-up pages, finds Data Privacy Act gaps such as missing privacy notices, excessive data collection, and insecure forms, and produces a prioritized fix list plus an NPC-ready compliance report. It gives the 1,700 under-resourced LGU Data Protection Officers a privacy auditor that works in minutes, not months.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python (Playwright/Scrapy crawler), FastAPI, Gemini or other LLM, Mozilla Observatory-style header checks, React dashboard, WeasyPrint for PDF reports.
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Safe and Resilient Communities ★ 3.75 • Medium
#04

Tanod Lens: Privacy-first barangay CCTV that spots emergencies, not faces

Tanod Lens turns the barangay's existing CCTV cameras into an AI early-warning system that detects fire and smoke, road accidents, and dangerous crowd crush, then instantly alerts tanods and the BFP. It does this without face recognition, anonymizing every frame on the device before anything leaves the camera.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: Python, OpenCV, YOLOv8 (fire/smoke, vehicles, persons), CSRNet or a similar crowd-counting model, ONNX Runtime/TensorRT on Jetson or laptop, a multimodal LLM (Gemini/GPT-class), FastAPI, React dashboard, SMS/Viber/Messenger APIs.
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Smarter Public Service ★ 3.75 • Medium
#08

PermitPilot: Your AI co-pilot from business idea to legally registered in days

PermitPilot is an AI agent that walks Filipino micro-entrepreneurs step by step through DTI/SEC, barangay, LGU (Mayor's permit), and BIR registration. It pre-fills forms from a single conversation and tracks each application's status in one timeline. It turns a confusing, multi-agency maze into a guided checklist so more sari-sari stores, home bakers, and online sellers can formalize.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Next.js, LangGraph or a simple function-calling agent with Gemini/GPT-class models, pgvector, pdf-lib for form filling, PaddleOCR, Supabase, and an SMS gateway (Smart in production).
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Trusted Digital Government ★ 3.75 • Medium
#23

TotooBa?: Checks disaster and election claims against official sources, in Filipino

TotooBa? is a chatbot and browser tool that takes a viral post, video, or voice clip about a typhoon, earthquake, or election and checks it against official sources like PAGASA, PHIVOLCS, COMELEC, and PIA. It replies within seconds, in Filipino, with a clear verdict and the official link. It also flags likely deepfakes so a fake "Signal No. 5" post or an AI-cloned candidate voice can't spread unchallenged.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python, LangChain or LlamaIndex, Gemini or other multilingual LLM, pgvector or Chroma, OpenAI Whisper, Hugging Face deepfake/anti-spoofing models (e.g., ASVspoof-trained), Pillow for cards, Next.js dashboard.
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Sustainable and Connected PH ★ 3.60 • Medium
#13

BasuraBot: AI eyes for cleaner barangays, from the household bin to the dump truck route

BasuraBot uses computer vision to check whether household and materials recovery facility (MRF) waste is properly segregated under RA 9003. It also optimizes garbage collection routes and detects illegal dumping from CCTV and citizen photos. LGUs get one AI dashboard to cut collection costs, raise recycling rates, and keep waste out of esteros and Manila Bay.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses #Offline & Edge
Stack: Ultralytics YOLOv8, OpenCV, Python/FastAPI, Google OR-Tools, OSMnx, React + Leaflet, Gemini or an open LLM, SMS gateway mock.
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Sustainable and Connected PH ★ 3.55 • Medium
#15

SolarSense LGU: AI that shows every LGU which public roofs can keep the lights on

SolarSense LGU uses satellite imagery to estimate the rooftop solar potential, cost, and payback of every public school, barangay hall, and hospital in a city or province. It ranks which buildings to solarize first for both savings and brownout resilience. LGUs go from "we should go solar" to a fundable, prioritized project list in minutes.

#Computer Vision #SMS & Voice #Geospatial / GIS #AR Glasses
Stack: Python, Segment Anything / U-Net, rasterio, pvlib, GeoPandas, FastAPI, React + Leaflet/Mapbox, Gemini or an open LLM, WeasyPrint for PDFs.
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