Why a graph, not a simple search engine
A search engine finds documents. A person at the front desk needs an answer: which service, how far, open when, under what conditions, and since when this information has been true. A graph links these facts together: the service, its organisation, its venue, the municipalities it covers, its exclusions, its source document and date. That is what makes it impossible to suggest a service that does not cover your municipality.
AI under source constraint
We did not plug a chatbot into PDFs. Interpreting a request is deterministic first: municipalities, ages, topics, synonyms from the real field vocabulary. The mid-sized AI only steps in when that is not enough, and every suggestion displayed comes from the graph, with its source and date. When the base does not cover a request, the tool says "no known organisation", it does not invent.
No data about the people helped
The tool describes the territory's offer, never patients or users. The activity log is pseudonymous by design: municipality, age group, topic, suggestions made. There is no field where an identity could be typed out of habit. Documents consulted are rendered client-side, without going through a third-party service.
What it costs
The prototype we delivered in Gironde runs for about €200 per month, hosting and AI included, for a whole territory of 62 municipalities. Building the base depends on the volume of documents; the production phase, hardening, backups, training, counts in days, not months.
This kind of project can be funded: in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, the Region supports the rollout of digital health solutions through calls for expressions of interest, and we drafted the corresponding application for our first client.
Transposable to your territory
There are more than 800 professional health communities in France, and as many territories where orientation knowledge is scattered. The architecture is generic: the knowledge schema is documented inside the base itself, geography initialises from public data, the ingestion pipeline replays on any corpus. A replication kit is planned with our first client.
The same tool serves a municipal social centre, a public-services hub, a local authority directing people to its social schemes.
References
- French federation of health communities: the national framework.
- The CNIL's guidance on AI: what is allowed with personal data, and how we avoid it.
- The Model Context Protocol: the standard through which the assistant queries the graph.