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Pikaan: information verification platform
AI platform designed to verify information and audit media claims
AI platform for information professionals, designed to analyze content and structure verification work.
Solo product design and development: architecture, UI, backend, database, AI workflows, and deployment preparation.
Shows my ability to build a complex product end to end, with clear domain logic and real product ambition.
_context
Pikaan is an AI product built solo from scratch, with more than a year of work across architecture, interface design, analysis workflows, and product preparation. It helps journalists and researchers import multimedia content, extract key claims, and cross-reference them against reliable sources in real time.
_contribution
I designed and built the entire product solo: handling the database schema, API design, frontend UI, LLM orchestration, and final deployment.
_stack
_what-I-built
- Import and analysis workflow for text, audio, video, and news-style content.
- Review interface for tracking claims, results, and source evidence.
- Backend and data layer for organizing content, verification states, and outputs.
- AI/LLM orchestration for automated media analysis and real-time editorial decision support.
_what-it-demonstrates
- Production-ready platform architected and implemented independently from the ground up.
- Seamless integration of a reactive user interface, secure API layers, structured database storage, and LLM orchestration.
- Purpose-built workflow engine optimized for professional research, media analysis, and fact-checking.
_value
Building Pikaan demonstrates my ability to own a complex product lifecycle from concept to production, architect robust systems, and solve real-world challenges in media verification.
_details-on-request
Some product and technical details stay private to protect ongoing work. I can present the scope, architecture decisions, and an adapted demo in a professional conversation.