About MindVault

A portfolio project demonstrating hybrid RAG architecture, Azure AI Foundry competency, and cost-optimized full-stack AI engineering.

What Is MindVault?

MindVault is a collection of 26 distinct chatbots, each grounded in a unique knowledge base. Literary characters draw from Project Gutenberg texts. Philosophers speak from their own writings. Domain experts pull from curated Wikipedia articles. NASA bots incorporate live space data.

Every response is generated using a hybrid RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline: Azure AI Foundry handles semantic retrieval, while Claude Sonnet 4.6 generates grounded, in-character responses. Sources are always shown so you know where the information comes from.

The Builder

MindVault was built by Ian Kelley to demonstrate practical AI systems design: real infrastructure, real APIs, real cost optimization. Not a tutorial project. A working product deployed on Azure Container Apps at production scale.

For consulting, collaboration, or questions: [email protected]

Technology

Frontend

Astro 4, React islands, Tailwind CSS, 26 custom themes

Backend

FastAPI (Python), Azure Container Apps, managed identity

Retrieval

Azure AI Foundry, GPT-4o-mini, vector search, file search agents

Generation

Anthropic Claude API (Sonnet 4.6), persona system prompts

Built by Ian Kelley - iankelley.ai