Offline-first healthcare reference intelligence assistant. Cited RAG answers over local clinical documents, running entirely on 8GB commodity hardware with zero network. Rust + llama.cpp + SQLite. Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026.
# BRIX Atlas
**An offline-first healthcare reference intelligence assistant that runs
powerful AI entirely on commodity hardware — no cloud, no network, no
compromise on privacy.**
Official implementation for the **Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026**.
BRIX Atlas is **not a medical device** and does not diagnose, triage, or
recommend treatment on its own authority. It answers questions grounded
in clinical/health-reference documents an organization has deliberately
loaded — every answer is traceable back to a specific loaded source. See
ADR-0014 for the reasoning
behind this vertical, and SECURITY.md for the full safety
posture. The underlying engine itself remains domain-agnostic — a
clinical guideline PDF is parsed exactly like any other PDF.
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## This is not a prototype
This repository is the engineering foundation of a production-grade,
open-source AI platform — not a hackathon demo and not a one-off
competition submission. It is engineered from day one for a long life and
a large contributor base, under the constraints of the hardware most
businesses actually have, not the hardware AI demos are usually built on.
The long-term vision is for BRIX Atlas to become the AI engine powering
the wider BRIX ecosystem.
## Why this exists
Most "run AI locally" products quietly assume a GPU, or 32GB+ of RAM, or a
connection to the internet for at least the heavy lifting. A clinic or
health facility with unreliable or no connectivity — common across large
parts of the world — can't rely on any of those, yet that is exactly
where fast, trustworthy access to treatment guidelines and drug
formularies matters most. BRIX Atlas is built for that reality:
**Ubuntu 22.04, an Intel Core i5 (10th–12th Gen) or AMD Ryzen 5, 8GB of
RAM, integrated graphics only, and zero network connectivity required,
ever.**
Within that envelope, the platform lets a clinician, pharmacist, or
community health worker:
- Chat with locally-loaded clinical reference documents — PDF, DOCX …