AI-powered reasoning agent that helps South African youth identify skill gaps, discover certifications, find learnerships, and generate career development plans.
# SkillriBdge-AI-agent
AI-powered reasoning agent that helps South African youth identify skill gaps, discover certifications, find learnerships, and generate career development plans.
# SkillBridge — AI Career Agent for South African Youth
## The Problem
Millions of young South Africans want to break into tech but don't know:
- Which skills to learn first for SA's actual job market
- Which certifications are achievable on their budget
- Which learnerships are currently accepting applications
- How to write a CV that gets interviews
## The Solution
SkillBridge is an AI agent that takes a user's profile and generates:
- **Skill gap analysis** vs the SA job market (match percentage + priorities)
- **Certification roadmap** with real ZAR costs and free options
- **Live learnerships** currently accepting applications in SA
- **Professional CV opening line** ready to paste
Note: Current learnership and certification information is sourced from curated South African opportunity datasets and can be extended with live integrations in future releases.
- This is the home page.
- This is what it looks like before the user enters thier information.
- After the user enters the information it would look like this.
- The results are gerenerated after the user presses "Analyze my carrer path".
## Architecture
```
User Form → Flask API → Azure AI Foundry (GPT-4.1-mini)
↓
┌───────────────────────────────────┐
│ Tool 1: analyze_skill_gaps │
│ Tool 2: recommend_certifications │ → sa_data.py
│ Tool 3: find_learnerships │
│ Tool 4: generate_cv_summary │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
↓
Synthesised Career Report
```
## Tech Stack
- **AI Reasoning**: Azure AI Foundry — GPT-4.1-mini with function calling
- **Backend**: Python 3.11 + Flask
- **Frontend**: HTML/CSS/JavaScript
- **AI Coding**: GitHub Copilot (required for Creative Apps track)
## Running Locally
```bash
# 1. Clone the repo
git clone
github.com …