N.V.J.K KartikKartik

Full-stack · IIIT Dharwad · 2024 · RAG · agents

Centio.AI

An AI assistant that mixes chat with real productivity: an assistant that turns requests into tasks, a researcher that writes sourced docs, and RAG over your own files.

Interface study: Centio.AI’s researcher writing a cited document, with its plan and sources beside it.
Interface study, 2026. Redesigned for this site with sample data. It is not the shipped app.

What I did

I contributed to the app with Vinayak Rai, whose repository it lives in. My BrainBox repository carries the same codebase.

Who I made it with

Vinayak Rai (lead), Vivaan Sharma.

What it’s for

Regular chat for quick questions. An assistant mode that turns a request into a task list and works through it. A researcher with configurable depth and time that produces a doc with its sources. And document chat backed by retrieval.

Why it was hard

Getting an assistant to do multi-step work (search, write, file) without losing the thread, while still feeling like a normal notes-and-docs app.

The original

The 2024 Centio.AI home screen: “Research your favorite topic” with upload, convert and share options.

The screens above are the project as it was built. The study at the top of this page is a 2026 redesign made for this site.

Receipts

  1. github.com/VinayakRai5/Centio.AICentio.AI assistant (chat, assistant tasks, researcher, docs RAG). Kartik is a contributor; his BrainBox repo carries the same app.
  2. Previous portfolio, as it stood before this redesign (self-reported)Self-reported: IIIT Dharwad (Data Science & AI), research at IIT Bombay Educational Technology, CRF approach for SSMR.

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