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Privacy-First Local RAG

Building a Privacy-First Local RAG Organizations often face two competing needs: they want AI to help people find information faster, but they also need sensitive data to stay inside a controlled environment. Traditional search can return raw documents without enough context, while cloud AI tools may not be suitable for private internal files. With this project, I built a local Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chat application. It combines a local data retrieval pipeline with local LLMs served through Ollama. ...

September 28, 2025 · Tarek Mustafa
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Reddit Insight Automation with n8n

Finding Fintech Issues on Reddit with n8n In financial services, useful customer signals are often buried inside community discussions. People talk about payment issues, banking frustrations, failed onboarding, app bugs, and support problems long before those signals show up in a formal report. For this project, I built an automated n8n workflow that scans finance-related subreddits, filters for relevant posts, uses AI to summarize the issue, and sends the results to Google Sheets. ...

September 28, 2025 · Tarek Mustafa