🏆 Featured Case Study · Competition Winner

IM Your Buddy

A Micro-Organization Intelligent Agent for Department Administration
North Taiwan University Alliance AI Agent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Interdisciplinary Competition · First Place · 2026/05/22
Problem Architecture Tech Stack Trade-offs My Role Challenges Demo

Problem Background

System Architecture

IM Your Buddy system architecture
Student chat interface and admin console, both backed by a GPT-4o decision agent that calls domain tools against the knowledge base and student database

Tech Stack

Tech stack and deployment layers
4-layer stack: frontend, application (FastAPI), AI intelligence (GPT-4o agent + tools), and infrastructure (Zeabur, SQLite, OpenAI API)

Frontend

HTML / CSS / JS Student App Admin Console Bilingual ZH/EN

Backend

Python FastAPI SSE Streaming Session Auth SHA-256

AI Agent

GPT-4o Function Calling 7 Domain Tools text-embedding

Data & Infra

SQLite Knowledge Base Zeabur Cloud Persistent Volume

Engineering Trade-offs

Cost
    Speed
      Accuracy
        Stability

          My Role

          Product Owner & Full-Stack Systems Engineer

          In our four-person team, I served as Product Owner and lead systems engineer, turning the team's product concept into a fully working, demo-able, deployed system. My work covered the whole lifecycle — from requirements planning through technical integration to launch:

          Team: Bor-Jen Chen, Wen-Hsin Hsiao, Cheng-Yun Wu, Nien-Hsin Chen

          Challenges & Solutions

          1 Generic Q&A can't reflect each student's actual graduation progress

          Problem

          Solution
            Outcome

            2 From a classroom prototype to a maintainable production system

            Problem

            Solution
              Outcome

              Demo