🌟 About the Project: AC CONNECT

🧠 Inspiration

During our conversations with Arca Continental's collanborators, we identified a clear opportunity: empower them with a tool that makes each visit to retail stores not just routine—but smart. We imagined a system that understands the customer, adapts to the store’s context, and transforms voice and text into insights that actually help.

That’s how AC Connect was born: a mobile-first AI-powered solution designed to assist Arca Continental collaborators in creating better, data-driven, and human-centered retail visits.

🧰 How We Built It

Our stack includes:

FastAPI for a modular, scalable backend
Gemini-Pro (Generative AI) to power all intelligent interactions
Flutter Web for a responsive, accessible frontend
Ngrok to collaborate live and test API endpoints remotely

We designed endpoints to:

Generate personalized attitude guides based on store type
Create adaptive interviews tailored to each customer profile
Analyze responses and return structured JSON evaluations
Convert voice comments into actionable summaries
Generate instant recommendations for urgent customer needs

🚀 What We Learned

How to integrate LLMs into structured workflows using real-world context
Prompt engineering to balance empathy and technical feedback
Building a full-stack app while coordinating across devices, platforms, and specialties
That real collaboration means listening, iterating, and adjusting—even under pressure

🧱 Challenges We Faced

Handling async communication between frontend, backend, and Gemini while avoiding timeouts
Designing prompts that adapt to vastly different retail contexts
Ensuring the UX felt human—not robotic—when driven by AI
Keeping everything in sync while working across Windows (Xime) and macOS (Bini), while learning new tools in real time

🌈 Final Thoughts

AC Connect is more than a prototype. It’s a vision of what empathetic AI in field operations can look like. We’re proud to present a product that combines: