DemystifyAI

Inspiration

As a team containing 2 interns at health insurance companies, we’re familiar with the accessibility problems around US medical insurance. In light of recent news, we think insurance coverage is the best healthcare accessibility problem that our hackathon can address. In our work, we had to learn the complicated terms in insurance: "What is a PPO", "What is an HMO", what is a gold plan, etc, and after speaking with clients that we help with insurance, we know that everyday people struggle with the complexity of insurance too. We built this tool to answer the questions that employees have asked us the most at our companies: the most crucial information about insurance plans like, "is this drug covered", "what are the copays", "what is the out of pocket max"...

What it does

This app takes in 2 important documents for insurance: the Summary of Plan Coverage Document (SPD Document) and the Drug Formulary. Both are PDF's and are difficult to parse, but we use an AI agent libarry called deep-researcher, to determine a plan to find data in the SPD document and construct a helpful report. Separately, we also have an endpoint that takes the formulary and

How we built it

We used React and typescript on the frontend with tailwind and Shadcn. On the backend, we used FastAPI, and 2 open source libraries: deep-researcher (

Challenges we ran into

One of the biggest challenges was around timing. AI outputs look a LONG time, and we couldn't just let the user wait, so we made sure to display incremental updates to the user.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Super proud of how the UI looked, and especially the Memenome API! We love how the lebron meme perfectly fit in with our theme of educating about health insurance -- and the memenome API worked really smoothly!

What we learned

A lot about AI Agents, and insurance!

What's next for DemystifyAI

The next step is to implement the next most important feature that employees care about when asking about insurance plans: whether their doctor or specialist is covered by the plan. This is super tedious to do manually -- you would have to go to the insurance carrier's website and manually check if your doctor's name is in their network. We can use an AI agent to manipulate the window screen and automate this check, providing further value.