Let us choose the stack
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Project Context Update (Mid-to-Late January 2026)
Project: Locki / Ò Capistaine (audierne2026) - AI-powered civic transparency & participatory democracy platform for Audierne 2026 local elections (France) Core Mission: Build a neutral, source-based RAG chatbot to answer citizen questions about 4 municipal programs, automate contribution validation against charter rules, crawl/process municipal data (150+ links, 4,000+ PDFs), and showcase Opik integration for the "Commit to Change" Hackathon. Critical Timeline:
- Contributions deadline: ~January 31, 2026
- Hackathon prototype delivery: ~mid-February 2026 (4-week sprint)
- Election period: ~March 15-22, 2026