A Circular Economy business idea evaluator tool built using Gen-AI.

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/techandy42/GreenTechGuardians.git
• Naivagate into the repository: cd GreenTechGuardians
• Set-up virtual environment: python3 -m venv env (Mac/Linux) or python -m venv env (Windows)
• Activate the virtual environment: source env/bin/activate (Mac/Linux) or .\env\Scripts\activate (Windows)
• Install packages: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Create .env file in the root folder of the project
• Add OPENAI_API_KEY= environment variable with your OpenAI API Key
• Add PINECONE_API_KEY= environment variable with your Pinecone API Key

• To just run the final application, please ask us for the Pinecone API Key
• In the terminal, run streamlit run app.py

• If are using a test dataset, place the dataset csv file at the root folder of the project
• Run python3 data_extraction_script.py to extract information using GPT-4 API and move it to the outputs/ folder. There is already a extracted dataset called outputs/extracted_data_training_dataset.jsonl for the training dataset. Rename the target dataset name in the code as needed.
• Run python3 semantic_search/create_search_engine.py to create an index in Pinecone. Change the name of the source extracted jsonl file as needed.
• Run streamlit run app.py. Rename the jsonl file name as needed. Make sure you name the Pinecone index in app.py as same as your actual Pinecone index.
• If you run into additional problems, please feel free to contact us.

• Andy Lee: [email protected]
• Malinda Lu: [email protected]
• Serena Pei: [email protected]
• Yongan Yu: [email protected]