JanteChai — a Bengali AI answer engine, with sources

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JanteChai (জানতে চাই — “I want to know”) is an independent project: an AI answer engine for Bengali speakers that returns answers with their sources, rather than a confident paragraph you can’t check.

It sits outside my WordPress product work on purpose. It’s where I get to make the architectural calls end to end — retrieval, grounding, citation, latency, cost — and ship something in a language that most AI tooling still treats as an afterthought.

Why it exists

Most AI answer tools are English-first and source-optional. For Bengali, the gap is wider: fewer tools, weaker grounding, and answers you can’t trace. JanteChai is an attempt to close that — answers a reader can actually verify, in their own language.

What it exercises

• Retrieval and grounding so answers cite real sources instead of hallucinating.
• Serving an LLM-backed product at a cost and latency that work outside a well-funded lab.
• Language-first product design for Bengali, not a translation afterthought.

(Live at jantechai.bd.)