AI Chat

AI Chat Module

The chat module provides an AI conversational assistant integrated into the application, with real-time streaming.

Features

• Conversational chat — Messaging interface with history
• SSE streaming — Real-time responses via Server-Sent Events
• Business context — The assistant understands your accounting data, invoices, payroll and documents
• Semantic search — Document querying via pgvector
• Multi-provider — Compatible with:
• Cloud API (via altiusone-ai SDK)
• Ollama (local models)
• vLLM (GPU inference)
• Any OpenAI-compatible provider

Architecture

User → Chat UI → Django View (SSE)
                      ↓
                AI Backend
                ├── altiusone-ai (cloud)
                ├── Ollama (local)
                └── OpenAI-compatible
                      ↓
                Business context
                ├── Embeddings (pgvector)
                ├── Accounting data
                └── Documents (OCR)

Mobile app

The AI chat is available on the iOS/Android mobile app with the same SSE streaming and business context access.

Interactions

• Documents — Semantic search in the DMS
• Accounting — Questions about entries and accounts
• Graph — Natural language exploration of the relationship graph
• Core — Permissions: only authorised roles can access the chat