AI-Powered Solution for a Vendor Platform

Our Gen AI-powered tool can generate compelling menu descriptions, identify ingredients based on images, enhance food images and change their background, generate new images based on input, create videos based on images, and provide Gen AI-powered personalized search based on the user’s taste or previous orders.

Client

Our client operates a vendor platform that connects restaurants with companies and building owners to organize popup events, arrange café services, and offer food delivery perks to employees.

Challenge

The client faced the challenge of inadequate food and restaurant descriptions, primarily because some of the restaurant partners are small, family-owned businesses with limited IT knowledge. This issue has impacted the user experience, reducing the platform’s effectiveness and appeal.

Our Approach

Our team, consisting of a developer and two prompt engineers, used a rapid development approach to address these challenges. We divided the work into prototypes:

1. Prototype 1: Focus on advanced menu and image generation.
2. Prototype 2: Implement “live photo” generation based on available images 
3. Prototype 3: Gen AI-powered personalized menu search.

Solution

We configured a Rapid Prototype using the ReTool low-code platform to save time on UI development and allow the client to experiment with the functionality and provide feedback before implementing the full-size Proof of Concept solution. 

We’ve implemented a serverless architecture on Microsoft Azure, leveraging Azure functions that are triggered by user interactions within the ReTool interface. These functions act as intermediaries, routing user input data from the ReTool UI to two primary LLMs: GPT-4o for natural language processing and text generation and Stable Diffusion XL for image and video synthesis. This architecture ensures scalability, optimizes costs, and enables real-time Gen AI-driven content based on user input.

We tuned prompts to get the most reliable results and optimized costs per interaction on ReTool’s UI. This allowed the client to understand how much each functionality may cost when implementation moves to Production.

Outcome

• Time Savings for Internal Users: Implementing our AI-powered tool significantly reduces the time required for local restaurant owners to provide descriptions of food, ingredients, and high-quality images for the menu.
• Time Savings for External Users: Gen AI-personalized search reduces the amount of time users spend deciding on menu items they want to order.
• Improved User Experience: By implementing our AI tool, users will see more detailed information about the food they want to order, with advanced images and Gen AI-personalized search helping them make decisions easier.
• Improved Platform Effectiveness: Enhanced descriptions and images lead to higher user engagement and more orders, thereby increasing the platform’s revenue.

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