In development · not yet public · status as of 20 October 2026
GeoSutra AI
Ask the research, with the sources in view.
GeoSutra AI is a research assistant for questions about Nepal's environment. It answers from a curated library of open-access research on climate, forests, hazards, water and biodiversity, and it shows the pages it used. An answer that cannot show its source is not an answer.
Where it stands
Working now internal prototype, not public
- Finds relevant passages in the library by keyword search, and checks they are relevant by meaning
- Writes an answer using only those passages, with numbered citations (title, year, page, section)
- Checks that every citation exists, and compares the numbers in the answer with the cited page
- Declines to answer, without calling the model, when it cannot ground an answer
- Uses a small open language model (Qwen) running on our own hardware
- Only uses papers whose licences allow it
Still being built not available yet
- A hosted service that the public can reach
- Connection to Observatory and Field project records, limited to what each signed-in user is already allowed to see
- Separation between organisations, so one never sees another's records
- Published accuracy tests and known limits
- Reports that a reader can trace back to their sources
Honest limits. The prototype runs on one machine and is not open to the public. It uses a small model, so it can miss things and can be wrong; its checks are meant to show where an answer is unsupported, not to make it infallible. It is not yet connected to the Observatory or Field.
Design rules we hold it to
- Sources firstEvery claim points to a page you can open. No source, no answer.
- Say "I can't tell"If the library does not support an answer, it says so instead of guessing.
- Only what you may seeWhen it reads project records, it will use only records the signed-in user is already authorised to see.
- No invented numbersFigures are compared with the cited page, and unsupported ones are flagged.
Take part
If you work on Nepal's environment and would like to help test it, or you have a question the research should be able to answer, tell us. We will say here when public access opens.