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title: Proposal Prescreening Tool (TRL Evaluator)
emoji: 📋
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: green
sdk: streamlit
sdk_version: "1.28.1"
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
---

# Proposal Prescreening Tool (TRL Evaluator)

A Streamlit-based AI assistant for evaluating proposals against the **Technology Readiness Level (TRL)** framework.
This tool determines a proposal's maturity level and checks if it is eligible for funding (criteria: **TRL > 4**).

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## Input Options
| Feature         | Status                         |
| --------------- | ------------------------------ |
| Text paste      | ✅                             |
| `.txt` upload   | ✅                             |
| `.pdf` parsing  | ⏳ In development              |


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## 🧩 Technology Stack

- **Python**
- **Streamlit**
- **Google Generative AI (Gemini 2.5 Pro)**
- **dotenv**
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## 📦 Installation

### 1️. Clone the repository
```bash
git clone <repo-url>
cd <project-folder>
```

### 1.1 (Optional) Create a virtual environment
```bash
python3 -m venv bpk
source bpk/bin/activate
```
or with conda
```bash
conda create --name bpk python=3.12 # >= 3.10 (recommended)
```

### 2. install dependencies
```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

## Environment Variables
Create a .env file in the project root:
```
GEMINI_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE
```
Get your API key from: https://ai.google.dev/


## Run the App
```bash
streamlit run app.py
```
Once started, access the UI at:
```
http://localhost:8501
```