I’m looking for a developer who can deliver a private, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) chat system that lives inside a university’s own cloud environment. The chat’s sole purpose is to help students day-to-day—clarifying homework questions, walking them through course-registration steps, and fielding all those quick general inquiries that currently flood staff inboxes. All source material—syllabi, lecture slides, policy PDFs, campus FAQs—already sits in our cloud storage. Your task is to wire that content into a secure RAG pipeline so the chatbot always answers from approved documents and never leaks data outside our tenancy. FERPA compliance and robust access controls are non-negotiable. I will supply sample documents plus API access to the student-information system; you design, build, and document: • End-to-end RAG architecture (vector store, retriever, generator) • Chat front end that embeds in our existing web portal • Lightweight admin console for uploading/deleting documents and viewing usage stats Acceptance criteria 1. New course material appears in answers within minutes of upload. 2. Homework, registration, or general questions return accurate, sourced replies. 3. Automated tests confirm no PII leaves our environment. When you reply, highlight similar student-facing AI work you’ve completed, your preferred stack (LangChain, Llama-Index, Azure/OpenAI, etc.), and the timeline you’d need to ship an MVP. Project Description I need to build an AI chat system for universities and training centers. The goal is for students to ask questions and get answers only from the academic materials uploaded by the instructors (PDF, Word, images, video links, etc.). The system must use cloud storage for all documents and integrate with a Vector Database to enable RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation). This is the initial MVP version. Prefer developers with previous RAG projects. Must show at least one previous example of AI search over PDF documents. Please start your proposal with the phrase "Strict RAG MVP" so I know you read the requirements.