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AI engineering & consultancy · Bas Wenneker — AI Lead / Engineer
I help teams get real value from Generative AI — designing and building agents, assistants and AI workflows that actually make it to production, training dev teams, and consulting on AI strategy.
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*AI techniques: RAG, graphs, memory and more
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BriefWijzer

Make unreadable letters understandable with a single photo
Communication · demo · AI engineer
RAGOCRLLMMarketing

In short

BriefWijzer makes unreadable (government) letters understandable. Your customer takes a photo of the letter, and the app does the rest: a short, understandable summary, a directly clickable call-to-action, and an AI-driven chat to ask questions about the letter. As a bonus, you as the sender see which of your letters are experienced as unreadable, so you can improve them — and you lower the contact load on your customer service.

Problem

Communication is not understandable for a large part of the Netherlands:

  • 2 million people in the Netherlands are low-literate
  • People who struggle to act on official mail pick up the phone to ask what it's about
  • This puts pressure on contact centers
  • Services don't match the needs of this audience
  • Complicated letters lead to frustration and confusion

Approach

BriefWijzer is a digital reading aid that makes letters readable for everyone, without extra work for the sender:

  • Short, understandable summary of the key points (max. 5 bullets)
  • The call-to-action becomes directly (online) clickable
  • Interactive chat function that answers within the context of the letter
  • Insight for the sender into which letters are experienced as unreadable

How it works

Your customer…

  1. 📨 …receives your letter — but doesn't understand what it says.
  2. 📱 …scans the BriefWijzer QR — no app download needed, it opens in the browser.
  3. 📷 …takes a photo — uploading multiple pages is possible.

BriefWijzer gets to work and…

  • 📋 …summarizes the letter in understandable, simple language (max. 5 bullets).
  • 👆 …makes actions directly clickable — you configure the call-to-actions shown.
  • 💬 …answers questions directly via chat.

Tech & stack

  • 🐍 Python — backend processing
  • 👁️ Google Vision — OCR and document analysis
  • 🤖 Claude Code — AI development assistant
  • 💻 VSCode — IDE

The pipeline: OCR reads the letter, RAG/LLM summarizes and answers questions within the context of the letter.

Status

Demo — working product concept. Positioned as an app for companies and government bodies that want to make their letters more accessible.

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