When Your Pet Speaks: Building an AI Veterinary Assistant From Scratch

Pet owners typically resort to generic online advice or expensive vet visits to interpret unusual behavior. This AI system bridges that gap by combining zero-shot classification, retrieval-augmented generation, and evidence-based veterinary literature to provide ranked, contextual diagnoses in seconds. The architecture demonstrates a practical pattern for specialized AI applications—embedding domain expertise into a modern NLP pipeline to deliver actionable insights that genuinely matter to end users.