A log of progress for the week of October 20, 2025.
This week wasn’t just an iteration; it was a transformation. In one of the most productive sprints of the project to date, the application rocketed forward with an incredible 68 commits and nearly 30,000 new lines of code.
We didn’t just add features; we built the comprehensive backbone of a production-ready application. We scaled up our AI, completely overhauled the database to support the full business model, and fully digitized our first pilot property. The project’s maturity has taken a quantum leap.
1. The Crown Jewel: AI Ejari Processing 2.0
The highlight of the week was a massive upgrade to our AI document processing. What began in Week 5 as a concept is now a sophisticated, production-ready engine.
Hybrid AI Extraction: We’ve evolved beyond simple OCR. The system now uses a dual-layer AI architecture: it first attempts blazing-fast text extraction with AWS Bedrock. If it detects a scanned PDF or image, it automatically falls back to a vision-based OCR model.
Confidence Scoring: The AI doesn’t just extract data; it now provides a confidence score for each field. This is a crucial “human-in-the-loop” feature, allowing landlords to instantly see and verify any fields the AI was uncertain about, building trust and ensuring accuracy.
Production Deployment: This entire pipeline is now deployed as a hardened, production-ready ejari_processor Lambda function, capable of parsing over 20 distinct fields, from contract dates to specific DEWA numbers.
2. The Foundation: A Complete Database Overhaul
An application’s features are only as good as its foundation. This week, we undertook a complete database architecture overhaul, bringing our total to 87 database migrations. We added 6 new, critical tables that form the core of the business:
User Settings
Notifications for a unified system
Tenant requests for maintenance, move-in, etc.
Vendors to manage service providers
Transactions: the core of our financial tracking
Rent Payment Details
This isn’t just a small update; this is the entire business logic for maintenance, finance, vendor management, and user customization, now fully modeled and ready for integration.
3. The Anchor: Pilot Project Goes Live (Internally)
To prove this new architecture, we digitized our entire Pilot Project. We successfully imported all 178 units from our Pilot Project into the new database structure. This wasn’t a simple list; it includes all residential apartments, ground-floor retail shops, and the complex multi-landlord co-ownership structure. The pilot project is no longer a test case; it’s fully digitized and ready for tenant onboarding.
4. Maturing Our Features: Chat History & User Settings
We also circled back to mature the features we built in previous weeks.
AI Chatbot History: The AI Chatbot (from Week 7) now has a complete, persistent conversation history. We built the full GraphQL API and integrated DynamoDB on the backend, allowing users to pick up conversations where they left off.
User Settings: The user settings page is no longer a mockup. It is now fully connected to the new user_settings table, allowing users to save their preferences for language, notifications, and more.
This week was a marathon. We’ve laid down the full, complex schema for the entire business, massively upgraded our core AI, and onboarded our first 178 properties. The jump in maturity and capability has been immense.