Desalegn Melkamu@dawit243039542

Continuity Agent is an offline-first backend that helps small Ethiopian businesses shops, restaurants, hotel front desks keep recording sales even when the internet or mobile payment networks like Telebirr and CBE Birr go down. This is a frequent, real operational risk: when connectivity drops, sales simply stop being recorded, forcing merchants back to paper records and manual reconciliation. The system lets a merchant record a sale instantly to a local SQLite queue, regardless of connectivity. When the connection returns, a hybrid AI routing engine reconciles every queued transaction: routine sales are classified and cleared by a fast, inexpensive model (Llama 3.1 8B via Fireworks AI on AMD Instinct GPUs), while unusual or high-value transactions are escalated to a more powerful model (Llama 3.1 70B) that writes a real audit note for human review. This hybrid approach is not just a technical choice it directly determines whether the product is affordable for a small merchant operating on thin margins. Based on real logged transaction data from the /metrics endpoint, this routing approach delivers an estimated 86% cost reduction compared to routing every transaction through the larger model. If the Fireworks API is ever unavailable, the system automatically falls back to rule-based routing, so the merchant's core workflow — record, queue, sync never breaks, even in a worst-case scenario. This reliability mirrors the same promise the product makes to its users. Built solo in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this project targets a problem that affects hundreds of thousands of small merchants locally, and the same underlying pattern mobile-first commerce outrunning infrastructure reliability applies broadly across emerging markets.

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