Offline-first medical triage and diagnostic translation — running speech-to-text and biomedical AI on a $300 laptop with zero internet.
Rural health workers face a deadly double-bottleneck: no internet to access cloud AI, and no way to translate local symptom descriptions into clinical protocols.
Cellular grids collapse in disasters. Cloud-based AI tools become unreachable exactly when needed most.
"Running stomach" ≠ medical lookup. Local symptom terms don't map to clinical protocols without semantic bridging.
Network calls. Runs 100% offline.
Whisper transcription latency (p50)
End-to-end triage pipeline
Subscription cost. Forever free.
HTML5 Audio capture from field responder
16-bit GGML quantized local transcription
384-dim biomedical embedding via ONNX
sqlite-vec cosine similarity search
Military-grade SOC dashboard with Tailwind v4. High-contrast, dense data layout.
Async worker pool. Containerized for edge deployment on low-spec hardware.
384-dimensional biomedical embeddings mapping colloquial terms to UMLS concepts.
Local cosine similarity search. Zero network dependency. Pre-seeded protocol DB.
Standard NLP models fail on colloquial medical terms. SapBERT is pre-trained on the UMLS Metathesaurus — it natively understands that "running stomach" maps to Diarrhea (C0011991) with 0.94 cosine similarity.
Speak symptoms in colloquial terms → see matched clinical protocol with action steps and drug warnings
Automatic drug interaction warnings rendered with clinical urgency indicators
Persistent "ALL NETWORK INTERFACES DISABLED" banner proving true offline operation
People without reliable internet access
Of global health facilities lack broadband
Global digital health market (2026)
| Feature | SomaPulse | Cloud AI | Paper Manuals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Internet Required | No | Yes | No |
| Dialect Support | SapBERT semantic | Limited | None |
| Latency | 120ms | 2-5 seconds | Minutes |
| Cost | $0 forever | $$$$/mo | Free |
| Drug Interactions | Automatic | Some | Manual lookup |
Solo developer building offline-first medical AI — from Whisper.cpp compilation to SapBERT ONNX optimization to production Next.js dashboards. Shipping healthcare tools that work without infrastructure.
SomaPulse brings clinical intelligence to disaster zones — 120ms triage, zero internet, zero cost, completely self-contained on a single laptop.
SomaPulse · UOE Summer of Code 2026