CABSweb

The AI-native talent, knowledge, and innovation ecosystem for CABS

CABS — Chinese American Biopharmaceutical Society · San Francisco Bay Area · 3,500+ members

cabsweb.org · DS4CABS · Built by ds4cabs

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CABSweb transforms CABS from a traditional event- and membership-focused website into a comprehensive talent, knowledge, and innovation ecosystem for the global life sciences community. Members discover mentors, experts, founders, investors, careers, educational resources, and strategic collaborations through an AI-powered, personalized experience.

The site is built in two layers:

1. Public site — a fast, welcoming marketing presence that mirrors cabsweb.org (Home, News & Events, Members, Sponsors, Donate, About).
2. Member app — eight AI-powered modules that turn CABS's people and content into a living, searchable ecosystem.

🌐 Public site

Page	Route	Purpose
🏠 Home	/	Landing page with the CABS story and module entry points.
📰 News & Events	/knowledge-hub	Conferences, talks, and the content pipeline.
👥 Members	/talent-graph	The searchable community of members and leaders.
🤝 Sponsors	/sponsorship	Sponsorship tiers and partnership management.
💝 Donate	/donate	Support CABS as a non-profit — scholarships, programs, conferences.
ℹ️ About Us	/about	Mission, community stats, and what CABS stands for.

✨ Modules

Module	What it does
🎛️ Dashboard	Personalized member home — AI-surfaced people, knowledge, events, and opportunities.
🕸️ Talent Graph	Searchable graph of members and industry leaders by name, company, and expertise.
🤖 AI Assistant	Retrieval-augmented assistant grounded in CABS content and institutional knowledge, with citations.
📚 Knowledge Hub	Auto-converts conference recordings into searchable summaries, transcripts, newsletters, podcasts, and reports.
🚀 Founder & Investor Network	Startup formation and fundraising — matches ventures to investors by stage, thesis, and focus.
🧭 Mentorship Matching	AI-ranked mentor↔mentee matches with a transparent scoring rationale.
💼 Careers	Roles, advisory seats, and internships matched to expertise and career stage.
🤝 Sponsorship & Partnerships	End-to-end sponsor lifecycle management, synced with HubSpot CRM.

🧱 Tech stack

• Frontend: Next.js 14 (App Router) + React 18 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS
• Typography: Inter + JetBrains Mono via next/font (self-hosted, zero layout shift)
• Backend / DB: Supabase (Postgres, storage, RLS, realtime)
• Auth / identity: Clerk (default) or Auth0
• AI: OpenAI — embeddings, semantic search, recommendations, generation, assistant
• Vector search: pgvector (default) / Pinecone / Qdrant
• CRM: HubSpot
• Payments: Stripe (membership + ticketing)
• Events: Zoom + Eventbrite (recordings feed the Knowledge Hub)

Runs with zero secrets. Every integration is a swappable adapter that degrades gracefully to seeded demo data and deterministic AI fallbacks. Add real keys in .env.local to light each one up — the corresponding badge on the homepage flips from mock to connected.

🚀 Getting started

git clone https://github.com/ds4cabs/CABSweb.git
cd CABSweb
npm install
cp .env.example .env.local   # optional — fill in keys to enable live integrations
npm run dev                  # http://localhost:3000

Useful scripts:

npm run build       # production build
npm run start       # serve the production build
npm run lint        # next lint
npm run typecheck   # tsc --noEmit

📁 Project structure

src/
├── app/                      # Next.js App Router
│   ├── layout.tsx            # root layout, fonts, header/footer
│   ├── page.tsx              # landing page
│   ├── about/                # mission + community stats
│   ├── donate/               # non-profit giving
│   ├── dashboard/            # personalized member home
│   ├── talent-graph/         # searchable member/leader graph (client)
│   ├── assistant/            # AI assistant chat (client)
│   ├── knowledge-hub/        # content pipeline + assets + events
│   ├── network/              # founder & investor network
│   ├── mentorship/           # AI mentor matching
│   ├── careers/              # opportunities + development
│   ├── sponsorship/          # partnership management
│   └── api/{search,assistant}/route.ts
├── components/               # SiteHeader, SiteFooter, Brand, PageHeader
├── lib/
│   ├── ai/                   # search, assistant, recommend (OpenAI + fallbacks)
│   ├── integrations/         # external service registry / adapters
│   ├── data/seed.ts          # seeded demo data modeled on CABS
│   ├── env.ts                # env access + capability flags
│   └── nav.ts                # navigation / module registry
└── types/                    # domain types

See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the full data flow and how to wire each integration into production.

🗺️ Roadmap

• Wire Supabase schema + row-level security and replace seed data
• Clerk/Auth0 session gating on member-only modules
• Live OpenAI embeddings + pgvector semantic search
• Zoom/Eventbrite ingestion → automated transcript/summary/podcast pipeline
• Stripe membership tiers + event ticketing
• HubSpot bidirectional CRM sync for members and sponsors

🤝 Contributing

This project is developed and maintained by ds4cabs, the data-science and AI initiative of CABS. Contributions from the community are welcome — open an issue or PR.

📄 License

MIT © Chinese American Biopharmaceutical Society (CABS). See LICENSE.