diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3ca5fb2..d4a4bbd 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 # project
 .idea
+.envrc
+docs
+model
 models
 src/models
-.envrc
 
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/
diff --git a/actions/actions.py b/actions/actions.py
index 517717e..35e6a46 100644
--- a/actions/actions.py
+++ b/actions/actions.py
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer
 import src.config as cf
 from src.preprocessing import load_context_for_inference
+import requests
+import json
 
 
 class ActionCovid(Action):
@@ -26,26 +28,30 @@ def name(self) -> Text:
     def run(self, dispatcher: CollectingDispatcher,
             tracker: Tracker,
             domain: Dict[Text, Any]) -> List[Dict[Text, Any]]:
-
         question = tracker.latest_message['text']
         text = load_context_for_inference("src/data/COVID-QA.json")
 
-        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(cf.setting["model_checkpoint"])
-        model = TFAutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(cf.setting["model_checkpoint"])
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-finetuned-squad")
+        # model = TFAutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(cf.setting["model_checkpoint"])
+
+        inputs = tokenizer(question, text, add_special_tokens=True, truncation=True)
+        input_ids = inputs["input_ids"]
+
+        batch = [dict(inputs)]
 
-        inputs = tokenizer(question, text, add_special_tokens=True, return_tensors="tf", truncation=True)
-        input_ids = inputs["input_ids"].numpy()[0]
+        input_data = {'instances': batch}
+        r = requests.post('http://localhost:8501/v1/models/bert:predict', data=json.dumps(input_data))
+        output = json.loads(r.text)['predictions'][0]
 
-        output = model(inputs)
-        answer_start = tf.argmax(
-            output.start_logits, axis=1
-        ).numpy()[0]  # Get the most likely beginning of answer with the argmax of the score
-        answer_end = (
-                tf.argmax(output.end_logits, axis=1) + 1
-        ).numpy()[0]  # Get the most likely end of answer with the argmax of the score
+        # output = model(inputs)
+        answer_start = tf.argmax([output['start_logits']], axis=1).numpy()[
+            0]  # Get the most likely beginning of answer with the argmax of the score
+        answer_end = (tf.argmax([output['end_logits']], axis=1) + 1).numpy()[
+            0]  # Get the most likely end of answer with the argmax of the score
         answer = tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_string(tokenizer.convert_ids_to_tokens(input_ids[answer_start:answer_end]))
-        start = answer.index("SEP") + 4
-        answer = answer[start:-5]
+        start = answer.index("SEP")
+        answer = answer[start:]
+        answer = answer.replace("SEP", "")
         dispatcher.utter_message(text=f"{answer}")
 
         return []
diff --git a/run_server.sh b/run_server.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..661f78d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run_server.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+echo -e "Starting base serving daemon ..."
+docker pull tensorflow/serving
+docker run -d --name serving_base tensorflow/serving
+
+echo -e "Exporting model as SavedModel object ..."
+python3 serving/save_model.py
+docker cp model/saved_model serving_base:/models/bert
+
+echo -e "Starting new serving container ..."
+docker commit --change "ENV MODEL_NAME bert" serving_base qa_bert
+docker kill serving_base
+docker run -d -p 8501:8501 -p 8500:8500 --name bert qa_bert
diff --git a/serving/save_model.py b/serving/save_model.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c379603
--- /dev/null
+++ b/serving/save_model.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+import os
+import logging
+
+from transformers import TFAutoModelForQuestionAnswering
+
+
+def create_saved_model() -> None:
+    if not os.path.exists('model'):
+        model = TFAutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained("bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-finetuned-squad")
+        model.save_pretrained('model', saved_model=True)
+        logging.info('SavedModel saved to model/ directory')
+    else:
+        logging.info('model/ directory already exists; no new SavedModel objects saved')
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    create_saved_model()
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