Case Study · Research & education association

Verein für holistische GesundheitMember platform, course academy and a private AI — on the association’s own server

Three separate tools replaced by one portal: memberships, payments, video courses, governance and an AI assistant that answers only from cited sources — running entirely on infrastructure the association owns.

Client
Verein für holistische Gesundheit
Region
Europe
Languages
German · English, member mail in further languages
Status
Live since October 2026
Website of the Verein für holistische Gesundheit — the research project page
Member areas in one portal
22
Member areas in one portal
Automated workflows running in the background
15
Automated workflows running in the background
Errors in the AI acceptance catalogue
0
Errors in the AI acceptance catalogue
On the association’s own infrastructure
100%
On the association’s own infrastructure
The Challenge

Members lived in one SaaS tool, forms in another, courses in a third. Every renewal, receipt and course access meant manual work, the data sat on other people’s servers, and the association’s knowledge was scattered across documents nobody could search.

The Approach

We consolidated everything into one portal on the association’s own infrastructure, migrated hundreds of members and almost a thousand form submissions without loss, and added a private AI that only speaks from cited sources.

“A local AI that cites its sources — no data leaves the house”

What Stands Out

The elements that make this system different

I

Private AI, cited and local

A members’ assistant that runs entirely on the association’s own server — local language model, vector search, temperature zero — and answers only with citations from the association’s documents. It passed its acceptance catalogue without a single error.

II

Three tools become one portal

Membership platform and form service replaced: 350+ members and nearly 1,000 submissions migrated, with a merge tool, consent management and a one-click personal data export.

III

A course academy of its own

Programs, modules and lessons with streamed video, resume position, comments and certificates — the association owns its content instead of renting a course platform.

IV

Governance and finance built in

Organs, meetings, circular votes, audit and annual accounts in the portal; payments, donations, dunning and receipts flow automatically through 15 background workflows.

V

Privacy by architecture

Row-level security on every table, least-privilege access, k-anonymity for public research figures, nightly encrypted backups with tested restore.

Shown, Not Told

Screens from the delivered system

The research project page of the public website
Public website · research project
Membership page with trial and supporting membership
Membership · join online
Education page with the course programme
Education · course programme
§ 4doc 12
Member portal · drawn, because member data stays private
Scope of Delivery

What was delivered

  • Public website, statically generated, cookie-free and banner-free, with structured data and hreflang
  • Member portal with 22 areas and an administration with 20 views
  • Membership tiers, payments (several providers), donations, dunning and receipts
  • Migration from the previous membership and form platforms, without data loss
  • Course academy with streamed video, progress, comments and certificates
  • Private AI assistant on the association’s own server, answering only from cited sources
  • Digital governance: meetings, circular votes, audit, annual accounts
  • 15 automated workflows: payments, reminders, deadlines, monitoring, weekly report
  • Security hardening, encrypted nightly backups with restore test, operations handbook

Technology

  • Next.js
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • Supabase / PostgreSQL + pgvector
  • Self-hosted LLM (Ollama)
  • n8n
  • Docker on own VPS
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