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grant-outreach-engine/README.md
Croissant Le Doux fe12b032af feat(infra): dockerized Postgres+pgvector and app image, mirroring novelpad compose conventions
docker-compose.yml: pgvector/pgvector:pg16 on host 54341 (side-by-side
with novelpad's 54321/54331), healthcheck-gated worker + review services
from one multi-stage Dockerfile (same image, different command — the
website/auth pattern). No Electric/Redis: nothing client-synced here.

Dockerfile adapted from novelpad-desktop @ 62c56b87, trimmed: no native
modules so no build-tools layer, no pm2. Default CMD = DBOS worker.

Verified end to end: migration applied against the container (vector
0.8.2, 6 tables, 2 HNSW indexes), containerized worker boots, DBOS
system schema lands in helmdocs_outreach ('dbos' schema — the
*_dbos_sys URL in DBOS's boot log is cosmetic; the shared pool wins).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-16 13:49:55 -04:00

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HelmDocs Grant-Match Outreach Engine

Automated pipeline that matches open grants to NH nonprofits, then runs a personalized email drip whose success metric is a booked demo call. The grant match is the lead magnet — match accuracy is the prime engineering directive.

Architecture doc: docs/plan.md. Build plan and phase status: ~/.claude/plans/helmdocs-outreach.md.

Relationship to novelpad-desktop

This repo deliberately mirrors the novelpad-desktop stack so a future merge is a directory move, not a rewrite:

  • Yarn 4.5.0 + Turbo monorepo, Node 22.16 (volta), TypeScript ^5.9.3
  • Postgres + pgvector + Drizzle (0.44.6, pinned via resolutions), actions/queries pattern
  • DBOS for durable jobs/cron (worker-app pattern)
  • @google/genai on Vertex; embeddings gemini-embedding-001 @ 1536 dims (identical to HelmDocs RAG — never mix embedding models)
  • React Router v7 for the review UI

Merge rules: all packages stay in the @novelpad/ scope with names that never collide with novelpad-desktop workspaces (outreach-*). Files copied from novelpad-desktop carry a provenance header (source path @ commit) — diff against origin at merge time. No live code sharing; drift is fixed at merge, by design.

Boundary: separate repo and separate Postgres on purpose — outreach tooling and sourced contact data stay outside the compliance-scoped product repo/DB.

Workspaces

Workspace Purpose
packages/config Shared tsconfig/tailwind base (copied from novelpad-desktop)
packages/outreach-core Drizzle schema (grants, orgs, profiles, contacts, matches, pipeline_events), actions/queries, hard gates
packages/outreach-ai Gemini client, embeddings, org-profiler + mission-fit-judge agents
apps/outreach-worker DBOS executor: ingestion crons, expiry sweep, scoring runs, Apollo sync
apps/outreach-review Human review queue (RR7). No auth by design — run behind IAP/localhost

Development

yarn install
yarn build
yarn typecheck
yarn test

Migrations: yarn create:migration <name> inside packages/outreach-core (server-only — no client DB in this repo).

Local infrastructure

docker-compose.yml mirrors novelpad-desktop's compose conventions (pgvector image, healthcheck-gated startup), trimmed to this repo: Postgres 16 + pgvector on host port 54341 (novelpad's stacks use 54321/54331 — all three run side by side), plus worker and review services built from the root multi-stage Dockerfile (same image, different command — the novelpad website/auth pattern).

docker compose up -d postgres     # just the database
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:password@localhost:54341/helmdocs_outreach \
  yarn workspace @novelpad/outreach-core migrate
docker compose up -d              # full stack (worker + review UI on :3100)

Migrations always run from the host — drizzle-kit is a devDependency and deliberately absent from the production image. The DBOS system schema initializes itself into the same database on worker boot (the dbos schema; ignore the misleading *_dbos_sys URL in DBOS's boot log — the shared pool override wins).