How Dasra used Claude to make 730+ sanitation resources answerable across languages 

How Dasra used Claude to make 730+ sanitation resources answerable across languages 

How Dasra used Claude to make 730+ sanitation resources answerable across languages 

How Dasra used Claude to make 730+ sanitation resources answerable across languages 

Dasra and the NFSSM Alliance launched Sanitation.network for policymakers, practitioners and researchers. Its chatbot, built on BeeHyv's Genie platform, uses Anthropic's Claude to answer questions from the sector's reports and videos, with sources shown.

Dasra and the NFSSM Alliance launched Sanitation.network for policymakers, practitioners and researchers. Its chatbot, built on BeeHyv's Genie platform, uses Anthropic's Claude to answer questions from the sector's reports and videos, with sources shown.

At a glance

At a glance

At a glance

Customer

Dasra, anchor of the NFSSM Alliance 

Sector

Urban sanitation, philanthropy

Location

India

Partner

BeeHyv Software Solutions, Hyderabad

Platform

Genie enterprise RAG platform

AI Model

Claude Opus and Sonnet, via Anthropic’s API

Language Services

BHASHINI translation

Launched

February 2026

Content

730+ resources as of September 2026, including 30,000+ pages of documents and 2,300+ minutes of video

Adoption

Answered more than 3,700 questions from 140 users as of September 2026

About Dasra and the NFSSM Alliance 

About Dasra and the NFSSM Alliance 

About Dasra and the NFSSM Alliance 

About Dasra and the NFSSM Alliance 

Dasra is a strategic philanthropy organisation based in India. Among its programmes, it anchors the National Faecal Sludge and Septage Management (NFSSM) Alliance, a group of organisations working to improve urban sanitation across the country. The Alliance's work is guided by Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS), a public service approach that aims to make sanitation safe, equitable and sustainable across entire cities, with a particular focus on low-income communities. Dasra's Urban Sanitation team led the work on Sanitation.network, leveraging resources and expertise from across the Alliance.

Scattered knowledge, hard to reach

Scattered knowledge, hard to reach

Scattered knowledge, hard to reach

Scattered knowledge, hard to reach

India's urban sanitation sector has produced hundreds of toolkits, research reports, case studies and recorded sessions, much of it from NFSSM Alliance members and their partners. Finding the right piece was the hard part.

The material was spread across many websites, because each organisation published its own work. A lot of it came as long reports and recorded talks. Access across languages was also limited. A practitioner advising a city, or an official drafting a policy, first had to work out which organisation had covered a topic. Then they had to read through a report or watch a recording until the relevant part turned up. Recorded sessions were especially hard to search.

Dasra wanted one place where anyone in the sector could ask a question in their own language and get an answer drawn from this curated body of work.

India's urban sanitation sector has produced hundreds of toolkits, research reports, case studies and recorded sessions, much of it from NFSSM Alliance members and their partners. Finding the right piece was the hard part.

The material was spread across many websites, because each organisation published its own work. A lot of it came as long reports and recorded talks. Access across languages was also limited. A practitioner advising a city, or an official drafting a policy, first had to work out which organisation had covered a topic. Then they had to read through a report or watch a recording until the relevant part turned up. Recorded sessions were especially hard to search.

Dasra wanted one place where anyone in the sector could ask a question in their own language and get an answer drawn from this curated body of work.

What BeeHyv built

BeeHyv built the Sanitation.network website, and the chatbot at its centre runs on Genie, BeeHyv's enterprise RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) platform. The first job was turning a large, varied collection into something the chatbot could search.

Genie processed each PDF page by page, so the text in charts, tables and scanned pages became searchable along with the prose. Videos were transcribed into time-stamped segments, which keeps track of where each passage sits in its recording. A language model then extracted the entities in each passage and the relationships between them, and recorded them in a knowledge graph.

When someone asks a question, Genie combines a search of that knowledge graph with semantic search to find the handful of passages most likely to hold the answer. Those passages go to Claude, using the Opus and Sonnet models, through Anthropic's API.

For Sanitation.network, the answer prompt tells Claude to base its answer on those passages alone. The sources are shown with every answer, so readers can identify and check the original material. When the passages don't cover a question, the prompt also tells it to say that the knowledge base doesn't have the answer yet and to suggest a related question it can answer. For a tool that policymakers may use, a clear "not covered yet" is more useful than a confident guess.

Language support comes from BHASHINI, the Government of India's language platform. When a user types a question in a supported language, BHASHINI translates it into English. Genie finds the relevant passages, and Claude writes the answer. BHASHINI then translates the answer back into the user's language, with the source references still attached. Because every question is translated before retrieval, all of them are searched against the same knowledge base.
Beyond the website, BeeHyv configured Genie, ingested the content, built the knowledge graph, onboarded Dasra's team and supported the public launch. It continues to host, maintain and support the platform. 

How a question is answered on Sanitation.network.

How a question is answered on Sanitation.network.

How a question is answered on Sanitation.network.

How a question is answered on Sanitation.network.

1 · QUESTION

You
Type a question in a supported language

You
Type a question in a supported language

2 · LANGUAGE

BHASHINI
Translates the

question into English

BHASHINI
Translates the question into English

3 · RETRIEVAL

Genie
Searches the

knowledge graph and finds related

passages

Genie
Searches the knowledge graph and finds related passages

4 · ANSWER

Claude
Writes an answer

from the retrieved

passages

Claude
Writes an answer from the retrieved

passages

5 · REPLY

BHASHINI
Translates the answer back into the user’s

language

BHASHINI
Translates the answer back into the user’s language

The answer comes back in the user’s language, with its source references attached

The answer comes back in the user’s language, with its source references attached

1 · QUESTION

You
Type a question in a supported language

2 · LANGUAGE

BHASHINI
Translates the

question into English

3 · RETRIEVAL

Genie
Searches the

knowledge graph and finds related

passages

4 · ANSWER

Claude
Writes an answer from the retrieved passages

5 · REPLY

BHASHINI
Translates the answer back into the user’s

language

1 · QUESTION

You
Type a question in a

supported language

2 · LANGUAGE

BHASHINI
Translates the

question into English

3 · RETRIEVAL

Genie
Searches the

knowledge graph and finds related

passages

4 · ANSWER

Claude
Writes an answer from the retrieved passages

5 · REPLY

BHASHINI
Translates the answer back into the user’s

language

What changed

What changed

What changed

What changed

Dasra and the NFSSM Alliance launched Sanitation.network publicly in February 2026 at Dasra Philanthropy Week. It is publicly accessible and was built mainly for policymakers, practitioners and researchers. Users can mention their role and context in a question to get a more relevant answer.

The collection has kept growing since launch. As of September 2026 it holds more than 730 sanitation resources, and the deployment covers more than 30,000 pages of documents and 2,300 minutes of video. By then, sanitation.network has answered more than 3,700 questions from 140 users.

The main change is where people start. Instead of first working out which organisation published a toolkit, or sitting through a long session, users begin by typing a question in a supported language. They get an answer based on the sector's own material, with the original sources alongside to check.

Dasra and the NFSSM Alliance launched Sanitation.network publicly in February 2026 at Dasra Philanthropy Week. It is publicly accessible and was built mainly for policymakers, practitioners and researchers. Users can mention their role and context in a question to get a more relevant answer.

The collection has kept growing since launch. As of September 2026 it holds more than 730 sanitation resources, and the deployment covers more than 30,000 pages of documents and 2,300 minutes of video. By then, sanitation.network has answered more than 3,700 questions from 140 users.

The main change is where people start. Instead of first working out which organisation published a toolkit, or sitting through a long session, users begin by typing a question in a supported language. They get an answer based on the sector's own material, with the original sources alongside to check.

Dasra and the NFSSM Alliance launched Sanitation.network publicly in February 2026 at Dasra Philanthropy Week. It is publicly accessible and was built mainly for policymakers, practitioners and researchers. Users can mention their role and context in a question to get a more relevant answer.

The collection has kept growing since launch. As of September 2026 it holds more than 730 sanitation resources, and the deployment covers more than 30,000 pages of documents and 2,300 minutes of video. By then, sanitation.network has answered more than 3,700 questions from 140 users.

The main change is where people start. Instead of first working out which organisation published a toolkit, or sitting through a long session, users begin by typing a question in a supported language. They get an answer based on the sector's own material, with the original sources alongside to check.

Make your organisation’s knowledge answerable.

Make your organisation’s knowledge answerable.

Make your organisation’s knowledge answerable.

Make your organisation’s knowledge answerable.

See what Genie could do for your organisation.

See what Genie could do for your organisation.

See what Genie could do for your organisation.

Address

Corporate Office

BeeHyv Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Raja Praasadamu, Level 3,Plot No. 6, 6A and 6B, Masjid Banda Road, Botanical Garden

Road, Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telangana,

INDIA PIN – 500084

US Office

BeeHyv Inc. 4500 Eldorado Parkway, STE 2200, McKinney, TX 75070, USA

Get in touch

+91-9885200112

+1 (945) 268 0565

impact@beehyv.com

©2026 Beehyv. Built for social impact. All rights reserved.

Address

Corporate Office

BeeHyv Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Raja Praasadamu, Level 3,Plot No. 6, 6A and 6B, Masjid Banda Road, Botanical Garden

Road, Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telangana,

INDIA PIN – 500084

US Office

BeeHyv Inc. 4500 Eldorado Parkway, STE 2200, McKinney, TX 75070, USA

Get in touch

+91-9885200112

+1 (945) 268 0565

impact@beehyv.com

© 2026 Beehyv. Built for social impact. All rights reserved.

Address

Corporate Office

BeeHyv Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Raja Praasadamu, Level 3,Plot No. 6, 6A and 6B, Masjid Banda Road, Botanical Garden

Road, Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telangana,

INDIA PIN – 500084

US Office

BeeHyv Inc. 4500 Eldorado Parkway, STE 2200, McKinney, TX 75070, USA

Get in touch

+91-9885200112

+1 (945) 268 0565

impact@beehyv.com

© 2026 Beehyv. Built for social impact. All rights reserved.

Address

Corporate Office

BeeHyv Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Raja Praasadamu, Level 3,Plot No. 6, 6A and 6B, Masjid Banda Road, Botanical Garden Road, Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telangana,

INDIA PIN – 500084

US Office

BeeHyv Inc. 4500 Eldorado Parkway, STE 2200, McKinney, TX 75070, USA

Get in touch

+91-9885200112

+1 (945) 268 0565

impact@beehyv.com

© 2026 Beehyv. Built for social impact. All rights reserved.

Address

Corporate Office

BeeHyv Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Raja Praasadamu, Level 3,Plot No. 6, 6A and 6B, Masjid Banda Road, Botanical Garden Road, Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telangana,

INDIA PIN – 500084

US Office

BeeHyv Inc. 4500 Eldorado Parkway, STE 2200, McKinney, TX 75070, USA

Get in touch

+91-9885200112

+1 (945) 268 0565

impact@beehyv.com

© 2026 Beehyv. Built for social impact. All rights reserved.

Address

Corporate Office

BeeHyv Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Raja Praasadamu, Level 3,Plot No. 6, 6A and 6B, Masjid Banda Road, Botanical Garden Road, Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA PIN – 500084

US Office

BeeHyv Inc. 4500 Eldorado Parkway, STE 2200, McKinney, TX 75070, USA

Get in touch

+91-9885200112

+1 (945) 268 0565

impact@beehyv.com

© 2026 Beehyv. Built for social impact. All rights reserved.

Address

Corporate Office

BeeHyv Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Raja Praasadamu, Level 3,Plot No. 6, 6A and 6B, Masjid Banda Road, Botanical Garden Road, Kondapur, Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA PIN – 500084

US Office

BeeHyv Inc. 4500 Eldorado Parkway, STE 2200, McKinney, TX 75070, USA

Get in touch

+91-9885200112

+1 (945) 268 0565

impact@beehyv.com

© 2026 Beehyv. Built for social impact. All rights reserved.

What BeeHyv built

What BeeHyv built

BeeHyv built the Sanitation.network website, and the chatbot at its centre runs on Genie, BeeHyv's enterprise RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) platform. The first job was turning a large, varied collection into something the chatbot could search.

Genie processed each PDF page by page, so the text in charts, tables and scanned pages became searchable along with the prose. Videos were transcribed into time-stamped segments, which keeps track of where each passage sits in its recording. A language model then extracted the entities in each passage and the relationships between them, and recorded them in a knowledge graph.

When someone asks a question, Genie combines a search of that knowledge graph with semantic search to find the handful of passages most likely to hold the answer. Those passages go to Claude, using the Opus and Sonnet models, through Anthropic's API.

For Sanitation.network, the answer prompt tells Claude to base its answer on those passages alone. The sources are shown with every answer, so readers can identify and check the original material. When the passages don't cover a question, the prompt also tells it to say that the knowledge base doesn't have the answer yet and to suggest a related question it can answer. For a tool that policymakers may use, a clear "not covered yet" is more useful than a confident guess.

Language support comes from BHASHINI, the Government of India's language platform. When a user types a question in a supported language, BHASHINI translates it into English. Genie finds the relevant passages, and Claude writes the answer. BHASHINI then translates the answer back into the user's language, with the source references still attached. Because every question is translated before retrieval, all of them are searched against the same knowledge base.

Beyond the website, BeeHyv configured Genie, ingested the content, built the knowledge graph, onboarded Dasra's team and supported the public launch. It continues to host, maintain and support the platform. 

What BeeHyv built

BeeHyv built the Sanitation.network website, and the chatbot at its centre runs on Genie, BeeHyv's enterprise RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) platform. The first job was turning a large, varied collection into something the chatbot could search.

Genie processed each PDF page by page, so the text in charts, tables and scanned pages became searchable along with the prose. Videos were transcribed into time-stamped segments, which keeps track of where each passage sits in its recording. A language model then extracted the entities in each passage and the relationships between them, and recorded them in a knowledge graph.

When someone asks a question, Genie combines a search of that knowledge graph with semantic search to find the handful of passages most likely to hold the answer. Those passages go to Claude, using the Opus and Sonnet models, through Anthropic's API.

For Sanitation.network, the answer prompt tells Claude to base its answer on those passages alone. The sources are shown with every answer, so readers can identify and check the original material. When the passages don't cover a question, the prompt also tells it to say that the knowledge base doesn't have the answer yet and to suggest a related question it can answer. For a tool that policymakers may use, a clear "not covered yet" is more useful than a confident guess.

Language support comes from BHASHINI, the Government of India's language platform. When a user types a question in a supported language, BHASHINI translates it into English. Genie finds the relevant passages, and Claude writes the answer. BHASHINI then translates the answer back into the user's language, with the source references still attached. Because every question is translated before retrieval, all of them are searched against the same knowledge base.

Beyond the website, BeeHyv configured Genie, ingested the content, built the knowledge graph, onboarded Dasra's team and supported the public launch. It continues to host, maintain and support the platform. 

What BeeHyv built

BeeHyv built the Sanitation.network website, and the chatbot at its centre runs on Genie, BeeHyv's enterprise RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) platform. The first job was turning a large, varied collection into something the chatbot could search.

Genie processed each PDF page by page, so the text in charts, tables and scanned pages became searchable along with the prose. Videos were transcribed into time-stamped segments, which keeps track of where each passage sits in its recording. A language model then extracted the entities in each passage and the relationships between them, and recorded them in a knowledge graph.

When someone asks a question, Genie combines a search of that knowledge graph with semantic search to find the handful of passages most likely to hold the answer. Those passages go to Claude, using the Opus and Sonnet models, through Anthropic's API.

For Sanitation.network, the answer prompt tells Claude to base its answer on those passages alone. The sources are shown with every answer, so readers can identify and check the original material. When the passages don't cover a question, the prompt also tells it to say that the knowledge base doesn't have the answer yet and to suggest a related question it can answer. For a tool that policymakers may use, a clear "not covered yet" is more useful than a confident guess.

Language support comes from BHASHINI, the Government of India's language platform. When a user types a question in a supported language, BHASHINI translates it into English. Genie finds the relevant passages, and Claude writes the answer. BHASHINI then translates the answer back into the user's language, with the source references still attached. Because every question is translated before retrieval, all of them are searched against the same knowledge base.

Beyond the website, BeeHyv configured Genie, ingested the content, built the knowledge graph, onboarded Dasra's team and supported the public launch. It continues to host, maintain and support the platform.