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How we made AI projects findable in the Aonetech portfolio

Map My Tour is a web application in the travel industry. It also belongs in our AI portfolio. When we added AI to the project filter, putting it in a single category would have forced an odd choice: should a visitor looking for a web application stop finding it?

What we kept separate

Each project keeps its delivery type, such as a website or mobile application, and its industry. We gave projects a separate AI flag. Selecting “Web applications” checks the delivery type; selecting “AI” checks that flag. Either selection can be narrowed by industry.

Try the same question two ways

  1. Open Our Work, choose AI, then choose Travel & Tourism. Look for Map My Tour.
  2. Keep the industry selected and switch the project type to Web applications. The same project still fits.
  3. Clear the filters and choose Education. The school sites appear together even though they serve different communities.

Where this design stops working

The type control accepts one choice at a time. A visitor can ask for AI projects in travel, but cannot explicitly ask for only AI mobile applications. If that becomes a common question, a separate AI checkbox would express it better than adding a new category for every combination.

Before adding a filter to a catalogue, write down two searches that ought to return the same item. Try both on the finished page. That small check catches a category decision that looks tidy in a spreadsheet but makes a project disappear for a real visitor.

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