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AI Assistant: get your own free API key

The AI Assistant can use your own API key. That means the AI usage comes out of your own free quota, and your clinic keeps working even if the clinic owner changes provider keys.

You do not have to do anything. If you leave the key blank, your clinic quietly uses the clinic owner's key instead. Adding your own is entirely optional.

Groq — recommended, fast and generous free tier

1. Open console.groq.com/keys and sign up (Google, GitHub or email — no card needed).
2. Click Create API Key, give it a name like my clinic, and copy the key it shows. It starts with gsk_.
3. Paste it into ⚙️ Settings → 🤖 AI Assistant → Your clinic's API key — groq, then press Save keys.

Google Gemini — a second opinion

1. Open aistudio.google.com/app/apikey and sign in with your Google account.
2. Click Create API key and copy it (it starts with AIza).
3. Paste it into Settings → AI Assistant → Your clinic's API key — gemini, then press Save keys.

After you save

• Each provider line shows currently whether your clinic's key is in use, or whether the clinic owner's key is being used as a fallback.
• Press Test connection to confirm. This makes one real, very small API call.
• You can paste a new key at any time, or clear a field and save to go back to the clinic owner's key.

If something looks wrong

• 🔑 key error — the key was pasted with a space or truncated. Paste it again carefully.
• ⏳ too many requests — the free quota for that minute is used up. This is normal and temporary; the app quietly moves to the next provider.
• Nothing is sent — if no key is set anywhere for a provider, that provider is skipped rather than failing.

About your patients: the assistant never sends names, addresses or phone numbers anywhere. It only ever sends de-identified details such as age, sex, symptoms and lab values.

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