Personal journaling is useful, but it can be difficult to turn a collection of thoughts into meaningful insights or actionable goals.

I wanted to experiment with a different approach: what if an AI could act as a reflection companion while keeping each user's journal data isolated and securely managed?

That idea became Sanctuary AI, a cloud-native personal reflection and journaling application built with Google Cloud Run, Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore, and Google Gemini.

The core workflow is simple:

Reflect → Understand → Act → Review