KEA Research is a full-stack multi-provider AI research chat application. The backend is a FastAPI service backed by SQLite/SQLAlchemy, exposing chat, admin, health, user, and TTS endpoints. The frontend is an Astro + TypeScript single-page app that stores chat history and pipeline data in IndexedDB, with a Bootstrap-based UI. Deployment is containerized via Docker Compose with nginx handling TLS and SSE-friendly proxying. The core product logic is a four-step research pipeline: initial multi-provider responses, Mixture-of-Agents refinement, peer evaluation, and a final KEA synthesis with facts, consensus, flagged claims, rankings, and confidence scores. A web admin panel manages providers, models, provider sets, users, and app settings, while the frontend supports research layers, bookmarks, notes, drafts, export, attachment ingestion, and text-to-speech via a Kokoro ONNX model.