diff --git a/application/Dockerfile b/application/Dockerfile
index d076bc415..d493228c5 100644
--- a/application/Dockerfile
+++ b/application/Dockerfile
@@ -39,9 +39,10 @@ RUN python3.11 -m venv /venv
 ENV PATH="/venv/bin:$PATH"
 
 # Install Python packages
-RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \
-    pip install --no-cache-dir tiktoken && \
-    pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+RUN pip install uv && \
+    uv pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip && \
+    uv pip install --no-cache-dir tiktoken && \
+    uv pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
 
 # Final Stage
 FROM ubuntu:24.04 as final
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/setup.sh b/setup.sh
index 988841da4..e9bbde023 100755
--- a/setup.sh
+++ b/setup.sh
@@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ download_locally() {
     docker-compose -f docker-compose-local.yaml build && docker-compose -f docker-compose-local.yaml up -d
     #python -m venv venv
     #source venv/bin/activate
-    pip install -r application/requirements.txt
-    pip install llama-cpp-python
-    pip install sentence-transformers
+    curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/0.4.6/install.sh | sh
+    uv pip install -r application/requirements.txt
+    uv pip install llama-cpp-python
+    uv pip install sentence-transformers
     export LLM_NAME=llama.cpp
     export EMBEDDINGS_NAME=huggingface_sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
     export FLASK_APP=application/app.py
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ddfa3677f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+version = 1
+requires-python = ">=3.12"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "docsgpt"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = { virtual = "." }