diff --git a/ingest.py b/ingest.py
index 2a9a161..79434b3 100644
--- a/ingest.py
+++ b/ingest.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import os
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
 from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader, PDFMinerLoader, CSVLoader
 from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
 from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
@@ -6,6 +7,8 @@ from langchain.embeddings import LlamaCppEmbeddings
 from constants import PERSIST_DIRECTORY
 from constants import CHROMA_SETTINGS
 
+load_dotenv()
+
 def main():
     llama_embeddings_model = os.environ.get('LLAMA_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL')
     persist_directory = os.environ.get('PERSIST_DIRECTORY')
@@ -30,4 +33,4 @@ def main():
     db = None
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
\ No newline at end of file
+    main()
diff --git a/privateGPT.py b/privateGPT.py
index 38fab48..4c603a2 100644
--- a/privateGPT.py
+++ b/privateGPT.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
 from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA
 from langchain.embeddings import LlamaCppEmbeddings
 from langchain.callbacks.streaming_stdout import StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler
@@ -5,6 +6,8 @@ from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
 from langchain.llms import GPT4All, LlamaCpp
 import os
 
+load_dotenv()
+
 llama_embeddings_model = os.environ.get("LLAMA_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL")
 persist_directory = os.environ.get('PERSIST_DIRECTORY')
 
@@ -51,4 +54,4 @@ def main():
             print(document.page_content)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
\ No newline at end of file
+    main()