diff --git a/indiquo/cli/IndiQuoCLI.py b/indiquo/cli/IndiQuoCLI.py
index a9c0614f63c1c14d8202668e99aed5abaeafa491..0dba212ddbec90a02d9f4c4f16662cab5cff3e87 100644
--- a/indiquo/cli/IndiQuoCLI.py
+++ b/indiquo/cli/IndiQuoCLI.py
@@ -5,13 +5,14 @@ from datetime import datetime
 from os import listdir
 from os.path import join, isfile, splitext, basename, isdir
 from pathlib import Path
-from flair.models import SequenceTagger
+try:
+    from flair.models import SequenceTagger
+    from indiquo.core.CandidatePredictorRW import CandidatePredictorRW
+except ModuleNotFoundError:
+    pass
 
 from quid.core.Quid import Quid
-
 from dramatist.core.Dramatist import Dramatist
-
-from indiquo.core.CandidatePredictorRW import CandidatePredictorRW
 from indiquo.core.CandidatePredictorST import CandidatePredictorST
 from indiquo.core.IndiQuo import IndiQuo
 from indiquo.core.ScenePredictor import ScenePredictor
@@ -19,9 +20,7 @@ from indiquo.core.chunker.SentenceChunker import SentenceChunker
 from indiquo.core.CandidatePredictor import CandidatePredictor
 from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer
 from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer
-
 import csv
-
 from indiquo.training.candidate import TrainCandidateClassifier
 
 
diff --git a/indiquo/core/CandidatePredictorRW.py b/indiquo/core/CandidatePredictorRW.py
index 65c8da456c7c08b082f076a6ccdedce92680a8c4..531f371e6b9f459311ede1d99da16a96aadffe24 100644
--- a/indiquo/core/CandidatePredictorRW.py
+++ b/indiquo/core/CandidatePredictorRW.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from typing import List, Optional
 from flair.data import Sentence
 from flair.nn import Model
-
 from indiquo.core.BasePredictor import BasePredictor
 from indiquo.core.Candidate import Candidate
 from indiquo.core.chunker.BaseChunker import BaseChunker