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Can you elaborate on what you mean by “it’s almost assumed..”? I’m actively working on datasheet parsing at scale at Zenode.ai, and I haven’t read anything specifically about this……

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This is basically just a vent about all the sh!t i've dealt with over the years as a EE

Thank you! Yeah, missing pricing and availability is a tough one, but I'm really hoping we'll be able to get it from the distributors in return to funneling better traffic towards …

We've actually heard this from a few industries, there's definitely a lot of different vertical AI opportunities here! Right now we're very focused on just doing electronic compone…

Yeah, this was actually a nightmare . We had to create "canonicals", which ended up being a mix of regex, machine learning and good old manual human labor. Fortunately, we could us…

That's the hope, but thus far we've been heads down building, and haven't had much time to chat with those folks.

From all of our customer interviews, almost everyone used Digikey and the occasional manufacturer website to find parts. Because of that, we're seeing many people put the parameter…

ChatGPT has definitely spoiled us all, but we're working to improve performance every day. Thus far we've usually prioritized accuracy over speed since there isn't much room for er…

Well, that's super annoying, we definitely don't want that, thanks for finding and letting us know! We'll have it fixed shortly.

Digikey's parametrics were the best in industry prior to ours, but they were still really painful to use because of the strings. But to even get to the parametrics, you first have …

We're learning a lot here, since this always happened AFTER we handed over the BOM. It certainly seems like a pain, particularly when a supplier ends up being a critical bottleneck…

Yeah, Moat's are tricky in the age of AI. We think there's always room for a standalone interface in this niche sector, given the sheer amount of data that needs to get presented (…

Thanks, that's why we built it! We're big digikey fans, and have spent hundreds of hours on the site, but that doesn't mean it's without room for improvement!

Solid questions, you've clearly been burned before lol. 1) Document revisions can be a bit hard to handle, but we currently look for any dates or document numbers present, and when…

Awesome, that was one of the top reasons we built it, tired of clicking on strings lol. What are you working on specifically? Would love to chat and see what we can do to help!

No, we had those built a few versions back, but nobody used them and they were a pain to maintain so we took them out

TL;DR - My cofounder Collin and I built an AI version of Digi-Key to help PCB designers find and use parts, except with a way bigger catalog, modern refinement tools, and an AI tha…

This is actually well said. One of the issues we had to overcome with Zenode was the fact that people reference the same information in completely different ways. For example, "wha…

Damn, yeah, we added the ability for the AI to set filters based on the input over the weekend and it has definitely slowed things down. We've got a rust script thats going out tod…

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Hey, don't tell everyone our secret sauce! ;) But yeah, you hit it on the head. LLMs alone were not enough to be able to read the datasheet. It took a mix of different algorithms, …

We think it is, but filters are just the tip of the iceberg for what a true AI for electronics can do. Our service also uses Machine Learning to rank the results according what com…