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ichiwells

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About ichiwells

Repeat venture backed founder and CTO.

IchiPlan.com

"The Trusted Source for Code Compliance"

Problem: The Rent is Too Damn High.

Permitting buildings and homes takes months and months across many back-and-forth cycles. The majority of time, permits are "idle"/queueing. Liability concerns prevents the government permit-issuing entities from telling residents and developers how to actually fix problems quickly and efficiently. They instead submit into the black box and a month later get another ambiguous comment.

It’s information asymmetry that both sides actually want solved.

LLMs, Computer Vision and semantic search change what's possible.

Using AI + LLMs to make permitting easier -> make homes and buildings more affordable

Hiring! https://www.ichiplan.com/join_team

LinkedIn: /jeffreyryanwells

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    Thank you so much for sharing this! We are using ruby to build a powerful AI toolset in the construction space, and we love how simple all of the SaaS parts are and not reinventing…

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    Ichi | Remote (US) | Full-Time | Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack | LLM-powered construction code compliance Ichi is building an AI-powered professional toolset to transform co…

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    Comment #43519111

    One of apple’s biggest missed with “AI” in my opinion, is not building a universal search. For all the hype LLM generation gets, I think the rise of LLM-backed “semantic” embedding…

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    I would actually start with the Rails Guides docs, they’re very good and running the given commands should actually work: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.htm Just ha…

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    I run engineering for a venture backed AI-first startup and we use Ruby/Rails. For us, it made sense to leverage one of the best domain modeling and ORM frameworks out there. Most …

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    > Finally, building HNSW indices in Postgres is still extremely slow (even with parallel index builds), so it is difficult to experiment with index hyperparameters at scale For any…