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Oh interesting, we never actually thought of it that way—we just had a friend design this logo for us and this is what he came up with. And USPTO never complained, so we didn’t thi…

1) I don't think we'll ever primarily target non-profits (our first customer happened to be a non-profit, but there's just inherently more business in for-profit spaces), but it ha…

Definitely many thousands, possibly the 10s of thousands depending on what you count as a source (e.g., if you get press releases from one part if an agency’s site, and speeches fr…

Yep we get the sources above. We've definitely thought about contract capture--we've just been hesitant because it seems like such a competitive space. But it's definitely tempting…

Honestly, if you or anyone else has a really easy way to get all communications/publications from every government/government-adjacent body, I genuinely would love to hear it. Espe…

So we actually have 2 search tools. One is the one you see here, which is made to be less precise, but returns more results and returns them faster. The other sounds more like what…

Aww, thank you! I'm impressed you even remember us from 2021 haha

Glad to hear it! If you have any questions or need anything, please reach out at https://parsagon.io/contact ! Working with non-profits has been some of the most fun work we've don…

Thank you! And yeah, getting specialized feeds is one of the main things our current customers do! Also, hope all is well at Laudspeaker :)

Oh whoops, that seems like a bug. We typically show press releases verbatim, but our intention is to just provide the headline, link, and extracted facts for sources like the Daily…

Thanks! I think the best thing we do to assure users that we check everything they'd check is that we add requested data sources pretty fast. E.g., one customer wanted to track ann…

Oh interesting, I'll be sure to look into that! Definitely an intriguing use case

If you're talking about search-as-a-service solutions, we didn't end up using any of them. There were certain optimizations we needed to make to our information retrieval algorithm…

Thank you! It's been interesting to watch HN playing around with it. This community definitely phrases its search queries differently from how many government affairs professionals…

Yeah absolutely! We have private companies using us right now! (We might have an private NGO as a customer--I'm always a little hazy on the exact definition of NGO) I definitely th…

News articles, Requests for Comment and similar government announcements, speeches, parliamentary questions, government reports/statements/consultations--a pretty wide variety of s…

Absolutely! We're already doing this with PDFs from legislatures for our tool to track bills, which should be ready soon. Also, thanks, that's great feedback :)

LMAO, this is unironically the kind of feedback I love to see from HN

Hi HN! I’m Sandy, and I’m excited to introduce Parsagon. Parsagon is using AI to automate workflows for government affairs professionals, starting with an AI search for public poli…