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Re: Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence

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When will there be an Automator-like tool which will allow a user to create basic workflows?

I have a stack of several hundred invoices with checks which I take photos of and then need to rename to match the Invoice ID.

If I could also have it find the check #, amoutn, and date of the check and some other information and use all that to construct a filename --- that would be ideal, but just getting the Invoice ID would be a nice start.

Re: Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence

#22

When will there be an Automator-like tool which will allow a user to create basic workflows? I have a stack of several hundred invoices with checks which I take photos of and then need to rename to match the Invoice ID. If I could also have it find the check #, amoutn, and date of the check and some other information and use all that to construct a filename --- that would be ideal, but just getting the Invoice ID wou…

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Re: Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence

#23

When will there be an Automator-like tool which will allow a user to create basic workflows? I have a stack of several hundred invoices with checks which I take photos of and then need to rename to match the Invoice ID. If I could also have it find the check #, amoutn, and date of the check and some other information and use all that to construct a filename --- that would be ideal, but just getting the Invoice ID wou…

you may want to check https://www.veryfi.com/

Re: Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence

#25
post #16

how do you ensure that the AI that you use does not hallucinate? (assuming you use some type of LLM)

We do a lot of pre-processing and post-processing with iterative generations and a voting system to ensure accuracy.

AI is mostly used for natural language generation.

For insight-generation, we built our own algorithm (ML-based).

Re: Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence

#26
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can learn more about our solutions here https://www.narrative.bi/solutions But let me describe the most popular use cases: 1. Report automation. People connect their marketing data sources and get automated reports on key metrics 2. Anomaly detection. We generate alerts when we see unusual patterns that affect your key business metrics 3. Natural language insights: we uncover interesting patterns and correlations…

Not a customer nor have I used the app, but I think one use case you're hitting is the following: I'm an ad management agency that does google ads for 200x ecommerce companies. Every month I have my marketing specialist create a powerpoint presentation with graphs of their performance + a narrative about it (ROAS was up 23.5% but this was mostly due to on-brand search). Instead of my marketing analyst creating this p…

This is so accurate, it feels as if our actual customer wrote it :)

We helped many agencies to automate reporting the way you described: https://www.narrative.bi/solutions/agencies

Re: Show HN: nbi.ai – Generative Business Intelligence

#27
A pet peeve of mine, as someone who has been in the BI domain for a few years. There is no such thing as data driven decisions. What is there, is decision driven data, i.e. what you monitor indicates your desired decision making toolset.

This comment is not specifically targeted against this product, as other than that marketing part the rest of claims are very expected and valid. I do have reservations about whether generative AI produces much more value in this context than older rule-based NLG approaches. I.e. I would not expect the divergence between rule-based and statistical inference narratives to be significantly different in the context of traditional BI, where data unexpectedness is hamstrung in rigid data models.

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