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Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

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Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

then please elaborate on "complexities involved down the funnel" and where I am misunderstanding with examples.

A few that we experience as we’re building Trellis out: 1. Managing end-to-end workflows from integrating with data sources, automatically triggering new runs when there’s new data coming in, and keeping track of different business logic that’s involved (i.e. I want to classify the type of the emails and based on that apply different extraction logic) 2. Most out-of-the-box solutions only get you 95% of the way there…

too generic

Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

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> a major commercial bank I work with couldn’t improve credit risk models because critical data was stuck in PDFs and emails.

Great use case! Worked on exactly this a decade ago. It was Hard™ then. Could only make so much progress. Getting this right is a huge value unlock. Congrats!

Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

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post #93

> a major commercial bank I work with couldn’t improve credit risk models because critical data was stuck in PDFs and emails. Great use case! Worked on exactly this a decade ago. It was Hard™ then. Could only make so much progress. Getting this right is a huge value unlock. Congrats!

Great to hear that you worked saw similar use cases. Doing this before LLMs seem like a big challenge.

Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

#96

We built something tangentially related at SoundTrace. Basically when we onboard a new client they dump all their audiograms on us as PDFs. The data needs extraction needs to be perfect because the tables values are used to detect hearing loss over time. We settled on a pipeline that looks roughly like PDF -> gpto pre filter phase -> OCR to extract text tables and forms -> things branch out here We do a direct parse…

Super cool! This aligns with our experiences. These tools are great and can get to near 100% of accuracy but it's quite a lot of work on the Eng side to get it there reliably.

Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

#97
Very cool - I've been working on an open source python package that lets you do some similar things (https://github.com/expectedparrot/edsl).

Here's an example of the Enron email demo using the edsl syntax/package & a few different LLMs: https://www.expectedparrot.com/content/6607caa1-efc5-439f-85...

Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

#98

Congrats on the launch! For anyone curious who wants to dig deep and solve document processing workflows via open-source, do try Unstract https://github.com/Zipstack/unstract

This was the top comment for quite a while but suddenly dropped to the bottom. Was it automatically downranked for mentioning an OS alternative? How many upvotes does your comment have?

Ah! I'm not sure why. this is strange. I see six upvotes.

Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data

#100
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Super sick. I’m building this at work rn. Definitely a cool technical problem. Good luck!

That’s awesome. Curious to hear your use cases and also happy to share notes on what we see work well. Feel free to ping me (email in Bio)
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