> 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!
Make sure you have an on-premise option for this type of customer. I've worked at two software companies in Europe with tangentially similar products related to document analysis. On premise is a key requirement. Even though it's 2024, banks, financial institutions like insurance companies etc. tend to be _very_ cautious with valuable documents involving customers. There are also regional regulations that prevent thi…
Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data
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On-prem is theater if the OS isn't libre.
Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data
#122What about a pdf with many separate datapoints on it? For instance, I have 100 pdfs, each with 10-100 individual products listed (in different formats). I want to create a single table with one row per product appearing in any of the PDFs, with various details like price, product description, etc., From what I can tell from the demo, it seems like 1 file = 1 row in Trellis?
Good question and we have seen this extraction workflow a lot in financial services. We just added table mode to the product (select table in transformation parameters) where we extract table structure in the documents that match that schema. So 1 file map to N rows where N is all the row in the table.
I'm having trouble finding table mode in the demo you linked. Where can I find it?
Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data
#123A good project, I think it will help many projects that are in chaos due to an overload of information. But many projects are in chaos created by managers with chaos in their heads. This will only add more chaos to such projects.
Re: Launch HN: Trellis (YC W24) – AI-powered workflows for unstructured data
#124Super cool! This really is big problem that's waiting for someone to have a solution that fully nails it.