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Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations

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Re: Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations

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We were just discussing this TODAY in our weekly AI Playground meetup; that someone will soon make something like this.

I’m curious if private ngos or companies can use it as well? Can we track policy and potential impacts on industry? Etc?

Re: Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations

#14
Congrats on the launch! While search with LLMs is quite popular nowadays, it is still hard to get it right.

As a smoke test, I tried the following queries, and they returned the same result. Good job!

    international relations Turkey
    international relations about the country with the capital city of Ankara
Both return info from this link: https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-call-with-foreign-m...

Re: Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations

#15
post #12

You're RAGing over a DB of scraped news articles?

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

Re: Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations

#17
post #13

We were just discussing this TODAY in our weekly AI Playground meetup; that someone will soon make something like this. I’m curious if private ngos or companies can use it as well? Can we track policy and potential impacts on industry? Etc?

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 think we're going to see a lot more people building in this space. There seems to be a growing consensus among the government affairs people I've talked to that it's just a matter of time

Re: Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations

#18

Congrats on the launch! While search with LLMs is quite popular nowadays, it is still hard to get it right. As a smoke test, I tried the following queries, and they returned the same result. Good job! international relations Turkey international relations about the country with the capital city of Ankara Both return info from this link: https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-call-with-foreign-m...

Well if you ask GPT-4o the following:

Give me keywords to search for based on this sentence "international relations about the country with the capital city of Ankara"

You get the following:

- Turkey international relations - Ankara diplomacy - Turkey foreign policy - Turkey global partnerships - Turkey international politics - Turkey geopolitical strategy - Turkey foreign affairs - Turkey global relations - Turkey NATO relations (if relevant to your topic) - Ankara as a diplomatic hub

So it is not unsurprising that the same link was returned

Re: Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations

#19

Congrats on the launch! While search with LLMs is quite popular nowadays, it is still hard to get it right. As a smoke test, I tried the following queries, and they returned the same result. Good job! international relations Turkey international relations about the country with the capital city of Ankara Both return info from this link: https://www.state.gov/secretary-blinkens-call-with-foreign-m...

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 would (especially to try smoke tests like yours), so I'm glad it's holding up :)
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