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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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Is there a custom search engine underneath this? My company's CIO has been asking about an LLM-driven search engine for the entire company.

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 algorithms that were pretty specific to political monitoring, and none of the out-of-the-box solutions seemed customizable enough for us.

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Congratulations on the launch! A tangential use case to your current focus could also be smaller financial firms focused on fundamental analysis. I've done some work in the past setting up news datastreams for these sort of firms. Something like this that structures public government data could be really interesting for them.

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This is neat; congratulations on launching. Curious what you do to assure users that you’re searching every corner they’d be checking manually, and that there haven’t been any regressions to the source set. This came up at work recently.

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Congratulations on the launch! A tangential use case to your current focus could also be smaller financial firms focused on fundamental analysis. I've done some work in the past setting up news datastreams for these sort of firms. Something like this that structures public government data could be really interesting for them.

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

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This is neat; congratulations on launching. Curious what you do to assure users that you’re searching every corner they’d be checking manually, and that there haven’t been any regressions to the source set. This came up at work recently.

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 announcements from the various state/regional commissions on higher education, and we added those within the hour.

For political monitoring in particular, I think this is pretty important. Different organizations in different industries will inevitably have very specific/obscure sources they want to track, so rather than promising that we already have everything they'd be checking, we just assure them that we can add anything missing really quickly.

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Love the story about your journey sandy - its been great watching you stick through the pivots!

Could your software be used to create something like a specialized feed? For example like the newscatcher feed product (if you are familiar with them)

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I see that you are quoting in extenso News articles (I read one from the DailyMail). How did you secure the copyright issues of reproducing full articles ?

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 Mail. Better see what's going on there; thanks for the catch!

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

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Love the story about your journey sandy - its been great watching you stick through the pivots! Could your software be used to create something like a specialized feed? For example like the newscatcher feed product (if you are familiar with them)

Thank you! And yeah, getting specialized feeds is one of the main things our current customers do!

Also, hope all is well at Laudspeaker :)

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