Our use case is similar to your "first" customer
at first we got zero results. tuning specific wording from "requirements" to "policies" got the intended results
thank you for this, excited to try it further
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#32Re: Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and government relations
#33Is there a custom search engine underneath this? My company's CIO has been asking about an LLM-driven search engine for the entire company.
same, anything suggested?
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#34Our use case is similar to your "first" customer at first we got zero results. tuning specific wording from "requirements" to "policies" got the intended results thank you for this, excited to try it further
Glad to hear it!
If you have any questions or need anything, please reach out at https://parsagon.io/contact ! Working with non-profits has been some of the most fun work we've done, so we'd love to do what we can to make the platform work for you!
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#35Seeing your launch hn made me happy. I tested one of your products in 2021. It's cool to see you and Parsagon working through iterations and finding customer traction. Mad props!
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#36Seeing your launch hn made me happy. I tested one of your products in 2021. It's cool to see you and Parsagon working through iterations and finding customer traction. Mad props!
Aww, thank you! I'm impressed you even remember us from 2021 haha
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#37It still boggles my mind what mental & legal gymnastics are passed through to get 3 years of funding for what looks like someone last night put together a RAG of a cbp data dump that you get for free from their site.
Not saying it's not useful, just fascinated at what excuses have gone in endless meetings for 3 years to do whats basically an afternoons worth of work.
Yes I mean that literally. You start off an aws rag app or a huggingface container, you download the CSVs fom cbp public portal, and you add a sh*tty backgroundcolor and a border glow that doesn't go all the way around a button. 10-15 more years of this and maybe we'll get the next dropbox again who knows.
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#38Congrats 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 N…
This is a demo from a small startup dedicated to enhancing government transparency, which I greatly appreciate. As a result, my expectations are aligned with this goal, and I refer to this as a smoke test.
Achieving accuracy with RAG and LLMs is a challenging task that requires balancing precision and recall. For instance, when you type "Ankara" into GPT-4o, it provides information about Turkey. However, searching "Ankara" in their product does not yield articles related to Turkey.
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#39Perhaps I am not using it right, I wanted to see if I could get a list of sources for "policy roadblocks to timely court justice" for the last 7 days in the UK.
I get some interesting articles, but only really one was relevant
even then it was only tangential.
Its kinda useful as a news cutting service, but its really not precise enough to replace a decent PR summary report.
for housing policy It either over indexes on hansard (good source, but not for policy) or the daily mail (would have been a good source for conservative policy, but not labour.)
What am I doing wrong?
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#40It's interesting to hear about the twists and turns that got you here, thanks for sharing.
I happen to have built something in the same vein in a few months earlier this summer for the Gemini API developer competition.
For anyone interested, check out Gov Notes (https://app.gov-notes.com)
The site lets you dig into US house committee hearing videos posted to YouTube using AI search and chat. Even have some fairly powerful grounding in the chat - you can ask followups like "when was that discussed in the video?" and the chat will reply with a clickable link to a specific timestamp in the video where your current topic was discussed.