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Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data

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Re: Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data

#61

Saw your demo video. Are you focusing on the finance sector primarily? It is a challenging industry IMO, requiring high accuracy and has strict privacy/security bar. How do you address these concerns? Curious what are the biggest complain from your users? Are they willing to manually auditing the numbers in the table, make sure the output is 1. accurate. 2. formatted in the table they expected.

We have seen a lot of use cases in finance and are currently working with a few firms. Accuracy is generally their primary requirement. We've been focusing on not just accuracy but also the audit experience which includes confidence scoring. Your right about security and we are currently undergoing a soc 2 audit.

Generally firms are outsourcing the data entry and are already manually auditing with shortcuts like summing values.

Relating to formatted in the table they expected. We extract the data directly into their template format so it is always in the table they expect.

Re: Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data

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I may or may not be the target audience, but it may help you to know a "book demo" link instead of a pricing page in the primary nav is a good heuristic shortcut for me to decide I'm not the target audience.

We are currently focused on business customers :/ but that may change in the coming months!

Re: Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data

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post #62
post #50

I may or may not be the target audience, but it may help you to know a "book demo" link instead of a pricing page in the primary nav is a good heuristic shortcut for me to decide I'm not the target audience.

We are currently focused on business customers :/ but that may change in the coming months!

I should maybe have mentioned, I'm the founder, CTO and debit card holder of my business.

Re: Launch HN: Midship (YC S24) – Turn PDFs, docs, and images into usable data

#65
Congrats on the launch! Just some friendly advice: financial documents such as quarterly earnings are actually highly structured via xrbl. If you are positioning the company as an unstructured -> structured process, then using these types of financial documents is probably not a great example even though everybody seems to do it.
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