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

Re:Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and ... by AznHisoka on Thursday December 05, 2024 @05:41AM (#42326847)

1) You say that small startups had no budget for your previous tool, but isnt that an even bigger problem since you seem to be targeting non-profits? Whose biggest pain is getting donors, instead of policy monitoring?

2) why would your previous data pipeline tool or expertise give you an advantage with monitoring thousands of government sites? Did your previous AI tool have some sort of smart automated scraping or something? Otherwise, being able to process large amounts of data is a commodity these days. Its getting the data in an efficient manner thats the hard part, not analyzing it (anyone can do RAG and OpenAI calls)

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Re:Launch HN: Parsagon (YC W21) – AI for public affairs and ... by sand1929 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:17PM (#42330808)

1) I don't think we'll ever primarily target non-profits (our first customer happened to be a non-profit, but there's just inherently more business in for-profit spaces), but it has been incredibly fun and rewarding to work with non-profits, and if there's a need for policy monitoring there, we're happy to help (even if it's not our main target).

2) Yes, it's our proprietary AI that lets us generate thousands of custom web scrapers, find and clean the right RSS feeds, etc etc

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