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Show HN: Simboba – Evals in under 5 mins

https://github.com/ntkris/simboba

Hi HN,I built Simboba because we needed something for our own product, and I wanted to explore how dev tools change with AI coding assistants.The hardest part of evals is creating good annotated test cases. So I focused on getting users there with the power of AI coding assistants.How it works:- AI drafts datasets from your codebase - Web UI to review and refine cases - Everything tracked in...

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Re:Mistral OCR on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:21AM (#43287932)
This is awesome. Have you seen / heard of any benchmarks where the data is actually a structured JSON vs. markdown?

Show HN: Kili is AI agent that automates admin tasks over email

https://www.heykili.com/

Hey everyone,We're excited to launch Kili: an AI agent that helps businesses automate admin tasks like invoicing, managing suppliers, paying bills and filing expenses.Given current AI capabilities, we believe email is an under explored interface. It allows us to complete work async and not have to learn a new interface.Our general philosophy with Kili is to enable every action over email, and...

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Yes, we needed to solve the problem for our other product (https://kili.so). We spent a lot of time getting accuracy up for dense and multi-page invoices. Then realised other teams have this need as well so decided to ship the API.

On the accuracy point, given our work so far we believe we are best in class in terms of accuracy for document extraction. We've also set up a system of evaluations internally that allow us to keep iterating and improving (hence us mentioning that we want to continue working on it).

Not off topic at all!

I can only speak to our experience. Once you get under the hood, you find that this is a hard problem to solve.

There are also a lot of workflows that involve documents in every sector and every function. In other words, the opportunity is massive.

For our product, our customers are either internal engineering teams or folks building products that require document extraction but don’t want to invest time in it.

Re:Ask HN: Recommendations for London founder / startup meetups? on Thursday November 07, 2024 @05:58AM (#42075571)
Are you just looking to meet other folks building or have a specific goal in mind (e.g. finding a cofounder)? I can recommend accordingly

Show HN: Tile.run – Extract structured data from any document via API

https://www.tile.run/

Hey HN,Today, we’re launching tile.run, an API that extracts structured data from unstructured documents (PDF, images, text) with support for custom schemas.The Problem: Extracting data out of unstructured documents is surprisingly hard. We built tile.run while solving this for our product Kili (automation for invoicing/reconciliation). We found that getting to accuracy that is reliable enough...

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Re:Show HN: Boards – Automate document-heavy tasks on Thursday July 18, 2024 @12:08PM (#40997057)
Not yet, but we're open to creating one
Re:Show HN: Boards – Automate document-heavy tasks on Thursday July 18, 2024 @12:08PM (#40997051)
We're focussed on company operations (accounting, procurement etc).

The tool is totally self serve and does allow you to set up, upload and access documents.

We clearly need to call that out more so will add this to the landing page

Re:Show HN: Boards – Automate document-heavy tasks on Thursday July 18, 2024 @12:07PM (#40997046)
Great feedback, we will make this more clear

Show HN: Boards – Automate document-heavy tasks

https://www.kili.so/

We are excited to announce Boards. Boards are flexible tables that help you structure and make sense of data that lives in PDFs, pictures and more.Many business users spend time extracting key information from files like invoices, contracts and other documents. Boards eliminate the need for this by focussing on 3 things: 1. Flexibility: boards can be easily tailored to suit your business. Start...

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Re:Show HN: Canvas and chat UI for automating tasks on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:44PM (#40430774)
We are seeing a bunch of interest for scraping related use cases and document processing (eg. automatically processing invoices that are emailed in)

Show HN: Canvas and chat UI for automating tasks

https://www.kili.so/

Hi community,We’re excited to announce the launch of our automation platform: https://kili.soLLMs will enable us to automate many repetitive tasks. We are passionate about bringing this tech to everyone through the right interface.Conversational interfaces are great to think through problems, but don't cut it for complex tasks. Canvas' are great to think through complex tasks but can be...

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