Kushal Byatnal
@kushalbyatnal
co-founder & ceo @extendHQ next-gen document processing
that moment when you have a breakthrough... step change in performance, coming soon
Document automation is one of those deceptively complex problems that engineers often underestimate. We think "I'll just feed this PDF into GPT-4 and extract all the data!" only to discover a world of pain awaits. @ebadgio_ , CTO of @ExtendHQ , has seen it all when it comes to…
hard earned doc processing lessons 👇
The Document Automation Trap: Why Your AI Pipeline Will Fail w/ @ExtendHQ - Understand your data and existing manual processes before automation. Tacit knowledge hidden within organizations is often the key to successful implementation. - Invest early in task-specific…
Document automation isn't just about replacing humans with AI. The real skill is knowing when to fully automate and when to keep humans in the loop. Billions of documents processed daily means billions in savings or costly errors depending on your approach. if you want to…
IN NEWS: @extendHQ raises a $17M round. "More documents will be processed in the next 6 months than all of history combined since the PDF was invented." - @kushalbyatnal "The global economy runs off of PDF files." "With LLMs, the capabilities are so much higher (for document…
PDFs suck. We just raised $17,000,000 in funding to fix this problem once and for all. Extend is building the modern document processing cloud. See how Brex, Square, Checkr, and Fortune 500s use it to process millions of documents:
going on TBPN in 20 min to talk all things Extend + our recent series A round, make sure to tune in!
Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: – @realsohamparekh (Soham Parekh) – @crmiller1 (Author of Chip War) – @aginnt (Hydra Host) – @bridge__harris (Founders Fund) – @pryceandstuff (Open Ledger) – @jacobrintamaki (Beautiful AI Art) – @auren (SafeGraph) – @mehran__jalali…
do startups not do reference checks anymore? or did this person also find a way to fake that? IMO if you do them well (getting someone’s friends to say critical things about them is tough!), it’s one of the highest signal parts of an interview loop
PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.
we’ve learned a LOT of non-obvious lessons (sometimes the hard way) about deploying production-grade document pipelines, and we’re excited to share them if you’re doing anything related to processing documents, you have to come listen to @ebadgio_ and @jxnlco
Excited to share my upcoming Lightning Lesson with @ExtendHQ on document automation that scales from startups to F500! We'll cover: • When to fully automate vs. augment human workflows (and why it matters) • Building robust validation systems that catch errors BEFORE they…
PDFs suck. We just raised $17,000,000 in funding to fix this problem once and for all. Extend is building the modern document processing cloud. See how Brex, Square, Checkr, and Fortune 500s use it to process millions of documents:
the biggest announcement in Extend history comes out tomorrow document processing will never be the same 📄 see you then! 06.17.25
team is cooking up something big! stay tuned...
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