Mac Klinkachorn, Co-Founder & President at Trellis. Trellis automates manual PDF tasks at scale with AI agents. Trellis integrates end-to-end with your systems of record and allows users to define infinitely complex workflows to capture their business processes.

Episode Highlights:
– Mac Klinkachorn shares how he founded his first company at 15, using physics to detect water leaks, and how that experience shaped his problem-solving mindset.

– Mac discusses his transition from pursuing physics at Stanford to exploring AI and machine learning, realizing the potential of language models in real-world applications.

– Mac explains how he and his co-founder identified a massive bottleneck in handling unstructured data, leading to the creation of Trellis, an AI-powered solution for automating PDF workflows at scale.

– The conversation dives into the complexities of PDFs in industries like healthcare and finance, where non-standardized formats make automation difficult, and how Trellis overcomes these issues with AI.

– Mac reflects on whether improving AI models will eventually make tools like Trellis obsolete and explains why workflow automation and validation are key challenges beyond just data extraction.

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