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Procurement on autopilot

Pulse automates procurement with AI to reduce supply chain risk. Our AI agents eliminate the time wasted on fragmented supply chain data in emails, spreadsheets, and ERPs.

Pulse AI
Founded:2024
Team Size:2
Location:San Francisco
Group Partner:Jared Friedman

Active Founders

Sid Manchkanti, Founder

Co-Founder/CEO of Pulse AI (S24). Prev NVIDIA, D.E. Shaw, Berkeley CS

Sid Manchkanti
Sid Manchkanti
Pulse AI

Ritvik Pandey, Founder

Co-Founder/CTO of Pulse AI (S24). Prev Tesla ML, Goldman Sachs, Georgia Tech CS/Math

Ritvik Pandey
Ritvik Pandey
Pulse AI

Company Launches

Hey everyone, we’re Sid and Ritvik — the founders of Pulse AI.

We first developed this API for a very specific use case in supply chain and got it to work across various unstructured documents used in the field. We were simply unable to find another solution on the market that worked well. Our original plan was to keep it in-house, but we soon started getting requests from dozens of companies to use this API on their own.

❌ The Problem

Most enterprise data is unstructured, making it difficult to parse with LLMs

Approximately 75% of enterprise data is unstructured, the majority of this is directly within PDF files. This makes it extremely difficult to build RAG applications with this data, and ingestion is often the bottleneck.

Current solutions are slow, inaccurate, and expensive

We personally tested nearly every other tool on the market and found they lack accurate contextual understanding, multi-column PDFs, and multimodal documents. Most of the current technologies are simply wrappers on Textract or Gemini — which have their own inherent flaws.

✅ The Solution

Pulse STUDIO Vision API, a SOTA document/spreadsheet vision model

We’ve trained our own set of Vision Language Models (VLMs) and OCR techniques to bridge this gap. We achieved what we think to be a state-of-the-art (SOTA) vision model for documents and spreadsheets. You’ll get bounding boxes across your documents and spreadsheets, alongside incredible OCR on tables and graphs.

We’re also actively working on a novel reasoning tool on spreadsheets using this technology – stay tuned!

🧩 Team

The founding team has deep machine learning experience at Tesla, NVIDIA, D. E. Shaw, and AWS — as well as research experience at world-class AI labs at Berkeley and Georgia Tech.

🙋Our Ask

Our API is deployed in companies across hardware, healthcare, manufacturing industries and more. We’re expanding rapidly! Fill out this form for access and we will reach out within 24 hours with playground access. More info on the product page here
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