About Praxos
Praxos is a data extraction platform supporting developers and engineering managers with the infrastructure they need to handle complex, unstructured data.
When we started Praxos, our goal was to build automations for insurance professionals––the largest pain at our former jobs was transcribing information from one place to another.
As Praxos grew, we came to understand that data critical for any businesses' operations lay locked in spreadsheets, PDFs, and even websites that were tough for traditional software and OCR to work with. In the process, we also were forced to develop state-of-the-art document parsing technology.
Our insight
Data is often locked into files that can take any shape or form.
Any person may find it simple, but time-consuming, to review a document––we're pretty good at this task. Software, by contrast, can ingest millions of documents but is bad at understanding what parts are relevant and how information is related to each other.
The challenge lay in understanding what makes people so good at this task and translating it to code.