AI for America's Small Businesses | Lassie
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AI is overhyped in Silicon Valley, but underhyped in Iowa. I would actually argue software just kind of took things that were stored in paper format, and then they made them available first on prem via green screen computers. But people still had to do the work.
I never forgot what I saw. The number one great doctor on Yelp spending
two hundred hours a month on paperwork. The models are trained on so much data, they're so large, and yet they actually don't really know how to do any of this work. Initially, we were actually the humans on the loop. We kind of automated away our own problems. The battle between every startup
and incumbent comes down to whether the startup hits the distribution, before the incumbent hits the innovation.
We come by and we say, hey, we actually have built this agent that can provide you already with tens of hours of labor. They then adopt it very quick. They see us as someone they break in to actually run the practice for them.
There was a great quote from Doctor. Kwan about you guys, which is that Lassie isn't replacing humans, but freeing them from wearing so many hats.
It's not like, oh, AI is gonna take the jobs. In many cases, you can't find somebody.
How are you prioritizing what you build, who you sell to? Is there a world where LASI for dentists makes LASI for physical therapists better? The
end goal here is that
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