Happy New Year HN! Grateful for the insights I get every morning from fellow humans through the comments.
This year I sold my company, for a while I thought I will die with it. This year has been brutal in some ways, tackling lots of daemons and getting through them.
Wishing everyone a great new year celebrations with friends and family.
Grateful for Meta to release models and give the GPU access for free, it has been great for experimenting without the thinking overhead of paying too much for inference. Thank you Zuck.
Impressive and a good mission startup!
How did you get workday, peoplesoft etc. to give the data to you? I assume all these companies do not like to share data, since as someone else also pointed out that each of these system of records are adding AI capabilities and bundling them.
Appreciate the kind words. You’re right that the big SIS and ERP vendors are building their own AI features, but at the end of the day institutions own their data and expect interoperability across systems. Workday, PeopleSoft, and similar systems all provide APIs or integration layers that schools already use for reporting and warehousing.
Where those systems are more closed, we work with the institution to find creative but still sanctioned paths such as through their integration hub or data warehouse. That way we are not asking the vendor for special access, just making better use of the plumbing that is already there.
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