Hoss

Hoss Inc  /  New York  /  Since 2016

Machine learning,
built to ship.

A decade of vision and language systems for startups and enterprises, including face recognition that ended up at Apple. Today, DocuPipe.

Selected work

  1. DocuPipeTurns the documents businesses run on into structured data. What we build today.Now ↗
  2. PhotoBearA Shopify app: learned image compression, then AI-staged product shots.Product
  3. Product PixBackground removal for catalog photos, run as a service.Product ↗
  4. DiscernCrawled a site and worked out which events to report to analytics.Product
  5. Audio cleanupA deep model that strips background noise from speech.Product
  6. RealFaceThe startup’s face recognition, its most valuable asset.Acquired by Apple
  7. SyntegraGenerates a fictional patient’s full medical history, so hospital data can be shared safely.Healthcare
  8. SardineFraud and suspicious-session models that went into production.Fraud ↗
  9. AidocA chest X-ray model for collapsed lungs, in a ten-day pilot.Radiology ↗
  10. ClimaCellLive weather read from street-camera video across the US. Now Tomorrow.io.Weather ↗
  11. RoofrPixel-accurate roofs from aerial imagery, with type and condition.Aerial ↗
  12. D-IDAdversarial models that shield faces from recognition.Privacy ↗
  13. OrbographModels that read checks and financial documents.Documents ↗
  14. Retail AIGrocery-store video: fraud, actions and scan counting.Retail
  15. Skyline AISales and rent forecasts for commercial real estate.Acquired by JLL
  16. L1ghtFlagging toxic and predatory behavior in text and images.Safety ↗
  17. SecuredTouchFraud detection from how a hand moves on a phone.Acquired by Ping
  18. RidevisionTime-to-collision from motorcycle road video.Road safety
  19. MorphGPT prompt chains and search scoring that answered questions from documents, in early 2023.LLMs
  20. DandySegmenting 3D dental scans for a digital dental lab.Dental ↗
  21. Sown to GrowScoring student reflections for insight and a plan.Education ↗
  22. MyTalesInteractive stories written with the reader by AI. Paying readers since 2022.Product ↗

Many of these came through our long-time partnership with The General Partnership, formerly Sweat Equity Ventures.

Founders

Founded in New York in 2016, self-funded ever since.

Nitai Dean

Nitai Dean

Co-founder · CTO, DocuPipe

Machine learning across vision, language and time series. B.Sc. Physics and Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University.

Uri Merhav

Uri Merhav

Co-founder · CEO, DocuPipe

8200 alumnus, then Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, shipping models to 500 million users. M.Sc. Physics, Tel Aviv University. ESL title, World Universities Debating Championship.