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.

See the work

Our work ranges from radiology to beer promotions. We also build products of our own.

See

Faces, roofs, X-rays, store shelves and street cameras.

Read

Documents, medical records, team check-ins and student writing.

Listen

Speech and noise, on live calls.

Forecast

Energy use, rents, fraud and collisions.

Work

Products of our own, and models built for clients, grouped by what they do.

Products & ventures

  1. DocuPipeTurns the documents businesses run on into structured data.Now ↗
  2. MyTalesInteractive stories written with the reader by AI.Product ↗
  3. PhotoBearA Shopify app: learned image compression, then AI-staged product shots.Product
  4. Product PixBackground removal for catalog photos, run as a service.Product ↗
  5. DiscernCrawled a site and worked out which events to report to analytics.Product
  6. AudioZenLive noise removal for calls.Product
  7. The General PartnershipA venture studio and long-time partner, building companies together.Partner ↗

Vision

  1. RealFaceFace recognition, built from scratch.Acquired by Apple
  2. InspektoDeep-learning defect detection for factory visual inspection.Acquired by Siemens ↗
  3. AidocRadiology models, over a long collaboration.Radiology ↗
  4. ClimaCellLive weather read from street-camera video across the US. Now Tomorrow.io.Weather ↗
  5. RoofrPixel-accurate roofs from aerial imagery, with type and condition.Aerial ↗
  6. Retail AIGrocery-store video: fraud, actions and scan counting.Retail
  7. Fisher & CompanySpotting missing or misplaced parts in photos from a car-seat assembly line.Manufacturing ↗
  8. DandySegmenting 3D dental scans for a digital dental lab.Dental ↗
  9. D-IDAdversarial models that shield faces from recognition.Privacy ↗
  10. RidevisionTime-to-collision from motorcycle road video.Road safety

Language & documents

  1. OrbographModels that read checks and financial documents.Documents ↗
  2. HeySamAn AI sales engineer: GPT-4 answers to buyers’ technical questions from product docs.LLMs
  3. MorphGPT prompt chains and search scoring that answered questions from documents.LLMs
  4. L1ghtFlagging toxic and predatory behavior in text and images.Safety ↗
  5. RangeA model that tags the people, projects and topics in a team’s daily check-ins.Teamwork ↗
  6. Sown to GrowScoring student reflections for insight and a plan.Education ↗

Data & prediction

  1. Skyline AISales and rent forecasts for commercial real estate.Acquired by JLL
  2. ArenaPromotion models that chose which stores get which discounts, for Anheuser-Busch.Pricing ↗
  3. ConvexFilling in missing details about commercial buildings, for a contractor sales platform.Acquired by ServiceTitan ↗
  4. SardineFraud and suspicious-session models that went into production.Fraud ↗
  5. SecuredTouchFraud detection from how a hand moves on a phone.Acquired by Ping
  6. SyntegraGenerates a fictional patient’s full medical history, so hospital data can be shared safely.Healthcare
  7. University of PennsylvaniaFinding which gut-bacteria and metabolic signals predict exercise in mice, for a paper in Nature.Research
  8. VerAI DiscoveriesPredicting ore grade from mineral samples, to help decide where to drill.Mining ↗
  9. Lending ExpressPredicting which small-business loan leads turn into loans, and what they will bring in. Now Become.Lending ↗
  10. Syqe MedicalRecognizing who is using a medical inhaler, and their age group, from its acoustic sensor.Medical devices ↗
  11. YamaseePredicting turbulence from other aircraft’s reports, for a pilots’ app. Now SkyPath.Aviation ↗
  12. Grid4CEnergy analytics from smart-meter data, down to which appliance is running.Energy ↗
  13. Target5Predicting which hotel bookings will be cancelled, from a hotel chain’s reservations.Hospitality
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Founders

Two physicists from Tel Aviv University, building in New York since 2016.

Nitai Dean

Nitai Dean

Co-founder

Has spent fifteen years teaching computers to see, read, listen and forecast, from medical scans and street cameras to forged checks. B.Sc. in physics and electrical engineering, magna cum laude, from Tel Aviv University.

Uri Merhav

Uri Merhav

Co-founder

A former Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, where he shipped models to 500 million members. M.Sc. in physics from Tel Aviv University. Won the ESL title at the World Universities Debating Championship, which is why you should never argue with him about pricing.

Say hello

hello@hosstechnology.com