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 models have read X-rays, roofs, bank checks and embryos. We fine-tuned LLMs before ChatGPT.

See

Faces, X-rays, roofs, embryos, dental scans, assembly lines, store and street cameras.

Read

Documents, medical records, product docs, team check-ins, student writing and online abuse.

Listen

Speech and noise on live calls, and who is using a medical inhaler.

Forecast

Rents, fraud, turbulence, ore grades, energy use, loan leads and hotel cancellations.

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. OrbographFinding the fields, signatures and amounts on scanned checks and documents.Documents ↗
  5. ClimaCellLive weather read from street-camera video across the US. Now Tomorrow.io.Weather ↗
  6. RoofrPixel-accurate roofs from aerial imagery, with type and condition.Aerial ↗
  7. Retail AIGrocery-store video: fraud, actions and scan counting.Retail
  8. Fisher & CompanySpotting missing or misplaced parts in photos from a car-seat assembly line.Manufacturing ↗
  9. DandySegmenting 3D dental scans for a digital dental lab.Dental ↗
  10. Trio FertilityOutlining an embryo’s inner structures in microscope images, for an IVF lab.Fertility ↗
  11. D-IDAdversarial models that shield faces from recognition.Privacy ↗
  12. VoiaPredicting which way every surface faces in video frames, for AI-made music videos.Film ↗
  13. RidevisionTime-to-collision from motorcycle road video.Road safety
  14. BrainvivoTesting whether a network wired like a human brain classifies images better.Neuroscience

Language & documents

  1. HeySamAn AI sales engineer: GPT-4 answers to buyers’ technical questions from product docs.LLMs
  2. MorphGPT prompt chains and search scoring that answered questions from documents.LLMs
  3. BluesKaiGPT sorting of business records into readable categories, each with an explanation.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. Proactive VCEstimating startup valuations from funding rounds and headcount trends.Venture
  10. Lending ExpressPredicting which small-business loan leads turn into loans, and what they will bring in. Now Become.Lending ↗
  11. Syqe MedicalRecognizing who is using a medical inhaler, and their age group, from its acoustic sensor.Medical devices ↗
  12. YamaseePredicting turbulence from other aircraft’s reports, for a pilots’ app. Now SkyPath.Aviation ↗
  13. Grid4CEnergy analytics from smart-meter data, down to which appliance is running.Energy ↗
  14. 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