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.

See the work docupipe.ai

A small machine-learning shop. We take hard problems from a blank page all the way to production.

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.

Selected work

  1. DocuPipeTurns the documents businesses run on into structured data.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. AudioZenLive noise removal for calls.Product
  6. RealFaceFace recognition, built from scratch.Acquired by Apple
  7. The General PartnershipA venture studio and long-time partner, building companies together.Partner ↗
  8. SyntegraGenerates a fictional patient’s full medical history, so hospital data can be shared safely.Healthcare
  9. SardineFraud and suspicious-session models that went into production.Fraud ↗
  10. Grid4CEnergy analytics from smart-meter data, down to which appliance is running.Energy ↗
  11. AidocRadiology models, over a long collaboration.Radiology ↗
  12. ClimaCellLive weather read from street-camera video across the US. Now Tomorrow.io.Weather ↗
  13. RoofrPixel-accurate roofs from aerial imagery, with type and condition.Aerial ↗
  14. D-IDAdversarial models that shield faces from recognition.Privacy ↗
  15. OrbographModels that read checks and financial documents.Documents ↗
  16. Retail AIGrocery-store video: fraud, actions and scan counting.Retail
  17. Skyline AISales and rent forecasts for commercial real estate.Acquired by JLL
  18. L1ghtFlagging toxic and predatory behavior in text and images.Safety ↗
  19. SecuredTouchFraud detection from how a hand moves on a phone.Acquired by Ping
  20. RidevisionTime-to-collision from motorcycle road video.Road safety
  21. MorphGPT prompt chains and search scoring that answered questions from documents, in early 2023.LLMs
  22. DandySegmenting 3D dental scans for a digital dental lab.Dental ↗
  23. Sown to GrowScoring student reflections for insight and a plan.Education ↗
  24. RangeA model that tags the people, projects and topics in a team’s daily check-ins.Teamwork ↗
  25. MyTalesInteractive stories written with the reader by AI. Paying readers since 2022.Product ↗
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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

An 8200 alumnus and 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.

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