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@jordanalexmeyer incredible levels of locked in

Follow leaders who are mentally strong. Building a company is not for the faint of heart.

@0xjohnkim @brexHQ thanks for the shoutout!

Most startups fear their best people will eventually leave. @brexHQ makes it part of the sell. 100+ Brex alumni have gone on to found companies. Together, they’ve raised over $820M, produced a $1.1B exit, and taken one company public. That doesn’t happen by accident. Brex hires ambitious builders, gives them real ownership, and compresses years of startup learning into a much shorter window. Now it’s turning that track record into a recruiting pitch: “Be the founder of your career.” Every successful founder makes Brex more attractive to the next ambitious hire.

mmmm @ExtendHQ street corner hitting hard rn

reminds me of the saying "you can only connect the dots looking backwards" careers are long, and @bolau_ and I unknowingly crossed adjacent paths many times in the past few years excited to have her join devrel at extend!

winning head-to-head vendor bakeoffs is both an art and a science. A few things we've learned: 1. there's been a real shift in how people buy AI products a year ago, decisions were made on vibes and benchmarks today, everyone shows up with an eval set that mirrors production and runs vendors head-to-head, so you need to be prepared for that (spin up a sandbox, free usage credits to test, etc) 2. never show a demo with the happy path with coding agents, everyone can build something that goes from 0 → 80% you have to prove your product on the edge cases that are actually challenging and prevent getting from 80% → 99.999% 3. educate them on what will break later our customers don't spend their weekends thinking about doc processing (unlike us), so they rely on us to show them all the ways things quietly break over time the trick is doing this authentically, without it feeling sales-y, which is what trips up most AEs 4. get them bought into the roadmap an eval is a point-in-time snapshot, but majority of the work in production happens after go-live I'll sometimes pull up our eng roadmap and walk them through what we're building live, so they can see how we'll be able to help them long term

just packed up the office where Extend grew from 6 → ~30 people I found a picture from day 1 when we were assembling chairs and desks together on the empty floor today, we could barely fit everyone in the room for one last photo onto the next chapter: a full floor in bright and sunny union square office warming party soon!

@dchow_ @kushalbyatnal @Opendoor we love yan!

@kushalbyatnal @Opendoor Yan is the epitome of a champion

how it started vs. how it's going @opendoor chose Extend to power document processing for its title and escrow operations 10s of millions of pages, 300k+ homeowners, and we're just getting started

@lancedb had a blast co-hosting!

And that's a wrap on World's Fair in SF 🎉 Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth to say hi and dive into LanceDB internals. Some of the best conversations happen at a conference booth and this year was no exception. It was great meeting everyone who came out to SPIN SF with @theoryvc & @ollama and to our USA World Cup watch party with @ExaAILabs, @ExtendHQ, & @fastinoAI last week. Both were packed, both were a good time, and we'd absolutely do them again. See you at the next one 👋

@ChanChan_Mao @lancedb @ExaAILabs @fastinoAI It was a blast! Also all the swag goes so well together

Thank you to everyone who came out to our World Cup Watch Party last night! Go Team USA 🎉🇺🇸⚽️ We filled the room with AI researchers & engineers. The bar was packed, but the conversations kept flowing. shoutout my amazing co-hosts @lancedb @ExaAILabs @ExtendHQ @fastinoAI 🫶🏻

okay it's been announced – Team USA 🇺🇸 vs Team Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 Cheer on Team USA with @lancedb, @ExaAILabs, @ExtendHQ, and @fastinoAI 🎉⚽️ See you next Wednesday :) Doors open at 4:30pm and game kicks off at 5pm! luma.com/hm58nlsn

Our team is bringing literal crates of mangos to the @aiDotEngineer World Fair during the Welcome Reception! Served freshly cut and perfectly ripe, come by the AIE Lab booth Monday 4-7:30 to see if it lives up to the hype 🥭 We have it on good authority that they will go fast so come through!

Take a break from @aiDotEngineer World's Fair next week to cheer on Team USA at the World Cup with us, @ExaAILabs, @ExtendHQ, and Pioneer by @fastinoAI ⚽ 🎉 Come for the food, drinks, and soccer. Stay for the conversations. 📅 Wed July 1 @ 4:30PM 🔗 Space is limited! luma.com/hm58nlsn

today, we're open sourcing the Extend CLI watch Fable use it to parse and extract an entire corpus of documents — end to end, without leaving the terminal try it yourself: npm install -g @​extend-ai/cli it comes with a built-in agent skill, so claude code/codex/cursor know how to drive it out of the box

Introducing Extend UI — open-source components for document agents - 14 components & examples for PDF, DOCX, and XLSX viewers, plus bounding box citations, file upload, e-signature, and more - fully customizable - MIT licensed when we started, we tried every file viewer and document component library we could find unfortunately, none of them had all the functionality (and polish) that we wanted, so we ended up building our own for @ExtendHQ it was only ever meant to be internal, but enough customers kept asking for it that we decided to give it back to the community it's useful for building agents, user-facing document flows, or internal tools we use and maintain it for Extend ourselves, so it'll keep getting better over time (and it's battle tested on millions of pages running through our system every day) it also works with design system agents like @magicpatterns for faster exploration and prototyping available today on the @shadcn component registry! some examples in 🧵

a bit of a narrative violation as general LLMs get more powerful: companies are favoring highly precise, industry-specific parsing models to integrate documents of all kinds into modern workflows. cool to watch @kushalbyatnal and Extend team lead this space…

Real quote. Excited to talk about Parse 2.0 at Thanksgiving next year.

Over 1 billion PDFs are created every day, but your agents still can’t read them reliably. Today we’re releasing Parse 2.0, the most accurate document parsing API in the world. Extend already processes millions of pages daily for leading AI teams like Brex, Mercury, Opendoor, Flatiron Health, and hundreds of others. Now, its even better. Parse 2.0 is SOTA quality on RealDoc-Bench, our open source benchmark that measures agent success rate on real world docs that agents actually encounter in production. We trained Parse 2.0 on 1M+ pages of the hardest documents seen in production. Here’s how it stacks up: - #1 in healthcare, real estate, logistics, and financial services - 95.7% agent Q&A accuracy on 581 docs (next best: 92%) - 0.847 F1 on layout (next best: 0.759) Give it a try today and build production-ready document agents with Extend.

At @ExtendHQ, Jordan Meyer helped build the technical foundation as one of the company’s first engineers. When the team evaluated billing infrastructure, the decision came down to speed, flexibility, and long-term leverage. “Using Orb cut our billing project from 6 months to 3 weeks.” That’s the kind of engineering mindset we love supporting.

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