{"id":415653,"date":"2026-10-01T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415653\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:10:10","slug":"ai-cant-find-everything-buried-in-corporate-documents-this-tampa-startup-has-a-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/415653\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Can’t Find Everything Buried in Corporate Documents. This Tampa Startup Has a Fix."},"content":{"rendered":"

You hit send, the email disappears from the screen and the exchange feels finished, but inside enterprises that message may sit for years beside invoices, contracts, benefit records, PDFs and millions of other files kept because somebody may need them again. Artificial intelligence<\/a> has given companies another reason to keep all of that information within reach, but the company name on an invoice, the terms buried in a contract or the relevant paragraph inside a PDF may still exist only as rows, boxes and text rather than database fields. Before an AI model can interpret that information, somebody \u2014 or something \u2014 still has to find it, pull it out and put it into a structured form the next system can understand.<\/p>\n

JPMorgan Chase is working through that problem across one of the world\u2019s largest corporate data estates. The bank says it holds more than an exabyte of structured and unstructured information, voice and video, and Chief Data Officer Mark Birkhead has described making that information \u201cAI ready\u201d as a multiyear priority, including publishing data consistently enough for large language models to use without employees continually repairing what sits underneath them.<\/p>\n

Jordan Rhoads, CEO of Tampa-based<\/a> nCore Data Management, Inc., is trying to sell companies another way into that first step. His company is commercializing ANNA\u00ae \u2014 short for Adaptive Neural Network Accelerator and marketed as its flagship Smart File Management System \u2014 software that runs on CPUs and lets a nontechnical employee define the fields a company wants, train the system on its documents in one pass and extract the results in a format of choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are three levels to the world we live in: phase one, phase two, phase three. Phase one is data intake; you can\u2019t do anything with 80% of unstructured raw data enterprises possess until it\u2019s normalized and structured,\u201d Rhoads said. \u201cPhase two is business intelligence and analytics, which pulls from phase one to tell you what you have. Phase three is the AI models that interpret it. Nvidia and the companies building LLMs and GPUs own phase two and phase three \u2014 that\u2019s where GPUs and LLMs are critical. We sit at phase one, the data-intake layer, where we make the data AI-ready before it ever gets there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Large language models already do some of that extraction work. Uber built a generative-AI system around GPT-4 to extract information from supplier invoices and reported 90% overall accuracy, with 35% of submitted invoices reaching 99.5% and the remaining 65% exceeding 80%. The information still passes through post-processing, validation and human review before entering Uber\u2019s systems, while an earlier fine-tuned model sometimes hallucinated invoice line items.<\/p>\n

Concentrix processes another 100,000 utility invoices each month. Microsoft said its earlier custom models delivered roughly 65% to 70% extraction accuracy, compared with 99% for its prompt-based system by January 2026, although invoices outside the automated process still enter an exception workflow. The deployment cut the team responsible for model pattern analysis and maintenance from roughly 40 people to 11, before accounting for the compute and token costs of running the system. Uber, valued at roughly $150 billion, and Concentrix, a multibillion-dollar business-process outsourcer, operate at a scale that can absorb that overhead; nCore is targeting midmarket companies and individual divisions inside larger ones that may not have dedicated AI engineering teams, GPU budgets or employees assigned to maintain a model once it goes live.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies are pointing LLMs at this and saying, in effect, \u2018You\u2019re pretty good at a lot of things so go turn this unstructured data into structured data,’\u201d Rhoads said. \u201cThey do an OK job; we\u2019ve seen accuracy as high as about 96%, as low as 80% or lower. But when you\u2019re talking about regulatory, finance, health benefits, banking, anything short of 100% is unacceptable. Getting closer to that number with GPUs and LLMs gets expensive fast, in both hardware and token costs, but LLMs are probabilistic, not deterministic. We run a CPU-native, deterministic extraction tool that a nontechnical person can use, with no GPUs and no developers, with checksum deterministic results.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ChartGlobal data creation is projected to reach 2,142 zettabytes by 2035, up from 175 zettabytes in 2025.<\/p>\n

From Government Technology to a Commercial Company<\/p>\n

ANNA\u2019s underlying technology predates the current AI boom. Rhoads said it was used on government and Department of Defense projects whose constraints ranged from searching compressed medical records to squeezing more information through limited transmission systems. A Cornell and LifeNET child-abuse-prevention project reduced thousands of pages of medical information by up to 84.5%, allowing physicians to search records on handheld devices without first decompressing them, while a NASA Mars-rover project reduced small packetized data by up to roughly 80% to increase transmission bandwidth, which Rhoads said helped extend the rover\u2019s battery life by approximately two years.<\/p>\n

In Afghanistan, Rhoads said a biometric-verification system compressed roughly 10 times as much verification information onto a standard barcode without requiring a chip, RFID or internet connection. The technology was also deployed within FEMA and the National Guard before becoming part of the organization\u2019s entry in the U.S. Army\u2019s Cyber Quest 2020 call for innovation.<\/p>\n

Rhoads had come aboard as a passive investor after working in technology, medtech and medical devices for Fortune 500 and venture-backed companies. He became increasingly involved in day-to-day operations, then watched COVID-19 shut down much of the government\u2019s work only months after the organization won its category at Cyber Quest 2020. He decided to form a C corporation, raise capital and commercialize the technology, leaving his steady job to move forward with seven employees and the company\u2019s investors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a roller coaster, and there are plenty of hard days, but every morning I say, \u2018I get to do this instead of I have to do this,’\u201d Rhoads said. \u201c\u2018Have to\u2019 turns a hard day into something you\u2019re enduring. \u2018Get to\u2019 turns the same hard day into part of building something disruptive, something that\u2019s gaining traction and solving real problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

The government work had been built around defined missions and technical users. Selling to businesses meant the software had to process ordinary corporate documents repeatedly without engineers rebuilding the workflow for every new file type, format or customer.<\/p>\n

The First Commercial Test<\/p>\n

At HUB International, that meant complex, disparate health-benefit invoices that employees were processing one field at a time: open the document, find the number, copy it into the appropriate output and move to the next field. Standard claims warehouses capture adjudicated health claims, but pharmacy rebates, stop-loss refunds and carrier and TPA fees can arrive separately as invoices, leaving those costs in an employer\u2019s books as lump sums rather than itemized information that can be analyzed alongside claims data. Rhoads estimates that category at 10% and growing and said that, if a representative share of the roughly $1 trillion national self-funded health insurance market follows the same pattern, about $100 billion annually would sit outside the normal claims-data pipeline.<\/p>\n

HUB was already tackling the invoices manually in one office before nCore built ANNA out for additional offices and, eventually, the broader market. Rhoads said ANNA structured one batch of information for employer health-plan reporting in 47 seconds with checksum verification, replacing work that had required several employees over multiple days. Those employees remained, he said, but could spend less time copying information and more time interpreting it for the brokers and producers they supported.<\/p>\n

Rhoads cautions companies against eliminating workers after automating a process at 80% or 96% accuracy, only to bring people back later to review whatever the system missed. \u201cDon\u2019t get rid of those people,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re going to be needed for sure.\u201d Five other entities are testing or applying ANNA, according to Rhoads.<\/p>\n

Making the Archive Smaller Without Losing Insights<\/p>\n

Extraction addresses what companies can pull from their files. nCore\u2019s other technology, TextComp, addresses how much room those files occupy as enterprise data is expected to roughly triple by 2028. Rhoads points to a data-storage market pushing toward $1 trillion while data compression remains below $10 billion, and said traditional compression can create another problem: keeping compressed information searchable can require a separate index that approaches the size of the storage the compression just saved.<\/p>\n

TextComp is designed to search qualifying compressed data without first decompressing it or maintaining that separate index. Rhoads said it produces an average reduction of around 75%, allowing a company to search the compressed archive, locate a particular file and decompress only that file if the original is needed, such as during a legal proceeding.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith TextComp, you can compress the data and get around a 75% reduction on the average and then search the compressed data directly \u2014 no indexing, no decompressing \u2014 to extract specific information or data intelligence, maybe to locate a file, and then actually decompress that specific file if you need to,\u201d Rhoads said. \u201cWe proved this within our government work.\u201d<\/p>\n

TextComp has produced reductions above 93% on some text files, including JSON files, Rhoads said, but those results do not apply to everything stored inside a corporate archive or data center. Video, audio and images behave differently and can occupy far more space, while the savings for any particular company depend on how much qualifying text it stores, how many duplicate and backup copies it keeps, what indexes it maintains and how often its systems decompress and recompress information. At scale, Rhoads said, the savings could mean fewer server purchases, fewer CPU cycles or lower storage costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s getting caught up in the boardroom over AI right now, and they should be, we need to invest in it,\u201d Rhoads said. \u201cBut what\u2019s getting overlooked is that the cost can exceed the benefits, directly and indirectly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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