Axis (YC W22)

Your guide through government, coming this quarter.

COME FOR THE BRIEF STAY FOR THE QUESTIONS Ever found yourself reading a morning newsletter but end up with more questions than answers? With Axis, you can seamlessly transition from your daily brief to asking specific questions for maximum context.

TREE MAPS Driven by sentiment and the magnitude of an event, our tree map provides a high-level overview of your markets. With one quick look, you can see that Pharma Switzerland is buoyed by a positive sentiment and scales well versus its peers. When you dive in you can see the events that comprise this score. We have considerably more planned for this feature, but we love shipping a fast and reliable V1.

YOUR PERSONAL DAILY BRIEF I’m so excited to announce this feature that we’ve been working on for the last few months. Inspired by the persidential daily brief (PDB) prepared for the US president everyday, we thought what if all our users could get one too? Select your countries and industries, add some background about you, and your specific interests and get a daily brief the sifts through everything axis ingested in the last 24 hours and matched to what you choose. We have lots of ideas on how to improve this but this alpha is already something we’re proud of.

Today we launch quotes as a new data type. Our ML pipelines pull in thousands of quotes and attach them to the relevant events and people, it even provides context. We are launching with more than 27,000 quotes, with more added each day.

500,000 REGULATIONS PROCESSED (next stop: one million)

Not only can you ask Axis (YC W22) questions, but it can also generate engagement strategies.

Whether you’re trying to understand the big picture of starting a fintech company in Europe or the particulars of the EU’s Revised Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2), Axis (YC W22) has you covered.

Axis’ user toolset is made easily accessible by our dock, enabling you to pick up where you left off no matter what you were doing. Your saved searches, bookmarks, notes, and more are all available at the click of a button.

Trying something new: axis from a specific's user point of view This week: a ride hailing company government affairs executive Though we all use it but ride hailing is still relatively new and is constantly evolving. Keeping on top of these changes can be a full-time job unto itself. In reality though, as a policy and government affairs execs you weren't hired to collect information, but rather to act it. Said another way: the information is an input, not an output. Axis is helpful here since it can serve as your infinitely informed digital consultant that's aware of the latest events, appointments, and regulations. When you ask Axis a question it can quickly reference hundreds of thousands of regulations and millions of events to provide you with a succinct answer. In this demo video... - the user asks a direct question: What do I need to know about ride hailing regulations in the UAE? - From here, the answer begins to propagate. Our LLM-supported system can tackle questions that range from open-ended to specific, and in this case, it provides insight into safety for individuals and families, the nascent developments of air mobility transport, and even comments on tax laws that impact ride hailing services. - Once the response has been completed, the user is made aware of all of the multiple sources that the model used to inform its answer, including the specific events and regulations that it found especially pertinent. - The user is then able to select each of these sources and open a panel on the right-hand side of the screen that lets them see further details on the news article or law, including an AI-written summary of the data. - Finally, the user can see the entities connected to ride hailing in the UAE, and draw them onto our Networks graph. With Axis, you can ask a general question like the one in this demo, or a specific one, like “What are the regulatory differences between a ride hailing company like Uber, and taxi cabs in the UAE and Saudi Arabia?” (see first comment below for image result) and receive equally compelling answers without the need to set up multiple google alerts, newsletters, and scroll social media.. or hiring and wrangling consultants. Contact sales to learn more.