AI could be the answer to bureaucracy, says Advocate’s Emilie Poteat

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The founders have spent a lot of time over the past few years building practical consumer use cases for AI and machine learning. Her Advocate, an AI startup, believes the technology will make it easier for people to apply for federal benefits.

The New York-based startup was founded by Emily Poteat, who came up with the idea while watching her stepfather try to collect Social Security benefits. Although I was eligible, applying was a complicated process, and even if I was successful, it would take months to hear back. After a few years, Poteat realized that her AI could potentially improve that process.

This week, Poteat appeared on TechCrunch’s Found podcast to discuss how using AI to automate the application process is making it easier for more people to access government benefits. She also talked about why government benefits are a great place to build her AI models because there is a large amount of documents, policies, and data that closed-loop systems can learn from.

She talks about what it’s been like talking to governments about building third-party add-ons to existing infrastructure, and why governments are willing to work with outside organizations rather than building the technology itself. I shared what it looks like.

This episode also details Poteat and Advocate’s company formation process, as their startup hasn’t fully launched yet. Poteat also talked about raising funding for startups, and that she’s had better luck with companies that want to back Moonshots than with companies that focus on women and LGBTQ+ founders like herself. He also talked about that.

Poteat hopes to eventually be able to help those eligible for government benefits easily apply for them, and plans to expand into more government benefits areas soon after launch. We are planning to start expanding.

“It wasn’t that the government was trying to attract talent, it wasn’t that there was a lack of infrastructure like bridges and roads, it was that there was a lack of technological infrastructure between the American people and the federal government,” Poteet said. Told. “So we set out to build it.”