The minds behind the bots

We are a passionate team of people who believe 'Document Understanding is the holy grail of AI' and committed to the purpose of liberating humans from reading boring documents. We are untired in the constant chase of the research breakthroughs happening in the intersection of Deep Learning & NLP.

Botminds.ai is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and primary development centre in Chennai, India. A fun place for 30 member team to have intellectual discussions to simplify technology for customers. Super proud in changing the way document-centric process automation achieved currently.

Core Purpose

Liberate humans from reading boring documents by leveraging the rapid strides in the intersection of deep learning and NLP

Core Belief

Quest for knowledge is a fundamental drive for human beings. Knowledge is always codified in documents from time immemorial. Reading and understanding documents, and through that acquiring knowledge is always favourite as well as rewarding pass time of human beings.

If we have to pick one single reason for the evolution of Human Intelligence, then this insatiable thirst of 'search, acquire and document' the knowledge should be the one. Hence, in the constant strive to make machines more able and intelligent we can confidently say Document Understanding is the holy grail of AI.

In most of the - if not every - complex business process in an enterprise, the source of the 'complexity' can be traced to the challenges in handling documents. Millions are just milling through pages after pages or functioning as a simple checks and balances to keep the 'business running'.

Core Values

Get It Done

Keep the end goal in mind. Iterate and create value for customers fast.

Empathize

With customers and team members. Respect others.

Empower

Help and inspire others. Be humble.

Keep Improving

Be curious. Learn new things. Optimize for excellence.

Leadership Team

Gokul Ganapathi

CEO & Co-Founder

Gokul Ganapathi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Botminds. 15+ years of experience in enterprise data product development at the intersection of analytics & unstructured data. In 2015, Gokul co-founded Botminds when he realized the shortcomings in the technology to deal with documents is a 'big opportunity. His first-hand experience in solving - or not being able to solve efficiently - the data acquisition or information extraction problems from documents & web pages paved the way for Botminds AI platform

Presently, Gokul is responsible for all sales & growth side of Botminds, enthralled in the blitz scaling mode of the company. Enjoys working with customers helping them <in their transformation from the RPA world to IA (Intelligent Automation) world / to bring efficiency to their knowledge-centric, document-rich processes>, leveraging the best of AI available in the Botminds platform.

Before Botminds, Gokul was an Enterprise Architect working on internet-scale data acquisition/extraction challenges. He has a Master's in Physics (MSc).

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Ansari Ismail

Co-Founder

Ansari is passionate about Automation. He believes Automation can liberate humans from mundane and decision-heavy tasks. Humans deserve to do whatever they love to do. This all starts with automating enterprise processes. Hence he spent time building technology to automate document-centric processes using AI and Automation.

Before the AI hype, Ansari was building AI models, and he is one of the founding members of Azure machine learning. He worked in Microsoft Research, AI team, etc., to build world-class algorithms to democratize AI.

By combining AI and Automation, we can do magic. Ansari is working to educate enterprise companies and leaders on the importance of intelligent automation.

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