Srinivasan: Needle.ai requires custom data tuning, not an out-of-the-box product
Vikram Srinivasan · Finding the Needle in the Data Haystack: How AI is Revolutionizing Enterprise Decision-Making · Jun 27, 2025 · at 15:29
Vikram Srinivasan is the co-founder and CEO of enterprise AI search platform Needle.ai.
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“Our search engine sort of doesn't work completely well out of the box. We need to work with you to tune for your data and for the kinds of information that you're seeking, right? It's not, I mean, and that's exactly the challenge that we have because people come with the expectation that it's a Google, it's going to work out of the box, but because your information is so Specific to you and your information needs are specific to you. We actually have to do a ton of work or not a ton of work, but some work with you to make sure that it meets your needs, right? So it's not an out of the box solution and that, that requires some effort and customization.”
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