Hebbia

My roommates and I are hosting Thanksgiving next week and it will be our first time making a turkey. Naturally, the ramifications of that responsibility got me thinking about the economics of the holiday. Threw together a quick thought and used Hebbia's Improve Prompt to turn it into a structured research brief across 10 analysis areas - market trends, competitive dynamics, supply chain, financials, consumer behavior, and more. Instant sector deep dive. The surprise: Turkey production dropped 9.7% due to avian flu. Retailers are now selling turkeys at or below cost as loss leaders just to protect market share. Meanwhile, 43.6% cut seasonal hiring, forcing an automation arms race to keep shelves stocked. Turns out you don't need to be a prompt wizard to get this kind of analysis. Just curiosity and the right tool.

Biiig life update! I moved across the country and joined Hebbia in New York! Five months later and... I can happily say I am so glad I did. Hebbia and NYC have been a whirlwind of new experiences, new friends, and new discoveries. In my first quarter, I made 450k+ line changes in our codebase and shipped a dozen features, including: - Doc tagging + expiration - Dark mode + Smart filters - Rewriting our company-wide selection state logic Recently, I got my biggest challenge yet: 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭. In one month, I set out to 0 → 1 an integration-rich mobile app that lets our customers seamlessly query their company’s data. What initially seemed impossible is now a reality. With the herculean efforts of Morten Bruun, Christie Chang, Connor Soltas, Arjun Mahesh, Greer Chapman, Laszlo, Ellis Geary, Ben Devore, Aabhas Sharma, and Rob Day, Hebbia is now live on the App Store! It was the most intense project I’ve ever worked on and still doesn’t feel real. And to celebrate the launch, my amazing manager Ben Devore gifted me a mini snowmobile ❄️ 🏍️ (because my name is Snow and we shipped mobile 😅 took me a second too). Seeing how AI is transforming longstanding workflows in finance has been incredible. At Hebbia, I’m super happy and proud to be witnessing it firsthand. If anyone can do the impossible, it's this company. I will be forever thankful to my past team at Microsoft for showing me what good code and good culture look like. Mohamed Rouatbi, Michal Burstein, Kevin Hostler, Hassan C., Igal Shapira, and everyone I worked with in Olympic Hawks: you all are the blueprint I hope to emulate. The years I spent with you taught me so much, and I’ll always be grateful. I miss and think of you all the time! ❤️

With increasing buzz around a certain famous HF manager's short positions, I was curious to see how management teams are actually deploying capital in this high-valuation environment as clues to where we may be in the AI cycle. Using Hebbia, I surfaced some interesting divergences within the S&P Info Tech index in just 10 minutes...see below. On the whole, I'm consistently amazed at the power of Matrix to test theses hyper-efficiently. I also happen to love getting investors up to speed on the most powerful AI interface in the world. - Super Micro and NVIDIA: front-loading far ahead of realized AI demand. - Applied Materials: large, fixed R&D investment in EPIC Center. - Cisco: aggressive $1B+ AI-driven capex mix shift in a single cycle. - Gen Digital: disciplined, rare "AI-heavy, asset-light" approach. - Akamai and CDW: bucking the trend with flat or decreasing capex. - ON and Skyworks: notably more defensive.

At Hebbia, we’re building tools that would've saved me countless hours in my previous roles. We recently shipped a feature that extracts tables from any document and drops them directly into Excel - formatted, structured, and ready to use. No more manually rebuilding tables cell by cell. No more copy-paste formatting nightmares. Just the data you need, in finance's universal language: Excel.

Back in my finance days, I spent far too many late nights wrestling with comps in Excel. At Hebbia, I’ve been building AI tools I wish I had back then, starting with a Comps Agent that automatically spreads comps directly in Excel.