Human biology is extraordinarily complex, and researchers often have only fragments of information to work with. Brian Martin compares it to looking at a skyscraper through a keyhole: you can see something clearly, but only a tiny piece of the whole. Recorded at EVOLVE26 Singapore, this episode of The AI Forecast brings Paul Muller together with Brian Martin, CTO of Applied AI at Cloudera and co-founder of Rare Hopes NFP, to explore what one of the world’s most data-intensive industries can teach us about AI and decision-making.

This video shows how Astera ReportMiner extracts data from documents that don't share a common layout, with no template to design and no fields to mark. Traditional pattern matching depends on documents landing in the same shape every time. Invoices from hundreds of different suppliers don't, and this demo uses that as the test case: mixed layouts, multiple languages, multi-page files, and scans. The walkthrough covers.

Every week, ThoughtSpot Engagement Manager MJ Densmore used to spend up to an hour per customer manually pulling notes, digging through Slack, and checking Salesforce — just to write a status update. Now, AgentSpot does it all automatically, pulling from meeting notes, Slack messages, and support cases to generate a concise summary she can review and send in minutes. Watch to see how a quick, single prompt does the work of a full hour.

The procurement team at ThoughtSpot built two AgentSpot agents to tackle manual, time-consuming workflows — and the results speak for themselves. Agent 1 – Coupa PR Approval Nudger: Automated purchase requisition reminders that once took hours of manual chasing in Coupa and Slack. Approval cycle time dropped from 6.62 days to 2.8 days. Agent 2 – Virtual Card Intelligence: Cross-validates PO and requisition data against Spend Flow to surface budget leakage, flag expiring cards, and send personalized Slack outreach to card owners. All without manual audits.

Manually cross-validating virtual card data across disconnected systems was a constant pain, until the procurement team built an AgentSpot agent to do it automatically. This video showcases a Virtual Card Intelligence agent that pulls PO and requisition data from Google Drive, cross-validates it against Spend Flow, flags expiring cards and utilization risks across 30/60/90 day bands, and sends personalized Slack outreach to card owners. Plus a full 9-tab Excel report covering KPIs, expiry, utilization, and reconciliation. The best part? This is all done in just 4-5 minutes.