I probably shouldn't admit this, but we spent years kind of bouncing from a provider to provider to figure out who would give us the most credits.

We didn't have to pay for compute at all for years, but it does eventually run out.

So our dream, right, our first dream was we want to shift sentiment analysis to people in a way that is radically accessible.

We want to offer these ML models in a way that's

as easy to consume as any regular function. That was what our MVP was, right? It was this set of

ML models very different than what we do today. And honestly, I think that we're probably not

ambitious enough with that initial MVP.

My name is Slater Bictoroff. I'm the founder and CTO of Indico.

This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry

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I'm your host, Noah Laphardt, and today how Slater Victoroff created a tool to allow enterprises

to embrace intelligent process automation.

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Slater Victoroff has had some pretty cool hobbies over his life.

Though he claims to be a weird guy, he has a well-rounded

set of activities. He's a vegan baker, which is half-mad science, requiring the breakdown of

recipes to the fundamentals of their elements. He's also a fiction writer, halfway through his

second book, which he started during the pandemic. He had a short M.MA career, too, believe it or not, and has studied Yoshikai Karate for

quite some time. Post high school, he was burned out on academics, so he jumped headfirst

into martial arts, spent some time in Japan studying the craft and did some MMA fights in

L.A. He has learned over the years that most tech people are typically afraid of being punched in the face.

He and his co-founders fell in love with the technology centered around intelligent process automation,

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