{"id":81746,"title":"Quill AI: A 10x more efficient equity research platform","tagline":"Turn PDFs into spreadsheets, export data with citations, and get up to speed on earnings performance within seconds of release","body":"**tl;dr** We are using LLMs to speed up the equity research process by taking the pain out of working with financial filings.\n\n**Problem 1:** **Pulling tables from SEC filings**\n\nThe de-facto current solution is a tool called BamSEC. However, there are a couple of problems with it: a) They don’t provide citation links to their numbers, and b) To merge data from previous filings, you can only do it one table at a time.\n\nQuill solves both these problems. Take a look:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=81746\u0026key=user_uploads/1188332/a0ad69cc-e3d1-44e3-be24-11b74b4c7147)\n\n**Problem 2: PDFs → Excel is painful**\n\nThis flow normally involves a lot of number-by-number copy-pasting. Quill lets you skip that and turn any PDF into a spreadsheet (extracting all reported numbers and tables) – with citation links for each number.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=81746\u0026key=user_uploads/1188332/e60269ce-c233-48e5-a639-b4bf03e5d709)\n\n**Problem 3: Earnings season is extremely hectic**\n\nEvery quarter, companies report earnings and investors have to quickly digest the performance, guidance, and Q\u0026A sections of the earnings calls for each of their 20-40 portfolio companies before forming an investment opinion.\n\nQuill lets you digest these sections in an instant. Instead of reading through the raw calls, you get a dashboard that explains the main reported performance and guidance metrics, the key points in management’s commentary, and the key concerns of Wall Street analysts.\n\nFaster workflows mean you can cover more companies per quarter.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=81746\u0026key=user_uploads/1188332/bf27d425-881e-4da3-8c2d-373a4eff5244)\n\nWe’ve been working hard on these features and would love to get the word out! If you know people who work in:\n\n* Hedge funds\n* Investment banks\n* Equity research\n\nWe’d love to talk to them!\n\nOur website is \u003chttps://quillai.com\u003e\n\nReach out to us at [founders@quillai.com](mailto:founders@quillai.com)\n\nBest,\n\nGabriel and Kartik","slug":"LGU-quill-ai-a-10x-more-efficient-equity-research-platform","created_at":"2024-06-25T21:56:44.151Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T03:04:20.968Z","total_vote_count":27,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LGU-quill-ai-a-10x-more-efficient-equity-research-platform","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=81746\u0026key=user_uploads/1188332/bf27d425-881e-4da3-8c2d-373a4eff5244","company":{"id":29085,"name":"Quill Bills","slug":"quill-bills","url":"https://quillbills.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/7ad90ff298c085246c8c2af38a348e6f2c92f338.png","batch":"Summer 2023","industry":"Healthcare","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Healthcare","Health Insurance","Healthcare IT","Billing"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29085"}}