Show HN: A (free) no-code intelligent decision-making automation app

5 points by benjamta 5 years ago | 1 comment

Hello, Hacker News community! My name’s Ben Taylor and I’m the CTO of the British SaaS startup Rainbird, which I co-founded in 2013.

I’m really excited to share with you Rainbird Community, which lets you freely access our decision automation platform (as well as our AI and automation-focussed discussion forum).

Rainbird is a no-code intelligent automation platform that makes your daily, work life simpler and more rewarding by automating decisions that, right now, you probably think are impossible to automate. We think everyone should have access to that power.

You can try out the platform for yourself by joining Rainbird Community: https://community.rainbird.ai/

Feel free to ask me any questions you have in the comments section below!

benjamta 5 years ago |

Here’s a bit more about the Rainbird platform for those interested…

The platform has two main parts:

1. The studio (an area where you can make visual decision-making models in a process similar to mind mapping)

2. The inference engine (which uses your models to automate decision making)

The platform is designed so that computer scientists and automation specialists can overcome the challenges of machine learning (in particular, our inability to stay in control of algorithms that find their own patterns in data) and RPA (in particular, a decision tree’s inability to juggle many variables at a massive scale). And that’s why we’ve focussed on two principles as we improve Rainbird:

1. Human-down structure: that is, we start with human knowledge and apply it to data (so that humans can always understand and explain what the machines are doing)

2. Non-linear automation: that is, we focus on capturing and codifying knowledge that can apply to multiple scenarios (rather than on steps to be followed in a one-off, isolated situation)