Why Datasite Stopped Building Its Own Parsing - Adit Abraham, Reducto & Raj Bakhru, Datasite

Datasite global CTO Raj Bakhru talks with Reducto co-founder and CEO Adit Abraham about leading AI at a platform that handles about 60% of deals over $100 million. Raj shares how his startup BlueFlame was acquired into Datasite, why parsing billions of pages of deal documents is "all edge cases," and how he decides what his 250 engineers build versus buy. He also covers how AI coding is changing who he hires, and VDR Bench, the internal eval where better parsing raised recall 22%. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:08 From quant trading to BlueFlame 2:21 Bringing AI into Datasite's data rooms 5:06 Parsing is all edge cases 6:12 Build vs. buy 7:52 The BlueFlame startup story 9:40 Why selling to Datasite made sense 11:33 Bringing data closer to the models 13:13 What 250 engineers should work on 15:56 Where models still fall short 17:02 Q&A: integration and evals Adit Abraham https://reducto.ai Raj Bakhru https://www.datasite.com Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now!