The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agents: Documents | Reducto’s Adit Abraham
The a16z Show
- Published
- October 21, 2026
- Duration
- 38:17
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- Last updated
- Oct 25, 2026
Discusses agents.
Summary
AI agents can reason over enormous amounts of information, but much of the world’s actual work is still trapped in PDFs, spreadsheets, scans, and other formats that models struggle to reliably understand. Reducto co-founder and CEO Adit Abraham argues that solving this document layer is essential if agents are going to take on consequential work in health…
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AI agents can reason over enormous amounts of information, but much of the world’s actual work is still trapped in PDFs, spreadsheets, scans, and other formats that models struggle to reliably understand. Reducto co-founder and CEO Adit Abraham argues that solving this document layer is essential if agents are going to take on consequential work in healthcare, legal, finance, and insurance.Adit joins a16z General Partner Jennifer Li to explain why traditional OCR breaks down on messy real-world
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- agents