Thanks to our newer site here on Substack, we have an easier way to get a Survey done… Here, I present to you the options we’ve been working on for integrating AI into MRSware, with some explanation of each below, and a request for you to think about what you would like to see, and how you would like to interact with the AI.
Question 1: Features
We have been testing a few different features that we think will be handy to our users. The first question in the Survey asks which of those might be useful to you personally in your daily routine?
a) For those of you that get copies of individual POs, Orders, or Invoices from your manufacturers, and are currently manually entering those into MRSware. This question is about the process of using OCR (identifying text in the PDF/scanned image) and entering that into either Orders or Invoices, as appropriate, potentially capturing more details and/or making the entry process significantly faster.
b) A similar process to above, but for hand-written notes from your notebook. I take copious notes during a call, take a picture of those notes, then have the AI transcribe them from the picture into a MRSware Journal entry. What’s new here is that the AI can do the Contact linking, set the date, Type, and some Categories based on the content for you; instead of just filling in the text body of the Journal.
c) Like above, but for those that want to talk their notes into the Journal using the microphone, the Transcribe voice notes into Journals function can also do smarter linking and categorization.
Question 2: Interface
This survey question asks how you would like to interact with the AI. The options include emailing a document to a specific AI-accessible email address, such as pos@yourcompany.mrsware.com; uploading a document to File Share for the AI to import; or a chat-type interface, where you tell the AI what you want to do and optionally paste in a document or text that you want it to work with.
One of the options in this section is to work with an AI subscription that you may already have. If you are a subscriber to ChatGPT, for example, and would like to add the capability to directly access your MRSware data from within your existing chats, this option is meant for you.
Question 3: Your AI
We would like to get an idea of everyone’s experience with AI. This will help us tailor the interface and which AI models to use, based on what people are used to already.
Question 4: Did we miss something?
Tell us more about what you would like, what you have been doing, or anything else you think might be relevant to an AI in MRSware future.
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If I missed anyone in your company from the distribution list, feel free to send them a link to this article, so that we can capture their preferences as well.
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