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

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Datasite CTO Raj Bakhru discusses why the company stopped building its own parsing infrastructure after acquiring BlueFlame, explaining that parsing billions of pages of deal documents is predominantly edge cases. He details the build vs. buy decision framework for a 250-engineer team, how AI coding tools are changing hiring requirements, and presents VDR Bench—the internal evaluation showing 22% recall improvement from better parsing. Targeted at engineering leaders and CTOs making infrastructure decisions.