Comment by grassfedgeek

1 day ago

In the chat box I typed my SSN is "123-45-6789". It filled it in in the wrong box (4 Exemptions).

What problem is this solving? Isn't it easy enough to just click in the correct box and type the values?

How does this compare to Claude Cowork?

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nip  9 hours ago

Thanks! You caught a real bug: the form labels fed to the LLM were mangled. Now fixed: values land in the correct field.

On "what are we trying to solve":

Forms (PDFs, scanned paper) are still everywhere and aren't going away. SimplePDF Copilot exists to make the transition less painful. A few concrete use cases:

- Pre-filling repetitive forms from existing data sources (CRM, EHR, etc. via MCP/RAG). In most industries, employees fill forms by copy-pasting or retyping. With AI + tool calling, most of the form arrives pre-filled and the employee just corrects or adds the missing bits.

- Filling foreign-language forms. If you've moved to a new country, or know someone who has, you've had to fill out forms in a language you don't master.

- Understanding a contract before signing it. "Can I actually trust all the clauses here?" Reading proficiency changed the world by giving people a way to understand what they were signing. This extends it to legalese and odd clauses.

On Claude Cowork:

Different shape, and a different privacy model. Cowork drives a sandboxed virtual desktop: you can't see exactly what it's doing while it fills, and correcting a wrong value means another back-and-forth with the LLM.

Copilot works inside your editor: every change is visible as it happens, you can amend any field with one click, and the document never leaves your browser + it's LLM agnostic: bring your own (local or hosted).