Plasticity

Plasticity, previously known as Plasticity Inc., operates from San Francisco, CA, and is a key player in the B2B productivity sub-industry. The company, which participated in the Y-Combinator S17 batch, employs a team of two and serves regions across the United States and Canada. Plasticity offers a range of NLP solutions designed to enhance organizational efficiency and information accuracy. Their products include the Disinformation Toolkit, which helps in identifying bot behavior and disinformation through analysis of publicly available data like news and social media. Plasticity’s APIs, which include the Sapien Language Engine, Cortex Knowledge Graph, and Lingua Dialogue Engine, are engineered for high performance, capable of parsing text at a rate of 6,000 sentences per second, significantly outperforming other solutions. These APIs facilitate deep understanding of unstructured data, support complex multi-turn conversations with context management, and provide insights through a knowledge graph containing over 240 million facts. The company offers both cloud-based and on-premise deployment options, ensuring flexibility and ease of integration with existing applications in various sectors including technology, law, and medicine.