Forbes October 25, 2024
Scott McKay is the CTO at Kickfurther. He specializes in building complex systems and the organizations that build the systems.
My company, Kickfurther, has carved out a niche by connecting businesses in need of funding for their retail inventory with buyers of that inventory. A key component of this business model is the ability to perform financial risk assessments on these businesses to ensure that the inventory has a high probability of being sold.
While the tech world buzzes with excitement over AI and large language models (LLMs), my company has found that traditional machine learning (ML) methods, such as gradient-boosted decision trees, remain highly effective and reliable for such assessments.
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