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Documents Become Data. Data Becomes Agents.

Business documents arrive as PDFs, scans, forms, tables, drawings, and handwritten notes. In this 45-minute webinar, Meibel and York IE will show real examples from the field on how documents become structured, traceable data, then how production AI agents use that data across real workflows.

Wed, Sep 16th, 2026
1 PM ET / 10 AM PT
Online
Kevin McGrath, Founder & CEO
Kevin McGrath
Founder & CEO
Joe Small, Senior AI & Data Science Strategist, York IE
Joe Small
Senior AI & Data Science Strategist, York IE
Aaron Aguillard, Head of Strategic Growth
Aaron Aguillard
Head of Strategic Growth

How to Turn Your Documents Into AI Agents You Can Trust?

Having built AI products across more than a dozen industries, York IE has seen the same pattern: teams fix the prompt, tune the model, and redesign the workflow, without ever looking at where the data came from.

Step 1. Documents

Most tools read a file as a stream of text.  Tables flatten. Footnotes drift. Handwriting  disappears. The structure that gives a document  its meaning doesn't survive the extraction.

Step 2. Data

Even when values are extracted, there's no  way to know which ones to trust. No confidence  score. No source location. No indication of  what was certain and what was a guess.

Step 3. Agents

Agents inherit whatever the data layer gives  them. A flattened table, a missing footnote,  an unscored value — the agent doesn't know  what it doesn't know. Errors don't announce  themselves. They surface in the workflow.

About York IE

York IE backs and builds more than 1,000 B2B software companies. Their team has been inside the AI projects.

York IE
is an investment and operating firm that works hands-on with the companies  it supports — not just on funding, but on building. Their technical team sits alongside  founders and engineers to architect solutions, write code when needed, and help  companies move AI from prototype to something that holds up in production.

Use Case

We’ll Look Into York IE’s Story & Other Use Cases from The Field

Every document AI project starts with the same question: how do we know we can trust this?

Strategic Consulting

AI Products with Built-In Traceability

Before Meibel, York IE had to build the document data layer from scratch  for every client. Ingestion. Table structure. Confidence scoring. Provenance.  Infrastructure that was never the point of the project — just the part that  had to exist before anything else could work.  This webinar is about what changes when you don't have to build that yourself.

Toffler: AI-Powered Foresight Platform with Confidence Scoring

What We’ll Cover

Meibel on the platform mechanics. York IE on what this looks like when a team is actually trying to ship. You'll leave with a framework for evaluating your document layer, questions  to pressure-test any extraction tool, and the recording if you can't attend live.

  • Where document AI breaks before the agent runs — specific failure modes Joe sees at the start of every client engagement.
  • What Document Intelligence adds: layout detection, table preservation, confidence scoring, and provenance that traces  each value to its exact source.
  • How teams verify AI outputs in production and what the data layer needs to support that.
  • A real end-to-end workflow York IE uses with clients moving from prototype to production.
What We’ll Cover
Who Should Come

Who Should Come

For teams building AI on documents that do not behave like clean inputs.

  • Founders and product leaders scoping whether to build document  processing in-house or use a platform. Joe has built it from scratch. He will tell you what it actually costs.
  • AI engineers with a prototype that works in demos but needs  to hold up in production. This session is about the data layer beneath the model.
  • Operations and delivery leaders accountable for what the AI  produces downstream. Confidence scoring and execution policies are the part of this that matters most to you.
  • Consultancies and services firms delivering AI to clients.  York IE rebuilt the same infrastructure on every engagement. This session covers what changed when they stopped doing that.
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Meet the Speakers

Kevin McGrath

Kevin McGrath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Meibel, bringing over 20 years of experience in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering. He previously served as Vice President and General Manager at Spot by NetApp (2022-2024), where he led a global organization of over 1,000 people, and held roles as Chief Technology Officer and VP of Architecture at Spot (2017-2022). He holds AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Professional), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer (Professional), and earned his BA in Economics and Master's in Computer/Information Technology Administration from University of Maryland.

Kevin McGrath

Co-Founder & CEO
Joe Small

Joe Small is the Senior AI & Data Science Strategist at York IE, an investment and operating firm for technology companies. Embedded in the firm's R&D practice, he serves as the lead AI and data science expert, advising clients across industries from solution design through production delivery. At York IE, he architected the cloud data infrastructure and machine learning capabilities behind Fuel, the firm's market intelligence platform, and leads development of its internal agentic AI framework. Prior to York IE, he conducted quantitative research at the University of Southern Maine, applying graph analysis to national healthcare provider networks. He holds a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Mathematics from UMaine.

Joe Small

Senior AI & Data Science Strategist, York IE
Aaron Aguillard

Aaron Aguillard leads Strategic Growth at Meibel, building enterprise partnerships and scaling go-to-market strategy. He brings over 15 years of experience scaling revenue and building strategic alliances in AI, SaaS, and cybersecurity. Prior to Meibel, Aaron served as Founding CRO at Qualifire (2024-2025), an AI security startup where he secured partnerships with TCS and Google Cloud and built the GTM foundation from pre-launch to enterprise traction. Before that, he spent four years as Director of Channel Sales at Namogoo (2020-2024), where he built and led global strategic partnerships with global brands including Infosys, TCS, Deloitte, and BCG.

Aaron Aguillard

Head of Strategic Growth

Documents Become Data. Data Becomes Agents.

Wed, Sep 16th, 2026
1 PM ET / 10 AM PT
Online
Kevin McGrath, Founder & CEO
Kevin McGrath
Founder & CEO
Joe Small, Senior AI & Data Science Strategist, York IE
Joe Small
Senior AI & Data Science Strategist, York IE
Aaron Aguillard, Head of Strategic Growth
Aaron Aguillard
Head of Strategic Growth

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this webinar for?

AI builders, platform and data teams, product leaders, operations teams, and risk owners working with document-heavy AI workflows. The session is especially useful for teams moving from prototype to production.

What will this webinar cover?

We will cover how complex documents become structured data, how agents use structured and unstructured information together, and how provenance, confidence scoring, and execution policies support production workflows.

How is Document Intelligence different from OCR or text extraction?

OCR converts images into text. Text extraction pulls words from a file. Document Intelligence also preserves layout, reading order, tables, images, handwriting, metadata, relationships, and source locations.

Why do complex documents break AI workflows?

Complex documents carry meaning through structure. Flattening a table, changing the reading order, or separating a note from the field it explains gives retrieval and generation incomplete context.

How does confidence scoring support agent workflows?

Confidence scoring measures uncertainty at a specific field, retrieval step, or final output. Teams can move strong results forward, retry weak extraction, and route uncertain or critical results to review.

What are execution policies?

Execution policies define which data and tools an agent session can access at runtime. The platform enforces those limits outside the model, giving each user or workflow the permissions it needs.

Will the speakers share real use cases?

Yes. The speakers will cover document-heavy workflows in construction, insurance, and engineering services, from the source document through the data layer to the agent's output.

Will there be a live Q&A and a recording?

Yes. Aaron will moderate a live Q&A at the end of the session. Everyone who registers will receive the recording after the webinar, even if they cannot attend live.