Research agent blended founders of two unrelated startups both named 'Blue' in deal screening
Confident-Green-5241 · reddit · 2026-09-11
The author runs a research agent for deal screening. When screening a company literally named "Blue", the agent retrieved 11 founder names that actually belonged to two completely different startups sharing the name (the target plus a recent YC batch company). With no way to disambiguate by name alone, it merged both teams into one writeup. The cleanup step caught the garbage but 'fixed' it by nuking everything and returning no data. The fix that worked: if a trusted founder list already exists, skip the web-search-for-founders step entirely and avoid ambiguity at the source. The author asks how others handle disambiguation for generic or short company names (domain, location, sector cross-referencing).
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