Observed arrival · 2026-09-01
Cascade, the gap
A KYC-extraction routing audit that compares readers, costs, abstention rules, and repeatability on a frozen test corpus.
Field notes
Cascade evaluates document-reader routing by holding a corpus and testing the complete combination space rather than sampling a few favored configurations. Its figures separate several decisions that are often collapsed together: a $54 versus $191 assumed cost per 100,000 documents, abstention that removes 85 wrong values while losing 12 right ones, and repeated-pass median durations moving by 16–60%. The displayed corpus is synthetic, while the site states that client-side runs can operate on the client's own machine.
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