The Challenge

Build an AI system achieving 95% accuracy parsing death certificates across

50+ state format variations, generating institution-specific legal documents

for automated death administration.

The Mission

Shado Ventures automates the 500 hours of administrative work families face after

someone dies—notifying government agencies, financial institutions, and service

providers without the deceased's login credentials.

3.3 million American families face this crisis annually. We're building the

first AI solution.

Personal Context

I'm Hassan, founder. My father is in hospice right now. I'm living the exact

problem we're solving.

The Opportunity

4-Week Paid Sprint: $15,000

• $7,500 upfront (contract signing)

• $7,500 at delivery

If mutual fit → Founding CTO:

• Equity: 3-5% (4-year vest, 1-year cliff)

• Salary: $180,000-220,000

• Employee #1, shape everything

• $3.5M seed closing April 2026

What You'll Build

Week 1 - Death Certificate Intelligence:

• GPT-4 Vision or Claude Sonnet with vision

• 95% extraction accuracy across 50+ state formats

• Structured JSON output (name, DOB, death date, SSN, address)

Week 2 - Legal Document Generation:

• 15+ institution-specific templates

• SSA, Medicare, DMV, IRS, banks, credit cards, insurance, utilities

• Jinja2 + python-docx + PDF generation

• Professional output (not obviously AI-generated)

Week 3/4 - Integration + Demo:

• Streamlit or React UI

• Upload → Review → Generate → Download workflow

• Investor-ready demo video

Requirements

Must have:

✓ 5+ years shipping production ML/AI

✓ GPT-4 or Claude API expertise (production, not experimental)

✓ Public GitHub with LLM projects (we review your code)

✓ Available within 2-4 weeks

✓ 30-40 hrs/week for 3 weeks

Nice to have:

+ OCR/document parsing experience

+ Legal/regulated industry background

+ Vision model expertise

Tech Stack

Python 3.10+, GPT-4 Vision/Claude, Jinja2, python-docx, Pydantic, Streamlit/React

Why This Is Technically Interesting

• Novel problem (no existing AI solution for death certificates)

• Challenging accuracy target (95% across 50 state variations)

• Green field architecture (make all technical decisions)

• Real-world impact (3.3M families annually)

How to Apply

Contact: Noa James

Email: noa@shado.ventures

Include ALL FOUR:

1. GitHub profile link (required, we review your code)

2. One GPT-4/Claude production project (problem, results, repo link)

3. Availability (start date + hours/week)

4. Technical approach (3-5 sentences on death cert parsing + legal doc generation)

Incomplete applications will not receive a response.

Timeline: Interviews late Feb, Start mid-March, Deliver early April

This is personal. This matters. Let's build it.

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