Unlocking AI’s Full Potential: A Conversation with Brian Raymond
Join us for an exclusive deep dive with Brian Raymond, Founder and CEO of Unstructured, as he shares his journey from CIA Intelligence Officer to leading an AI-driven company tackling one of the biggest challenges in NLP—preparing unstructured data for LLMs and RAG.
Key insights include:
- The critical role of data curation in AI adoption
- How Unstructured automates ETL pipelines for enterprises
- The impact of model selection and UX on AI adoption
- Future trends in enterprise search and AI integration
Whether you’re working with AI or optimizing data pipelines, this session is packed with expert insights on making AI work for your business.
Watch now to explore the future of enterprise AI!
Guest
Brian Raymond
Founder and CEO of Unstructured

Brian Raymond is the Founder and CEO of Unstructured, a company he established in 2022 to address data engineering challenges in natural language processing (NLP). Prior to founding Unstructured, Brian served as Vice President of Global Public Sector at Primer.ai from 2018 to 2022, and as an Investment Banking Director at Harris Williams from 2016 to 2018. Earlier in his career, he worked as an Intelligence Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency and as National Security Council Director for Iraq at The White House. Brian holds a Master’s in Political Science and Government from the University of California, Davis, and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
Description
Join us for a deep dive with Brian Raymond, Founder and CEO of Unstructured, a company revolutionizing how enterprises unlock the power of AI. Brian shares his journey from intelligence officer at the CIA and National Security Council to leading a cutting-edge AI company. We’ll explore the critical challenge of preparing unstructured data for large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), as well as how Unstructured is solving the “boring” but essential problem of enterprise ETL pipelines.
Learn how Unstructured’s approach to data curation, automated transformation, and enterprise-grade integrations is making AI adoption seamless, and discover what’s next for AI-driven enterprises.
Timeline
00:00 Intro
01:50 Unstructured’s Mission & Background
03:40 Genesis of Unstructured
07:33 Positioning in the AI Ecosystem
12:00 Product Evolution & Market Strategy
16:18 Model Selection & User Experience
26:30 UX Impact on AI Adoption
33:24 Partnerships & Future Collaborations
36:20 Future Prediction & Enterprise Search
Speakers
Tomasz Rytel
Client Partner at deepsense.ai

Michał Lis
AI Engineering Manager at deepsense.ai
