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Ask who . . . a Consultant? Agency? Attorney?
Announcing EnviroAI’s New Question Answering System

ASK WHO?
… Environmental consultants can cost $150 an hour.
… Environmental attorneys can cost $500 an hour.
… Environmental agency staff might not be the first people you want to ask.



Ask EnviroAI your question first …
then ask your consultant, attorney, or agency staff (we would suggest you do this anyway).
Faster. Cheaper.
Ex./“Hey EnviroAsk … does an autoclave require an air authorization in Texas?
Release Date: First Quarter 2022 [earlier release date and discount for customers---contact us now]

---“Even environmental consultants, lawyers, and agency staff will want to use this service. All of us want to serve our customers faster, better, and cheaper.”
- Jed Anderson, CEO, EnviroAI

Aside: How does this narrow form of artificial intelligence work? ML NLP QA [machine-learning using natural language processing for question answering]
Question Answering (QA) aims to automatically answer natural language questions posed by a human. Single-turn QA takes a single question as input and provides its answer as output without considering any context. We are building a single-turn environmental QA engine based on heterogeneous databases, including Knowledge-based QA, Table/List-based QA, Text-based QA, Community-based QA, and Visual QA.
Want to see QA NLP already working? Just type any question into Google (I would suggest using a question mark) such as “What is the largest ocean in the world?” The first thing you will see in Google now is the answer to your question if Google can find one … with internet results then presented below this “answer box”. NLP QA ML is not omniscient. It’s not an oracle. The code and ML is not perfect (example). But you will be very, very, very surprised at how good its getting—and how helpful it already is. BTW - I would highly, highly recommend reviewing Google’s recently unveiled MUM System.

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Licensed CC-BY-4.0 .
Original source: Constant Contact campaign
Markdown source: https://jedanderson.org/posts/ask-who-a-consultant-agency-attorney.md
Source on GitHub: /src/content/posts/ask-who-a-consultant-agency-attorney.md
Cite this
@misc{anderson_2021_ask_who_a_consultant_agency_attorney,
author = {Jed Anderson},
title = {Ask who . . . a Consultant? Agency? Attorney?},
year = {2021},
url = {https://jedanderson.org/posts/ask-who-a-consultant-agency-attorney},
note = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
} Anderson, J. (2021). Ask who . . . a Consultant? Agency? Attorney?. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/posts/ask-who-a-consultant-agency-attorney
Anderson, Jed. "Ask who . . . a Consultant? Agency? Attorney?." Jed Anderson, September 2, 2021, https://jedanderson.org/posts/ask-who-a-consultant-agency-attorney.