{"slug": "smart-forms-for-onboarding-wizards-etc", "title": "\"smart\" forms (for onboarding, wizards, etc.)", "summary": "Sunil Pai has built an experiment using an LLM and web search to auto-infer form values during onboarding for the app Trellis, reducing data entry time with just a name and company. The approach targets defined fields and templates, with potential applications for government agencies and educational institutions, though some suggest a user-side implementation could leverage more information.", "body_md": "new experiment: \"smart\" forms (for onboarding, wizards, etc)\nLLMs aren't just about chat based conversations; here I'm using an LLM/web search to infer form values while onboarding on to new app/service called Trellis. With just a name and company, it can guess some fields and values that can dramatically reduce the time to enter (and make it a little more delightful?)\nshoutout to\n\n# sunil pai on X: \"new experiment: \"smart\" forms (for onboarding, wizards, etc) LLMs aren't just about chat based conversations; here I'm using an LLM/web search to infer form values while onboarding on to new app/service called Trellis. With just a name and company, it can guess some fields and\"\n\n- let me guess you built that with gpt-5.6\n- Super nice use case , but this would work well only for cases where there are defined fields/templates (e.g as described onboarding) Would be interesting for govt. agencies & educational institutions to try this out first\n- this made me think of browsers filling fields like credit card or billing address automatically for you seems like implementing the llm user-side will have much more information than trying to guess from the app side? obviously a good way to start by doing it this way", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smart-forms-for-onboarding-wizards-etc", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/threepointone/status/2089352886182363269", "published_at": "2026-08-17 16:27:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 16:41:36.842789+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Sunil Pai", "Trellis", "X"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smart-forms-for-onboarding-wizards-etc", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smart-forms-for-onboarding-wizards-etc.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smart-forms-for-onboarding-wizards-etc.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/smart-forms-for-onboarding-wizards-etc.jsonld"}}