{"id":73038,"title":"Extend - Build AI-powered workflows for unstructured data","tagline":"Intelligently process documents, emails, images, and more with powerful tools for extraction, classification, and analysis.","body":"**TLDR;** Extend makes it easy to process unstructured data in the form of PDFs, images, emails, and more. Build workflows that combine LLMs, business logic, integrations, and human-in-the-loop confidence - all without a line of code.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73038\u0026key=user_uploads/137869/8f86f279-0f42-4ab8-891d-a0ef4df19126)\n\n**The problem**\n\nVast amounts of data is often locked away inside messy PDFs, images, or emails and companies often build entire operational workflows around trying to manage and understand it. Humans have to do the tedious manual work of organizing and parsing all of it, but that’s just the start. To make use of that data, workflows have to be built around classification, validation, deduplication, fraud \u0026 spam checks, anomaly detection, manual audits, and so much more.\n\n**How Extend works**\n\nExtend comes with a set of building blocks to manage workflows around unstructured data. It can be used both:\n\n* **internally** to manage and automate complex operations (e.g. back office ops/fraud/support/finance use cases)\n* **externally** in your product (e.g. drop in a embeddable component to collect, classify, and validate documents uploaded by your end users in real time)\n\nHere’s how:\n\n**Combine** LLMs with business logic, validations, and integrations.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73038\u0026key=user_uploads/137869/ff3801ab-d622-4938-92bd-417d55d22fec)\n\n**Build** custom workflows that mirror your internal operations, and let them run on autopilot.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73038\u0026key=user_uploads/137869/caccc352-e74d-45cb-a579-581746f4bc00)\n\n**Deploy** confidently into production with built-in confidence scoring and human-in-the-loop flows.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73038\u0026key=user_uploads/137869/2c18cecb-152f-4c89-9d2f-0b9648b07aba)\n\n**Integrate** via our API, dashboard, or even embed Extend natively in your user-facing product.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=73038\u0026key=user_uploads/137869/3f48afc3-0b2f-46a0-b066-bf3ded6cf8c6)\n\n\n### **Get Started**\n\n[**Sign up**](https://www.extend.app/) on our website! Right now, we’re running a special deal + priority onboarding and support.\n\n### **Asks**\n\n* We’re growing quickly and looking to hire ex-founders (please reach out)!\n* Follow us on [**Twitter**](https://twitter.com/extendhq) and [**LinkedIn**](https://www.linkedin.com/company/extend-app/?viewAsMember=true) to stay in touch\n* We love any and all kinds of feedback","slug":"J02-extend-build-ai-powered-workflows-for-unstructured-data","created_at":"2023-07-13T19:36:11.447Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T00:50:31.825Z","total_vote_count":26,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/J02-extend-build-ai-powered-workflows-for-unstructured-data","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":27871,"name":"Extend","slug":"extend","url":"https://www.extend.ai/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/184d30d91903380caada7f52cd7cd7992759e07b.png","batch":"Winter 2023","industry":"B2B","tags":["Documents","Developer Tools","B2B","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/27871"}}