Extend

Market position

Extend competes in document parsing and extraction against cloud services such as Azure Document Intelligence and AWS Textract, open-source tooling, and general-purpose foundation models. Customer testimonials from Brex, Vendr, and Flatiron Health describe Extend outperforming alternatives in evaluations, and Extend's own benchmark places Parse 2.0 first on its RealDoc-Bench document Q&A test.

Extend positions its accuracy on difficult production documents as its primary differentiator, publishing head-to-head benchmark comparisons against its prior version, foundation models, and cloud document AI services. It also emphasizes surrounding production tooling — confidence scoring, evaluation and schema-iteration interfaces, workflow orchestration, and an optimization agent — rather than models alone, plus self-hosted deployment and compliance certifications for regulated buyers.

Technology

The platform combines parsing, extraction, splitting, and classification APIs with orchestration and evaluation tooling. Features include a layout-first parsing engine (Parse 2.0), a multi-pass review agent for confidence scoring, multiple processing modes for latency-, cost-, or accuracy-optimized runs, the Composer agent for automated schema refinement, durable versioned multi-step workflows, and a Studio environment for evals and regression detection. Security and compliance include SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR, regular third-party penetration testing, and self-hosted deployment.

Go-to-market

The company markets through a self-serve free trial and developer documentation with Python, TypeScript, and CLI clients, combined with a book-a-demo motion for enterprise buyers. Customer stories from Brex, Vendr, and Flatiron Health and published benchmark results serve as primary proof points, and prospects are described as running competitive bake-offs against other vendors, open-source tools, and foundation models.

AI and engineering teams building document-driven applications, including companies in finance, real estate, logistics, and healthcare. Named users include Brex, Vendr, and Flatiron Health, and the company says it is trusted by Fortune 500 organizations in regulated industries.

Geography

Extend is headquartered in New York City and serves customers including Fortune 500 organizations, with cloud and self-hosted deployment options.

History

Founded in 2023 and based in New York City, Extend has developed successive generations of its parsing technology, with Parse 2.0 succeeding Parse 1.0 as its layout-first parsing API. The company reports processing millions of pages per day and counts AI and technology teams including Brex, Vendr, and Flatiron Health among its customers.