Extend

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Production-ready document processing

Winter 2023Founded 202325 peopleNew York, NY, USA

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About

Parse, extract, and split your hardest documents with unmatched accuracy. Read any layout with specialized vision models, and ship reliable pipelines in minutes, not months.

From their website

as of Jun 7, 2026www.extend.ai ↗

SaaSSubscription · Pricing tiers include Free (10k credits), Scale ($500/month with 50,000 credits/month and higher limits), and Enterprise (custom; self-hosted deployments and enterprise-grade terms).

Extend provides production-ready document processing with AI-powered parsing, extraction, and splitting that supports complex layouts. It offers an end-to-end toolkit to deploy reliable document workflows quickly, including self-hosted options and enterprise-grade security.

Extend offers a layout-first parsing API (Parse 2.0) and a batteries-included toolkit to convert PDFs and other documents into structured data. Features include confidence scoring and multi-pass review, fast, real-time and bulk processing modes, a Composer optimization agent for schema refinement, end-to-end document workflows with versioning and durability, a Studio UI for schema evaluation, and options for self-hosted deployments with SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance. The pricing pages show Pay As You Go, Scale, and Enterprise plans with included credits, APIs for parsing, extraction, classification, splitting, editing, and workflows, plus starter credits and optional HIPAA/BAA and private support.

Who it’s for: Teams and enterprises handling complex, regulated document processing across industries such as healthcare, finance, real estate, and logistics; organizations needing production-grade accuracy, self-hosted deployment, and enterprise security.

Features

confidence scoring and multi-pass review
fast mode for real-time processing and bulk optimization
Composer optimization agent for schema refinement
end-to-end document workflows with versioning
Studio UI for schema evaluation and regression checks
Agentic OCR and multi-type file support
self-hosted deployment option with compliant security

Customers: Brex, Vendr, Flatiron Health

Hiring and activity around enterprise deployments; strong customer stories from Brex, Vendr, and Flatiron Health; offerings include self-hosted deployments and HIPAA/GDPR compliance indicating growth toward regulated industries.

Founders · 2

Kushal ByatnalFounder

2x technical founder interested in making it easy to build internal tools. Previously, I worked as an early engineer at Brex and then cofounded Stir, a creator fintech company that grew to hundreds of millions in payment volume.

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Eli BadgioFounder

Co-founder @ Extend

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Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Mar 2023

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Ship internal tools that reduce context switching, eliminate copy/pasting, and customize any website your team relies on.

Extend provides a low-code platform to build internal Chrome extensions for a company, enabling pre-built modules and UI components to create workflows that connect internal APIs and databases. It targets support and sales teams, offering customizable overlays, GPT-4-enabled actions, and one-click deployment, with an offer to build a first extension for the first five sign-ups.

From the original launch (Mar 2023) — may be outdated.