today, we're open sourcing the Extend CLI watch Fable use it to parse and extract an entire corpus of documents — end to end, without leaving the terminal try it yourself: npm install -g @​extend-ai/cli it comes with a built-in agent skill, so claude code/codex/cursor know how to drive it out of the box

Introducing Extend UI — open-source components for document agents - 14 components & examples for PDF, DOCX, and XLSX viewers, plus bounding box citations, file upload, e-signature, and more - fully customizable - MIT licensed when we started, we tried every file viewer and document component library we could find unfortunately, none of them had all the functionality (and polish) that we wanted, so we ended up building our own for @ExtendHQ it was only ever meant to be internal, but enough customers kept asking for it that we decided to give it back to the community it's useful for building agents, user-facing document flows, or internal tools we use and maintain it for Extend ourselves, so it'll keep getting better over time (and it's battle tested on millions of pages running through our system every day) it also works with design system agents like @magicpatterns for faster exploration and prototyping available today on the @shadcn component registry! some examples in 🧵

a bit of a narrative violation as general LLMs get more powerful: companies are favoring highly precise, industry-specific parsing models to integrate documents of all kinds into modern workflows. cool to watch @kushalbyatnal and Extend team lead this space…

Real quote. Excited to talk about Parse 2.0 at Thanksgiving next year.

Over 1 billion PDFs are created every day, but your agents still can’t read them reliably. Today we’re releasing Parse 2.0, the most accurate document parsing API in the world. Extend already processes millions of pages daily for leading AI teams like Brex, Mercury, Opendoor, Flatiron Health, and hundreds of others. Now, its even better. Parse 2.0 is SOTA quality on RealDoc-Bench, our open source benchmark that measures agent success rate on real world docs that agents actually encounter in production. We trained Parse 2.0 on 1M pages of the hardest documents seen in production. Here’s how it stacks up: - #1 in healthcare, real estate, logistics, and financial services - 95.7% agent Q&A accuracy on 581 docs (next best: 92%) - 0.847 F1 on layout (next best: 0.759) Give it a try today and build production-ready document agents with Extend.

At @ExtendHQ, Jordan Meyer helped build the technical foundation as one of the company’s first engineers. When the team evaluated billing infrastructure, the decision came down to speed, flexibility, and long-term leverage. “Using Orb cut our billing project from 6 months to 3 weeks.” That’s the kind of engineering mindset we love supporting.

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earlier this year, we hand packed 65 gift boxes for our customers each box had cashmere gloves, scarves, and beanies, wrapped in tissue paper and tied with a blue ribbon by hand the responses from our customers made the effort all worth it 🫶

the kind of feedback that makes hosting so rewarding 🥰

a NYC rooftop bar on a warm april evening is undefeated as an event venue

something I've noticed — the gap between functional UI vs. UI that leaves an impression comes down to taste and craft...and you can't teach those things (nor can you copy them) it's what sets companies like Linear, Figma, and others apart that's what great design engineers bring to a team @andrewlu0 shipped this timeline replay view in Extend (to make debugging multi-step pipelines easier), and the little details just take it to the next level

Made in NYC with AWS: Kushal Byatnal, CEO & Co-founder, @ExtendHQ. Byatnal talks building document processing pipelines and building a successful startup in New York. From migrating to the city to migrating to AWS, the founder discusses the need for speed and the importance of partnership.

extend turned 3 last month! between the product releases, new hires, and closed deals, things move fast here. but the milestones are worth celebrating :)

comment if you want one of our retro stickers :)

vibe coded a new version of @ExtendHQ's website & learned that tragically, most mobile devices do not support comic sans by default live @ extend.ai/docs!

turned our website into a interactive google doc for April fools only felt appropriate (and threw in some hidden easter eggs everywhere)