
Getting started
Unstructured offers several products for use with AI tools and agents and for ETL pipelines.| To use… | With… | To get… | For… | Use this product |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI tools/agents, local file-based APIs | Local files | Parsed local file content delivered as JSON, HTML, Markdown, or text | AI chatbots/agentic workflows, local file-based API utility functions | Transform |
| AI tools/agents | Remote files/data | Searchable knowledge layers | Fast content retrieval by AI chatbots/agentic workflows over large knowledge stores | Foundation |
| SQL tools, business apps, AI tools/agents | Remote files/data | Parsed file/data content delivered to DBs/vector stores through ETL pipelines | SQL queries, business analytics, lexical/semantic searches, AI chatbots/agentic workflows | Pipelines (no-code) Pipelines API (Python/REST) |

