# unstructured
Source: https://speakeasy.com/customers/unstructured


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## Company Info

- **Company:** Unstructured
- **Industry:** AI/Data Processing
- **Website:** [unstructured.io](https://unstructured.io/)

## How Unstructured Makes Its Enterprise API More Accessible With Speakeasy

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[Unstructured](https://unstructured.io/) enables companies to talk to their data. They extract unstructured data from any file format and transform it into AI-friendly JSON files that can be passed to LLMs. They're currently the only company doing this kind of AI pre-processing – and have seen tremendous success. In fact, since the summer of 2022, Unstructured's OSS library has been downloaded 6.4M times and used by 27,000 organizations.

When the Unstructured team was working on building their enterprise API, they wanted to provide a seamless, high-class experience to their enterprise customers every step of the way. They understood the massive difference that SDKs can make for streamlining and elevating the API integration experience and started investigating how to offer them to their customers.

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## Choosing an SDK Partner

They decided against building SDKs in-house, as it would create a massive burden for the team and distract focus from other core development priorities.

By creating and maintaining their SDKs in the Speakeasy platform, the Unstructured dev team was able to save time and cognitive overhead. This has proven to be the right decision considering the rapid growth Unstructured has been enjoying.

Additionally, Unstructured wanted their SDK partner to be highly experienced with OpenAPI and advise them on spec management for a public API. They chose Speakeasy because it ticked all these boxes and provided the expertise they were looking for.

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## API Experience Plan

While planning their top-quality API experience, the Unstructured team wanted to focus on a few key points:

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With Speakeasy, Unstructured is able to maintain Typescript and Python SDKs that offer an amazing integration experience to their users. These SDKs are now the primary way developers are directed to integrate with Unstructured. Great API accessibility is paramount to Unstructured's product usage, and having a partner like Speakeasy that they can fully rely on has enabled the team to continue developing their product while knowing that their users are equipped with all the necessary tools.

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## Key Benefits for Unstructured

### Focus on Core Product

By outsourcing SDK generation to Speakeasy, Unstructured's engineering team can focus on enhancing their core data processing capabilities rather than SDK maintenance.

### Consistent Developer Experience

Speakeasy ensures that Unstructured's SDKs follow best practices for each language, providing a consistent and reliable experience that makes their API more accessible.

### Automatically Updated Documentation

As Unstructured's API evolves, their documentation stays in sync without additional engineering effort, ensuring developers always have current information.

### Enterprise-Ready Features

Critical enterprise features like error handling, retries, and authentication are automatically included in the SDKs, making Unstructured's paid API offering more attractive to large customers.

### Reduced Support Burden

Well-designed SDKs with informative error messages help users troubleshoot issues themselves, reducing the support load on Unstructured's team as they scale.