# anyformat

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**In short.** anyformat (AI document parsing and data extraction platform with visual citations, Spain): 1 million documents processed, June 2026. Evidence grade E: no revenue figure was checked. Team: 2 co-founders; 9 people in November 2025, after a EUR 3.3 million seed round (The Officer). Launched June 2024; still running.

AI document parsing and data extraction platform with visual citations · Spain · AI-native · team of 2 to 10 · still running · group: Documents, data and slides

- Outcome: 1 million documents processed, June 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: E; no revenue figure)
- Launch: June 2024; months from launch to the outcome: 24
- Team: 2 co-founders; 9 people in November 2025, after a EUR 3.3 million seed round (The Officer)
- Outside funding: EUR 520,000 pre-seed, then a EUR 3.3 million seed round led by Kibo Ventures, November 2025 (as reported by The Officer)
- Main factor: Auditability
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 1, capital needed 3
- Tags: AI-native, Small team, Funded, Running, B2B, Document processing

Links:

- Visit anyformat.ai: https://anyformat.ai/

**The product.** A platform and API that turns PDFs, scans and images into structured data. It has five operators (parse, extract, classify, split and validate) that a customer connects into one workflow. Every extracted value comes back with a confidence score and a visual citation to its position on the page. It runs in anyformat's cloud, in a dedicated cloud network, or self-hosted.

**Why it worked.** Large companies receive invoices, contracts and claims in many layouts and languages, and a general AI model can read them but cannot say how sure it is or where on the page a value came from. anyformat sells the layer that adds those two things, so a finance or compliance team can check the output and send only doubtful fields to a person.

Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts.

## Summary

anyformat is an intelligent document processing (IDP) platform: software that reads business documents and writes the data in them into fields that other systems can use. Each value comes with a confidence score, a number that estimates how likely the value is correct, and a visual citation, a link to the exact place on the page where the value was found. The company's pricing page in November 2026 lists a free plan with 50,000 credits, a Business plan at EUR 499 a month, and custom Enterprise contracts.

Juan Huguet and Diego Pérez, who both worked at Clarity AI before, founded the company in Madrid, according to The Officer in November 2025. The earliest archived copy of the site, from June 2024, shows a "Gen-AI data extraction platform" with a demo-request form. The same article reported a EUR 520,000 pre-seed round, a EUR 3.3 million seed round led by Kibo Ventures, and a team of nine people.

No revenue figure was found. A South Summit Madrid 2026 report by Up Next, dated 6 June 2026, describes anyformat as having processed 1 million documents, with customers including L'Oréal, the Government of Singapore and Iberia; that is the headline on this page, and it was not checked against any other source.

## Pricing

anyformat prices read on the company's pricing page on 5 November 2026, in euros, not converted to US dollars (grade C)

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go | 0 | 0 | 50,000 credits once, then pay as you go; 1 user, 2 production workflows |
| Business | about 399 (calculated) | 499 | 500,000 credits a month; unlimited users; ISO 27001; private Slack channel support |
| Enterprise | custom | custom | self-hosted deployment, custom contracts and SLAs, dedicated support |

All values in this table are euros. The pricing page has a monthly/annual switch that says "Save 20%"; the annual price is loaded by script and was not visible in the downloaded page, so the yearly value for Business is calculated on this page as EUR 499 less 20%. Credits pay for the operators used. Extra credits cost EUR 0.0015 each on the free plan and EUR 0.001 each on Business; Enterprise gets a volume discount.

## How much revenue does anyformat make? The numbers, graded

A funded two-founder company in Madrid with a team of nine in November 2025, with no revenue figure published

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Documents processed, June 2026 | 1 million | D | Up Next report on South Summit Madrid 2026, 6 June 2026: "1M docs processed". The report does not say who gave the figure or how it was checked. | [1] |
| Named customers | L'Oréal, IAG, Iberia, the Government of Singapore | C | The CEO's author page on the company site; Up Next names L'Oréal, the Government of Singapore and Iberia. No customer statement was found. | [6, 1] |
| Founders | Juan Huguet (CEO) and Diego Pérez Sastre (CTO), both formerly at Clarity AI | C | The Officer: "respondieron Juan Huguet y Diego Pérez, ex Clarity.ai, cuando fundaron Anyformat" (Juan Huguet and Diego Pérez, formerly of Clarity.ai, answered that question when they founded Anyformat) (translation). The company's author pages give the roles. | [2, 6, 7] |
| Team, November 2025 | 9 people | C | The Officer, 27 November 2025: "hoy con un equipo de nueve personas" (today with a team of nine people) (translation). The careers page in November 2026 says "a small, high-caliber team" with hubs in Madrid and Palma de Mallorca. | [2, 8] |
| Funding | EUR 520,000 pre-seed, then EUR 3.3 million seed | C | The Officer reported that the seed round was led by Kibo Ventures with 4Founders, Abac Nest Ventures and Decelera Ventures. The company's press page lists an Expansión article with the same EUR 3.3 million figure; Expansión blocks AI agents, so only its headline was read, on the press page. | [2, 5] |
| Earliest archived site | June 2024 | C | Internet Archive copy of 18 June 2024: "The Gen-AI data extraction platform", with a demo-request form and no prices. An archived redirect from April 2024 exists. | [9] |
| Prices, November 2026 | free plan with 50,000 credits; Business EUR 499 a month; Enterprise custom | C | Company's pricing page. | [4] |
| Security certification | ISO 27001:2022 | C | Company blog, April 2026: the audit was made by Prescient Security. The company says it runs on AWS with EU data residency. | [11] |
| Models used | several providers; the company calls itself model-agnostic | C | CTO's blog post of 16 June 2026: its pipelines give the same output "whether they're running on Claude, GPT, Gemini, or something that doesn't exist yet". | [10] |
| Time from the first archived site to the June 2026 figure | 24 months | calc | Calculated: June 2024 to June 2026. | [9, 1] |

How to read this table: grade C is the company's own page or a journalist's article; grade D is a figure from one third-party report that does not say how it was checked. No value is grade A or B, and no row is a revenue figure.

## When did anyformat launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From an archived demo page in June 2024 to a seed round and an ISO 27001 certificate. Each entry carries its grade.

- **June 2024** (grade C [9]): The earliest archived home page presents a Gen-AI data extraction platform for PDFs, emails, text, images and audio, with a demo-request form.
- **2025** (grade C [7, 6]): The co-founders publish blog posts on the MCP protocol for AI agents (May 2025) and on scoring the confidence of structured AI output (June 2025).
- **27 November 2025** (grade C [2]): The Officer reports a EUR 3.3 million seed round led by Kibo Ventures, after a EUR 520,000 pre-seed, and a team of nine people.
- **April 2026** (grade C [11]): ISO 27001:2022 certificate, audited by Prescient Security.
- **6 June 2026** (grade D [1]): Up Next lists anyformat among the standout startups at South Summit Madrid 2026, with 1 million documents processed.
- **November 2026** (grade C [3, 4]): Public prices with a free plan and a EUR 499 Business plan; home page benchmarks against GPT, Claude, Gemini and OCR services.

## Why did anyformat work?

### Sell the check, not the reading

General AI models already read documents. anyformat's pages put the weight on the parts a company needs to trust the output: a calibrated confidence score per field, a citation to the page position, rules written in plain language, and a person who reviews only the flagged fields.

### Long documents in one pass

The company says its extraction works across hundreds of pages and long tables without splitting the file into pieces, and its home page shows its own benchmark on documents of up to 50 pages. These are the company's own tests.

### Enterprise requirements early

EU data residency, self-hosted and air-gapped deployment, and an ISO 27001 certificate are on the home page. These are the conditions that banks, insurers and governments ask for, which is where its named customers are.

## How it was built

These details come from the company's own pages and blog. They are grade C.

- Five operators (parse, extract, classify, split, validate) connected in a typed workflow graph that runs in one API call, with an SDK, a command-line tool and a connection for AI agents.
- Model-agnostic design: the CTO writes that the pipelines run on Claude, GPT or Gemini and keep the same confidence scores and audit trails.
- Hosted on AWS with keys in AWS KMS, AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit.
- ISO 27001:2022 audit by Prescient Security in 2026.
- The CTO wrote in January 2026 that he built slide decks with Lovable and Claude Code instead of slide software.

Sources: [10, 11, 12, 3]

## Who tried this before anyformat, and why did they fail?

Four companies in our database of failed startups promised to take the work out of paperwork or to turn messy sources into structured data. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified.

The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade.

### Canvas (2011 to 2017; funding US$17M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Turn paper forms into digital workflows.
- Why it died: Microsoft and Adobe offered the same inside their suites, and low-code platforms took the rest.
- Record: 

### Lendsnap (2016 to 2019; funding US$500K; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Gather a borrower's mortgage documents automatically.
- Why it died: One document feature was not enough against Blend's all-in-one mortgage platform.
- Record: 

### Dashblock (2019 to 2022; funding US$3M; cause: Competition)

- Promise: Turn any web page into an API with no code.
- Why it died: Its technology fell behind AI methods and the constant changes of web pages.
- Record: 

### Olive AI (2012 to 2023; funding US$852M; cause: Unit Economics)

- Promise: Automate the administrative work of hospitals, such as prior authorizations and billing.
- Why it died: The automation needed much human work behind it, and costs grew faster than revenue.
- Record: 

## What changed

Canvas and Lendsnap sold one step of paperwork and lost to larger suites that added the step for free. Dashblock and Olive AI promised automation that, in the database's account, still needed manual repair. anyformat faces the first risk directly: the model makers and the cloud providers (AWS Textract, Google Document AI, Azure Document Intelligence) all sell document reading.

The difference anyformat claims is that large language models can now read almost any layout without templates, so the hard part has moved from reading to proving the result is right. Its product is built around that proof (confidence, citations, validation rules, audit trails), which the general models do not provide by themselves.

## Can one person copy anyformat now?

**Verdict: Not as a solo project. The idea of selling verification, yes.**

anyformat is two founders with physics and AI-engineering backgrounds, a team of nine and EUR 3.8 million of reported funding, selling to large enterprises with security certificates. One person cannot copy that sales motion. The narrower idea is open: a small tool that adds confidence scores and page citations to AI extraction for one document type and one industry.

1. Pick one document type that a regulated team checks by hand, such as bank statements or bills of lading.
2. Return every value with its page position and a confidence score, and send only low-confidence fields to a person.
3. Publish a benchmark on real documents against the general models, and repeat it when new models appear.
4. Offer a free credit allowance so developers can test before sales calls.

**What is still open.** Single-industry extraction with audit trails: customs documents, insurance claims, medical invoices for billing teams, public tenders.

## What could go wrong for anyformat?

- **What is not verified.** No revenue figure was found. We looked for a payment-processor profile, a founder interview with revenue, and a company-register filing, and found none. The Officer wrote in November 2025 that the company's goal is EUR 1 million of annual recurring revenue in 2026; that is a target, not a result. The headline, 1 million documents processed, rests on one sentence in an Up Next event report of 6 June 2026 that does not give its source. A reader could look for the company's annual accounts in the Spanish companies register or a later funding announcement with figures.
- **Customers and testimonials.** The CEO's author page names L'Oréal, IAG, Iberia and the Government of Singapore as customers, and Up Next repeats three of them; no customer statement was found. The home page quotes a testimonial attributed only to "AP Operations Lead, Global manufacturer". The Spanish press articles of May 2026 listed on the press page discuss document automation in general and give no figures about the company.
- **Competition.** The company's own pages compare it with more than 30 products, from AWS Textract and Google Document AI to Reducto and LlamaParse. On this site, PDF Vector (a document parsing API, grade C) and Normain (cited answers from documents, grade E) sell similar products to smaller customers.
- **Dependence on model providers.** anyformat's home page benchmarks itself against GPT, Claude and Gemini, which it also uses. Its CTO wrote on 16 June 2026, after a government order took two Anthropic models offline, that the pipelines run on Claude, GPT or Gemini and are built to survive a model swap. If the general models add calibrated confidence and citations themselves, the gap anyformat sells becomes smaller.
- **Team size.** The company was started by two co-founders and had nine people in November 2025 after a seed round, according to The Officer. The careers page lists open roles and hubs in Madrid and Palma de Mallorca, so the team may be larger now.

## Sources

1. Up Next, 6 June 2026: South Summit Madrid 2026: Mitiga Solutions Wins, Plus the Standouts — https://upnext.world/south-summit-madrid-2026-mitiga-solutions-wins-plus-the-standouts/ (grade D). Read the section on anyformat. Source for the 1 million documents and the three named customers.
2. The Officer, 27 November 2025: Anyformat, la startup que ordena el caos documental con inteligencia artificial — https://theofficer.es/anyformat-startup-ordena-caos-documental-inteligencia-artificial/ (grade C). Read in full (Spanish). Source for the founders, the pre-seed and seed rounds, the team of nine and the 2026 revenue target.
3. anyformat home page, read 5 November 2026 — https://anyformat.ai/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the product, the benchmarks, the security claims and the testimonial.
4. anyformat pricing page, read 5 November 2026 — https://anyformat.ai/pricing (grade C). Read in full. The annual price is loaded by script and was not visible.
5. anyformat press page, read 5 November 2026 — https://anyformat.ai/press (grade C). Read in full. Lists the Expansión funding article (not opened: Expansión's robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot) and the May 2026 Spanish articles.
6. anyformat author page: Juan Huguet García, CEO and co-founder — https://anyformat.ai/authors/juan (grade C). Read in full. Source for the CEO's background, the investors and the named customers.
7. anyformat author page: Diego Pérez Sastre, CTO and co-founder — https://anyformat.ai/authors/diego (grade C). Read in full. Source for the CTO's background and the list of blog posts with dates.
8. anyformat careers page, read 5 November 2026 — https://anyformat.ai/careers (grade C). Read in full. Source for the small team and the office hubs.
9. Internet Archive copy of anyformat.ai, 18 June 2024 — http://web.archive.org/web/20240618235017/https://anyformat.ai/ (grade C). Read in full. The earliest archived home page.
10. anyformat blog, 16 June 2026: Your AI Stack Can Disappear Overnight. Now What? — https://anyformat.ai/blog/your-ai-stack-can-disappear-overnight (grade C). Read in full. Source for the model-agnostic design and the models named.
11. anyformat blog, April 2026: ISO 27001:2022, Certified. The Trust Was Engineered Before the Audit. — https://anyformat.ai/blog/iso-27001-certification (grade C). Read in full. Source for the auditor, AWS KMS and the encryption details.
12. anyformat blog, 22 January 2026: AI Agents Don't Kill Document Processing. They Make It Inevitable. — https://anyformat.ai/blog/anyformat-ai-makes-documents-inevitable (grade C). Read in full. Source for the use of Lovable and Claude Code.
13. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors.

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