Pulse · Feb 2026
Claims over one billion pages processed and describes the platform’s production workflow model and free usage tier.
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Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Pulse is a production-grade document intelligence platform for extracting structured data from complex enterprise documents (PDFs, spreadsheets, presentations, images, and more) using OCR, layout, and vision models, with schema-first workflows for production use.
Primary product
Document processing / OCR / document intelligence platform and API for enterprise extraction
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Document AI / OCR / enterprise document intelligence
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
SaaS
API
enterprise software
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$4.5M
Latest round
Seed · Feb 2025
Latest amount
$3.9M
Feb 2025 · Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross (NFDG)
Jul 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Leadership
Sid Manchkanti
CEO / Co-founder
Ritvik Pandey
CTO / Co-founder
Work & culture
Engineering-focused, technical, and reliability-oriented; emphasizes accuracy, production resilience, and regulated-workflow trust.
Benefits
SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
GDPR
HIPAA
BAA available for enterprise plans
encryption at rest and in transit
full audit logs
single-tenant isolation
Product & market
Pricing
Public pricing page exists; specific prices not visible from search snippets. Likely flexible plans with API usage and enterprise/custom plans.
Differentiators
- —Hybrid approach combining classical computer vision with modern transformer architectures
- —Schema-first extraction and inspectable markdown intermediate layer
- —Traceable outputs with coordinates for auditing
- —Built for production resilience and regulated environments
- —Strong emphasis on complex layouts, tables, charts, handwriting, and spreadsheets
- —Claimed benchmarking advantages over Unstructured, Amazon Textract, and OpenAI o1
Technology
OCR
computer vision
vision models
transformer architectures
layout detection
reading order algorithms
table structure recognition
chunking
deduplication
embedding workflows
vector storage
schema-guided extraction
Customers
Fortune 10 enterprises
Fortune 50 technology organizations
Fortune 100 enterprises
global banks
private equity firms
large insurance carriers
AI-native teams
early-stage startups
fast-growing unicorns
Competitors
Unstructured
Amazon Textract
OpenAI o1
legacy OCR tools
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
12.2K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
Pulse · Aug 2025
States the platform has processed more than 600 million pages and supports cloud or VPC deployments with enterprise security controls.
Pulse · Feb 2025
Announces the seed round led by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross and names the founders and investors.
Pulse · Feb 2025
Describes the architecture, hybrid CV + transformer approach, and benchmark claims against Unstructured, Amazon Textract, and OpenAI o1.
Jobs and careers at Pulse
10 jobs at Pulse
Growth and Marketing
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San Francisco; San Francisco, California, United States
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Machine Learning Engineer
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