AI Document Processing Services

Your documents already contain the answer. The problem is that a person has to open each one to find it. We in Brocoders build AI systems that read invoices, contracts, manuals, claims paperwork and scanned forms, pull out structured data, and push it into the systems that actually run your business.

AI Document Processing

What we build

Six building blocks. Most engagements start with one of them and grow into two or three.

  • Document extraction pipelines

    Unstructured input to structured output. Invoices, receipts, bills, driver paperwork, PDFs, scans and photos become fields your systems can read and validate.

  • Classification and routing

    The system decides what a document is before deciding what to do with it, then routes it to the right queue, approver or ERP record.

  • RAG assistants over your document library

    Ask a question in plain language, get an answer bounded to your own files with a citation pointing at the exact source page.

  • Document generation

    The reverse direction. Branded PDF reports, proposals, prescriptions, letters and contracts generated from live data on demand.

  • Reconciliation and validation logic

    Where the document meets the money. Transaction classification, discrepancy detection, manual override with value locking and a full audit trail.

  • Human-in-the-loop review

    Confidence thresholds, approval gates and correction interfaces, so the exceptions reach a person and the routine cases never do.

Extraction is the easy part. Being right is the hard part.

Any model will read a document. The engineering problem is what happens when it reads it wrong: a misclassified invoice that posts to the wrong ledger, a hallucinated policy number, a VIN that flips a vehicle from front-wheel drive to all-wheel drive and corrupts every valuation downstream. We hit that exact failure on an automotive AI project and answered it with an architecture rule that now governs every document build we ship: all numerical, financial and configuration data comes from a verified source system, and the model only explains it.

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The documents we have already built for

Every line below is a shipped pipeline, not a capability we are willing to try.

  • Financial documents

    Invoices, bills and receipts extracted, categorized and synced into eight ERP systems including QuickBooks, SAGE and Xero, for a fintech and AI client running 1,200+ documents a day across 2,000+ businesses.

  • Insurance and compliance paperwork

    An “Upload and Go” driver document parser for an insurtech client, feeding a commercial trucking quote wizard with FMCSA prefill, DocuSign e-signature and PCI SAQ-A compliant checkout.

  • Technical manuals

    4,090 indexed product manuals behind AskCW.ai for CompressorWorld, with every answer traceable to its source and no hallucinations.

  • Photographed and scanned documents

    Image-based VIN extraction from a photo of a plate, a dashboard or a printed document for an automotive AI client, plus WebTwain scanner integration in the fintech build.

  • Research documents and long-form content

    A PDF-to-course pipeline that turns uploaded research documents into a structured micro-learning course, and a video-parse-to-brief pipeline for a martech AI client.

  • Logistics and freight records

    An automated reconciliation engine for a logistics and fintech client, catching carrier under- and overpayments across thousands of loads through fuel surcharges and retroactive rate adjustments.

  • Mixed enterprise sources

    PDF, DOCX, TXT, XML feeds and SQL ingested together in Bridge, our own AI agent and RAG platform.

1,200+
documents processed daily in a delivered fintech document platform
4,090
product manuals indexed with fully traceable answers
8
ERP systems a document pipeline we built syncs into
6
delivered AI document and content pipelines
5.0
Clutch rating across 30 reviews

How we deliver a document AI build

Five steps. The second one is the reason the pipeline can be trusted.

Step 1
Document audit, not a demo

We take a real sample of your documents, including the ugly ones: skewed scans, handwritten annotations, three layouts from the same vendor. Accuracy claims made against clean samples are worthless, so we measure against yours.

Step 2
Extraction schema and source hierarchy

We define what fields matter, what each one is worth if wrong, and which system is authoritative when two sources disagree. This is the step most vendors skip, and it is the one that decides whether the pipeline can be trusted.

Step 3
Pipeline build on a fixed architecture

Generation happens inside our open-source boilerplates, so auth, roles, file handling, tests, CI and migrations already exist before the first product line. AI generates into a known structure instead of inventing one.

Step 4
Confidence thresholds and the human loop

Every field gets a confidence score and a rule for what happens below the threshold. Approval gates go where the action matters, exactly as they do in Bridge, where critical actions require human sign-off.

Step 5
Audit trail, evaluation and handover

Citations on every retrieved answer, a full override and correction log, an accuracy evaluation set you keep, and code you own outright. No lock-in, no proprietary runtime.

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Built by Brocoders

Bridge — Document Intelligence Platform

Our own AI agent and RAG platform, in production. It is where the architecture rules on this page were proven before we shipped them into client builds.

Multi-source ingestion

Native parsers for PDF, DOCX and TXT alongside XML feeds and SQL, ingested into one corpus.

Hybrid retrieval

A hybrid engine combining vector and keyword search, so exact identifiers and fuzzy questions both land.

Bounded generation

Generation is strictly bounded to the client dataset — a confident invented answer is architecturally unavailable.

Citations by default

Every answer links back to the exact source document, down to the page.

MCP-based actions

The agent writes back into live systems through Model Context Protocol, with human approval required on anything critical.

Deployed where the data lives

On-premise or inside your VPC, with vendor-agnostic model support and no proprietary runtime.

Document AI we have shipped

Five delivered client pipelines. Names appear where clearance allows.

What this actually fixes

Read it as a diagnosis. If the left column describes your week, the right column already exists somewhere in our portfolio.

The problem
What we build
Proof it works
A team retypes supplier invoices into an ERP
Extraction plus classification plus ERP sync with an exception queue
1,200+ documents a day into 8 ERPs
Support answers the same 40 questions from a manual PDF
Grounded RAG assistant with citations
4,090 manuals, traceable answers
Onboarding stalls because customers must key in data from their own paperwork
Upload-and-go parsing inside the signup flow
Delivered in an insurtech quote wizard
Carrier or vendor invoices are quietly wrong
Automated reconciliation with override and audit trail
Under- and overpayments caught across thousands of loads
Reports are assembled by hand every month
On-demand branded PDF generation from live data
Shipped for a fintech advisory SaaS client
Institutional knowledge sits in files nobody opens
Multi-source ingestion with hybrid retrieval
Bridge, in production

How we keep it accurate

Three rules that survive contact with production.

  • Bounded generation

    The model answers from your data or it does not answer. Bridge enforces this at the platform level: generation is strictly bounded to the client dataset, so a confident invented answer is architecturally unavailable.

  • Citations as a requirement

    Every retrieved answer links back to the exact source document. When a controller or an auditor asks where a number came from, the system points at the page instead of shrugging.

  • Source hierarchy over model judgment

    Numbers, money and configuration come from the system of record. The model reads and explains, it does not calculate. We learned this the expensive way on a live product, and it is now a standing rule.

Send us ten of your worst documents

Not the clean ones. The skewed scan, the handwritten note in the margin, the vendor who changed their layout last quarter. We will tell you what is extractable, what needs a human, and what it costs to find out properly.

Book the document audit

Three ways to start

Pick the smallest one that answers your question.

  • Document AI audit, 1 to 2 weeks

    We take your real documents, measure what current extraction accuracy would be, map the workflow around them, and give you a phased plan with an estimate. You keep the analysis whether or not you build with us.

  • Fixed-scope MVP, 4 to 8 weeks

    One document type, one workflow, one integration, in production. Nine of our delivered MVPs carry a checkable number, including a $3,375 AI MVP delivered about 17% under estimate.

  • Ongoing product partnership

    For platforms where documents are the product. Our longest document-automation engagement ran 71 months.

Engagement floor is around $80K for a full build. The audit is priced separately and deliberately small.

What we build it with

Vendor-agnostic by design, switched on cost and performance.

OpenAI logoAnthropic logoLlamaIndex logoMCP logo
Nest logoNext.js logopostgreSQL logoAWS logo
  • Models and AI services

    OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, open-source Llama. Vendor-agnostic by design, switched on cost and performance.

  • Retrieval

    LlamaIndex, hybrid vector plus keyword search, PostgreSQL with pgvector.

  • Orchestration

    Model Context Protocol for tool and action layers, n8n for pipeline workflows.

  • Application

    NestJS, Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL.

  • Document handling

    Native PDF, DOCX, TXT, XLSX and XML parsers, WebTwain scanner integration, Puppeteer for generated PDF output.

  • Infrastructure

    AWS, GCP, Docker, CI/CD from day one, on-premise and VPC deployment where the data cannot leave.

AI Native Development

We in Brocoders reorganized the company around AI rather than bolting it on. Product managers build working frontends with AI, engineers own backend and architecture, and QA, security and CI were rebuilt around AI tooling. The reason this does not produce an unmaintainable codebase is our open-source boilerplates at bcboilerplates.com, cloned by roughly 500 developers a month, which fix architecture, auth, file handling, tests, CI and migrations in advance. 193 hours on the React side and 126 on the NestJS side are decided before the first product line exists. A security pass over AI-generated code is part of our definition of done.

We packed this method into the Fieldera product and built a ServiceTitan alternative in 7 days.

~$1,609
in AI spend
5.5 days
to a working platform
343
API endpoints across 82 database models
~454
automated tests

Our older portfolio builds predate this reorganization and we do not claim they were delivered this way. They are why we know what to architect. The AI-native model is how fast we get there now.

Where our document work already lives

Correctness and audit trail are the hard part in these industries, not the interface.

Fintech and accounting

  • Pre-accounting automation into eight ERPs
  • Freight invoice reconciliation with retroactive rate adjustments
  • KPI reporting with generated PDF output

Insurance and logistics

  • Driver document parsing inside a self-serve quote flow
  • FMCSA integration
  • Compliance-safe payment handling
  • Carrier payment discrepancy detection across thousands of loads

Industrial, ecommerce and support

  • Thousands of product manuals turned into an assistant that answers buyers accurately
  • Intent-based product search mapping plain-language requests to specific SKUs

Clients' reviews

5.0 on Clutch across 30 reviews. Around 60% of our engineers are senior. Estonia HQ, EU entity, full code ownership.

Recognition

85+
products shipped
87
senior engineers
8
years of experience
30
verified 5-star reviews on Clutch
  • Top Software Development Company in USA by TechReviewer

FAQ

What is AI document processing?

AI document processing turns unstructured documents into structured, usable data. A pipeline classifies the document, extracts the fields that matter, validates them against a source system, and pushes the result into the software that runs the process. Modern systems combine OCR, language models and retrieval, with confidence scoring deciding what a person still needs to see.

How accurate is it?

Accuracy depends entirely on your documents, not on the model. That is why we start with an audit against your real files rather than a demo against clean ones. A well-designed pipeline is measured field by field, with each field carrying a confidence threshold and a defined fallback, so the number that matters is not overall accuracy but how reliably the system escalates the cases it should not decide alone.

Will the AI make things up?

Not if it is built correctly. We bound generation strictly to your dataset, attach a citation to every retrieved answer, and take all numerical, financial and configuration values from the source system rather than the model. In one delivered assistant answering from 4,090 product manuals, every answer is traceable to its source.

Can it work with scanned or photographed documents?

Yes. We have shipped scanner integration in a high-volume accounting platform and image-based extraction from photos in a consumer product, including pulling a VIN from a photograph of a plate, a dashboard or a printed document.

Can our data stay in our own environment?

Yes. Bridge, our AI agent and RAG platform, deploys on-premise or into your VPC, and we build client systems the same way when the data cannot leave. Vendor-agnostic model support means you are not locked to one provider.

How long does a build take?

A document audit takes 1 to 2 weeks. A fixed-scope MVP covering one document type and one integration typically runs 4 to 8 weeks. A comparable AI build we delivered went from six discovery workshops to production in 8 weeks.

Do we own the code?

Yes, completely. Our boilerplates are open source and public, there is no proprietary runtime, and no lock-in.

Schedule a call or send us a message

We are thrilled about the opportunity to provide software development services for your business

Rodion Salnik

CTO and Co-founder at Brocoders

Pick a date that works for you to see available times to meet with me and discuss your project needs. Looking forward to meeting you!