Intelligent Document Processing
Your IDP costs $150,000/year.
Ours costs $299/month. And it does more.
ClawQL is the document processing platform that closes the full lifecycle — ingest, convert, OCR, redact, archive, semantic search, and secure distribution — in a single system, orchestrated by AI agents, at a price no incumbent can match.
- Apache 2.0 core
- 1,000+ formats
- Deploys in hours
- Merkle audit trail per step
Document processing that doesn't stop at extraction
One pipeline from inbox to VDR — not five vendors glued together with scripts and hope. Agents orchestrate every stage over MCP in natural language.
- 01
Intake
Nextcloud / Email
Uploads land in a watched inbox — WebDAV, email, or API — ready for agents.
- 02
Convert
Gotenberg · Tika
Office, HTML, and 1,000+ formats normalize to processable PDFs and text.
- 03
Process
Stirling · OCR
Classify, extract, OCR, and redact PII before anything hits the archive.
- 04
Archive
Onyx search
Indexed for hybrid semantic search — agents cite source documents, not guesses.
- 05
Distribute
ConeShare VDR
Trackable rooms, watermarks, and engagement analytics — not Drive folder chaos.
The pricing chasm is the product
Extraction accuracy has converged across vendors. The battleground is deployment speed, pipeline depth, and what you actually pay when volume grows. Illustrative benchmarks — verify at procurement.
| Vendor | Pricing model | Real cost |
|---|---|---|
| ABBYY Vantage | Per-page, custom quote | $0.02–$0.10/page · median enterprise ~$150K/year + implementation |
| Hyperscience | Custom quote | Up to $1.50/page · $30K–$100K+ to start |
| Intralinks / Datasite | $0.40–$0.85/page (VDR) | $15K–$200K+ per deal · no document pipeline |
| ClawQL IDP (Starter) | Flat $299/mo | $3,588/year · unlimited documents · VDR included |
Enterprise platforms typically require 3–12 months and dedicated implementation teams. ClawQL: one Helm chart, hours.
Three things your current IDP can't do
Accuracy parity means the next buying criteria are integration depth, closed-loop distribution, and auditability you can prove.
- 01
Cross-reference while you process
Extraction alone is not enough. ClawQL agents can call your CRM, LOS, and APIs mid-pipeline — match a W-2 to the application, flag a missing schedule, update the deal record — without a separate integration project.
- 02
Close the VDR loop
Incumbent IDPs stop at the archive. ConeShare VDR is in the same subscription: trackable rooms for counsel, counterparties, and auditors — not a second six-figure contract.
- 03
Prove it cryptographically
Every pipeline step writes a Merkle-linked audit trail. Reconstruction is not a spreadsheet exercise — it is a hash chain you can show an examiner.
From zero to pipeline in one afternoon
Self-host with Helm, or start a 14-day hosted trial — no credit card. Agents drive the stack over MCP; you do not write a custom integration layer first.
Self-hosted
helm upgrade --install clawql ./charts/clawql-mcp \
-n clawql --create-namespace \
-f charts/clawql-mcp/values-docker-desktop.yamlNatural-language control
“Ingest the closing package from Nextcloud, redact SSNs, archive to Onyx, and open a ConeShare room for counsel with watermarked PDFs.”
Same MCP endpoint your agents already use — ClawQL is the only IDP that is also a native MCP server. See the IDP pipeline reference and IDP platform docs.
Documents teams actually process
Layout-aware OCR and parsers for the packs that slow down ops — not demo PDFs. Vertical presets compose the same pipeline with domain boilerplate.
Financial
W-2, 1040, bank statements, paystubs, closing disclosures
Legal / M&A
PSAs, NDAs, diligence packs, board resolutions, redlines
Real estate
Title commitments, offers, inspection reports, HOA docs
Healthcare
EOBs, referral packets, intake forms (with PII redaction)
General ops
Invoices, contracts, IDs, shipping docs, scanned archives
Start where the document pain is loudest
Domain verticals are plugin presets — Memory, Documents, and domain .cqw workflows — not separate products. Browse the plugin registry.
Built for examiners, not slideware
Sovereignty and auditability are product defaults for IDP tiers — not a separate “enterprise pack” you negotiate after the pilot.
Self-hosted or air-gapped
Apache 2.0 core. Deploy the full IDP stack on your cluster — no forced SaaS data plane.
Merkle audit per step
WORM-style hash chaining across ingest, convert, redact, archive, and share events.
PII redaction in-pipeline
Stirling redaction before archive and search — not an afterthought add-on.
Istio mTLS mesh
Service-to-service encryption and egress control for regulated tenants.
Deep dive: defense-in-depth · enterprise GTM
$299/month — pipeline, VDR, and agents included
Replace a median ~$150K ABBYY-class contract and a per-page VDR invoice with a flat Starter subscription. Self-host remains free forever on Apache 2.0. See full pricing for Business and Professional volume tiers.
- Full document lifecycle (ingest → distribute)
- ConeShare VDR — unlimited rooms, no per-page meter
- MCP-native agent orchestration
- Merkle audit trail per pipeline step
- Onyx semantic search over the archive
- 14-day trial · no credit card
Is this the document platform you've been looking for?
Ops and compliance teams: start with IDP. When you are ready, the same endpoint is also an inference gateway and memory system — without a second vendor conversation. Strategy detail: IDP GTM playbook.