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annie is anyformat’s AI assistant. You chat with her in plain language and she builds the workflow for you, runs your documents, and helps you improve the results — no need to assemble steps or write fields by hand. The name is a wink at the company: any-format → annie.
The fastest way to start is to just describe what you want. On the home screen, type something like “Extract vendor, line items, and totals from my invoices” — annie builds a Parse → Extract workflow and opens it in Studio so you can refine it.

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What annie can do

Ask in plain language and annie handles the rest:
  • Build a workflow from a description or a sample document — she picks the fields, types, and steps.
  • Edit fields and steps — add, rename, retype, or remove fields; add Classify to sort documents by type, Split to break up multi-document files, or Validate to check results against your rules.
  • Suggest fields and descriptions — annie is the expert. Ask “what else should I extract?” or “write a better description for this field” and she’ll propose improvements you can accept or ignore.
  • Enrich values with Smart Lookup — match an extracted value against a reference file you provide (a vendor list, a product catalog) to fill in codes or IDs.
  • Run documents and read back the results, flagging low-confidence values so you know what to review.
  • Improve accuracy — record the correct values (ground truth) and ask annie to improve the workflow; she measures accuracy against your examples and keeps only changes that help.
  • Generate code — get a ready-to-run Python, JavaScript, or curl script to call your workflow from your own app.

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Where to find annie

Home

The Create with annie chat on the home screen — the starting point for a new workflow.

Assistant

The Assistant item in the left sidebar opens a full-page chat with annie.

Studio

Inside any workflow, annie is the Chat tab of the Studio sidebar — she edits the workflow you’re looking at.

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From a prompt to a workflow

Building a workflow is a conversation:
1

Describe what you want

On the home screen, type what you want to extract — and optionally drop in a sample document or image. For example: “Read supplier invoices and pull out the invoice number, date, supplier, and line items.”
2

annie builds it

annie proposes a workflow and shows you a preview to approve. She reads the sample, picks sensible fields and types, and adds the steps the document needs.
3

You land in Studio

Once approved, annie opens the new workflow in Studio — with the same conversation continuing in the Chat tab, so you can keep refining by asking for changes or editing fields yourself.
4

Run and improve

Add documents, run them, and review the results. Ask annie to tighten fields, add validation, or improve accuracy against examples you mark as correct.

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What’s next?

Studio

The visual editor annie drops you into — refine the workflow by hand or by chat

Workflows

The building blocks annie assembles for you

Fields

What a field is and the properties annie sets on each one

Smart Lookup

Enrich extracted values against a reference file