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# Welcome to Unstructured!

Unstructured turns your organization's unstructured documents and semi-structured data into structured, AI-ready data at scale with high performance, accuracy, and relevance.

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## <Icon icon="person-running" />    Getting started

Unstructured offers several products for use with AI tools and agents and for ETL pipelines.

| To use...                                 | With...           | To get...                                                                     | For...                                                                                    | Use this product                                                                                                |
| ----------------------------------------- | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| AI tools/agents, local file-based APIs    | Local files       | Parsed local file content delivered as JSON, HTML, Markdown, or text          | AI chatbots/agentic workflows, local file-based API utility functions                     | [Transform](/transform/overview)                                                                                |
| AI tools/agents                           | Remote files/data | Searchable knowledge layers                                                   | Fast content retrieval by AI chatbots/agentic workflows over large knowledge stores       | [Foundation](/foundation/overview)                                                                              |
| SQL tools, business apps, AI tools/agents | Remote files/data | Parsed file/data content delivered to DBs/vector stores through ETL pipelines | SQL queries, business analytics, lexical/semantic searches, AI chatbots/agentic workflows | [Pipelines](/pipelines/overview) (no-code)<br />[Pipelines API](/api-reference/workflow/overview) (Python/REST) |

[Learn more about Unstructured's product offerings](/about).

## <Icon icon="question" />    Questions? Need help?

For general questions about Unstructured's product offerings, email Unstructured Sales at [sales@unstructured.io](mailto:sales@unstructured.io).

For Unstructured technical support, see [Requesting support](/support/request).

Core MCP server and API reference documentation links for agents:

* [Unstructured Foundation MCP server: installation guides](https://docs.unstructured.io/foundation/install/overview)
* [Unstructured Foundation MCP server: connecting to sources](https://docs.unstructured.io/foundation/sources)
* [Unstructured Foundation MCP server: using the MCP server](https://docs.unstructured.io/foundation/mcp-server)
* [Unstructured Foundation MCP server: troubleshooting](https://docs.unstructured.io/foundation/troubleshooting)
* [Unstructured Transform MCP server: installation guides](https://docs.unstructured.io/transform/install/overview)
* [Unstructured Transform MCP server: file parsing options](https://docs.unstructured.io/transform/output)
* [Unstructured Transform MCP server: generating sample code](https://docs.unstructured.io/transform/code)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: supported source connectors](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/workflow/sources/overview)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: supported destination connectors](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/workflow/destinations/overview)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: source connector endpoints reference](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/api/source/source-apis)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: destination connector endpoints reference](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/api/destination/destination-apis)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: workflow template endpoints reference](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/api/template/template-apis)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: supported models for SaaS](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/workflow/models)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: workflow endpoints reference](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/api/workflow/workflow-apis)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: workflow nodes reference](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/workflow/nodes/)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: job endpoints reference](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/api/job/job-apis)
* [Unstructured Pipelines API: workspace notification and workflow notification endpoints reference](https://docs.unstructured.io/api-reference/api/notification/notification-apis)
