Skip the Setup. Get Straight to the Results with Our Redesigned Interactive Workflow Builder

We’re introducing two new features to make getting started with Unstructured faster and easier: a new first-time user experience and a redesigned interactive workflow builder for quick, no-code experimentation. Whether you're testing the waters or building your first workflow, these updates are designed to help you see results sooner—with less setup.

🎯 The Challenge: Balancing Early Experimentation and Production Power

Unstructured is built for production-scale ETL+ workflows, which means things like configuring source and destination connectors are essential when you're ready to run at scale.

However, if you're exploring the platform and only getting started, setting up connectors and configuring a full workflow can slow you down. That’s why we set out to build a faster path - no setup required.

🚀 The Solution: A Redesigned Interactive Workflow Builder and A Guided Tour

🧪 Test and Tinker Right Away

Creating any new workflow starts with the interactive workflow builder designed for rapid experimentation. Just drag and drop a file from your local machine, add any transformation nodes you want to try, and Unstructured will process it using our full-featured ETL+ stack—partitioning, chunking, enrichment, and more—then display the structured output side-by-side.

With the interactive workflow builder, you can:

• See the side-by-side results: your original document on the left, and the structured JSON output of each of the workflow nodes on the right

• Download the processed output

• Iterate and test as much as you want

• Prototype entire end-to-end pipelines with the full range of Unstructured features

• Try out sample files if you don’t have one handy

Every workflow in the workflow builder starts with a simple three-node workflow (Source → Partitioner → Destination), and you can progressively enhance your processing pipeline by adding specialized nodes:

• Chunker nodes to optimize content for RAG applications

• Enrichment nodes for image summaries, table transformations, and named entity recognition

• Embedder nodes to generate vector embeddings for search applications

Each addition can be tested, allowing for quicker iteration until you achieve your desired output.

What makes this feature particularly powerful is the seamless transition from experimentation to production deployment. Once you've refined your workflow, you can easily adapt it for production by:

1. Creating appropriate source connectors for your remote data sources

2. Setting up destination connectors for your structured data targets

3. Applying the same node configurations you have just perfected

4. Scheduling and monitoring jobs

With this end-to-end capability, Unstructured now makes it easy to go from quick prototyping to enterprise-scale document processing.

👋 From Signup to Value in Minutes

We’ve overhauled the onboarding experience to make sure your first 5 minutes with Unstructured feel intuitive, productive, and even delightful.

Here’s what the experience for every new user now looks like:

1. Log into Unstructured.

2. Click Get Started and let Unstructured guide you through all the steps required to build a workflow, explaining what all the workflow nodes do and helping you along the way.

3. Try processing a sample file and explore the results. 

4. Complete the guided tour to unlock access to all the functionality of the interactive workflow builder. 

5. Continue exploring, tinkering, and trying your own files. 

From a first time user to Unstructured expert in no time! 

🔁 Tried Unstructured Before But Didn’t Process a File? Your Trial’s Been Reset.

We get it—maybe you signed up before, but the setup felt like too much at the time. Good news: we’re restarting the 14-day free trial for any user who previously signed up but never ran a job.

Come back, drop in a file, and try out the new experience. We think you’ll like what you see.

New to Unstructured? Get in touch. We’ll walk you through how teams like yours are automating what used to take hours—no more manual handling, no more guesswork.