Introducing Workflows: Unstructured Data Infrastructure for Critical Operations

Zoey Weaver
Zoey Weaver
, Head of Growth, bem
Feature Update

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The era of monolithic OCR is over. Composable primitives and orchestrated workflows are how modern enterprises measure accuracy, relate components, and automate unstructured data at scale for their most critical product and inputs.

Workflows are a first-class infrastructure orchestration layer that sit above our existing bem primitives to power your critical business operations. This is next-generation automation built for the reality of unstructured data — where accuracy isn't a black box metric, it's measured at every primitive, guaranteed across every workflow, and auditable through every step of your process.

What Are Workflows?

Workflows are a work supervision and orchestration plane that sit above our existing AI primitives (Transform, Analyze, Route, Join, Split, Eval) transforming isolated functions into complete business processes. Automate tedious manual work—triaging docs, handling inbound requests, extracting data, understanding information, and making decisions—then embed it directly into your product via API to give it superpowers.

How It Works

Define your main function. Define the relationships between primitives. Deploy.

{
  "mainFunction": "classify-document",
  "relationships": [
    {
      "sourceFunction": "classify-document",
      "destinationName": "doc_type",
      "destinationFunction": "extract-data"
    }
  ]
}

Each primitive maintains its accuracy guarantees. Confidence scores flow through the graph. Decisions are explicit and auditable. The entire process becomes a single, deployable unit with its own unique email address for document ingestion.

Execute your workflow with one API call. Bem handles orchestration, error handling, retry logic, and audit trails automatically.

Why This Changes Everything

Measurable at every step
Not "85% accurate overall." Each primitive reports precision. Each relationship has visibility. You know exactly what's working and what needs improvement.

Supervision, not speculation
Workflows provide an auditable layer above your functions. See every decision. Track every confidence score. Reconstruct any execution. This is work supervision for AI operations.

Embed complete intelligence
Stop building orchestration in your application. Start embedding complete business processes via API. Your product doesn't coordinate functions—it triggers workflows that handle everything.

Scale infinitely
Process 100 documents or 100,000. The workflow doesn't care. Your infrastructure capacity becomes decoupled from operational complexity.

Built for any input type and flow, powered via AI primitives.

Built for Critical Operations

Insurance claims. Financial compliance. Healthcare authorizations. Legal contract review.

Operations where accuracy isn't negotiable. Where auditability is mandatory. Where scale can't compromise quality.

Workflows make these possible because primitives are independently measurable, relationships are explicitly defined, and supervision is built into the infrastructure.

The Future of Enterprise Automation

Traditional automation: Hope the model works. Debug when it doesn't. Rebuild when requirements change.

Workflow automation: Measure each component. Adjust relationships. Deploy updates without system rewrites.

This is infrastructure for the AI era—composable, observable, auditable by design.

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