Polyvia is a visual knowledge index for agents and MCPs, a category-defining multimodal document retrieval platform designed to turn scattered visuals—charts, tables, scans, invoices, handwriting, and audio—into a queryable source of truth. By indexing and reasoning over visuals, it enables cross-document reasoning across up to 100,000 files with sub-200ms latency, serving both developers building AI agents and enterprise knowledge workers conducting research or due diligence. Its core value is eliminating the need to stitch together multiple vendors (like Reducto and LlamaIndex) for extraction, ontology building, and retrieval, providing an end-to-end solution that extracts actual data points rather than 300-token descriptions.
The primary pain point it addresses is the inefficiency of file-by-file agentic search, which becomes unusably slow past about 100 multimodal documents. Traditional retrieval systems struggle with complex visuals—charts, tables, scanned documents, and audio—requiring separate extractors and parsers that introduce latency and complexity. Polyvia solves this by offering a unified pipeline that ingests, extracts, links, and retrieves information at scale, cutting query time from minutes to under 200 milliseconds. This matters because knowledge workers and AI agents need to analyze large volumes of diverse documents quickly and accurately, without manually parsing each file.
The first major feature is the VLM Visual Extractor, a fine-tuned VLM-OCR pipeline trained for the hardest visual inputs. Unlike generic OCR that produces simple text, this extractor extracts actual data points—such as revenue figures from charts, line items from invoices, or damage descriptions from claim photos—rather than generic 300-token descriptions. It handles charts, complex tables, scans, invoices, and handwriting with high fidelity. This is crucial because it ensures downstream retrieval operates on precise, structured facts, enabling accurate cross-document comparisons and reasoning without manual data entry.
The second feature is the Multimodal Knowledge Ontology, a knowledge graph that disambiguates extracted facts into unique entities and connects them across the entire corpus. For example, if the same company name appears in multiple filings, the ontology links those mentions, creating a single source of truth. This enables queries like 'Compare EBITDA across all filings' to yield correct answers even when the metric is expressed differently across documents. It supports cross-document reasoning across 100K+ files, turning a collection of disparate documents into an interconnected knowledge base. This is essential for due diligence, credit monitoring, and research tasks that span numerous sources.
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The third feature is the Self-Improving Retrieval Agent, which uses query decomposition, iterative retrieval, and an LLM-as-a-Judge mechanism. It breaks complex queries into sub-questions, searches the ontology in under 200ms, and then synthesizes an answer with citations. The agent learns from successful retrieval patterns, improving its performance over time. Every answer is grounded in visual citations—paragraph-level for text, chart-level for slides, bounding-box coordinates for images, and even timestamped segments for audio. This ensures traceability and trust, with a claimed 99.8% citation coverage, meaning users can verify every fact.
The overall workflow is end-to-end: users ingest documents (PDF, DOCX, MD, TXT, PPTX, PNG, JPG, WEBP, WAV, MP3, M4A) via API or batch, the VLM Extractor parses them, the Knowledge Ontology links facts, and the Retrieval Agent answers queries with cited results. There is no need for separate PDF parsers or vector databases. Polyvia integrates directly with common data sources like AWS S3, Snowflake, Google Drive, SharePoint, Notion, Dropbox, and Slack, and supports agent frameworks via MCP, Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. The API is available for Python, TypeScript, and as an MCP server.
Concrete use cases include data-room due diligence, where Polyvia surfaces every revenue, churn, and customer-concentration fact across a target's decks and statements, providing fully cited answers for investor reviews. Cross-filing KPI comparison lets analysts compare a single metric across 500+ counterparty filings in seconds, enabling rapid competitive intelligence. Counterparty credit monitoring automatically flags covenant breaches and exposure shifts across 100+ borrower reports, allowing proactive risk management. Image-based claim processing extracts damage type, severity, and location from claim photos and auto-routes them to adjusters, reducing processing time. These scenarios demonstrate how Polyvia turns hours of manual work into seconds of automated retrieval.
Target users include developers building AI agents (Python, TypeScript, MCP users), enterprise knowledge workers (analysts, due diligence professionals, credit risk analysts, claims adjusters), and teams of power users. Pricing starts with a 7-day free trial (100 pages, 30 minutes audio, 100 queries), then Starter ($19/mo for 300 pages, 3 seats), Pro ($49/mo for 1,500 pages, 3 seats), Team ($25/seat/mo, unlimited docs, priority support), and Enterprise with on-prem VPC deployment, SSO, audit logs, and BYOK. Polyvia ensures data never leaves your systems, making it ideal for regulated industries. In summary, it is a visual knowledge index that powers agents with fast, cited, multimodal retrieval at scale, transforming how enterprises access and reason over their visual documents.
Developers of AI agents using Python, TypeScript, MCP, Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex who need fast, cited retrieval over multimodal documents. Enterprise knowledge workers including analysts, due diligence professionals, credit risk analysts, and claims adjusters who handle large volumes of PDFs, slides, images, and audio. Solo developers and prosumers seeking a cost-effective solution for smaller-scale document analysis, as well as teams requiring shared workspaces and priority support. Polyvia also targets organizations in regulated industries needing on-prem or VPC deployment with audit logs, SSO, and data residency controls.