About Understify

Automating business operations with policy-driven decision workflows

Our Mission

Understify exists to operationalize business decisions. We believe every team should be able to standardize policy checks, automate reviews, and produce audit-ready outcomes without heavy engineering effort.

Whether you review contracts in legal or procurement, Understify helps you turn them into consistent, governed decisions that scale with your organization.

Our Story

Understify started with a simple observation: operational reviews were slow, inconsistent, and difficult to audit. We set out to build a system that turns policy into repeatable decisions, not one-off analysis.

Built by experienced engineers and AI researchers, Understify combines advanced AI with a decision workflow engine. We're committed to building tools that are powerful, reliable, and straightforward to adopt. Learn more about the team.

Our Vision

Innovation

Advancing policy-driven automation and decision intelligence for real-world operations.

Accessibility

Making enterprise-grade decision workflows easy to adopt without heavy engineering.

Reliability

Building a platform teams can trust for governed, audit-ready decisions.

Speed

Delivering consistent outcomes quickly so teams can move with confidence.

Our Technology

Understify combines advanced AI with policy logic to deliver consistent, audit-ready decisions at scale.

Decision AI

AI reasoning that extracts terms, flags risks, and supports decision recommendations.

Policy & Playbooks

Encode decision rules and playbooks to enforce standards across teams.

Enterprise Security

Encryption in transit and at rest, row-level security, and role-based access controls.

Workflow Orchestration

Decision runs, approvals, and audit trails that keep teams aligned.

Key Features

Understify offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to help you understand and analyze documents with confidence.

Policy enforcement

Apply consistent standards with playbooks and automated checks.

Collaborative workflows

Route decisions to the right owners with role-based approvals.

Decision playbooks

Define rules, thresholds, and actions for each document type.

Decision Q&A

Ask questions and get traceable answers tied to evidence.

API-first automation

Integrate decisions with your internal systems through the REST API.

Audit-ready outputs

Produce decision records and shareable reports with full traceability.

Security & Privacy

Here is what protects your data and decision records today. The Security page gives the dated status of each item.

Encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest (provider-managed AES-256); not end-to-end
Cloud storage with database backups run by our database provider
Data access, export and deletion requests handled under UK GDPR; no certification claimed
Independent penetration testing planned, not yet completed
Role-based access control and authentication (MFA not yet available)

Learn more about our security practices: Security and Privacy Policy.

What's Next

We're constantly working on new features and improvements. Our roadmap includes:

Decision playbook versioning and change management
Tracked-change redlines you can open in Word
Audit export for teams that need it

Have a feature request? We'd love to hear from you. Get in touch.

Join Us

We're always looking for talented people who share our passion for making document understanding better. If you're interested in joining our team, check out our contact page for opportunities.