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Aaron Crespo, CEOAI promised to unlock it all, yet most systems still recognize only what fits neatly into rows and columns. The unstructured majority remains untapped for its vast wealth.
Alejandro García, CTOSmart Retrieval turns that fragmentation into clarity.
Its enterprise platform connects directly to source systems and processes unstructured content at scale across finance, healthcare, logistics and the public sector. It extracts, models and organizes that information into dynamic knowledge bases, transforming dormant data into a living resource that grows more valuable with every use.
“The result is a shift from searching to understanding,” says Alejandro García, CTO. “Contracts become searchable databases. Email threads turn into decision maps. Handwritten forms translate into structured records. What once required endless manual effort becomes instantly usable intelligence, turning institutional memory into a renewable source of speed, accuracy and insight.”
Teaching AI to Read the Room and Every Document in It
Smart Retrieval’s breakthrough in enterprise AI stems from experience and the discipline behind it. Since its establishment, it has processed millions of documents each month for Fortune 500 and global organizations, training extraction models on tens of billions of files across industries. These models continuously learn from complexity, adapt to new formats and maintain complete fidelity to client data, delivering results without distortion or fabrication.
“That allows us to build tailored solutions that improve every stage of document-heavy workflows, whether extracting insurance claims, validating telecom invoices or generating legal contracts,” says García.
Through this work, deeper patterns begin to emerge, not just in the documents themselves, but in how organizations manage them, where errors originate, how formats evolve and why automation fails.
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Tools like OCR, templates and keyword search help locate information, but cannot interpret it, leaving knowledge scattered across repositories. Every day, teams waste hours extracting what technology should already understand.
“Even with structured systems like ERPs, CRMs and billing platforms, that kind of consistency is rare,” adds Crespo.
“Different teams use different decimal precision, fields vary in format and key details stay buried. The data that should enable automation ends up holding it back.”
“We had a law-firm client who asked us to generate contracts based on their templates,” recalls García. “When they reviewed the output, they found phrasing that matched their senior lawyers’ writing style, not because we guessed, but because the system had learned their unique patterns from the data we processed.”
Smart Retrieval eliminates that friction by integrating directly with existing enterprise environments, including SAP, Genesys and JIRA, as well as SharePoint, AMS, DMS, ERPs, CRMs, data lakes and cloud storage. Acting as an intelligent bridge, it ensures transformation starts with what organizations already own.
Once connected, Smart Retrieval’s Extraction Agent identifies document types, interprets layouts and applies the right extraction model. It also enables clients to design custom extraction models through a no-code portal. Teams can describe data points in natural language, test accuracy instantly and deploy updates on the fly. For organizations that prefer automation, the Smart Retrieval API handles batch or real-time processing, sending documents and returning structured data within seconds.
When Accuracy Becomes Intelligence
Extracted information feeds a queryable knowledge base, a living record of the enterprise that updates automatically and validates inputs through built-in quality checks. This layer transforms static data into operational intelligence, which powers Smart Retrieval’s AI Assistant, a conversational interface that enables users to interact directly with their data. Instead of navigating folders or writing queries, teams can ask plain-language questions, like ‘What were last quarter’s rejected claims?’ ‘How many invoices exceeded credit limits?’ or ‘Which clients share the same contract clauses?’
The assistant can calculate KPIs, verify data integrity and trace relationships across systems within seconds. For instance, it can cross-check a claim against patient eligibility or confirm that a supplier invoice aligns with purchase-order terms. Every insight is grounded in verified client data, ensuring speed without sacrificing accuracy.
Smart Retrieval’s Content Intelligence Agent continues that capability into document generation. Using knowledge-augmented generation, vectorized data and semantic reasoning, it creates business-ready content that reflects each organization’s tone, language and compliance rules.
The system operates under strict constraints. It generates only from verified client data. If the answer does not exist, it says so. That discipline keeps results trustworthy.
Even with structured systems like ERPS, CRMS and billing platforms, that kind of consistency is rare. Different teams use different decimal precision, fields vary in format and key details stay buried. The data that should enable automation ends up holding it back.
“We had a law-firm client who asked us to generate contracts based on their templates,” recalls García. “When they reviewed the output, they found phrasing that matched their senior lawyers’ writing style, not because we guessed, but because the system had learned their unique patterns from the data we processed.”
Another telecommunications client, issuing two million invoices a month across multiple ERP systems, used Smart Retrieval to reconcile differences in decimal precision and pricing. The platform identified inconsistencies before bills were sent out, preventing costly errors.
In banking, it automates Know Your Customer and fraud-prevention checks, verifying submissions without false matches.
Whenever discrepancies appear, they are flagged for human review. Once verified, corrections are fed back into the knowledge base, strengthening accuracy over time. Across industries, Smart Retrieval consistently delivers accuracy above 95 percent while maintaining zero hallucination, a benchmark few in enterprise AI can match.
“All of this is designed to make deployment fast and practical. Non-technical users can build or update intelligent agents in minutes, reducing IT dependency and accelerating adoption. Every process remains auditable and transparent to both technical and business teams, preserving oversight as automation scales,” adds Crespo.
Expanding Horizons
Smart Retrieval continues to grow in both scale and sophistication. Its teams are developing new tools for content generation, seamless integration and flexible connections to varied data sources and systems. Every advancement is a direct response to client needs, keeping innovation practical, measurable and grounded in tangible business outcomes.
Expansion in the U.S. marks a major milestone. Partnering with a leading global consulting firm, Smart Retrieval now contributes to large-scale document intelligence programs across industries. Whenever enterprises look to modernize document workflows or automate unstructured data, its technology serves as the foundation for those initiatives.
“The next few months are about deepening our presence,” says García. “Our partner network connects us to a wide range of clients and we’re committed to delivering the same precision and reliability that define our work worldwide.”
Every stride Smart Retrieval makes reflects a clear mission to make intelligent document processing and trustworthy automation accessible to organizations everywhere. From handwritten forms to complex enterprise systems, it continues to redefine how businesses understand and act on their information, turning unstructured data into reliable knowledge that drives progress.
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