July 2026
From Documents to Decisions.
The story of Leap: where it started, what it does for the business, and the five-stage workflow underneath.
In this issue
Three perspectives.
Industry insights
Why We Built Leap as a Complete, Intelligent Pathway
It started in 2014 with a room of fragile, hand-photographed documents and five servers working overnight. That project taught us the hard part was never scanning a page. It was understanding what the page held.
Business perspective
The Business Value Behind Leap
While organisations already have vast amounts of information, much of it remains trapped inside invoices, contracts, forms and records. Leap unlocks that information.
Technical and product
The Five-Stage Intelligent Workflow
Messy and structured documents alike: five stages that close the gap between a document arriving and its data becoming useful.
Also in this issue
Discoveries we found interesting
NVIDIA Nemotron Parse 1.1
NVIDIA released a specialized vision-language model that combines OCR, layout understanding, table extraction, and reading order in one efficient architecture. It significantly outperforms traditional OCR on complex, real-world documents while preserving structure and semantics.
Here’s a fun fact
When computers were people
Before electronic machines took over, “computer” was literally a job title. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, mostly women were hired to perform complex mathematical calculations by hand for astronomy, engineering, and the military.
Be inspired
Effortless, by Greg McKeown
Making the work that matters the easiest work to do: a summary of Greg McKeown’s Effortless.
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