Guides

Recipes for hosted documents, jobs, compare, and waitForExecution.

These guides are for hosted Unfold workflows. They use the same primitives as the rest of the docs: store a document, run executions, read normalized results, delete when done.

They are application-owned patterns. Unfold does not auto-pick engines or fail over for you today.

Fast preview, then full parse

One document, one job, two engines. Show LiteParse as soon as it finishes.

Cheap path, then escalate

Run LiteParse first. Start a heavier engine only if the cheap result looks weak.

Bake off engines

Fan out with compare to score quality, latency, and cost on your files.

Idempotency and cleanup

Safe retries, retention windows, and documents.delete.

Primitives cheat sheet

Piece	Role
documents.create / release	Store once; release source + retained results
documents.delete	Remove the document and its job history
jobs.create	Start one or more provider executions
jobs.waitForExecution	Unblock when a single execution finishes
jobs.wait	Wait until the whole job ends
executions.result	Fetch a normalized ParseResult
parse / compare	Convenience wrappers over the same resources

See How Unfold works for the contract, and Documents and jobs for the HTTP shape.