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Anvil Document SDK - The fastest way to build software for documents

Anvil Document SDK helps companies get to market fast by accelerating development for document-driven workflows with flexible APIs and no-code components.

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Ayan Bandyopadhyay
@manggit This solves a really important pain point. How do you differentiate from other document workflow products?
Mang-Git Ng
@ayan_bandyopadhyay Hey Ayan great question! I would say Anvil differentiates on a couple of dimensions. 1. Anvil brings together a bunch of related solutions into a cohesive package. Instead of connecting a form builder with a document generation system with an e-sign solution. Anvil's provides all three and they work together really well. 2. I find most solutions are either developer friendly but complex, or easy to use but simple. Anvil balances the two, no-code when you want to build quickly and enable a non-technical team, and robust API's and webhooks for when you want that deep integration. 3. Anvil just works :)
Sophie Benjamin
@manggit @ayan_bandyopadhyay I also want to add that because Anvil is purpose built for creating user friendly web-based (and device agnostic) experiences for documents, we have a lot of features that make interacting with or building for really complicated PDFs almost delightful. Handling tables in PDFs is a good example of something that Anvil does really elegantly but other products miss the mark on or don't handle at all.
Colin Taggart
Congrats on the launch! Product looks awesome! We deal with pdf-based health forms all the time, and it’s super frustrating, messy and time consuming, something like Anvil could be a game changer for us.
Schaeffer Arnold
@colin_taggart Thanks! Totally hear you on the messiness and time consumption.
Ben Ogle
@colin_taggart Thanks! You're doing god's work with health forms, they are the worst. Every time I go to the doctor, they make me manually fill out forms (with a pen) with information they already have
Vasily Kolosov
Congratulations on the launch, the Anvil Document SDK sounds like a much-needed solution! How does it handle more complex document processes that require conditional logic or integration with other systems and databases?
Sophie Benjamin
@vasily_kolosov1 great question. If you want Anvil to handle the complex logic, our Workflow tool (all-in-one webforms, pdf filling, and e-signatures) has UI for encoding logic at multiple levels and supports custom javascript. These Workflows can easily push/pull data from other systems over API or using a tool like Zapier.
Ben Ogle
@vasily_kolosov1 Thanks Vasily! The product can handle very complex document processes with logic! We have a number of customers using Workflows to conditionally fill / sign 30-50 documents in one process. For example, First Ascent (case study) uses Workflows to conditionally open 10 different types of accounts in Schwab for their customers in one flow, Seso (case study) onboards agricultural workers and creates document packets with a mixture of government and local paperwork. On the integrations front, what systems were you interested in integrating with? All webform data, e-sign data, and documents is available via the API. Most of our customers integrate with Iframe events and webhooks, then handle the data piping to the systems they need. We also have a Zapier integration, so you can connect anything up to Anvil without code!
sridhar koneru
Congratulations. Can we pre-populate some values through integrations?
Ben Ogle
@sridhar_koneru Yes, definitely! You can populate data on webforms, e-signature packets, and fill docs via the API from your own system. We also have a Zapier integration, so you can connect anything up to Anvil without code
Schaeffer Arnold
@sridhar_koneru The unicorn barista is sold separately, though 😉
David Winer
Wow, this looks so useful! Is there a way to subscribe to events in the document flow, e.g. webhooks?
Ben Ogle
@david_winer Thanks David! Yep, we support webhooks, see the docs here! Let us know if you have any more questions
Fed
Congratulations!! definitely great for key market/ops issues (scale, workflow)
Schaeffer Arnold
@fed3 We think so too. Thanks!
Mang-Git Ng
@fed3 so true, a lot of Ops related work is just moving data around to various forms (both PDF and online)!
Amy Foster
Looks like an awesome product, I'd love to not have to deal with PDFs!!! What are Anvil's compliance policies? Specifically for financial customers?
Mang-Git Ng
@amy_foster we have been SOCII Type 2 compliant for 4 years running! We also go to great lengths to ensure that security best practices are followed. Some of our best customers are financial institutions from alternative investments to banks and even title companies.
Veronica Bucher
congratulations on the launch! can't wait to tackle those pesky PDFs without the usual headaches! 👏
Schaeffer Arnold
@veronica_bucher Thanks Veronica - we've got some Anvil, err, Advil, for those headaches!
Nikolai Stosch
Great team, great problem space to tackle 👍
Mang-Git Ng
@nikolai_stosch every industry has paperwork! Thanks for the vote of confidence in the team.
Ben Ogle
@nikolai_stosch Thanks Nikolai!
Brett Hellman
Very cool. Congrats all!
Ben Ogle
@bretthellman Thanks Brett!