Engineering
Guides, tutorials, and real-world workflows for composable document and image processing.
How We Generate Our Invoices with Our Own Document Generation Api
Why Stripe could not produce the invoices we needed for IGIC, and how we generate customer-facing PDFs from structured document data.
How Our Document Ingestion Pipeline Turns Files into LLM-Ready Markdown
A technical deep dive into parsing PDFs, Office files, emails, images, and websites into clean markdown for extraction and RAG.
Why We Rebuilt Iteration Layer in Elixir
AI infrastructure started looking less like a web app and more like a distributed system, so we rebuilt Iteration Layer in Elixir.
How We Built Our Pitch Deck with Our Own API
We generated a 10-slide marketing deck using the Iteration Layer Image Generation API. No Figma, no PowerPoint — just JSON layers, layout compositing, and a mix task.
How We Generate OG Images with Our Own API
We use the Iteration Layer Image Generation API to create unique Open Graph images for every page on our site. Here's the exact implementation.
Why We Built Iteration Layer
Content processing is duct-taped tools. We built composable APIs as the first layer of a broader AI workflow runtime for document, image, and file pipelines.