Parabola

Parabola is a revolutionary AI-powered workflow builder designed to automate the manual, repetitive data tasks that consume valuable time for business teams. It empowers non-technical users in sectors like retail, logistics, and finance to tackle complex data challenges that previously seemed impossible without engineering support. Parabola's core mission is to transform messy, disparate data from any source—including PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, and APIs—into structured, actionable information, enabling teams to focus on strategic work rather than busywork.

The platform operates on a visual, drag-and-drop interface, making it intuitive to build sophisticated automation flows. With its NLP-powered engine, users can simply describe their goals in plain English, and Parabola will suggest and construct the necessary steps. This approach democratizes data automation, allowing anyone who has ever thought "there has to be a better way" to build powerful, reliable processes.

How to use Parabola

Getting started with Parabola is designed to be fast and intuitive, delivering value within days. The process generally follows these steps:

1. Describe Your Goal: Start by explaining what you want to automate in plain English. Parabola's AI chat assistant interprets your request and helps you build the initial framework of your workflow, or 'Flow'.
2. Ingest Data: Connect to your data sources. This can be anything from a structured database or API to unstructured sources like email attachments, PDF invoices, or messy Excel files. Parabola offers hundreds of integrations with tools like Google Sheets, Shopify, Netsuite, and Snowflake.
3. Extract and Transform: Use Parabola's powerful AI-driven steps to extract exactly the information you need (e.g., line items, SKUs, order IDs) and convert it into a clean, structured table. You can then combine, clean, enrich, and apply complex logic using the visual editor. Each step shows a clear before-and-after view of your data.
4. Automate and Analyze: Schedule your Flow to run on a recurring basis—daily, weekly, or triggered by an event like a new email. The automated process can send alerts to Slack, update a Google Sheet, generate reports, or push data to another system. You can also visualize results and flag discrepancies directly within the platform to make better, faster decisions.
5. Iterate and Scale: Reuse workflow templates or your own custom-built components ('Cards') to address new challenges quickly. Parabola automatically documents your logic as you build, creating a living Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) that is easy to audit and share.

Core Features of Parabola

• AI-Powered Workflow Builder: Use natural language to describe your process, and Parabola's AI builds the automation for you.
• Unstructured Data Processing: Natively extracts and structures data from complex sources like PDFs, emails, and spreadsheets without custom scripts.
• Visual Drag-and-Drop Interface: Build, view, and manage complex logic in an intuitive, easy-to-follow visual canvas.
• Extensive Integrations: Connect to hundreds of sources, including APIs, databases, ERPs, and popular business applications like Shopify, Netsuite, and AWS.
• Workflow Scheduling & Automation: Set your processes to run automatically on a schedule or based on triggers, ensuring reliable and timely execution.
• Collaboration and Control: Share flows, manage user permissions, and create reusable components to scale automation across your organization.
• Automatic Documentation: Every flow serves as a living, visual document of the process, simplifying audits and new hire training.
• Outlier Detection: Automatically flags data anomalies that require immediate attention, ensuring accuracy and agility.

Use Cases for Parabola

Parabola is trusted by leading brands like Uber Freight, Caraway, and Ruggable to solve critical operational challenges:

• Retail & Ecommerce: Automate inventory reconciliation across multiple 3PLs, standardize SKU data, manage purchase orders, and ensure vendor compliance.
• Freight & Logistics: Digitize and audit freight invoices from PDFs, mitigate demurrage fees, enrich shipment data, and track inbound freight in real-time.
• Finance: Automate accrual calculations, classify spending, consolidate orders for financial reporting, and streamline invoice auditing, saving hundreds of hours per month.
• Operations: Automate recurring KPI reporting, manage supply chain data visibility, and create scalable back-office processes without adding headcount.

Advantages of Parabola

Parabola offers a significant competitive edge by turning hours of manual work into minutes of automated processing. Key advantages include dramatically increased operational efficiency, improved data accuracy by eliminating human error, and the empowerment of non-technical teams to solve their own problems without relying on engineering resources. This frees up talent to focus on higher-value strategic initiatives. The platform is built to scale, allowing businesses to handle growth and complexity with confidence, all while creating transparent, well-documented processes.

Pricing and Plans

Parabola offers a range of plans designed to scale with your team's needs:

• Basic: Free. Includes a single user, up to 1,000 credits per month, and limited access to AI features. Ideal for getting started.
• Explorer: Starting from $20/month. Includes 1 user, 1,500 credits, full AI access, and daily flow scheduling.
• Team: Starting from $1,000/month. Includes up to 10 users, 100,000 credits, core collaboration features, and dedicated onboarding support.
• Advanced: Custom pricing. For multiple teams, with up to 25 users, 420,000 credits, granular permissions, and priority support.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing. For entire functions, offering unlimited users, advanced security, custom storage, and always-on support.