Brian Raymond

Brian Raymond is founder and CEO of Unstructured, the data-infrastructure company that partitions and cleans PDFs, emails, and other messy documents for LLM pipelines. He started the company in 2022 around the claim that retrieval and agents fail when the underlying files never become structured enough to use.

Founding Unstructured for document chaos

Raymond's public biographies describe a path through data and infrastructure roles into an open-source-friendly startup that extracts elements from complex documents. Sacramento and Forbes Technology Council profiles cast him as building plumbing for enterprise AI rather than another end-user chatbot.

Open source meets enterprise document prep

Unstructured grew a developer following with libraries and APIs that spit out structured elements from heterogeneous file types. Raymond's product story stays on prep and pipelines: get the corpus into a shape embeddings and orchestrators can trust before anyone debates model choice.