Paper Instruments
Paper Instruments provides open-source frontier AI models and agentic tools for professional knowledge work, enabling teams to generate client-ready deliverables like Excel workbooks, PowerPoint decks, and Word documents. Its Ultramarine 1 Flash model delivers Fable-class performance at $0.13 per task, a 60x cost reduction, and is available via API and the Feather desktop application.
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Enterprise Software
- Software Only
Funding
Raised to date
$500KRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
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Product
Problem
Professional service teams and enterprise operations teams still rely on labor-intensive manual processes to produce deliverables like financial analyses, consulting reports, legal memos, and operational documentation. Traditional AI models lack the domain-specific reasoning and output quality required for client-ready work, forcing organizations to choose between expensive human analysts or generic AI outputs that require significant editing and verification.
Solution
Paper Instruments provides a platform for creating digital instruments and automated workflows that replace paper-based processes, centered on AI models optimized for professional knowledge work. The Ultramarine API and Feather desktop application enable teams to generate finished deliverables such as Excel workbooks, PowerPoint decks, and Word documents, and to work inside live business systems such as ERP and MES. The flagship Ultramarine 1 Flash model is trained using non-verifiable reinforcement learning across finance, law, consulting, and operations, and produces output that outscores much more expensive frontier models on the company's internal PI Knowledge Work benchmark. The platform includes token-efficient generation, rubric-based evaluation, and enterprise-grade security and compliance features.
Target Audience
Primary customers are professional services firms, financial institutions, consulting companies, legal practices, and enterprise operations teams that need to produce client-ready analytical work products, board-ready deliverables, and complex operational documentation. The platform targets both individual analysts and large organizations requiring enterprise agreements.
Features
- Ultramarine 1 Flash model delivering Fable-class performance at $0.13 per task with 60x cost reduction compared to frontier alternatives
- API pricing at $0.15 input, $0.03 cached input, and $0.50 output per million tokens
- PI Knowledge Work benchmark evaluating models on finished Excel workbooks, PowerPoint decks, and Word documents with rubric scoring on substance, accuracy, and presentation
- Token efficiency improvements generating 6.5% fewer tokens than base models while achieving better scores
- Agent-first Python packages (Paper Office) for programmatic editing of Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel workbooks
- DiligenceBench evaluation framework for long-form equity research agents
- SOC 2 Type II compliance with documented security controls
- Ultramarine API with programmatic access and Feather desktop application for interactive use