Someone still has to upload document for parsing. It does not have to be you
A companion works the 1 operation your Affinda account exposes. It can upload a document for parsing, and every one of those waits on an approval card showing the document before it changes.
Open the document. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the Affinda afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a document until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what Affinda exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 1 operation, no reads and 1 write. In practice that means it can upload a document for parsing.
The Affinda API stops at Affinda. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Which Affinda documents does a companion see?
In the tab.
Affinda exposes no read operation to a connected account, so a companion opens Affinda in the session you are already signed into and reads the screens you would.
The documents are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the documents. A companion can hold that operation and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of Affinda admin becomes a queue you review.
Can it change a document without asking?
The one write operation there is waits for you.
A companion can upload a document for parsing, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the document, the field and the new value before it lands in Affinda.
Nothing in Affinda is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the document exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
- Upload Document for Parsing
Can the documents pass run every Monday?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the Affinda documents pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The operations playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the busywork, the Affinda documents sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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