Applica

Applica was an AI-based document understanding and text automation company founded in Warsaw, Poland, built on deep-learning research in natural language processing for unstructured documents. Its platform read, interpreted, and extracted information from documents such as invoices, contracts, insurance claims, legal documents, and financial filings across the finance, insurance, legal, and media industries. Applica went through the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars and raised a Series A led by Cogito Capital Partners in 2020. Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Applica in August 2022 and absorbed the technology into the Snowflake platform. Applica no longer operates as an independent product or API provider, and applica.ai is no longer a live developer surface; this profile is retained for historical/network provenance.

Applica is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Document Understanding, and Text Automation.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyArtificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingDocument UnderstandingText AutomationMachine LearningDocument ProcessingAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Source (apis.yml)

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aid: applica
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/applica.png
name: Applica
description: Applica was an AI-based document understanding and text automation company founded in Warsaw, Poland, built on
  deep-learning research in natural language processing for unstructured documents. Its platform read, interpreted, and extracted
  information from documents such as invoices, contracts, insurance claims, legal documents, and financial filings across
  the finance, insurance, legal, and media industries. Applica went through the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars
  and raised a Series A led by Cogito Capital Partners in 2020. Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Applica in August
  2022 and absorbed the technology into the Snowflake platform. Applica no longer operates as an independent product or API
  provider, and applica.ai is no longer a live developer surface; this profile is retained for historical/network provenance.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/applica/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: snowflake
x-acquired-date: '2022-08-23'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Natural Language Processing
- Document Understanding
- Text Automation
- Machine Learning
- Document Processing
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://applica.ai/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/applicaai
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence