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Welcome to Nutrient

Jonathan D. Rhyne
Illustration: Welcome to Nutrient

Let me be the first to introduce you to Nutrient, the building blocks of modern business.

I’ve been proud of our team many times in the history of our company. Today is another pivotal moment, and I’m happy to share it with you.

Embracing a new era with Nutrient

This rebrand to Nutrient — bringing together PSPDFKit, Aquaforest, Integrify, Muhimbi, and ORPALIS — has been a mammoth initiative that marks a significant transformation for our company. A rebranding is not just a change of logo or style. It represents a burning of the boats and a new beginning rising from those ashes. Behind the scenes these past two and half years, we’ve been strategically integrating and aligning our product offerings with an ambitious vision that not only meets the needs of our customers today, but promises to meet their needs in the future.

Since our founding, we’ve watched technology grow at a breakneck pace of innovation. However, we noticed this wasn’t happening with digital documents. Documents have been and continue to be the foundational medium for exchanging and recording knowledge in business. Yet, it seems like documents are frozen in time, stuck handling the use cases from the 1990s and early 2000s — of printing and typewriting — creating a disaster of complexity. Without the necessary tools, this maze of complexity has been left to businesses and developers to navigate alone.

At Nutrient, we started to wonder. What if this complexity could be made easier? What if developers had the tools to deliver seamless and secure document experiences everywhere they built apps? How much more productive and profitable would a business be with a modern workflow platform built with 21st century document technology? What would the world look like if we brought the same breakneck pace of innovation to documents?

And now we arrive at today. We’re all aligned on building the company that brings the lonely old forgotten document into the modern world. We know we stand on the shoulders of giants that brought us Word documents and PDFs. But we know there’s so much more that can be done. Here at Nutrient, we’re on a mission to evolve how humans experience and interact with documents.

Why Nutrient resonates

You may be wondering though, “Why Nutrient?” When renaming the company, I thought first about what our products bring to businesses and organizations, and second about how our products are used by the talented developers and builders we work with. All of our products are part of a document ecosystem or workflow of our customers. We integrate directly into their applications, workflows, or processes. We’re utilized to bring speed to development, or repair a broken process, or give a workflow some specific document functionality. So we’re foundational building blocks that developers and businesses use to enhance, protect, and repair their document ecosystems and workflows to ensure they’re healthy. While I was thinking about all these things, it started sounding a lot like what macronutrients do for a healthy body.

As you can see, choosing the name Nutrient was a deliberate decision. I loved the idea of using a word like Nutrient — one that everyone is familiar with — but making people think about the same familiar word in a different context: digital documents.

Find the solution you need

We provide an unrivaled breadth of modern document tools that developers, product leaders, and IT administrators need to deliver on the promise of digital transformation. With a new name, a new website, and consolidated product offerings from five different companies, you may also be wondering how to find what your business needs. We put a lot of thought not only into how we combine the technology of all these companies, but also into how we unify the product experience. We separated our product offerings into three major categories: software development kits (SDKs), low-code integrations, and our workflow automation platform.

By building with our SDKs, product leaders and developers are able to create seamless, secure, and scalable document experiences. Whether building web, mobile, server, or cloud-based microservice applications, our SDKs help developers integrate document functionality — from viewing, signing, and form filling, to conversion, generation, authoring, and much more. With our off-the-shelf low-code integrations and backend automation technology for Microsoft 365, we enable organizations to streamline document workflows and scale operations. And with our workflow automation platform, IT administrators and citizen developers can build structured, efficient, and auditable workflows and processes for every department with a powerful platform that’s easy to implement, use, and scale — no matter the process or workflow.

As you browse across our SDK, Low-Code, and Workflow Automation product offerings, rest assured you’ll receive the same commitment to quality and customer support that you’ve trusted in all along.

Nutrient. This changes everything.

You’ll hear more from our team in the coming weeks about what this rebrand to Nutrient means. For us, it’s more than just changing a name; it’s a stake in the ground. It’s about delivering on the promise of innovation for documents. It’s about moving the human race forward with modern document technology built not only to solve today’s problems, but to begin imagining a reality where your documents are working with you and not having to feel like they’re constantly working against you. It’s time to unleash a tsunami of productivity, efficiency, and intelligence in businesses and organizations that will come from building on top and working with modern tools to do knowledge work.

As we’ve focused on this rebrand, we haven’t forgotten that it’s our innovative products that our customers partner with us for. So with the announcement out of the way, I’d like to be the first to invite you to our very first product release webinar as Nutrient — to learn about some of the exciting new and innovative products we’ve been working on.

Thank you for your attention and precious time reading this. I would be remiss if I didn’t thank all of our wonderful customers; we would not be here today without y’all’s support and partnership. It really means the world to us here.

Here’s to the future as Nutrient. I promise, we’re just getting started….

Author
Jonathan D. Rhyne Co-Founder and CEO

Jonathan joined PSPDFKit in 2014. As CEO, Jonathan defines the company’s vision and strategic goals, bolsters the team culture, and steers product direction. When he’s not working, he enjoys being a dad, photography, and soccer.

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