What circular solutions does

Circular Solutions S.r.l. is a Milan-based private Italian software company that provides an Intelligent Document Automation platform combining extractive and generative AI to automate document classification, extraction, and downstream data distribution for enterprise customers. The platform processes structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents from channels including PEC certified email, regular email, PDFs, images, and scans, with reported automation rates above 85% and document-level accuracy ranging from 80-95% depending on document type. The technical architecture is built around a proprietary IOCR engine that routes document portions through up to six AI engines (AWS, Google, Azure) and selects the best result per element, supplemented by computer-vision-based image enhancement and native Italian-language machine learning models.

The product portfolio consists of a core Circular platform plus seven specialized modules: QuotEl (hotel quote automation), EasyTender (tender document generation), PEC Engine (certified email processing), SecureID (identity document verification), SinfonIA (conversational generative AI interface), Smart Search (semantic document search), and DOME (launched October 2025). Deployment is available across cloud, on-premise, and hybrid configurations, with integrations to ERP, CRM, DAM, and BPM systems via REST-API and native connectors.

Commercial operations run on two pricing models — Pay-As-You-Go usage-based pricing for API-driven access and Custom multi-year enterprise contracts — distributed through direct enterprise sales with a demo-request-first acquisition motion. The customer base spans approximately fifteen named logos across insurance (Unipol, Groupama), banking and finance (Sisal), government (Regione Toscana), healthcare (ASST Melegnano), transportation (FNM Spa), retail (Linear), and technology (Indra, Canon). Geographic focus is Italy with active expansion into English- and Spanish-speaking markets. The company is founder/management-led, has no disclosed external funding rounds, and reports a headcount of 1-10 employees.

Name

circular solutions

Legal name

Circular S.r.l.

Website

https://circularsolutions.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Circular Solutions is a Milan-based Intelligent Document Automation vendor combining extractive and generative AI to automate document processing for Italian enterprises across insurance, banking, utilities, government, healthcare, and other verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) & OCR Automation (HDAEAHAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Document Capture, Scanning, OCR/ICR & Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (HDAEAGAD), OCR, ICR & Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (BPAAAKAB)

Keywords

• Intelligent document processing
• Document automation software
• AI data extraction
• Document workflow automation
• Enterprise document management

Headquarters

HQ city

Milan

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Pay As You Go: Usage-based pricing model where customers pay only for what they use. Users activate automatic processes through APIs and obtain necessary data. This model provides flexibility for varying document processing volumes.
2. Custom Enterprise Plans: Custom-tailored projects offering specific data volume, response speed, and document quantity requirements unique to each customer. These plans are negotiated based on enterprise needs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Circular Solutions provides an Intelligent Document Automation (IDP) platform that combines extractive AI (computer vision, OCR, semantic NLP) with generative AI to automate the ingestion, classification, extraction, and distribution of data from business documents in any format (PEC, PDF, email, scans, images). It is sold to enterprises and public-sector organizations primarily in Italy across insurance, banking, utilities, telco, government, retail, healthcare, logistics, and real estate verticals, with deployment options across Cloud, On-Premise, and Hybrid environments and integration into ERP/CRM/DAM/BPM systems via REST API and native connectors.

Product overview

Circular Solutions offers an Intelligent Document Automation platform combining extractive and generative AI. The product portfolio consists of a core Circular platform plus seven specialized modules: QuotEl (hotel quote automation), EasyTender (tender document generation), PEC Engine (certified email processing), SecureID (identity document recognition), SinfonIA (conversational AI interface), Smart Search (semantic document search), and DOME (additional platform module). The modular architecture supports Cloud, On-Premise, and Hybrid deployment with Pay As You Go and Custom pricing models.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Quotel: AI-based solution for managing quotes and estimates, particularly for hospitality industry
• EasyTender
• PEC Engine
• SecureID
• SinfonIA
• Smart Search
• DOME

Products and services

• Circular (Core Platform) Core Intelligent Document Automation platform that combines extractive and generative AI to automate document processing, data extraction, and business process workflows across insurance, banking, utilities, telco, government, retail, healthcare, logistics, and real estate industries.
• QuotEl AI-powered solution for hotel quote requests that reads and analyzes emails from structured forms and spontaneous customer requests, extracting pertinent information and sending it directly to hotel pricing or booking systems.
• EasyTender AI-based application that automates bid/tender document generation by analyzing input files (specifications, price lists, evaluation criteria), extracting key information, and organizing it into compliant tender documents.
• PEC Engine Specialized engine for processing certified and regular email (PEC) documents, automating ingestion, normalization, classification, indexing, and addressing for efficient mailroom digitalization.
• SecureID Identity document recognition and verification solution that automatically recognizes and indexes identity documents including electronic driving licenses, health insurance cards, electronic and paper identity cards, and passports.
• SinfonIA Conversational AI interface that improves customer interaction experiences through intelligent conversational capabilities powered by generative AI.
• Smart Search Semantic search solution for intelligent document retrieval that enables advanced search capabilities across processed document repositories.
• DOME Additional platform module within the Circular portfolio, accessible via dome.circularsolutions.ai subdomain.

Quantifiable outcome

• 85%+ automation rate achieved for insurance company processing 1,500 PEC/email messages daily
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability8 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• AWS (Amazon Web Services)coreTechnology or IntegrationAWS Technology Partner status. Circular processes data securely in AWS cloud environments. The partnership enables enterprise-grade cloud deployment for Circular's document automation platform.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationAzure Technology Provider status. Circular's AI engines utilize Azure for document processing capabilities, supporting multi-engine architecture for optimal accuracy.
• Google CloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Technology Provider status. Circular leverages Google Cloud AI capabilities as part of its multi-engine processing architecture for document automation.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• ABBYY: Global Intelligent Document Processing leader with comparable OCR, extraction, and document automation platform. Most direct competitor to Circular across insurance, banking, and public-sector verticals; differs primarily in scale and geographic reach.
• Rossum: Cloud-native IDP platform serving enterprise document automation use cases via API. Comparable in API-first delivery model and target verticals (insurance, logistics), though Rossum operates at broader geographic scale.
• Hyperscience: Enterprise IDP platform combining ML-driven document classification and extraction, targeting insurance, financial services, and government — directly overlapping Circular's primary customer segments and core technology positioning.
• Tungsten Automation (formerly Kofax): Established intelligent automation vendor with deep IDP capabilities serving banking, insurance, and government — closely comparable in target verticals and document automation functionality, though with much broader global scale.
• Datamatics: Intelligent automation vendor offering IDP and document processing solutions across banking, insurance, and manufacturing. Comparable product scope and vertical focus, particularly relevant as an Indian-headquartered IDP peer with similar enterprise GTM.

Broad incumbents

• UiPath: Robotic process automation leader with an integrated Document Understanding / IDP module. Comparable at the document-processing layer, but UiPath's broader automation platform spans many use cases beyond document-centric workflows.
• Microsoft (Azure AI Document Intelligence / Form Recognizer): Hyperscaler-native IDP service (formerly Form Recognizer) directly overlapping Circular's core extraction capabilities. Sold standalone and bundled within the Azure ecosystem, representing both a component supplier and a competitive threat.
• Amazon Web Services (Textract): Hyperscaler-native OCR and document extraction service. Circular is an AWS Technology Partner that orchestrates Textract among other engines, but Textract is also sold directly to the same Italian enterprise customers as a standalone IDP alternative.
• Google (Document AI): Hyperscaler-native document understanding platform serving enterprise extraction use cases. One of the three AI engines Circular orchestrates, but also sold directly to enterprises as a comparable IDP solution.

Emerging players

• Docparser: Template-based document data extraction SaaS serving SMB and mid-market customers. Overlaps with Circular's template-driven extraction approach but targets smaller customers and lacks the multi-engine generative AI architecture.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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