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Where this one gets misread
Unstructured is a shorthand that hides real structure: headings, ordering, tables, revision history. Systems that flatten a document into plain text lose exactly the context that made an answer checkable.
Glossary
What is unstructured data?
Unstructured data is information with no consistent schema, such as reports, emails or transcripts. It usually still carries layout and meaning worth keeping.
Updated 21 Aug 2026
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Questions to ask
Ask for a worked example on your own material, and the evidence needed to reproduce it.
- What structure is preserved through ingestion?
- How are order and hierarchy kept?
- What happens to revisions and tracked changes?
- Can you see what was discarded?
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How Marella uses the term
We use “Unstructured data” only where a product mechanism or an evaluation method backs it up, and we say when the behaviour depends on how a deployment is configured.
- Backed by a product mechanism or an evaluation method
- Deployment differences flagged
What this page does not prove
- B1A definition is not a claim about how the product performs.
- B2Vendor implementations vary.
- B3Test the term against a representative workflow.
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Test the claim on your documents
Pick a real piece of work, agree what a good answer looks like, then go through the results together.