Ivory Mind (formerly Coral AI) vs TextLayer

Ivory Mind, formerly known as Coral AI, is an AI document assistant for uploading PDFs, Word files, presentations, audio, and video, then asking questions and getting cited answers. Every response includes clickable page-number or timestamp references so you can verify the source.

You can chat with individual files or bulk-upload your library and search across 100+ documents in one conversation. The platform supports 20+ file types, OCR for scanned PDFs and handwriting, audio and video transcription, and content generation from your source materials.

Ivory Mind is trusted by over 500,000 researchers, academics, and professionals. The free plan includes 2 file uploads; the Executive plan at $12 per month (billed yearly) adds unlimited uploads, bulk chat, and 150 audio or video transcriptions per month.

TextLayer is an enterprise AI services firm that helps companies move from AI demos to production systems they can operate internally. The homepage pitches production-grade AI for the enterprise and a three-phase model called Align, Build, and Grow. Clients book a call to start, and the services page lists concrete deliverables for each phase rather than a self-serve product signup.

Plenty of vendors will ship a prototype and walk away. TextLayer scopes one production system at a time with reliability as the stated constraint, builds observability and evals into the first release, and trains your team to run it without the vendor. The Align phase ends with a go or no-go recommendation before major build spend, which is a sharper gate than most AI consultancies offer.

Enterprise teams with a use case but no in-house AI ops fit here. CTOs evaluating feasibility, product leaders chasing one reliable workflow, and engineering managers who need runbooks and eval frameworks all map to the stated deliverables on the services page.