If you're evaluating tools like Monkt for turning documents into Markdown and JSON, it's worth knowing what else you'll need once the conversion works — and where a converter stops being enough.
Conversion is table stakes
Kit for AI converts PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, HTML, and images to clean Markdown or schema-shaped JSON, with OCR built in and results cached for instant re-use. That's the baseline any good document tool should hit.
Where Kit for AI goes further
- Knowledge bases your AI reads on demand over API and MCP — not just one-off conversions.
- Live web search scraped to clean Markdown for fresh agent context.
- One API and one MCP server for the whole pipeline — convert, search, store, retrieve.
- Persistent memory: store conversations and knowledge, then retrieve with built-in RAG.
Which should you pick?
If you only need file-to-Markdown, most converters will do. If your AI needs to remember and retrieve that content over time — across an API, an MCP server, and multiple models — Kit for AI covers conversion and the memory layer on top. It's free to start.