New Markdown rival: Open-source DGML format aims to turn docs into data that AI (and humans) can trust

L-R: Mantra CEO John Patrick Mullin, Docugami CEO Jean Paoli, and Inveniam CEO Patrick O’Meara. The companies are partnering to make DGML a standard for AI, with Docugami turning documents into data, Inveniam verifying it on a blockchain, and Mantra providing the chain. Jean Paoli has spent his career making documents readable by machines — first as a co-creator of XML, then helping build the file formats behind Microsoft Office.