Welcome to Slurp MD
Slurp MD is a research operations layer. The document converter is the first piece. A watcher for curated source streams is in development.
This site used to be smarkdown.xyz, a standalone document-to-Markdown converter. It is now slurp.md, and the converter is one piece of a larger product.
What Slurp MD is
Slurp MD is a research operations layer. You point it at sources you trust (RSS feeds, web pages, Twitter accounts, newsletters, file folders), it watches them, and it produces clean Markdown for human review and agentic consumption. The output goes wherever you need it: API, RSS feed, webhook, file push, MCP server, or rendered HTML.
It is not a generic scraper, not a workflow automation platform, and not a feed reader. It is a curated, AI-augmented, project-scoped pipeline.
What is live today
The document converter is live at the root of this site. Drop in a PDF, Word doc, HTML page, or similar, and it returns Markdown. The API is at api.slurp.md. The source for the converter lives at github.com/mrgellis/slurp-md.
What is in development
The watcher (the part that polls curated sources, deduplicates, summarises with Claude Haiku by default, and pushes Markdown out) is being built in phases. Phase 1 is RSS-only and internal-first. External access opens later, once reliability and cost discipline are proven inside the Razormind estate.
Why Markdown
Markdown is the substrate for everything Slurp MD produces. Storage, ingestion, agent-facing output, and inter-system handoff are always Markdown. HTML is a presentation layer rendered on top, never the source of truth. It is portable, diffable, version-controllable, and the format most AI tools handle best.
Questions or feedback: hello@slurp.md. Or try the converter now.
Written by Gareth Ellis
Founder, Slurp MD
Technical founder of Slurp MD. Builds tools that turn messy real-world documents and curated source streams into clean inputs for AI workflows. Operating from Otley, UK under Razormind Ltd.
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