diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8de3c9e4..00000000
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-version: 2
-updates:
-  - package-ecosystem: "uv"
-    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "daily"
-    # Only use this to bump our libraries
-    allow:
-      - dependency-name: "unstructured[all-docs]"
-
-  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
-    # NOTE(robinson) - Workflow files stored in the
-    # default location of `.github/workflows`
-    directory: "/"
-    schedule:
-      interval: "weekly"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/bump_libraries.yaml b/.github/workflows/bump_libraries.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 555a052c..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/bump_libraries.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-name: Dependabot - Bump libs and cut release
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    types:
-      - opened
-      - reopened
-    paths:
-      - 'uv.lock'
-      - 'pyproject.toml'
-
-jobs:
-    bump-changelog:
-        runs-on: opensource-linux-8core
-        if: ${{ github.actor == 'dependabot[bot]' }}
-        permissions:
-          contents: write 
-        steps:
-        - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        - name: Read Python version from .python-version
-          run: echo "PYTHON_VERSION=$(cat .python-version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-        - name: Install uv
-          uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
-        - name: Set up Python ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-          run: uv python install ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-        - name: Dependabot metadata
-          id: metadata
-          uses: dependabot/fetch-metadata@v2
-          with:
-            github-token: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
-        - name: Create release version
-          run: |
-            uv lock --upgrade
-            package=${{ steps.metadata.outputs.dependency-names }}
-            # Strip any [extras] from name
-            package=${package%\[*}
-            changelog_message="Bump $package to ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.new-version }}"
-            ./scripts/version-increment.sh "$changelog_message"
-            make version-sync
-        - uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v6
-          with:
-            commit_message: "Bump libraries and release"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index cd3a5b54..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-name: CI
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [ main ]
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [ main ]
-
-env:
-  PIPELINE_FAMILY: "general"
-
-jobs:
-  lint:
-    runs-on: opensource-linux-8core
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-    - name: Read Python version from .python-version
-      run: echo "PYTHON_VERSION=$(cat .python-version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-    - name: Install uv
-      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
-      with:
-        enable-cache: true
-        cache-dependency-glob: "uv.lock"
-    - name: Set up Python ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-      run: uv python install ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-    - name: Install lint dependencies
-      run: uv sync --only-group lint --frozen
-    - name: Lint
-      run: make check
-
-  shellcheck:
-    runs-on: opensource-linux-8core
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-      - name: ShellCheck
-        uses: ludeeus/action-shellcheck@master
-
-  test:
-    runs-on: opensource-linux-8core
-    needs: lint
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-    - name: Read Python version from .python-version
-      run: echo "PYTHON_VERSION=$(cat .python-version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-    - name: Install uv
-      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
-      with:
-        enable-cache: true
-        cache-dependency-glob: "uv.lock"
-    - name: Set up Python ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-      run: uv python install ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-    - name: Install dependencies and run core tests
-      run: |
-        sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --yes poppler-utils libreoffice
-        uv sync --group test --frozen
-        make install-pandoc
-        make install-nltk-models
-        sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:alex-p/tesseract-ocr5
-        sudo apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-kor
-        tesseract --version
-        make test
-        make check-coverage
-
-  changelog:
-    runs-on: opensource-linux-8core
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-    - if: github.ref != 'refs/heads/main'
-      uses: dorny/paths-filter@v3
-      id: changes
-      with:
-        filters: |
-          src:
-            - 'doc_recipe/**'
-            - 'recipe-notebooks/**'
-
-    - if: steps.changes.outputs.src == 'true' && github.ref != 'refs/heads/main'
-      uses: dangoslen/changelog-enforcer@v3
-
-  # TODO - figure out best practice for caching docker images
-  test_dockerfile:
-    runs-on: opensource-linux-8core
-    needs: lint
-    steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@v5
-    - name: Read Python version from .python-version
-      run: echo "PYTHON_VERSION=$(cat .python-version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-    - name: Install uv
-      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
-      with:
-        enable-cache: true
-        cache-dependency-glob: "uv.lock"
-    - name: Set up Python ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-      run: uv python install ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-    - name: Free up disk space
-      run: |
-        # Clear some space (https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/2840)
-        echo "Disk usage before cleanup:"
-        df -h
-
-        # Remove unnecessary pre-installed software
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet
-        sudo rm -rf /opt/ghc
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/boost
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/android
-        sudo rm -rf /opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/local/.ghcup
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/share/swift
-
-        # Clean up docker to ensure we start fresh
-        docker system prune -af --volumes
-
-        echo "Disk usage after cleanup:"
-        df -h
-    - name: Test Dockerfile
-      run: |
-        uv sync --group test --frozen
-        make docker-build
-        make docker-test
diff --git a/.github/workflows/claude.yml b/.github/workflows/claude.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b46a4fd..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/claude.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-name: Claude Code
-
-on:
-  issue_comment:
-    types: [created]
-  pull_request_review_comment:
-    types: [created]
-  issues:
-    types: [opened, assigned]
-  pull_request_review:
-    types: [submitted]
-
-jobs:
-  claude:
-    if: |
-      (github.event_name == 'issue_comment' && contains(github.event.comment.body, '@claude')) ||
-      (github.event_name == 'pull_request_review_comment' && contains(github.event.comment.body, '@claude')) ||
-      (github.event_name == 'pull_request_review' && contains(github.event.review.body, '@claude')) ||
-      (github.event_name == 'issues' && (contains(github.event.issue.body, '@claude') || contains(github.event.issue.title, '@claude')))
-    runs-on: opensource-linux-8core
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      pull-requests: read
-      issues: read
-      id-token: write
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout repository
-        uses: actions/checkout@v5
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 1
-
-      - name: Run Claude Code
-        id: claude
-        uses: anthropics/claude-code-action@beta
-        with:
-          anthropic_api_key: ${{ secrets.GH_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
-          allowed_tools: "Bash(git:*),View,GlobTool,GrepTool,BatchTool"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c3786d6..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/docker-publish.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,132 +0,0 @@
-name: Build And Push Docker Image
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-env:
-  DOCKER_REPOSITORY: quay.io/unstructured-io/unstructured-api
-  DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY: quay.io/unstructured-io/build-unstructured-api
-  PACKAGE: "unstructured-api"
-  PIPELINE_FAMILY: "general"
-
-jobs:
-  set-short-sha:
-    runs-on: opensource-linux-8core
-    outputs:
-      short_sha: ${{ steps.set_short_sha.outputs.short_sha }}
-    steps:
-      - name: Set Short SHA
-        id: set_short_sha
-        run: echo "short_sha=$(echo ${{ github.sha }} | cut -c1-7)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-  build-images:
-    strategy:
-      matrix:
-        arch: ["arm64", "amd64"]
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.arch == 'arm64' && 'ubuntu-24.04-arm' || 'opensource-linux-8core' }}
-    needs: set-short-sha
-    env:
-      SHORT_SHA: ${{ needs.set-short-sha.outputs.short_sha }}
-      DOCKER_PLATFORM: linux/${{ matrix.arch }}
-    steps:
-    - name: Set up Docker Buildx
-      uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v4
-      with:
-        driver: docker
-    - name: Checkout code
-      uses: actions/checkout@v5
-    - name: Read Python version from .python-version
-      run: echo "PYTHON_VERSION=$(cat .python-version)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-    - name: Login to Quay.io
-      uses: docker/login-action@v4
-      with:
-        registry: quay.io
-        username: ${{ secrets.QUAY_IO_ROBOT_USERNAME }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.QUAY_IO_ROBOT_TOKEN }}
-    - name: Free up disk space
-      run: |
-        # Clear some space (https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/2840)
-        echo "Disk usage before cleanup:"
-        df -h
-
-        # Remove unnecessary pre-installed software
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/share/dotnet
-        sudo rm -rf /opt/ghc
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/boost
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/android
-        sudo rm -rf /opt/hostedtoolcache/CodeQL
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/local/.ghcup
-        sudo rm -rf /usr/share/swift
-
-        # Clean up docker to ensure we start fresh
-        docker system prune -af --volumes
-
-        echo "Disk usage after cleanup:"
-        df -h
-    - name: Build image
-      run: |
-        DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker buildx build --load -f Dockerfile \
-          --platform=$DOCKER_PLATFORM \
-          --build-arg BUILDKIT_INLINE_CACHE=1 \
-          --build-arg PIPELINE_PACKAGE=${{ env.PIPELINE_FAMILY }} \
-          --provenance=false \
-          --progress plain \
-          --cache-from $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:${{ matrix.arch }} \
-          -t $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:${{ matrix.arch }}-$SHORT_SHA .
-    - name: Install uv
-      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v7
-      with:
-        enable-cache: true
-        cache-dependency-glob: "uv.lock"
-    - name: Set up Python ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-      run: uv python install ${{ env.PYTHON_VERSION }}
-    - name: Install test dependencies
-      run: uv sync --group test --frozen
-    - name: Test image
-      run: |
-        export DOCKER_IMAGE="$DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:${{ matrix.arch }}-$SHORT_SHA"
-        SKIP_INFERENCE_TESTS=true make docker-test
-    - name: Push image
-      run: |
-        # write to the build repository to cache for the publish-images job
-        docker push $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:${{ matrix.arch }}-$SHORT_SHA
-  publish-images:
-    runs-on: opensource-linux-8core
-    needs: [set-short-sha, build-images]
-    env:
-      SHORT_SHA: ${{ needs.set-short-sha.outputs.short_sha }}
-    steps:
-    - name: Checkout code
-      uses: actions/checkout@v5
-    - name: Set SHORT_SHA
-      run: echo "SHORT_SHA=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)" >> $GITHUB_ENV
-    - name: Login to Quay.io
-      uses: docker/login-action@v4
-      with:
-        registry: quay.io
-        username: ${{ secrets.QUAY_IO_ROBOT_USERNAME }}
-        password: ${{ secrets.QUAY_IO_ROBOT_TOKEN }}
-    - name: Pull AMD image
-      run: |
-        docker pull $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:amd64-$SHORT_SHA
-    - name: Pull ARM image
-      run: |
-        docker pull $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:arm64-$SHORT_SHA
-    - name: Push AMD and ARM tags
-      run: |
-        # these are used to construct the final manifest but also cache-from in subsequent runs
-        docker tag $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:amd64-$SHORT_SHA $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:amd64
-        docker push $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:amd64
-        docker tag $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:arm64-$SHORT_SHA $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:arm64
-        docker push $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:arm64
-    - name: Push multiarch manifest
-      run: |
-        VERSION=$(grep -oP '(?<=__version__ = ")[^"]+' prepline_general/api/__version__.py)
-        docker buildx imagetools create \
-          -t ${DOCKER_REPOSITORY}:latest \
-          -t ${DOCKER_REPOSITORY}:$SHORT_SHA \
-          -t ${DOCKER_REPOSITORY}:$VERSION \
-          $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:amd64 \
-          $DOCKER_BUILD_REPOSITORY:arm64
diff --git a/.github/workflows/schoolai-build-publish.yml b/.github/workflows/schoolai-build-publish.yml
index 4601136c..509d1a29 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/schoolai-build-publish.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/schoolai-build-publish.yml
@@ -1,34 +1,39 @@
-name: SchoolAI Build and Publish
+name: unstructured-api-staging-build
 
-# Builds the SchoolAI fork image and publishes it to our Artifact Registry so
-# the webapp (apps/web RAG pipeline) can run a build.
+# Builds the SchoolAI fork image and publishes to GCP Artifact Registry.
+# Pattern matches web-app service workflows (e.g. lms-mcp-server-staging-deploy,
+# sentinel-staging-deploy): push to main triggers sai-docker-build on SchoolAI runners.
 #
-# Mirrors the webapp build pattern (see web-app:
-# .github/workflows/webapp-staging-deploy.yml -> build_webapp) by reusing the
-# shared SchoolAI/github-actions-workflows sai-docker-build.yaml workflow.
+# Deploy is handled by web-app (webapp-deploy-argocd deploy_unstructured_api), which
+# references us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/schoolai-global/docker/unstructured-api:latest-amd64
+# in ops/unstructured-api/values-global.yaml. A new image is picked up on the next deploy.
+#
+# Upstream Unstructured-IO workflows were removed from this fork.
+# Only this build workflow runs in SchoolAI CI.
 
 on:
-  workflow_call:
-  # Keep workflow_dispatch so operators can trigger a manual staging deploy
-  # even though `staging-deploy.yml` is now the primary entrypoint on main.
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
   workflow_dispatch:
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
 jobs:
   build_unstructured_api:
     uses: SchoolAI/github-actions-workflows/.github/workflows/sai-docker-build.yaml@main
     with:
-      # amd64 only — matches the cluster nodeSelector (kubernetes.io/arch: amd64)
-      # and how the other SchoolAI services build.
       build_amd_enabled: true
       build_arm_enabled: false
       docker_build_amd_runs_on: sai-7cpu-26gb-amd-perf
-      # Produces images at:
-      #   us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/schoolai-global/docker/unstructured-api:<tag>
       docker_repo: us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/schoolai-global/docker
       docker_image_name: unstructured-api
       dockerfile: ./Dockerfile
       docker_build_args: |
         PIPELINE_PACKAGE=general
       push_image: true
+      push_cache: true
     secrets:
       GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY: ${{ secrets.GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_KEY_STAGING }}
+      SLACK_WEBHOOK: ${{ secrets.SLACK_STAGING_DEPLOYMENTS }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/version-bump.yml b/.github/workflows/version-bump.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c5549b87..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/version-bump.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-name: Version Bump
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [main]
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-
-permissions:
-  contents: write
-  pull-requests: read
-
-jobs:
-  version-bump:
-    if: github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'utic-renovate[bot]'
-    uses: Unstructured-IO/infra/.github/workflows/version-bump.yml@main
-    with:
-      component-paths: '["."]'
-      default-bump: patch
-      update-changelog: true
-      update-lockfile: true
-      renovate-app-id: ${{ vars.RENOVATE_APP_ID }}
-    secrets:
-      token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-      private-pypi-url: ${{ secrets.PRIVATE_PYPI_INDEX_URL }}
-      renovate-app-private-key: ${{ secrets.RENOVATE_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}