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Cash, Cash Equivalents, And Restricted Cash, Uninsured Amount

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Class Of Warrant Or Right, Redemption Terms, Threshold Common Stock Price

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Class Of Warrant Or Right, Redemption Terms, Threshold Trading Day Period

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Class Of Warrant Or Right, Redemption Terms, Threshold Trading Days

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Useful life of finite-lived intangible assets, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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Threshold period past due for trade accounts receivable to write off as uncollectible, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Narrative (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($) segment $ / shares	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Number of reportable segments \| segment	1
Number of operating segments \| segment	1
Cost to obtain a contract	$ 2,900	$ 2,200	$ 300
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, insured amount	123,500	184,200
Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash, uninsured amount	$ 800	$ 500
Threshold period past due	90 days
Expected dividend rate	0.00%
Private Placement Warrants
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Class of warrant or right, redemption terms, threshold common stock price (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares	$ 18.00
Number of consecutive trading days	20 days
Number of trading-day period	30 days
Maximum
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Estimated Useful Life (in years)	8 years
Minimum
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Estimated Useful Life (in years)	3 years
Accounts Payable \| Supplier Concentration Risk \| One Professional Service Vendor
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	14.00%
Accounts Payable \| Supplier Concentration Risk \| Supplier B
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage	39.00%	55.00%
Customer D \| Revenue from Contract with Customer Benchmark \| Customer Concentration Risk
Disaggregation of Revenue [Line Items]
Concentration risk, percentage		11.00%