RAG Was Read-Only. Meet the File Agent.
Every team I talk to has the same drawer of half-finished AI experiments. A bot that answers questions about the employee handbook. A "chat with your PDFs" tab nobody opens anymore. A Slack assistant that summarizes threads. They were all genuinely useful for about a week, and then everyone went back to dragging files into folders by hand.
The reason is simple once you name it: almost every "AI + documents" product built since 2023 is read-only. It can find things and explain them. It cannot do anything. And the part of document work that actually eats your day isn't reading — it's the doing. Renaming the invoice. Filing it under the right client. Merging three contracts. Sending the lease for signature. Moving the whole mess out of your inbox.
That gap is where a new category is forming. I've been building in it for the last while, so I...
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