Ask questions about your documents through WhatsApp

Send a document, image, or voice note to WhatsApp and get an AI answer based on what's inside it.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Simple Merge (5)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceA record or sheetOne path onlyPaths rejoinResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsVoice & PhoneKnowledge Base & RAGMessaging & NotificationsDocument Processing & OCRFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
WhatsAppOpenAIPineconeMistral AI

The problem it solves

Important information is buried across PDFs, scanned images, and voice memos, and finding a specific answer means digging through files one by one. You want to just ask a question and get the answer, not go searching for it.

Who it fits

A team or business that handles a lot of documents and wants instant, searchable answers without a dedicated search tool.

How it works

  1. You send a document, image, or voice note to WhatsApp
  2. The system extracts the text using OCR or transcription
  3. It breaks the content into pieces and stores them as searchable data
  4. When you ask a question, it finds the most relevant information
  5. AI writes an answer and sends it back to you on WhatsApp
What you get

Answers pulled from your documents instantly

You can send a document, image, or voice note to WhatsApp and get an answer based on what's inside it.

What you get

A WhatsApp reply that answers your question using the content of your documents.

What you need

A WhatsApp business number, an AI service, and a vector database.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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