Make every Google Drive file instantly searchable by AI

Automatically turns every file added to a Google Drive folder into searchable knowledge an AI assistant can draw on.

How the work actually flows

From the manual situation today to what runs on its own.

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Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Chatbots & AssistantsKnowledge Base & RAGDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database OpsFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveSupabaseOpenAI

The problem it solves

Your team's knowledge is scattered across PDFs, spreadsheets, and documents in Google Drive, but nobody can search across all of it at once. When you need an answer, you end up opening file after file hoping to find the right one.

Who it fits

Teams that want an AI assistant to search and answer questions from their own Google Drive documents.

How it works

  1. A new or updated file in a watched Google Drive folder triggers the workflow
  2. Old versions of that file are cleared out so nothing is duplicated
  3. The file is downloaded and routed to the right reader based on its type, whether PDF, Word, Excel, or CSV
  4. The text is broken into chunks and turned into AI embeddings
  5. The embeddings are stored in a searchable database ready for an AI assistant to query
What you get

Documents your AI assistant can finally search

Turn every file added to a Google Drive folder into knowledge your AI assistant can search and use.

What you get

A searchable knowledge base of your Google Drive documents that an AI assistant can query for answers.

What you need

A Google Drive account, a Supabase project, and an OpenAI API key.

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.

Let's Talk Strategy

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