Articles
Essays on document intelligence, verified AI answers, and what happens when your archive finally gets read.
Start hereYour documents have never had a reader
There is a category of document in your life that you keep forever and read never.
The trillion-token life — and who should hold itNew→
Sam Altman described the destination: your whole life in the context window, reasoned over. He left one question open.
Everything you saved and never used→
You are sitting on a second library. Not the paperwork one — the one you built on purpose.
The most expensive sentences in your business are the ones nobody read→
Every operating business runs on a stack of documents that nobody has read end to end — not the owner, not the controller, not the attorney.
When AI reads your documents, verification is the product→
Every business is about to delegate its reading to machines. Whether that is safe comes down to one thing: can you check the answers?
Why we took the calculator away from the model→
Here is an uncomfortable fact about the technology our product is built on: large language models are extraordinary readers and unreliable calculators. So we split the job.
"Can't I just paste it into ChatGPT?"→
Yes. You can, and you should — for a document.
What happens to your documents, stated plainly→
This is the boring essay — and the one we most need you to read before handing any product your loans, contracts, or medical records.
Evernote v11: what genuinely improved, and the question it doesn’t answerNew→
v11 is Evernote’s first major release since 2020, and the AI is real. Credit where due — then read the custody line closely.
You're not leaving your notes app. You're promoting your archive.→
Somewhere in your life is a storage subscription you resent.
The professionals who read for a living can't read enough→
There is a class of professional whose entire product is what documents say: attorneys, accountants, brokers, consultants. None can read enough.
Due diligence is a reading problem wearing a deadline→
Every significant transaction arrives the same way: as a pile of documents and a clock.
Your archive in month six is smarter than your archive in week one→
Almost everything you subscribe to is worth the most on day one. Your archive is the rare thing that gets smarter the longer you use it.