About Folderless
The story behind privacy-first document management
WHAT we do
Folderless is an AI-powered document management service that runs entirely on your Mac. Import any document — tax returns, passports, insurance cards, pay stubs — and our local AI reads it, extracts who it's about, what type it is, when it was issued, and makes it instantly searchable. No folders. No filing. No cloud.
HOW it works
Drop your documents into Folderless. Our patent-pending SAW5 cognitive schema (WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHICH, WHEN) maps every document to the way your brain thinks — not by folder hierarchy, but by meaning. A local AI model runs on your device, extracting metadata without ever sending your files to the cloud. Find any document by searching who it's about or what it is.
WHY you should care
Your most sensitive documents — tax returns, passports, medical records, financial statements — shouldn't live on someone else's server. Every cloud service that "organizes" your documents also scans, indexes, and potentially monetizes your data. Folderless is different. Everything stays on your device. We can't see your documents because they never leave your machine.