Frequently Asked Questions

Privacy-conscious individuals and families who keep sensitive documents — tax returns, passports, medical records, legal contracts — and want them organized intelligently without uploading them to anyone's cloud.

Because category matters. Document management is enterprise software. A wallet is something you own and carry. Folderless.AI is your personal document wallet — local storage, local AI, no cloud uploads, limit cloud-storage only for essential, non duplicates files - rest everything can stay on local storages to save extra $$. (Not a crypto wallet — different metaphor, different problem.)

AI-powered document management that runs entirely on your local device e.g. Mac. Drop documents into Folderless — local AI extracts metadata, tags each file with cognitive anchors (WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHICH, WHEN), and makes everything searchable. No cloud uploads. No subscriptions. No surveillance. (More on the paradigm: Think Outside the Folder.)

SAW5 stands for the five cognitive anchors — WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHICH, WHEN — that map documents to meaning instead of folders. Its Patent pending metadata schema conseptualized and applied to Folderless AI Native service.

Intel Mac support, Windows, Linux, and an iOS companion are on the roadmap. Folderless is shipping macOS Apple Silicon first; broader platform coverage follows after the invite-only beta phase.

Whenever possible sensitive documents should remain on your local devices, storages or privacy-first storages OR at least not using your content on their servers for training the models or cashing your data and attention insights with ad machines. Folderless keeps everything on your machine — privacy by physics, not policy.

We're building Folderless for people who genuinely care about keeping their personal data away from attention seeking Freemium economy. Early access lets us learn from users who match that intent before we open the doors wider.

FREE during private preview — no subscription, no credit card required. The first 100 early adopters receive Founding Member benefits (extended free access · priority feature requests · Founder or concierge support — details to come) in recognition of their early feedback and reviews. Public pricing comes later, after we exit invite-only beta.

Drop documents into Folderless. A local AI model reads each one, extracts who it's about, what type it is, when it was issued — searchable in seconds. No manual tagging. No folders. Find by meaning, not by filename.

Click “Request Early Access” on the homepage. Sign in with Google. You’re on the early access invite list — we’ll send private invites soon. Public availability comes later.

Your files stay where you keep them — local drives or cloud storages of your choice. Folderless runs on your device and processes everything locally with on-device AI: no cloud LLMs, no server-side index of your files, no telemetry on file contents. macOS for now (Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3 recommended for best performance, but not must — you can try on whatever device you have).

Folderless is an AI-powered document and media management service that runs entirely on your local device. Local AI organizes everything by cognitive anchors (WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHICH, WHEN) so you can find any file by meaning, not by folder path. No cloud uploads. No subscriptions. Privacy by physics, not just by policy. (Full story: /about.)

Visa renewal time. Dozens of documents — every family member, every year — and I lost hours hunting through drives, clouds, folders, subfolders. Like finding a needle in a haystack, except the haystack was a cluster of folders piled over decades. That's when it landed: the folder maze is a decades-old design built for machines, not for how a human brain recollects. So I started building one that works the way you actually remember things — by who, what, where, when.