Think outside the folder!TM

Frequently Asked Questions

Organized by cognitive anchor. Click a category to expand questions.

WHO · 2 questions
Who is Folderless built for?

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.

Who is the team behind Folderless?

ActionTech Labs Inc., a Delaware C-Corp based in Atlanta. Solo founder + a team of nine specialized AI agents covering technology, business, legal, marketing, finance, operations, HR, research, and storytelling. Privacy-first by design.

WHAT · 2 questions
What is Folderless?

AI-powered document management that runs entirely on your 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.

What is SAW5?

SAW5 stands for the five cognitive anchors — WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHICH, WHEN — that map documents to meaning instead of folders. It's a patent-pending metadata schema designed to match how your brain organizes information.

WHY · 2 questions
Why local-first instead of the cloud?

Your sensitive documents shouldn't live on someone else's server. Cloud storage providers routinely index, analyze, and feed your files into AI training pipelines. Folderless keeps everything on your machine — privacy by physics, not policy.

Why invite-only beta?

We're building Folderless for people who genuinely care about keeping their data local — not for everyone. Early access lets us learn from users who match that intent before we open the doors wider.

HOW · 2 questions
How does it work?

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.

How do I get access?

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

WHERE · 1 question
Where does my data live?

On your Mac. Always. Folderless requires macOS 13+ on Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3 or later). Your documents never leave your device. There is no Folderless cloud account, no server-side index, no telemetry on your file contents.

ABOUT · 2 questions
What’s the origin story?

I uploaded my tax documents to a popular cloud storage. Months later, I discovered they were being indexed, analyzed, and used to train AI models. My most sensitive financial data — feeding someone else’s product. That’s the day I started building Folderless.

What’s coming next?

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.

Ready to try it?

Request Early Access