Granite

AI document organizer

An AI document organizer with no folders and no tags

Granite is an AI document organizer for households and solo businesses. You drop in PDFs, scans, and phone photos; Granite reads each one, works out what it is against more than 110 document types, pulls out the dates, amounts, and account numbers, and files it. There are no folders to build and no tags to apply. You find anything later by asking a plain question.

Why does organizing documents by hand always fall apart?

Every filing system works for a month. The failure is never the system. It is the fact that a person has to feed it, document by document, for years.

  • Renaming a file does not tell you what is inside it

    You run a batch renamer and end up with 2024-04-11-invoice-acme.pdf. That is better than scan_0043.pdf, but you still cannot ask what you paid Acme, when the policy renews, or which tax year the form belongs to. The name is a label on a closed box. To answer a question you still have to open the box and read it.

  • A folder tree only works if you remember the tree

    You build Home, Auto, Taxes, Medical, and it is tidy for a week. Then a document belongs in two places, or in a category you did not invent yet. Six months later you are searching for a document you know you saved, guessing which branch past-you chose. The tree is a memory test you have to keep passing.

  • Tags need discipline nobody sustains

    Tagging works beautifully for the first fifty documents and then it drifts. You use insurance one month and policies the next, forget to tag anything for a busy quarter, and the whole system quietly becomes unreliable. A half-tagged archive is worse than an untagged one, because you trust it right up until it fails you.

  • The backlog never gets processed

    There is a Downloads folder with four hundred files, a camera roll full of receipts, and a shoebox in a closet. Organizing it is a full weekend, so it never happens. Meanwhile new documents arrive faster than you would file them, and the gap between what you own and what you can find keeps widening.

What does an AI document organizer actually do to each file?

Granite does the reading, not just the renaming. Here is what happens between dropping a document in and finding it again three years later.

  • It reads the document, then names and files it

    Granite reads every page of each upload, recognizes the document against a library of more than 110 types (W-2, 1099, passport, home insurance policy, vehicle title, medical bill, closing disclosure), and gives it a clear title based on what it actually is. A renamer guesses a filename from the first line of text. Granite decides the filename because it understood the document.

  • It pulls out the fields that matter

    Beyond the type, Granite extracts the specific values: expiration dates, renewal dates, policy and account numbers, amounts, vendors, and the people each document concerns. Those fields become searchable and sortable, which is why Granite can tell you a passport expires in two months rather than only telling you where the passport file is.

  • Collections form themselves, so you never build a folder

    Granite groups documents on its own around tax years, vehicles, insurance policies, and the people and vendors involved. A 2024 tax collection appears the moment you drop a W-2 in. When a collection looks incomplete, Granite flags it, so a missing 1099 surfaces in January rather than in April.

  • You find things by asking, not by remembering

    Search covers keywords and meaning together, so what did I pay for the roof repair finds the invoice even if the file says nothing about a roof. On Granite Paid, Ask goes one step further and answers the question in plain English with a link to the exact source page, so you can check the answer against the document yourself.

When is a simple AI file renamer enough?

Renamer tools are genuinely good at one job, and for plenty of people that job is the whole problem. Here is where they win and where they run out.

  • A renamer is enough for tidy filenames

    If your real complaint is that a folder is full of scan_0043.pdf and IMG_4471.HEIC, a batch AI renamer solves it in an afternoon, usually for a few dollars or free. It writes better filenames into the folder you already have, and you keep everything on your own disk. Granite is more product than that problem needs.

  • Granite earns its place once you ask questions

    The moment the job stops being what is this file called and becomes when does this expire, what did I pay, or which documents belong to 2023, filenames stop being enough. Granite stores the extracted fields, groups the documents, and answers the question, which is work a rename cannot do no matter how good the name is.

  • The honest limits

    Granite is cloud-only and cannot run on your own hardware. It accepts PDFs, images, plain text, and Markdown. There is an iPhone app and no Android app. And Granite is encrypted at rest rather than zero-knowledge, because a vault has to read your documents to understand them.

FAQ

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What is an AI document organizer?
An AI document organizer is software that reads the documents you give it and files them without you creating folders or tags. Most tools in this category only rename files based on their contents. Granite goes further: it classifies each document against more than 110 types, extracts fields like dates and amounts, groups related documents into collections, and lets you search or ask questions across everything you have stored.
Can I organize documents without folders or tags?
Yes. In Granite there is nothing to file by hand. You drop a document in and Granite reads it, titles it, records what type it is, and links it to the tax year, vehicle, policy, or person it concerns. Collections form automatically from those links. You retrieve documents by searching or asking a question rather than by navigating a folder tree you had to design and remember.
How is Granite different from an AI file renamer?
An AI file renamer writes a better filename onto a file sitting in your folder, then stops. Granite keeps what it learned: the document type, the extracted fields, the people and vendors involved, and the full text. That is what lets Granite answer when does my passport expire, group every 2024 tax document together, and flag a collection that looks incomplete. A renamer improves labels; Granite builds an index.
What file types can I drop into Granite?
Granite accepts PDF files, photos and scans (JPEG, PNG, WebP, and HEIC from an iPhone), plain text files, and Markdown files. Photos taken with a phone work as well as scans, so a picture of a receipt or an insurance card is a first-class document rather than a fallback.
Does Granite run on my own computer?
No. Granite is a hosted service you reach from a browser at app.granite.co or from the iPhone app, and there is no self-hosted version. Documents are encrypted at rest with a key per user, but Granite is not zero-knowledge, because the service has to read your documents to classify and answer questions about them. If you want your documents on your own hardware, Paperless-ngx is the better fit.
What does Granite cost?
Granite Free covers your first 25 documents and 1 GB, and includes the reading, classification, search, collections, and export. Granite Paid is $99 per year with no document cap and 100 GB of storage. Ask, the plain-English question-and-answer feature, is part of Granite Paid. Pricing is annual only and there is no separate trial, because Free is the trial.

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