We had a real interest in video — and a growing pile of it we wanted to archive and actually search. Somewhere in solving that, it clicked: the video problem was the file problem. The same needle-in-a-haystack lived in our documents, our email, our code — everywhere.
So we did what everyone’s doing now: we pointed AI agents at it. And it got expensive, fast. The agents re-read everything, burned tokens, and we’d still be waiting when all we wanted was to get the thing done. It cost us money and time in equal measure.
So we built the thing we actually wanted: something that understood our stuff once and handed us — and our agents — the exact answer instead of the whole pile. We’ve been living on it for a while now, and it’s good enough to put in front of the world — so we have. It’s open as an early beta while we teach it to find the last little things. If you want to help shape it, the door’s already open.
He was always the kid with potential — and the kid with sixty loose pages crumpled in the bottom of his backpack. His desktop looked like his brain: everything, everywhere, and somehow nothing quite where he left it.
It’s not that he didn’t know better. He knew every productivity system by name. He’d even built good ones. But every system assumes a kind of time you don’t have when you’re actually in the work. You’re on a deadline. You download the file. You drop it on the desktop, meaning to file it properly later. Five days on, it’s still there. Five weeks on, it’s buried under forty more.
The knowledge was never really lost. It was findable in theory and unfindable in practice. He didn’t need another folder structure to keep up with. He needed something that could hold the mess exactly as it was — and still hand back the one thing he was looking for.
He also cares about privacy — not the fine print, the principle of it: don’t hand over more than you need to. And it turned out to be the same fight as the mess on his desktop. Watching organisations pour everything they own into AI bothered him — far more than any answer actually needs. There was a reason to give that much once; there isn’t anymore. The first question should be “what’s the least I can give to get the most back?” — not the way it usually runs, where you give the most and get the least. Find and Seek is built around that flip: the least in, the most out. Faster, and less of your business exposed.
That’s the whole idea behind Find and Seek. Keep your chaos. We’ll find the thing.
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