Granite

Most people’s personal document archives are not organized — they are accumulated. Insurance renewals in email, W-2s in Downloads, vehicle titles in a physical drawer someone photographed once. Granite’s core workflow is ingestion-first: you upload documents, and the system automatically extracts content, identifies document types, and builds a semantic index. You then query that index in plain language — ‘what is my deductible on the Honda policy’ or ‘find all 1099s from 2022’ — and Granite surfaces the relevant document and the specific answer within it.

The differentiating feature is semantic search over personal financial and legal document types that general-purpose cloud storage does not understand. A Google Drive search for ‘1099’ returns every file with that string in the filename. Granite’s approach, per the vendor’s framing, is to understand what a 1099 is, extract its fields, and let you ask about income amounts, payer names, or tax years without knowing which file to open.

Granite fits individuals and sole proprietors whose document volume is real but whose IT budget is not. The free tier — capped at 25 documents and 1 GB — is a trial, not a working setup for anyone with multiple tax years or insurance policies. The paid annual plan removes the document count ceiling and expands storage, but it is a paid-only feature with no team or multi-user tier described on the vendor page. There is no self-hosted deployment and no API, which means teams with data residency requirements or developers wanting to pipe Granite’s extraction into another system are out of options.

The tool is not agentic — it does not take actions, set calendar reminders for expiring licenses, or push notifications. The expiration-tracking use case the vendor describes is a search capability: you ask, it answers. Proactive alerting is not part of the current feature set as described on the product page.