Documents are records waiting to exist
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Generative AI
Humans are remarkably good at seeing structure. Show someone a folder containing: receipts inspection reports contracts photos of vehicles resumes …and within seconds they understand the shape of the data. A receipt has: a ant a total a date A vehicle photo has: a brand a model a color An inspection report has: findings categories pass/fail states The structure is obvious. The problem is that most software systems cannot see it. The retrieval trap Most modern AI tooling approaches files through retrieval. Chunk documents. Embed chunks. Search by similarity. Feed chunks into an.