Use cases
Where it pulls its weight.
Five patterns we see most. They overlap — most teams use FileDigest for two or three of these at once.
Build a retrieval index without the plumbing.
Drop a folder of policy docs, manuals, or research PDFs and get one Markdown file with section-level headers and stable file boundaries. Chunk by header, embed, store. The provenance front-matter means citations point back to the right page of the right file — no custom parser to maintain. Tables and code blocks survive the round-trip, which most cheap parsers ruin.
Read a data room in one paste.
Drag in the entire VDR folder — financials, contracts, cap tables, board minutes. FileDigest unifies them into one ordered digest you can hand to Claude or GPT to ask questions like 'list every change-of-control clause' or 'flag any indemnity caps below 1x'. Section headers preserve which document each clause came from, so the answers are auditable.
Compress 200 pages into a brief.
Investor decks, last quarter's KPI deck, the strategy memo, the recent press clips. Drop them all, get one digest, paste it with a prompt: 'summarize for a 30-minute board read; flag the three things that changed.' Tables stay tables, so MRR and churn numbers do not get mangled into prose. Save the digest as the meeting minutes annex.
Bulk-scan a stack of MSAs and SOWs.
Feed in a folder of executed contracts. The digest preserves clause structure and definitions, so an LLM can compare obligations across vendors: 'which contracts have auto-renewal,' 'where is the data-residency clause,' 'list every liability cap.' Pair with /docs/iu72 to get a 12-panel cognitive snapshot per contract for visual review.
Turn a PDF stack into a literature digest.
Researchers pull arXiv preprints, conference papers, and review articles into one digest with headings, equations preserved as code blocks, and figure captions intact. Hand the result to your model of choice for synthesis, gap analysis, or citation graph extraction. Works equally well for a single 80-page paper or a folder of 30 short ones.
Have a use case that does not fit the five above? Tell us at hello@filedigest.app — or read the quick start and try it on your own files.