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Introducing Metadata Views: AI-Powered Structured Data Extraction
Today we're launching Views, a new way to extract structured data from unstructured files using AI. You have hundreds of contracts, insurance documents, product photos, or research papers in a workspace. You need specific fields from each one: effective dates, policy numbers, product names, author affiliations. Until now, someone had to open each file and pull that data out manually. Views does...
Approvals, Guest AI Chat, and More
This update brings several features that make Fastio more useful for teams working with external collaborators. You can now route content through an approval process on shares and portals. When someone uploads or updates a file, it can be flagged for review. Approvers see pending items with approve and reject buttons right in the content viewer toolbar. Key details: Bulk operations let you...
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Custom Domains for Portals and Shares
Your portals and shares can now live on your own domain. Instead of sharing links like , you can now use or any subdomain you control. This works for content portals, shared folders, and file transfers. Head to your workspace settings and open the Custom Domains section. Add any subdomain you own, and we'll walk you through the DNS setup. Point a CNAME record to our servers, and we handle the...
Desktop App: Sync Activity, Organizations, and Large File Uploads
The Fastio Desktop app has gone through its biggest update cycle since launch. Over the past two weeks we shipped versions 0.3.2 through 0.3.6, and the app is substantially more capable and reliable. You can now see a live history of everything the app is doing. The new Sync Activity page shows uploads, downloads, renames, and deletes grouped by organization and workspace. No more wondering if a...
Performance Overhaul: Uploads, Memory, and Cloud Sync
We spent the last two weeks of March focused almost entirely on reliability and performance. No new features, just making the existing ones work better. Here's what we found and fixed. The web app had several memory leaks that caused it to slow down during long sessions. The worst was a Victory.js chart component that was churning SVG DOM nodes at 30MB per second. We also found that Redux...