Chat with Work

Dropbox integration

Chat with Dropbox.

Ask the kind of questions that usually send you digging through folders. Chat with Work searches Dropbox when you ask, opens the files and folders that look relevant, and answers with the source attached.

Dropbox

Read-only, live today

It searches like a person would.

No background indexing. No permanent copy of every file. Chat with Work pokes at Dropbox the same way you would: search, skim the candidates, open the ones that look right, then read.

  1. Step 1

    You ask a question.

    Plain English. No exact filename, folder path, or search syntax.

  2. Step 2

    It searches Dropbox.

    Behind the scenes, it queries Dropbox search and gets candidates back: file name, type, path, last modified date, and matching text where Dropbox can provide it.

  3. Step 3

    It opens the right files.

    The model picks the files that look promising and reads them. Short files can be read in full; long files are converted to text so the relevant parts can be used.

  4. Step 4

    You get an answer with the source.

    The reply names the files it leaned on and links back to Dropbox. Open the source, read the original, and verify the answer.

Each search keeps the conversation compact. The model only spends tokens reading a file when that file looks relevant.

What it can actually read.

Everything turns into text first. That's how the model reads it, and that's all that gets cached.

Dropbox

  • Files
  • Folders
  • Shared folders

PDF

  • Native PDFs
  • Scanned PDFs (OCR)

Office

  • Word (.docx, .doc)
  • Excel (.xlsx, .xls)
  • PowerPoint (.pptx, .ppt)

Text

  • Plain text
  • Markdown
  • RTF
  • CSV

Images

  • JPEG, PNG, GIF
  • SVG, WebP, BMP

Anything that has extractable text. PDFs go through a separate text extraction pipeline. Folders help the model navigate, but it reads the files inside them.

What people actually ask

The Dropbox questions that usually turn into folder digging.

Where is the latest customer deck?

Summarize the contract notes for Acme.

Which folder has the migration plan?

What changed between these project docs?

Find every file that references SOC 2.

What did we promise this customer last quarter?

Read-only, and only your Dropbox.

The integration asks only for read access to Dropbox metadata and file contents in the account you connect. No write access. No delete access. No team-admin reach.

The text Chat with Work pulls is encrypted at rest, scoped to your user, and deleted after 30 days if nothing touches it again. Nothing in your account is used to train models.

Full security write-up on the security page.

Disconnect any time.

  • From Chat with Work: Settings -> Connected accounts -> Disconnect. Tokens are deactivated and cached text is queued for deletion.
  • From Dropbox: revoke the app under your connected apps settings. We detect it on the next call and stop.

Ready to connect Dropbox?

Create your account with Dropbox from the signup page, or add it later from settings when you want files in the same assistant.

Create free account

Create your account and connect Dropbox.