Give ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and other AI assistants access to your files. Search, read, organize, rename and manage them with simple commands.
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Filex AI
filexai.com/mcp
Clients / Acme
Properties / Baker Street
Taxes / 2025
What your AI can do
Once your files are connected, the AI assistant you already use can work directly with them. You type what you want, and it does the work.
Describe a document in your own words and ChatGPT finds it. No file name, no digging through folders.
1 · You ask ChatGPT
2 · ChatGPT searches your files
3 · Result
Baker_Street_Lease.pdf
Properties / Baker Street
Lease_Addendum_Pets.pdf
Properties / Baker Street
Ask a question about a contract, invoice or report and Claude answers from what's written inside it.
1 · You ask Claude
2 · Claude reads the contract for you
3 · Result
March 31, 2027
60 days’ notice needed to cancel
From Acme_Contract_Signed.pdf
Names like IMG_8392 become names that say what the file actually is, based on what's inside it.
1 · You ask Grok
2 · Grok reads each file and renames it
3 · Result
IMG_8392.pdf
Acme_Invoice_Sep_2026.pdf
scan_003.pdf
Car_Insurance_Policy.pdf
Tell ChatGPT how you want things organized. It creates the folders and puts every file where it belongs.
1 · You ask ChatGPT
2 · ChatGPT creates the folders and files everything
3 · Result
Tell Claude where files belong. No dragging, no file browser.
1 · You ask Claude
2 · Claude moves the files
3 · Result
Hand Claude new documents and it uploads them and puts each one in the right folder.
1 · You ask Claude
2 · Claude uploads them and files each one
3 · Result
Can ChatGPT access my files?
By default, an AI assistant only knows about the files you attach to a chat, one conversation at a time. It can’t browse your folders, and it can’t change anything.
Everything they can do
Connected, they stop working on one attachment at a time and start working across your whole file library.
Organize files and documents
“Sort my invoices into a folder per client.”
Search your files
“Find the lease I signed in March.”
Search PDFs by what’s inside
“Which PDFs mention the Baker Street property?”
Read and summarize PDFs
“Summarize my latest bank statement.”
Analyze multiple PDFs
“Compare the totals across my Acme invoices.”
Find any document
“Find my car insurance policy.”
Rename files
“Give these scans clear names.”
Manage files and folders
“Move these receipts into Taxes / 2025.”
Organize your files and documents
“Group everything I uploaded this week by client.”
Search your documents
“Find every contract that mentions auto-renewal.”
Search PDFs by what’s inside
“Which PDFs talk about cancellation?”
Analyze PDFs and pull out key details
“What’s the notice period in this contract?”
Compare documents
“What changed between these two lease versions?”
Find any document
“Find my passport scan.”
Rename messy file names
“Rename these based on what they contain.”
Manage files and folders
“Create a folder for Northstar and move their files in.”
Set up in a minute
Pick your assistant, add the connection URL, and sign in. That’s it.
Let Claude search, read and organize the files in your Filex AI account, on web, desktop and mobile.
Connection URL
https://filexai.com/mcp
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Under the hood
AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude connect to outside tools through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard. Filex AI runs a remote MCP file server, so your assistant can work with your files, but only after you sign in and approve it.
Paste filexai.com/mcp into your AI assistant’s connector settings.
Log in to Filex AI and approve access. No API keys, nothing to install.
Your assistant can now find, read, rename, move and organize your files.
| Capability | What your AI can do | MCP tools |
|---|---|---|
| Find files | Search your files in natural language | find_files |
| Read files | Access a file’s details and its contents | get_file · get_file_content |
| Browse folders | Navigate your folder structure | list_folders · list_folder_files |
| Create folders | Create new folders | create_folder |
| Rename | Give files and folders useful names | rename_files · rename_folder |
| Move files | Move files between folders | move_files |
| Upload files | Add new files to your account | upload_file · get_upload_url |
| Organize uploads | Sort new files into the right folders | organize_uploaded_files |
Is it safe?
ChatGPT, Claude or any assistant has to sign in to your Filex AI account and get your approval first.
Revoke any assistant from Connected apps in your dashboard, in one click.
Assistants can find, read, rename, move and add files. The connection has no delete capability.
Files are encrypted in transit and at rest, and private to your account.
Your files are never sold, shared, or used to train AI models.
Example prompts
Sort all my Acme files into Contracts, Invoices and Proposals.
See use caseFind all invoices over $5,000.
See use caseMove my 2025 tax documents into a Taxes / 2025 folder.
See use caseRename every Baker Street document with its type and date.
See use casePut my insurance, medical and ID documents into separate folders.
See use caseSummarize what my PDFs say about climate policy.
See use caseCreate a folder for each course and file my lecture notes in it.
See use caseWhich leases renew in the next 90 days?
See use caseSolutions
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Connecting your files to ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants
Not by default. ChatGPT only sees files you attach to a chat. To let it work with your whole file library, add Filex AI as a custom connector in ChatGPT using the connection URL on this page, sign in and approve access. Custom connector availability depends on your ChatGPT plan and settings.
Yes, once it is connected to Filex AI. ChatGPT can create folders, move files between them, rename files and sort newly uploaded files, all from a plain-English instruction like "sort my invoices into a folder per client".
Yes. Connected to Filex AI, ChatGPT can search your library by describing what you want, like "find the lease I signed in March", and it can search by what is inside your documents, not just by file name.
Yes. Connected to Filex AI, ChatGPT can open the contents of the PDFs in your library and answer questions across them, such as comparing totals across several invoices. How many files it can handle at once depends on your ChatGPT plan and the size of the files.
Yes. Add Filex AI as a custom connector in Claude (Settings → Connectors), sign in and approve access. Claude can then find, read, rename, move and organize the files in your Filex AI account.
Yes. Connected to Filex AI, Claude can search your documents by meaning, find any file from a description, create folders, move files and rename them. Scanned documents are searchable too because Filex AI extracts their text with OCR.
Yes. Claude can open a PDF in your Filex AI library and answer questions about it, such as the notice period in a contract or the total on an invoice. In sandboxed apps like Claude on the web, files up to 5MB are read directly.
Create a free Filex AI account, then add Filex AI to your assistant as a custom connector using the connection URL filexai.com/mcp. You sign in to Filex AI and approve access, and there are no API keys to copy. Step-by-step setup for each assistant is in the setup section above.
You stay in control. Every assistant has to sign in to your Filex AI account and get your approval, you can revoke access from Connected apps in your dashboard, and the connection has no delete capability, so an assistant cannot remove your files. Files are encrypted and are never used to train AI models.
No. Connected assistants can find, read, rename, move, upload and organize files, but the Filex AI connection has no delete capability.
Go to Connected apps in your Filex AI dashboard and revoke access for any assistant. Its sign-in is revoked and it can no longer renew access to your files.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude connect to outside tools and data. An MCP file server gives an assistant the ability to search, read and manage files. Filex AI runs a remote MCP file server at filexai.com/mcp, secured with OAuth sign-in.
Filex AI works with Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code, plus any other AI client that supports remote MCP servers with OAuth sign-in.
Create a free Filex AI account, connect your assistant in a minute, and start asking.