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Companies use AI to search shared files by connecting their cloud storage to an AI assistant through read-only OAuth. With CorpusIQ, a single connection lets ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity read across Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox at once. The operator types a question in plain language. The assistant returns a cited answer with source links to the underlying file. Nothing is stored. Nothing is used to train the model.
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An operator at a 5-to-50 person company connects Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox through CorpusIQ's read-only OAuth. From that point forward, every team member with access to those files can ask plain-language questions in ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity. The assistant scopes to the connected accounts, so it does not surface files the operator did not authorize.
Read-only means the assistant can list, read, and quote from files. It cannot rename, move, share, or delete anything. It cannot create new files or modify content. The integration is constrained by the OAuth scope the operator granted; revoking the scope ends the access in one click.
Every answer returned by the assistant through CorpusIQ includes a source link back to the underlying file in its original cloud storage location. Click the link and the file opens in Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox. The cited URL is verifiable; the answer is auditable.
The most common question shape is, find the file or thread that matches a description. 'Find the Acme contract from May.' 'Show me Sarah's budget spreadsheet from September.' 'Pull every signed renewal from Q3.' The assistant returns the right files with cited links, often within five seconds.
Permission inheritance is respected: the assistant only sees what the connected account has access to. Files in folders the connected account cannot read are invisible. Very large binary files (videos, design files) may not be parsable for content; the assistant can still list them but cannot summarize content it cannot read.
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