Files & knowledge

SupaNet has a Files area where you and your team can store documents. PDFs get special treatment: once uploaded, the assistant can read them and answer questions from their contents.

Uploading files

Drop files into the Files page (or attach them in chat). Each file is stored privately under your account. When you want to share one, SupaNet can generate a temporary share link that works for a week, so you can hand a file to someone without making it public forever.

Turning PDFs into knowledge

This is the part that makes SupaNet feel smart about your world.

When you upload a PDF, SupaNet quietly does the following in the background:

1. Pulls the text out of the PDF.
2. Breaks it into small chunks.
3. Builds a searchable index of those chunks.

After that, the assistant can search across your PDFs and pull in the relevant passages when you ask a question - and it tells you which document each answer came from, so you can trust and verify it.

You do not have to do anything to trigger this. Upload the PDF and, a short time later, it is searchable.

Shared by default, private when you want

By default, the knowledge from a PDF is shared with your workspace - any teammate's chat can find and use it. That is usually what you want: one person uploads the handbook, everyone can ask about it.

If a document is sensitive, the owner can flip it to "Only me" so only they can use its contents.

Two important details:

• This sharing is about the searchable text, not the raw file. The original PDF stays private to whoever uploaded it. Only the extracted passages are shared.
• Only the owner can change whether a document is shared or private.

Adding content from the assistant

The assistant can save files directly to your Files area. This is especially useful for binary output it generates — like a base64 image from an image model — which it can now persist as a real, shareable file instead of just showing you the raw bytes.

The assistant can:

• Create files from base64 (images, PDFs) or plain text
• List and fetch files it previously created
• Organize files into collections
• Tag files with metadata (e.g. source provenance)

If it fetches an article or you ask it to turn a transcript into notes, it can save that content so the whole team (or just you, if you prefer) can search and learn from it later. PDFs are automatically indexed into the knowledge base.

Adding files to collections

Files can be added to collections — named groups of related content you can chat with. On the Files page, select the files you want and add them to a collection (create a new one or pick an existing one). Then in Chat, use the 📚 picker to select that collection; the assistant will have access to all the files, artifacts, and to-dos in the collection when answering your questions.

This is useful for grouping related documents around a topic, project, or process. For example, you might create a "Customer Handbook" collection with the main handbook PDF and several supporting documents, then chat with that collection to answer handbook-related questions all at once.

Putting it together

The practical workflow looks like this: someone uploads the policies, the contracts, the spec sheets. The assistant can pull articles and notes from the web and add them to the knowledge base too. From then on, anyone on the team can open the chat and ask "what does our refund policy say?" and get an answer grounded in the actual document, with a citation pointing back to it. You can also group related files into a collection and chat with them all at once as a focused context.