About Askive
We built a memory for your business.
Askive is not a document management system. It is not a filing cabinet in the cloud. It is something simpler — and far more useful. It is the part of your brain that never forgets where you put something.
The problem we kept seeing
Business owners — contractors, realtors, plumbers, consultants, dentists, insurance agents — are drowning in paper and digital clutter. Invoices under the car seat. Warranties in a junk drawer. Vendor contracts buried in an email thread from three years ago.
The moment you actually need to find something is always the worst possible moment. You are on a job site. You are in front of a client. You are on the phone with a vendor who wants a PO number you cannot find. And the information exists — it is just somewhere you cannot access it right now.
Existing tools did not solve this problem. They repackaged it. They offered folders, tags, categories, and sorting rules — all of which require the one thing busy business owners do not have: time and energy to maintain a filing system.
Nobody wants to manage a filing system. They just want to find what they are looking for.
What Askive does differently
Askive's entire design philosophy rests on one principle: you should never have to organize anything. Just throw it in. A photo of a receipt. A forwarded invoice email. A scanned warranty card. A PDF contract. Whatever it is, Askive takes it and remembers it.
Then, when you need it, you ask. Not click through folders. Not search for a filename you never named. You just ask, in plain English, the same way you would ask a very reliable assistant who has read every document you have ever given them.
"What did we pay for the Thompson roof job?" "When does our van warranty expire?" "What was the hourly rate in the Morrison contract?" Askive answers — and shows you exactly where it found the answer, so you can trust it.
No training period. No folders. No categories. No manual tagging. The technology disappears, and what is left is just the answer.
How it works
Capture anything
Snap a photo with your phone. Upload a file. Drag and drop from your desktop. Forward an email directly to your archive. All of it becomes a Memory.
Askive reads and understands it
Every Memory is processed by AI that reads the content — not just the filename. Handwritten receipts, printed invoices, scanned contracts, email threads. It understands what it is reading.
You ask anything, any time
Type your question the same way you would ask a person. Askive searches every Memory it has ever been given and returns a precise, sourced answer — along with the original document for verification.
Built for small business
Askive is not only built for home and work but for small businesses as well — the kind where the owner is also the bookkeeper, the sales team, the project manager, and the person who answers the phone. Where there is no IT department, no document management budget, and no time for yet another system that needs learning.
If your business generates paper — physical or digital — and you have ever struggled to find something when you needed it, Askive is for you.
What we believe
Simplicity is a feature
Every configuration option, every tag field, every folder we remove makes Askive more useful, not less. Complexity is the enemy of adoption.
Your data belongs to you
Everything you add to Askive is yours. We do not train on your documents. We do not sell your data. We do not read your business information for any purpose other than answering your questions.
Trust requires transparency
Every answer Askive gives shows its source. You never have to take our word for it. The original document is always one tap away.
Technology should disappear
The best tool is the one you stop noticing. Askive should feel less like software and more like suddenly having a very good memory.
Ready to stop losing things?
Start with 50 free Memories. No credit card required. No folders. No categories. Just answers.