Text Shot: Factify’s solution is to treat documents not as static files, but as intelligent infrastructure. In the "Factified" standard, a document carries its own brain. It possesses a unique identity, a live permission system, and an immutable audit log that travels with it.
"We wrote a new document format that supplants the PostScript," Gavish explains. "We created a new data layer that supports the document as a first class citizen... and it's always available inside the organization and potentially outside."
This distinction—between a File and an API—is the core of the company's pitch"
Files are liabilities: They accumulate, get lost, and can be stolen. "It goes back to a brick status," Gavish says. "Files are liabilities, if anything, because they just accumulate there, you have to guard them."
APIs are assets: A Factify document is an active object. You can ask it questions: "Who has seen you? When do you expire? Are you the most up-to-date version?"
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