The layer that makes your data usable.Here's how it works.

PLUMdata understands just enough about each file in your Drive to name it against your convention and organise it into a structure that makes sense — turning the unstructured files you already have into something both people and AI can actually retrieve. No new storage, no migration, nothing changed without your approval.

Private by design — processed in session, never stored, never used to train AI.

The human–machine renaming interface

Understanding, not guesswork.

Most tools that tidy a Drive work from the filename and the folder it sits in. PLUMdata starts a layer deeper — from what each file actually is — which is what lets it name and organise files that have never had a meaningful name in their life.

Only enough to rename and categorise

PLUMdata doesn't read your files the way a person would — it takes in just the signals that identify one: the headings of a document, the column names of a spreadsheet, the key elements of a photo. That's all it needs. Across more than 30 common formats — PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Google Docs, Google Sheets, JPG, PNG, HEIC and CSV among them — those few signals are enough to create meaning from data that never had a useful name, and nothing it sees is kept.

It extracts what matters

Reading is only step one. PLUMdata pulls the critical information out of every file — what it is, who and what it concerns, the dates and amounts inside it — and classifies it by type, subject and sensitivity. That information surfaces the lakes of hidden files every Drive accumulates, and turns them into something that can be searched, sorted and trusted.

You define the standard

Separators, date format, capitalisation, the terms and spellings that matter to you — set once, and tunable on every scan. Apply one convention across the whole data estate, or give specific folders and groups their own standard where the work demands it. Every suggestion is shaped to that standard, the same way, every time.

It writes back safely, or not at all

Nothing changes without your say-so. Every rename and every move is reviewable and reversible, applied in place through the official Drive API — files keep their location, their permissions and their version history. And one guarantee is written into the code itself: PLUMdata cannot delete your files. Not on request, not by mistake — the capability does not exist. Ever.

The living system

A clean-up that leaves you a system.

Naming is the visible part. Underneath, every scan builds a described, deduplicated, sensitivity-aware picture of your Drive — a living index that stays in your own Drive, speaks the format AI systems understand, and keeps paying off long after the files are tidy.

Structure, not just names

Beyond renaming, PLUMdata proposes folder groupings that mirror how the work is actually organised — by client, project, trip or purpose — so the shape of your Drive matches the way you think about it.

Duplicates and dead weight surfaced

Identical copies scattered across folders are collapsed onto one, and files no one has opened in years are flagged — so a clean-up is also a stock-take of what you're really holding.

Sensitivity, made visible

Financial, health and legal material is recognised and labelled as it's catalogued, so you always know what's sensitive and where it lives — the first thing any governance or AI-readiness effort needs to know.

A living index — in your Drive, nowhere else

Every scan maintains a private index of what your Drive contains and what each file is. It is stored in your own Drive and nowhere else, kept in the open, machine-readable format AI systems already speak — so it works with any AI assistant you connect to your cloud drive, and it's the first point of contact for any agent, PLUMdata included, before a single file is touched.
Practical use cases

What it wins you, at every scale.

The same problem — files that can't be found can't be used — shows up whether it's one person's photo library or a ten-thousand-seat estate. Here's what getting it fixed actually looks like, day to day.

Personal Drives, photo libraries, life admin

Individuals

The shoebox of downloads, fifteen years of camera dumps, the PDFs you can never find when a deadline is staring at you. PLUMdata turns all of it into something you can search in seconds.

  • Tax timeevery receipt, payslip and statement for the year named and dated — no more opening "scan0047.pdf" seventeen times to find the one you need.
  • The photo libraryIMG_2384 and DSC_0042 become photos named by what they show, grouped into the trips and events they came from.
  • Applications under deadlinea rental, visa or loan application wants five documents by Friday — passport scan, payslips, bank letter — and you can pull each one by name.
  • The family Driveschool forms, warranties and medical letters filed so anyone in the house can find them, not just the person who saved them.
Freelancers, trades, studios, shops — 1–20 people

Small businesses

When the whole business lives in one Drive, every lost file is billable time gone. PLUMdata puts one standard across client work, money and admin — and keeps it there as the files pile up.

  • Quarter-end without the scramblewhen the accountant asks, every invoice and receipt for the period is already named, dated and in one place.
  • Client history on demandthe quote, the signed contract and every deliverable for a client sit in one clean folder you can walk through on a call.
  • Quote from the last jobfind what you charged for the last similar project in seconds instead of rebuilding the estimate from memory.
  • Day-one onboardinga new bookkeeper, VA or subcontractor finds what they need without a guided tour of your folders.
Shared drives, departments, 20–250 seats

Medium businesses

Standards drift the moment more than a few people share a Drive. PLUMdata reconciles the whole estate to one convention regardless of who created what — and keeps it that way through growth and turnover.

  • When someone leavestheir folders stay usable by the next person, instead of becoming an archive nobody dares to touch or delete.
  • The audit request"every agreement with supplier X" is answered in minutes, with financial and legal material already labelled as sensitive.
  • One convention, every departmentsales, ops and finance file the same way without a naming-policy document nobody reads.
  • Before the AI rolloutfiles are named, described and sensitivity-labelled before you point a copilot or assistant at the shared drive.
Governance, compliance, AI-readiness at scale

Large enterprise

At scale the expensive problem is invisible data — files no one knows the estate holds. PLUMdata applies one discovery-and-metadata layer across all of it: the precondition for any catalogue, fabric or retrieval system above.

  • Shadow-data discoverysurface what the estate actually contains before it surfaces itself in a breach report or a regulator's letter.
  • Discovery and data-room readinesslegal discovery, due diligence or an M&A data room assembled from files that are already named, described and dated.
  • Know what not to exposesensitivity labels across the estate tell you which files stay out of AI pilots, exports and integrations.
  • Catalogue foundationsconsistent, descriptive metadata on every file — the base layer any catalogue or data-fabric initiative assumes exists.
Privacy by design

PLUMdata proposes. You decide.

PLUMdata runs a human–machine governance loop: the system proposes, you decide. Every change is reviewable, every change is reversible, and nothing is applied to your Drive without an explicit action from you.

Approve one by one, or in bulk

Step through each suggestion when the file matters; bulk-approve a folder when you trust the pattern.

Undo any change

The original name and location of every file is held before anything changes. Reverse one rename or the whole run in a click.

Nothing kept after the session

File contents are read in memory and discarded when your session ends. Only the audit log of changes lives in your Drive.
See it on your own data.

Your first 100 files are free. Private by design — processed in session, never stored, never used to train AI.

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