Analyze thousands of files - docs, images, videos, and more. Use advanced agentic analysis to surpass basic AI tools, save time, cut chaos, and boost team productivity effortlessly.
Weāre excited to launch Fast.io, built by the MediaFire founders (Derek and me) to solve a massive problem plaguing today's AI tools: they canāt handle large-scale data or keep up with your teamās needs. Most AI is built for solo users - it stumbles over a few files, forgets everything when the chat ends, and leaves your teamās insights scattered across dead-end conversations. Fast.io changes that.
The Problem
Current LLM and AI analysis tools fall short. Theyāre capped at 20-30 files or stuck with basic RAG search, leaving SMBs struggling to unlock insights from their growing datasets. Your teamās knowledge is scattered, and existing solutions canāt keep up.
ā Limits: Most tools fail beyond a few dozen files or pages - useless for real datasets. ā Basic Search: Simple RAG implementations canāt handle complex analysis or large-scale data.
ā Document-Only Focus: Content comes in many formats; video, audio, and images often provide relevant context but aren't well supported, especially at scale.
ā Knowledge Reset: Analyzing data is only a starting point; you are constantly learning and adding new knowledge, insights, and background.
The Solution
Fast.io is an AI hub built for SMBs to centralize and analyze large sets of multimodal data and save learned insights. Our agentic tools improve the more you use them.
ā Analyze at Scale: Analyze thousands of files simultaneously, breaking past basic tools' limits in a team-focused multiplayer environment.
ā Build your Knowledge: Your interesting analysis results and insights can be saved back into your knowledge set as Notes; these are pieces of knowledge that become part of your dataset, so you don't have to repeat the same knowledge each time you start a new chat.
ā Structure Unstructured Data - Automatically extract metadata from your files - like contract value, dates, and keywords - to organize and categorize your data effortlessly.
ā Agentic Analysis: Go beyond basic search with AI that uncovers patterns, trends, and answers across massive datasets.
ā Any File Type: Upload and analyze documents, images, videos, audio, and beyond - unlock insights from all your data.
ā Simple but Powerful: Our product is backed by best-in-class cloud storage. Our team model ensures simplicity, straightforwardness, and high security, and our integrated data rooms allow you to easily send and receive data with internal and external collaborators using the same AI tools.
Coming Soon
And there's more coming soon. We're grinding nights and weekends to add even more capabilities:
š Data Importer - Easily upload large local datasets or import from your favorite clouds.
š¤ Workflow Automation - Automate even more of your work and establish processes for AI agents to perform as new data becomes available.
Imagine your AI assistant sifting through years of documents, images, and videos to spot trends - or your diligence team finding unusual patterns in their data, no matter the format.
š¦¾ More Agentic Tools - We're constantly adding more agentic tools to improve analysis.
š Realtime Knowledge Editing - You can already save learned knowledge, but soon, we'll support multiplayer editing for key insights.
ā Custom Metadata Templates - We already extract metadata. Soon, you'll be able to customize the automatically extracted metadata so it exactly matches your needs. This is perfect for managing large amounts of unstructured data across your cloud.
Fast.io is self-serve and ready for SMBs - no contracts, no hassle.
Our Journey
After serving millions with MediaFire, we faced a new challenge: connecting our team to AI with access to years of diverse data. Most tools couldnāt handle more than a few files or ignored non-document formats, leaving us frustrated. Fast.io is our answer - a platform that centralizes knowledge across any file type, scales to thousands of files, and unlocks AIās true potential for SMBs. Early users are already saving hours and transforming how they work with data.
Try It Now
Ready to break free from file limits and unlock insights from all your data? Sign up for a 14-day free trial - no demos, no complexity, just instantly start producing results with powerful AI for your team.
Congrats on the launch! The idea of analyzing thousands of files effortlessly is fantastic, and Iām already hooked. Looking forward to trying this with the JFK files!
@contact_umair Therein lies the trick, so to say. Our agent tries to break down the question to get to the meat of the problem and generate great context. As far as the verbosity of the answer, we actually have support for various "agent" personalities that can respond in a number of ways or with varying levels of detail. Ideally, though, it just "works," and it's always a "work in progress."
Key features really depend on your use case. For me, the key value proposition is analyzing contracts/legal docs against terms, policies, whitepapers, etc., and then saving those results back into my cloud so that when the contract is up for renewal, all that historical context is a starting point.
Hey @tom_langridge it's always a pleasure to see what products you and @dereklabian! Congrats on the launch and Fast feels like a natural extension of your expertise and background.
Super pumped to see Fast out in the world and excited to see how the community embraces it!
@bengillin Thank you, Ben. That means a lot coming from you. I'd love to get your thoughts on the product. Check out the free trial and let me know what you think. I think it would be great for your creative projects. Maybe even help you come up with some new ideas!
@caleb_foster1 Hi Caleb. Yeah, we have a real-time multiplayer UI, meaning that you can actually see other people's mouse cursors on the page as they're working with files and chats as well. Plus, you can join other people's AI chats if they're public and respond to the AI alongside your co-workers.
@emily_hernandez3 Hi, Emily. That's a great idea! But, no visual summaries just yet. We do offer a great metadata browser that allows you to see the data within your files as yourself while working with the AI agent on it.
@samuel_briskar Thank you! Yes! You get it. It's seriously a game changer for people who have more than 30 files or documents with lots of pages to analyze. There's literally no other way to do it.
@nicholas_anderson0 As long as it's a document, image, video, or audio file, (some kind of renderable content) the systems will probably handle it well. I guess the honest answer is it depends on how unconventional or old the file format is, but for the most part, I think we should handle it.
@arianna_wright Great question, Ariana. Our product goes through multiple cycles of research on your data and can also cross-references with public data on the web. This way we're able to give a better, more contextual response than any of the other mainstream LLMs we'll be able to provide.
@emma_campbell3 Thank you for the kind words, Emma. I'll pass them along to the team. Yes. The AI initially automatically tailors itself to your needs based on the details that you provide about your organization and workspace that you're working in, as well as your own role and profile. In the near future, you'll be able to customize the agent's responses and agentic behaviors as well.
This is an amazing idea. Can this tool integrate with existing project management software to help seamlessly incorporate insights into team workflows?
@emily_garcia5 Hey Emily. We have an integration system already available in our API, but we haven't implemented it in the frontend just yet. So much to do! Anyway, the answer to your question is "it's coming soon"!
@daniel_reed3 Hi, Dan Neal. That's a great question. We have more details on the topic of security available on our website, but suffice it to say, we follow all the best practices including but not limited to:
Industry-standard encryption for data in transit using TLS 1.3 (where supported by client systems)
AES encryption for data at rest with organization-level encryption keys
Continuous security monitoring and threat detection
Congrats to the teamāthis is such a needed tool. I really like being able to work through large amounts of data without running into limits, and the ability to save insights back into the dataset is super helpful. Nice job!
@todd_faulk1 Thanks Todd! Yeah, it's been quite a lift to get to where we are today. Let us know what you think. I'd love to hear your feedback on the product if you run into any problems or if you have any ideas for how we can improve it. This is just our first version and there's lots more to do!
This is incredibly powerful but Iād love to know how much training or onboarding teams will need to really get the hang of it. Tools like this can sometimes come with a steep learning curve.
@tabbunuru I think it's pretty simple to use, but maybe I'm biased. We've designed a lot of consumer-oriented UIs over the years, so we tried to make it as simple as possible. It works just like your typical cloud storage system, but with an AI agent on the side that can work with the data. A lot of the magic happens behind the scenes when files are uploaded, like them being turned into vector embeddings and metadata for the AI to hook into.
This sounds fantastic! AI-powered file analysis with no limits on file types or scale, plus the ability to save insights and grow your teamās knowledge base over time? Thatās a massive step forward for AI productivity. Congrats on the launch, Iām excited to give it a try!
What an amazing app! Being able to upload all my files and then chat with the built-in LLM about them is a game-changer. It effortlessly pulls out exactly what I need, even when the information is spread across multiple documents and media. And saving an AI response? Just a few clicks, and it's stored as a markdown file back into my files. This is going to be incredibly useful for both work and personal projects!
@gabesoli Thanks, Gabe. We worked really hard on this one, and we're all super excited to put it out in wild. Obviously, this is just our first version, and there's lots more to do to make it even more amazing but I'm super proud of what we're launching today.
Loving Fast.io so farāsuper fast uploads, easy team sharing, a clean, intuitive interface, and AI, very cool. Itās made managing files way less of a headache. Curious though: how does Fast.io handle version control or file history?
@mr_megiddo Great question. We have file versioning that allows you to see the file history and rollback files to previous versions. And we also have a chain of custody that allows you to see the relevant activity and events that happen to files over time.
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Fast.io
Hello Product Hunt community! š
Weāre excited to launch Fast.io, built by the MediaFire founders (Derek and me) to solve a massive problem plaguing today's AI tools: they canāt handle large-scale data or keep up with your teamās needs. Most AI is built for solo users - it stumbles over a few files, forgets everything when the chat ends, and leaves your teamās insights scattered across dead-end conversations. Fast.io changes that.
The Problem
Current LLM and AI analysis tools fall short. Theyāre capped at 20-30 files or stuck with basic RAG search, leaving SMBs struggling to unlock insights from their growing datasets. Your teamās knowledge is scattered, and existing solutions canāt keep up.
ā Limits: Most tools fail beyond a few dozen files or pages - useless for real datasets.
ā Basic Search: Simple RAG implementations canāt handle complex analysis or large-scale data.
ā Document-Only Focus: Content comes in many formats; video, audio, and images often provide relevant context but aren't well supported, especially at scale.
ā Knowledge Reset: Analyzing data is only a starting point; you are constantly learning and adding new knowledge, insights, and background.
The Solution
Fast.io is an AI hub built for SMBs to centralize and analyze large sets of multimodal data and save learned insights. Our agentic tools improve the more you use them.
ā Analyze at Scale: Analyze thousands of files simultaneously, breaking past basic tools' limits in a team-focused multiplayer environment.
ā Build your Knowledge: Your interesting analysis results and insights can be saved back into your knowledge set as Notes; these are pieces of knowledge that become part of your dataset, so you don't have to repeat the same knowledge each time you start a new chat.
ā Structure Unstructured Data - Automatically extract metadata from your files - like contract value, dates, and keywords - to organize and categorize your data effortlessly.
ā Agentic Analysis: Go beyond basic search with AI that uncovers patterns, trends, and answers across massive datasets.
ā Any File Type: Upload and analyze documents, images, videos, audio, and beyond - unlock insights from all your data.
ā Simple but Powerful: Our product is backed by best-in-class cloud storage. Our team model ensures simplicity, straightforwardness, and high security, and our integrated data rooms allow you to easily send and receive data with internal and external collaborators using the same AI tools.
Coming Soon
And there's more coming soon. We're grinding nights and weekends to add even more capabilities:
š Data Importer - Easily upload large local datasets or import from your favorite clouds.
š¤ Workflow Automation - Automate even more of your work and establish processes for AI agents to perform as new data becomes available.
Imagine your AI assistant sifting through years of documents, images, and videos to spot trends - or your diligence team finding unusual patterns in their data, no matter the format.
š¦¾ More Agentic Tools - We're constantly adding more agentic tools to improve analysis.
š Realtime Knowledge Editing - You can already save learned knowledge, but soon, we'll support multiplayer editing for key insights.
ā Custom Metadata Templates - We already extract metadata. Soon, you'll be able to customize the automatically extracted metadata so it exactly matches your needs. This is perfect for managing large amounts of unstructured data across your cloud.
Fast.io is self-serve and ready for SMBs - no contracts, no hassle.
Our Journey
After serving millions with MediaFire, we faced a new challenge: connecting our team to AI with access to years of diverse data. Most tools couldnāt handle more than a few files or ignored non-document formats, leaving us frustrated. Fast.io is our answer - a platform that centralizes knowledge across any file type, scales to thousands of files, and unlocks AIās true potential for SMBs. Early users are already saving hours and transforming how they work with data.
Try It Now
Ready to break free from file limits and unlock insights from all your data? Sign up for a 14-day free trial - no demos, no complexity, just instantly start producing results with powerful AI for your team.
Congrats on the launch! The idea of analyzing thousands of files effortlessly is fantastic, and Iām already hooked. Looking forward to trying this with the JFK files!
Fast.io
@gianfranco_galvez_montero Thank you! That's a great idea, Gianfranco! Sign up and try it out and let us know how it works for you!
With such extensive file analysis capabilities how does your system avoid overwhelming users with too much information?
Are there features that help highlight the most important takeaways?
@contact_umair Therein lies the trick, so to say. Our agent tries to break down the question to get to the meat of the problem and generate great context. As far as the verbosity of the answer, we actually have support for various "agent" personalities that can respond in a number of ways or with varying levels of detail. Ideally, though, it just "works," and it's always a "work in progress."
Key features really depend on your use case. For me, the key value proposition is analyzing contracts/legal docs against terms, policies, whitepapers, etc., and then saving those results back into my cloud so that when the contract is up for renewal, all that historical context is a starting point.
Kimunji
Hey @tom_langridge it's always a pleasure to see what products you and @dereklabian! Congrats on the launch and Fast feels like a natural extension of your expertise and background.
Super pumped to see Fast out in the world and excited to see how the community embraces it!
Fast.io
@bengillin Thank you, Ben. That means a lot coming from you. I'd love to get your thoughts on the product. Check out the free trial and let me know what you think. I think it would be great for your creative projects. Maybe even help you come up with some new ideas!
@tom_langridge @bengillin Can you believe we're still working on this brand all these years later... If persistence leads to success, we are due :D
I love the concept. Does the platform allow for real-time collaboration among teams working on file analysis together?
Fast.io
@caleb_foster1 Hi Caleb. Yeah, we have a real-time multiplayer UI, meaning that you can actually see other people's mouse cursors on the page as they're working with files and chats as well. Plus, you can join other people's AI chats if they're public and respond to the AI alongside your co-workers.
The concept of analyzing different types of media together is quite powerful. Does it offer visual summaries or key insights in a dashboard format?
Fast.io
@emily_hernandez3 Hi, Emily. That's a great idea! But, no visual summaries just yet. We do offer a great metadata browser that allows you to see the data within your files as yourself while working with the AI agent on it.
ThreeDee
Impressive solution for handling large-scale data! It's great to see a tool that addresses the limitations of current AI tools. Well done!
Fast.io
@samuel_briskar Thank you! Yes! You get it. It's seriously a game changer for people who have more than 30 files or documents with lots of pages to analyze. There's literally no other way to do it.
How does the tool manage older file formats or unconventional media types that might not align with current standards?
Fast.io
@nicholas_anderson0 As long as it's a document, image, video, or audio file, (some kind of renderable content) the systems will probably handle it well. I guess the honest answer is it depends on how unconventional or old the file format is, but for the most part, I think we should handle it.
Impressive. How does your tool maintain accuracy when interpreting complex content across various media types?
Fast.io
@arianna_wright Great question, Ariana. Our product goes through multiple cycles of research on your data and can also cross-references with public data on the web. This way we're able to give a better, more contextual response than any of the other mainstream LLMs we'll be able to provide.
This is absolutely brilliant. Is there a way to tailor the AIās focus to meet specific project requirements?
Fast.io
@emma_campbell3 Thank you for the kind words, Emma. I'll pass them along to the team. Yes. The AI initially automatically tailors itself to your needs based on the details that you provide about your organization and workspace that you're working in, as well as your own role and profile. In the near future, you'll be able to customize the agent's responses and agentic behaviors as well.
This is an amazing idea. Can this tool integrate with existing project management software to help seamlessly incorporate insights into team workflows?
Fast.io
@emily_garcia5 Hey Emily. We have an integration system already available in our API, but we haven't implemented it in the frontend just yet. So much to do! Anyway, the answer to your question is "it's coming soon"!
How your tool deals with sensitive data in documents or videos. Are there any security measures in place to keep confidential information safe?
Fast.io
@daniel_reed3 Hi, Dan Neal. That's a great question. We have more details on the topic of security available on our website, but suffice it to say, we follow all the best practices including but not limited to:
Industry-standard encryption for data in transit using TLS 1.3 (where supported by client systems)
AES encryption for data at rest with organization-level encryption keys
Continuous security monitoring and threat detection
Regular security assessments and updates
Read more here: https://fast.io/security
Congrats to the teamāthis is such a needed tool. I really like being able to work through large amounts of data without running into limits, and the ability to save insights back into the dataset is super helpful. Nice job!
Fast.io
@todd_faulk1 Thanks Todd! Yeah, it's been quite a lift to get to where we are today. Let us know what you think. I'd love to hear your feedback on the product if you run into any problems or if you have any ideas for how we can improve it. This is just our first version and there's lots more to do!
This is incredibly powerful but Iād love to know how much training or onboarding teams will need to really get the hang of it. Tools like this can sometimes come with a steep learning curve.
Fast.io
@tabbunuru I think it's pretty simple to use, but maybe I'm biased. We've designed a lot of consumer-oriented UIs over the years, so we tried to make it as simple as possible. It works just like your typical cloud storage system, but with an AI agent on the side that can work with the data. A lot of the magic happens behind the scenes when files are uploaded, like them being turned into vector embeddings and metadata for the AI to hook into.
This sounds fantastic! AI-powered file analysis with no limits on file types or scale, plus the ability to save insights and grow your teamās knowledge base over time? Thatās a massive step forward for AI productivity. Congrats on the launch, Iām excited to give it a try!
Fast.io
@alvaro_santa_cruz Thank you Alvaro! We've got a ton more to do! I'm sure you'll love what we've got cooking next.
What an amazing app! Being able to upload all my files and then chat with the built-in LLM about them is a game-changer. It effortlessly pulls out exactly what I need, even when the information is spread across multiple documents and media. And saving an AI response? Just a few clicks, and it's stored as a markdown file back into my files. This is going to be incredibly useful for both work and personal projects!
Fast.io
@gabesoli Thanks, Gabe. We worked really hard on this one, and we're all super excited to put it out in wild. Obviously, this is just our first version, and there's lots more to do to make it even more amazing but I'm super proud of what we're launching today.
Game changing tool! Analyzes everything fast and smart. Huge time saver for any team.
Fast.io
@adam_coulon1 Thank you Adam!! We're super appreciative for your business!
looks pretty smooth. centralizing knowledge for SMBs is such a pain pointāFast.io could really transform how we work. love this idea. congrats!
Fast.io
@cmvermont Thank you Chris! There's so much more to do. We've got a lot of fun stuff on the road map.
Loving Fast.io so farāsuper fast uploads, easy team sharing, a clean, intuitive interface, and AI, very cool. Itās made managing files way less of a headache. Curious though: how does Fast.io handle version control or file history?
Fast.io
@mr_megiddo Great question. We have file versioning that allows you to see the file history and rollback files to previous versions. And we also have a chain of custody that allows you to see the relevant activity and events that happen to files over time.
Such a needed solution! Dealing with redundant uploads and scattered content is a nightmare - Fast.io looks like a lifesaver. Congrats on the launch!
Fast.io
@sleepingrhino We think so too!