Snap it, forward it, or share it. Drawer reads every document your household collects — the auto policy, the warranty, the passports, the lab results — then names it, files it, remembers every date inside it, and answers questions about it in plain language.
Encrypted at rest, keys in hardware security modules. No ads. Export everything, any time.
The policy is a PDF in someone's inbox. The warranty is a receipt photo in the camera roll. The deed is in a filing cabinet. The lab results are behind a patient portal password nobody remembers. None of it surfaces at the moment it matters — and the misses are never filing failures. They're date failures.
Every household has a version of this story. Each one is a date somebody was supposed to remember.
In most homes exactly one person knows where everything is. That's a single point of failure the family discovers at the worst possible time — an emergency, a hospitalization, a death.
A photo of a policy is just a photo. A cloud drive holds the file and understands nothing inside it. You can only find what you already remember you have.
Scanner apps capture and forget. Drives file and stay silent. The job to be done was never "store my documents" — it's never let a document surprise me. A storage app gets opened when something is already lost. A drawer that remembers opens itself, weeks before anything goes wrong.
Every household gets a private @getdrawer address — forward any email attachment and it files itself. Snap paper with the camera, push anything in from the share-sheet, or forward it out of Messages. Documents get met where they already arrive.
Each document is read and titled the way you'd title it — "State Farm — Auto Policy — Civic — 2027" — then categorized and mined for every date, amount, and account number inside it. Handwriting, crooked phone photos, and non-English paperwork included.
Drawer proposes the name and the dates; you tap once to confirm. A wrong expiry is worse than no expiry, so a reminder never fires on a date nobody approved. That one tap is where the trust comes from.
Passports, driver's licenses, vehicle registration, insurance renewals, warranties, claim windows, subscriptions, tax deadlines. A nudge lands 30, 7, and 1 day out — carrying last year's amount, so you know what you're walking into.
"What's our out-of-network deductible?" "Show me the fridge receipt." Answers cite the exact document and page. And the vault is a household, not an account — so your mother's Medicare letters reach whoever actually handles her renewals.
It only looks that way because one person ends up doing it. A drawer built for a household spreads the load without spreading everything — each person sees exactly what they should, and nothing they shouldn't.
Adult children end up running two households' paperwork at once. Drawer makes that a shared folder instead of a phone call — a parent forwards a letter, and it lands where the person managing renewals will actually see it.
If the one person who knows where everything is can't be reached, the household still works. Every confirmed date, policy number, and document sits where the family can find it — not in one person's memory.
A household vault is useless alone, so families invite each other into it. We'd rather earn the second, third, and fourth member than buy them.
Every household already runs on an invisible calendar of obligations — renewals, expiries, claim windows, filings. Today it lives in one person's head. Drawer builds it as a side effect of filing paper, then keeps watch over it.
| Tool | Captures | Understands | Reminds | Family-shared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drawer | Camera + email + share-sheet | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Drive / iCloud / Dropbox | Manual upload | No | No | Partial |
| Scanner apps | Camera only | Barely | No | No |
| Self-hosted archives | Watch folders | Yes, with a homelab | DIY | DIY |
| AI scanner-organizers | Camera | Partial | No | No |
| Password managers | Secrets, not documents | No | Partial | Yes |
Password managers are the closest thing to a precedent — a household utility people pay for because losing access is expensive. They proved families will share a vault. What none of these do is open the app for you. A reminder engine is the difference between a filing cabinet and a family member.
A product that asks for the most sensitive paper a family owns has to earn it in architecture, not in a policy page nobody reads. Here is what that means in practice.
Documents are encrypted at rest, with keys held in hardware security modules and never in our code. They are decrypted only for the moment it takes to read them — never to train a model, never for ads — and we keep as little plaintext server-side as the feature set permits. Keys held on your own devices are the documented next step. An external security audit comes before scale, not after an incident.
Full export any time, in a plain folder structure you can read without us — original files, confirmed dates, and all. The open door is the reason it's safe to walk in.
Household sharing is deliberate and per-folder. A parent's medical paperwork reaches the person handling their renewals and stops there. Every member keeps a private space.
Every reminder traces back to a document you filed and a date you confirmed. Turn any of them off and Drawer stays quiet on that one, permanently.
If Drawer ever shows a renewal comparison beside an expiring policy, it will be labeled, optional, and off by default. Your deadline is not an excuse to sell you something.
Everything the drawer can do, for up to five people who share the same paperwork.
Full capture, search, and answers. Enough to feel the difference before trusting it with the rest of the drawer.
For the weeks that actually hurt. A checklist, quality checks on every scan, and one correctly ordered PDF bundle at the end.
We're opening a small private beta, wherever your household is. Early families help decide which reminders matter — and get their first month of Family free.
We'll write once, when your household's invite is ready. Until then, start counting how many dates live in exactly one person's head.