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Getting started

Getting started with Paperbrief

Enable → upload → chat. Should take about 5 minutes.

1. Sign up (if you haven't)

app.kashilabs.ai/signup (opens in a new tab) — see Accounts & teams for the org-grouping rules.

2. Enable Paperbrief for your organisation

Cloudbrief is on by default for every new org. Paperbrief is opt-in — your platform admin (the master owner) needs to toggle it:

  1. Sign in as the platform admin.
  2. Workspace → Platform admin → click your organisation.
  3. Find the Product access card.
  4. Toggle Paperbrief on.

If you're not the platform admin, email manish.gaud@bhavitech.com asking to enable Paperbrief for your org name.

3. Switch to Paperbrief

Click the logo dropdown in the top-left of the app. Paperbrief now appears in the list — click it. You land on an empty library.

4. Upload your first document

In the Documents sidebar (left side of the screen), click Upload. Pick a PDF, DOCX, TXT, or MD up to 25 MB.

The doc enters the library with status pending → processing → ready. The status pill auto-refreshes every 5 seconds; ready usually takes 10–60 seconds depending on size and whether OCR is needed.

For a scanned PDF (image-only, no text layer), processing takes longer — Claude vision OCRs each page, capped at 50 pages.

5. Chat with the document

Once status is ready:

  1. Tick the checkbox next to the document in the sidebar.
  2. The chat panel on the right activates.
  3. Type a question and press Enter (Shift+Enter for newline).

The answer streams in. Citations appear above the answer as small pills (Document title · chunk N · page M). Each citation is a chunk the model actually saw.

6. Start a multi-document chat

Select more than one document (multiple checkboxes), then ask a question that spans them. The answer cites whichever chunks across all selected docs were most relevant.

You can change the document selection mid-conversation — past messages keep the attribution they were sent with, future messages use the new selection.

7. Revisit a conversation later

Every chat is saved automatically under the org. The Conversations section in the sidebar lists them, sorted by most-recent. Click any to load its full message history with citations intact.

You're done

Next reads:

  • Chat & citations — how retrieval works, why "I couldn't find this" is a feature.
  • Supported formats & OCR — what works, what doesn't, file size + format details.
  • Troubleshooting — what to do when ingestion fails or a chat returns "I couldn't find this" for content you know is there.
IntroductionSupported formats & OCR