There are many variations on this question:

• How quickly will OpenAI or Google do what you do?
• What's to stop someone else just doing what you do?
• What's special about Folio?

The answer to all of these is the same:

1. Folio is a deeply capable platform - not a chatbot interface. Folio has:
   
   • A full fintech back-end
   • A unified datastore, serving business context from a single source
   • A workflow engine, managing tasks, reminders, and complex workflows natively
   • A rules and policy engine, combining deterministic and probabilistic approaches to automate tasks as well as a human using a system
   • A unified multi-channel chat capability, meaning you can interact with Folio like you would with any colleague, and without loss of memory across channels
   • Much, much more.
2. We use LLMs for specific purposes:
   
   • Interpretation - reading and analysing text, data, images, and more to make sense of heterogenous data sources and map them into vectors that can be used to automate work.
   • Communication - enabling a conversation-first design, and allowing us to re-imagine how software can be used.
   • Generation - providing a layer of content creation capability that delivers the 'last mile' in many prof services use cases.
3. We are a platform, not a tool:
   
   • We use many different LLMs - choosing the most suitable for each task (see the diagram below).
   • We can plug into other agentic solutions to extend Folio's capabilities

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Folio also has access to context that generalist LLMs will not - we are a vertical AI solution: