A: Hey Kimchi, thank for your interest in RcordsKeeper.AI. Here is how the mechanism works when you connect a cloud storage - When you integrate your cloud storage with our platform, we maintain your original files in their respective original cloud location - we don't duplicate or move them from your existing cloud storage. However, to provide you with our core AI-powered search and retrieval functionality, our system needs to process and index your documents within our RecordsKeeper.AI infrastructure.

This processing creates searchable, AI-enhanced versions of your documents (in the form of structured data objects proprietary to RecordsKeeper.AI) that enable our chat-based retrieval system to quickly locate and surface exactly what you're looking for. Think of it as creating a sophisticated index that makes your entire document library instantly searchable through natural language queries.

The storage costs you're seeing reflect the infrastructure required to maintain these processed, searchable objects and processed versions of your documents.

hat being said, we offer additional storage quotas that can be bought anytime at discounted price. Also, we are soon going to double the storage offering across all the tiers.