Ndoc, a three-person startup founded by Rohit Patel, a former director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, launched an AI-native office suite on Oct. 27 that folds documents, slides and spreadsheets into one inspectable file, according to TechCrunch. The company is pitching the product as a replacement for Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, and it arrives only weeks after OpenAI introduced Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT.
One file instead of three
Each ndoc contains three tabs: Stage, Narrative and Model. According to Patel's Medium post, published Oct. 28, the narrative runs on Markdown, the stage on React (a popular web interface framework), the data on Parquet and SQL, and the analysis on Python.
The idea is to collapse the familiar trio of document, deck and spreadsheet. "ndoc starts from a different premise: there should be two things, not three. Just you and the ndoc, working together on the idea itself," Patel wrote.
He was blunt about the incumbents. "The office suite we all use was built for a world without AI, and today's AI tools are bolted on top of it," he wrote.
Inspectable by design
Users can click any number to see the run or table behind it, TechCrunch reported. They can also read the underlying Python and ask the AI what a script does or which line holds a given formula.
"There's nothing hidden behind the curtain here," Patel told TechCrunch on Oct. 27, referring to the visible code and figures.
Ndoc also keeps memory at the user, document, team and company levels, according to TechCrunch.
An open export format
Every ndoc can be exported as a single ".ndoc.html" file. In his Medium post, Patel described it as "a single self-contained file that runs interactively offline in any browser."
His personal site states that the format specification is open under the Apache 2.0 license. TechCrunch, for its part, reported only that the format is intended to be open-sourced, so the exact status of the release is worth confirming.
