At its BoxWorks conference in San Francisco, Box unveiled a trio of new AI-powered offerings designed to compete directly with Microsoft Copilot and Google’s AI workspace tools. The lineup includes Box Extract, Box Automate, and expanded AI features in Box Apps.
Box Extract aims to solve one of the toughest enterprise challenges: pulling structured data from unstructured content. Instead of manually combing through contracts, invoices, scanned forms, and spreadsheets, companies can use Box’s AI agents to extract and validate information at scale. Box says this capability can accelerate contract reviews, reconcile payments, and streamline HR onboarding.
Box Automate pushes into the same territory Microsoft and Google have been targeting with workflow orchestration. It allows businesses to design visual, no-code workflows that connect Box agents, human workers, and external tools. Tasks can be routed dynamically, and processes like client onboarding, contract management, and invoice approvals can run with minimal manual intervention.
Box Apps, its no-code builder for content dashboards, is also getting smarter. Teams can now use natural language queries, AI-assisted analysis, and auto-generated visualizations to surface insights and act on them quickly. These dashboards can even be embedded in third-party platforms like Salesforce, bringing content-driven automation closer to where people work.
Unlike some rivals, Box isn’t tying customers to its own AI stack. Through Box AI Studio and APIs, organizations can mix in models from Anthropic, Google, Amazon, Meta, IBM, OpenAI, and xAI. That makes it possible to blend Box workflows with services like Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, or Salesforce Agentforce.
With Extract, Automate, and the upgraded Apps, Box is signaling that it doesn’t just want to be a storage platform… it wants to be a serious player in the enterprise AI race. The new tools will roll out in the coming months to Enterprise Advanced plan customers, with pricing details still to come.
