Add your research

Crux is most valuable when it works from your evidence. Everything you add is parsed and indexed so AI skills and search can cite it precisely.

Upload files

Open the Uploads panel from the sidebar rail (or drag files straight onto the canvas):

• Documents — PDF, Word, PowerPoint, plain text.
• Spreadsheets — Excel and CSV.
• Transcripts — interview and meeting transcripts work especially well with the tagging skills.

Crux extracts the text, splits it into chunks, and creates embeddings so the content becomes searchable and available as AI context. Larger files may take a moment to finish indexing.

Add links

Drop a website node on the canvas and paste a URL. Crux unfurls the page metadata and can pull the content into research context.

Connect Google Drive

• Google Drive (paid plans) — connect your account from the Uploads panel to import documents directly from Drive.
• Figma (coming soon) — design-frame import is on the roadmap for a fast-follow release.

See Google Drive & Figma for Drive setup.

Keep sources on the canvas

Uploaded files can live as file nodes on the canvas, connected to the analysis they feed. That connection matters: skills like Analyse & Tag and Answer question walk the edges upstream from where you run them to collect the right context.

Storage allowance

Each plan includes a file storage allowance (larger on paid tiers). You can see usage in settings; deleting a project removes its files and embeddings.

Next step

With research in place, continue to Run your first AI skill.