Why I Built Archevi: Two Hours Looking for an Insurance Policy

The phone call

It started with a phone call. A family member was in the hospital, and I needed to find their insurance policy. Not the card, the actual policy document with the coverage details, the group number, the specific provisions for the situation we were facing.

I knew it existed. I’d seen it. But where?

Two hours

I spent the next two hours going through filing cabinets, desk drawers, old email attachments, and a folder on a shared drive that hadn’t been opened in three years. I found tax returns from 2018. I found a car insurance policy for a car we no longer owned. I found the receipt for a dishwasher we bought in 2020.

I did not find the insurance policy.

Eventually I called the insurer directly, sat on hold, and got the information I needed. But those two hours stuck with me.

Every family has this problem

I started asking around. Every family I talked to had some version of the same story. Important documents scattered across physical folders, cloud drives, email attachments, and “I think my spouse knows where that is.”

The lucky families had a binder system that one very organised person maintained. The rest were one emergency away from a frantic search.

The gap

I looked for solutions. There were document scanners, cloud storage apps, and password managers. But nothing that could answer the question I actually had that night: “What does our insurance cover for this specific situation?”

I didn’t need a better filing cabinet. I needed something that could read the documents and answer questions about them.

So I built it

Archevi started as a weekend project and became an obsession. The core insight was simple: modern AI can read documents and answer questions about their contents, but nobody had wrapped that capability in a product designed for families.

I added citations so you could verify every answer. I put it on Canadian servers because families trust their documents to be handled responsibly. I built sharing so both partners could access the vault.

An invitation

Archevi is now live and open to Founding Members. If you’ve ever spent two hours looking for an insurance policy (or worse, couldn’t find it at all) I built this for you.

Try it free, no credit card required. Upload a few documents and ask a question. I think you’ll be surprised at how well it works.