Box announces AI workflow and enterprise search tools

Box announced two enterprise artificial-intelligence products on November 5: Architect, a tool for creating AI workflows, and Context Retrieval, a search engine designed to help AI agents find information in company content. The announcements came at BoxWorks 2026 and included an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA focused on enterprise search. Architect allows teams to describe a business process in plain language, then build and test a workflow intended to carry it out. Box said users can set decision points for human review and that the tool applies existing permissions, classifications and retention policies to content. Once deployed, it can monitor workflow outputs and recommend improvements, according to the company. Box said Architect is planned to enter beta for Enterprise Advanced customers in the fourth quarter of 2026. The company has not disclosed pricing. Box gave a bank onboarding process as an example of a workflow that could draw on its existing products for forms, document extraction, electronic signatures and automation. The second product, Context Retrieval, is designed to search text, images, audio and video, combining keyword matches with searches based on...