Local search works the moment you've added a folder — no AI provider needed. Type filenames, column names, or document text into the search bar; Sery Link returns hits with a “why matched” line so you know where each one came from.

Plain-English questions happen in your cloud workspace at app.sery.ai. Connect Sery Link to a workspace (paste a workspace key from app.sery.ai/settings/workspace-keys), then open the dashboard's chat — Sery's AI agent generates SQL, runs it on the right machine via the secure tunnel, and answers in plain English. Local-only users still get the file-manager surface; AI is the upgrade path.

Example questions

Once you've connected a workspace, things like:

• “Find my 2024 tax documents” — returns a file list with paths
• “How much did I spend on flights last year?” — aggregates matching CSV rows
• “What's my busiest folder by file size?” — ranks files across indexed data
• “Show me the largest PDFs modified this month” — filters + sorts

How the answer comes back

Sery responds with a short natural-language summary plus a structured answer — a file list for “find” questions, a table + optional chart for “how much / how many” questions.