The Document Naming Crisis: Why Your Filing System Is Broken (And How AI Fixes It)
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I want to tell you about the most embarrassing moment of my career.
A partner at the firm had a client on the phone. Big client. The kind where you don't put them on hold if you can help it. She asked me to pull up the engagement letter for the Henderson account, the one we'd finalized three months earlier. I went to the folder. I searched. I searched again. What I found was a folder called "Henderson" containing seventeen files with names like "final," "final_v2," "FINAL_FINAL," "engagement_letter_march_REVISED," and one file, mysteriously, called "use_this_one."
