Hope everyone’s year is off to a strong and inspiring start.
As we move into another year, we continue to highlight exciting announcements, product updates, and standout contributions from our amazing community members. We’re grateful to have you with us as we grow, learn, and build together.
Box Community Headlines
Turn unstructured content into actionable data with AI‑powered extraction that understands context, scales effortlessly, and delivers high‑quality metadata right inside Box. Automate workflows, accelerate search, and unlock insights across your entire business.
Learn more and see how Box Extract transforms the way teams work:
📣 Introducing Box Extract: Get actionable data from enterprise content at scale
The Levie Edge: Box, Business & Beyond
🚀 Your front-row seat to Aaron Levie’s latest insights, bold ideas, and game-changing updates.
AI is bringing Jevons Paradox to knowledge work. As the cost of taking on any task drops dramatically, businesses will do far more than ever before — launching projects, experiments, and innovations that previously never got off the ground.
Unpack the future of productivity and the coming surge in what businesses can build.
📣 Read Jevons Paradox for Knowledge Work by Aaron Levie, Box CEO.
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💬 Want to stay in the loop with all things Box? Head over to our latest posts for exciting updates and insights!
StackAI is proud to be part of Box's AI Partner Ecosystem.
Together, we’re enabling enterprises to deploy AI agents that securely connect to Box, so teams can search, parse, manage, and automate workflows across their up-to-date content.
From document retrieval and metadata management to permissions, sharing, and file operations, StackAI helps turn Box content into an AI-powered layer for enterprise workflows.
📣 Spotlighting this powerful new addition to the Box AI Partner Ecosystem, shared here.
👉 Learn more about the partnership: https://community.box.com/p/stackai
Airweave (YC X25) natively connects with Box, enabling AI agents to search and retrieve live context from your Box files and folders.
With this integration, agents can now:
- Access documents, PDFs, and files stored in Box
- Query up-to-date content on demand
- Ground responses and actions in real enterprise knowledge
It's now easier than ever to give AI agents reliable, permission-aware access to Box.
📣 Highlighting a powerful integration Airweave just rolled out here.
👉 Docs: https://docs.airweave.ai/docs/connectors/box
👉 Box Community Page: https://community.box.com/p/airweave
⏱️ Time is money — and Valmark Financial Group is saving plenty with Box Extract.
By giving 400 advisors fast, accurate answers, intelligent automation is helping teams move quicker and make smarter decisions without overhauling their infrastructure.
Their CIO Geoff Moore (
“We went from pulling just 4,000 data points annually from ‘dark data’ in policies to extracting over 240,000, thanks to enhanced extraction models.”
Discover how a leader of the financial services industry boosts efficiency with Box Extract:
📣 Valmark Financial Group boosts efficiency thanks to Box AI Extract Agents
Acknowledging Excellence!
💫 Shuang Li, @matt.riley Box, @Scott Picanco Box, and Veerender Nallamala
Hear all about Box Metadata | Community Roundtable
Thank you for leading a rich and forward‑thinking discussion on how metadata unlocks the true potential of AI across the enterprise. Your demos, updates, and deep expertise helped our community understand how to surface value from the 90% of content that remains unstructured. We appreciate the practical guidance you brought to every part of the roundtable—from Box Extract to workflow automation and beyond.
💫 @Scott Picanco Box
Announcing the General Availability of Box Extract!
Special shoutout for championing the launch of Box Extract and helping the community understand how transformative automated data extraction can be. Thank you for articulating how AI, OCR, and agentic intelligence come together to turn unstructured content into actionable insights at scale.
💫 @daria
We appreciate you for sharing two powerful updates that showcase how Box AI is extending intelligence across the enterprise ecosystem. Your posts made it easy for the community to understand how ServiceNow and Salesforce users can now automate decisions, sync records, and eliminate manual data entry. Your commitment helps customers unlock seamless, AI‑driven workflows across their most critical business platforms.
💫 @itsmedanip Box
Getting Started with Box Enterprise Advanced – Contracts Management | Intelligent Content Management - Enterprise Advanced User Group
(Links available to members of the private group):
Thank you for creating such a thoughtful, step‑by‑step guide that demystifies how to build a complete contract management workflow with Box Enterprise Advanced. These make complex concepts—metadata, forms, document generation, automation—feel approachable and actionable for teams of all skill levels, helping users connect data, content, and decisions into a seamless end‑to‑end solution.
💫 @LarsJ Box
Have you seen the new video collaboration features in Box? | Media & Entertainment User Group
(Accessible to private group members)
Thanks for walking the community through the newly released video collaboration experience and its game‑changing capabilities. This helps teams immediately understand how to work faster and more collaboratively in Box. We’re grateful for the enthusiasm you bring to showcasing features that make content review more intuitive and efficient.
💫 @JohnCapers Box
Automation and AI - Reducing the "invisible" burdens in Court systems! | Box for Public Sector Courts User Group
(Accessible to private group members)
We appreciate you for spotlighting how AI and automation can meaningfully reduce administrative burdens and improve access to justice. Your reflections on the research, paired with examples of how Box AI and Box Relay can help, brought valuable context to an important conversation. Thanks for your dedication to helping public‑sector teams serve their communities with compassion.
Celebrating our Community Champion!
💫 @schwentker
Your bold and thought‑provoking perspective in our Community Poll: Share your AI Predictions for 2026! brought fresh energy to the conversation.
Your vision of an audio‑first enterprise, the rise of Buildathons, and a future where knowledge workers become “Agent Orchestrators” sparked meaningful dialogue about how work is evolving. Your insights help shape what the next era of AI‑powered productivity could look like.
Product Updates, Feature Releases, and Announcements
Stay up-to-date with the latest innovations and updates by subscribing to our announcements and release notes. 📩
| Announcing Box Extract (Jan 2026) GA | We are incredibly excited to announce Box Extract, enabling teams to automatically and accurately extract structured data from unstructured content at scale. |
| Updates to collaboration invite email limits for free and trial accounts Launched | We’ve recently updated how collaboration invite emails are handled for free and trial accounts that have not provided payment information.
Free users and trial accounts that have not provided payment information may now encounter limits on the number of collaboration invite emails that can be sent within a given period. If you reach this limit, additional invite emails will not be delivered until the limit resets. |
| New Box Notes features: enhanced tables, mermaid diagrams, and more Coming soon | We’re excited to bring another wave of highly-requested features to Box Notes. These enhancements are designed to make creating, organizing, and collaborating in Notes faster, cleaner, and more powerful than ever.
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| Multi‑Doc Q&A and Box AI for Notes on Box Mobile Coming soon | Get faster answers and smarter notes on the go — Box brings two powerful AI features from web to mobile, helping you stay productive on the go without missing a beat.
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| AI Threat Analysis is coming to Box Shield Pro Coming soon | AI Threat Analysis is coming soon to all Shield Pro customers. AI Threat Analysis enables AI-generated plain language summaries within Box Shield threat alerts, with the goal of surfacing the most critical threat information in an easy-to-understand context, saving time for security operations teams and reducing risk to the organization. |
| Coming soon | We’re introducing a new notification that alerts users when their account has been made inactive by an Admin. Admins are able to send this notification to keep users informed of their status change or opt out if they prefer not to send it. |
| Coming soon | We’re introducing the Groups Report: a single, reliable inventory of all groups with core attributes including Group ID, Group Name, Member Count, Created, and Last Updated.
This report will give Admins self-serve visibility to support governance, security reviews, and audit readiness, while laying the foundation for more advanced reporting in a future phase. The report will be now available from the Groups page. |
| Box Shuttle: Job-triggered Schedules Coming soon | Box is pleased to announce job-triggered schedules in Box Shuttle. With the Box Shuttle job-triggered schedules feature a Box Shuttle job can be scheduled to run when another job completes. |
Mark Your Calendar: Exciting Events Coming Up!
Don't miss out on our upcoming events! Check them out and subscribe to stay informed and connected. 📅
| Date | Events | Event type |
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| January 21, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| January 21, 2026 | How growing teams use content intelligence to cut costs and automate work | Virtual event |
| January 27, 2026 | Unlocking AI-Driven Document Intelligence with Bubo Defense & Box | Virtual event |
| January 27, 2026 | Virtual event | |
| January 28, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) | |
| January 28, 2026 | Virtual event | |
| February 10, 2026 | Hear the latest on Box AI Integrations with ServiceNow and Salesforce | Virtual event |
| February 12, 2026 | Webinar (Japanese) |
📌 Catch Up on Past Digests
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