Virtual assistants do a particular kind of work that's rarely named and often invisible: remembering on behalf of someone else. Where is the W-9? What did we send the accountant in March? Did the insurance certificate come back signed?
These aren't questions to a good VA — they're reflexes. She knows, or she finds out. And she does it, more often than not, by keeping a single Excel workbook where every document is named, dated, and linked. The workbook is the memory.
The tool
We built Luka's Archive because the workbook, while excellent, is slow. To retrieve one document you open the file, scroll to the client, find the row, copy the link, and close the file. Over thirty clients and three hundred requests a week, the friction adds up.
Luka's Archive reads the workbook directly through Microsoft Graph and renders each row as a card. A search field replaces the scroll. One click replaces the copy-paste. Your workbook stays the source of truth — we just read it faster.
The best tool for a virtual assistant is the one her client never notices.
What we didn't build
No chat. No AI dashboard. No notifications. Luka's Archive does one thing — it retrieves a document — and tries to do it well. Every feature we added had to survive the question: does this get out of the way?
The make
- Typeface Geist Sans & Geist Mono
- Palette Warm off-white, ink, tangerine accent
- Stack HTML · CSS · Microsoft Graph API
- Auth MSAL.js · OAuth 2.0
- Scopes Files.Read — read-only, never written