Together with OpenAI, we’re making it easier to bring the context behind your work directly into your AI workflows.

The most useful AI work rarely starts with a single file

Imagine you’re preparing for a client review in ChatGPT. The latest brief is in Dropbox, along with the current presentation, earlier versions, client feedback, supporting research, and approved messaging. Together, those materials provide the context behind the project. But before you can get started, you’re searching for the right sources, checking versions, and bringing them into the conversation one by one.

AI becomes much more useful when it can work from the context behind a task, not just an isolated document. That’s why more customers are connecting their trusted Dropbox content to the AI tools they choose. In fact, usage across Dropbox’s AI integrations has grown more than 13X over the last four months.

We first brought Dropbox into ChatGPT through our Model Context Protocol (MCP)-powered app, making it possible to search and reference Dropbox content and take actions like saving work, organizing files, and creating links for sharing from a ChatGPT conversation.

Now, together with OpenAI, we’re making it even easier to bring the Dropbox context you need directly into your workflow.

Bring the context you need into ChatGPT

Until now, bringing Dropbox content into a ChatGPT conversation started by @mentioning Dropbox to invoke the app and asking it to find the right file. With the new native experience, you can go directly to the Dropbox file you want to use.

Once connected, Dropbox appears throughout ChatGPT’s native file experience. You can search for a specific file, choose from recent files, browse your Dropbox files and folders in Library, or mention a file directly in your prompt.

But most projects involve more than one document. A client presentation may depend on the original brief, previous versions, customer feedback, research, and approved messaging. A campaign might draw from a creative brief, concept deck, performance results, and multiple rounds of feedback.

With Dropbox in ChatGPT, you can bring relevant sources from across that project into the conversation as you work. Instead of repeatedly finding, uploading, and explaining information that already exists, you can give ChatGPT more of the context behind the task at hand.

“By bringing the files and context people already rely on in Dropbox directly into ChatGPT, we’re making it easier to move from finding information to understanding it, developing new ideas, and taking action — all in one flow,” said Sondra Batbold, Product Lead, Personalization and Context at OpenAI. “This is an important step toward making ChatGPT a more connected place to get work done, while respecting the permissions and controls people already have in place.”

When you're running a small business, every minute counts. 

Today, Dropbox is joining OpenAI's Small Business collection in the ChatGPT plugin directory as an inaugural partner. The collection features 16 essential tools chosen to help small business owners win new customers, serve existing ones, and get work done faster than ever.

Small businesses need more capacity to get the work done. In a small business, the person writing the proposal is usually the same person chasing the signed contract, fixing the invoice, and answering the customer email that came in at 9 p.m. No one hands anything off, so everything competes for the same hour.

The proposal exists in three versions in a folder someone else named. The terms are buried in an email thread. The photos the customer sent are on somebody’s phone. The job can’t start until everything is pulled back together—and next week, someone has to do it all again.

AI can help with those tasks, but only when it has the right information. For a small team, finding the latest files, gathering the relevant context, and explaining what already exists can become another time-consuming job.

With the Dropbox plugin, the files you already have become the starting point for the work. ChatGPT can find them, draft from them, save the result back to Dropbox, and share it, without anyone re-uploading.

Here's how our new plugin helps small businesses with the three jobs that come up most often: winning the next customer, serving the ones you already have, and keeping the operation moving.

Prepare the proposal without rebuilding it

A design studio bidding on a new project doesn't need to start from a blank page. The last three winning proposals, the rate card, and the scope template are already in Dropbox. In ChatGPT, ask for a draft of the new proposal using those files as the source. Review it, set the scope and pricing yourself, then save the final version back to Dropbox and send the customer a share link. No re-uploading, no copying between tabs.

Answer the customer without digging

A customer emails asking what was agreed on for phase two of a job you quoted in March. The answer spans a proposal, a change order, and a folder of notes. Ask ChatGPT to pull those files together, lay out what was agreed, and draft the reply. You can check it against what you remember, fix anything that's off, and send it.

Collect the documents you're waiting on

Onboarding a customer usually means asking for the same six things—then following up. Ask ChatGPT to create a Dropbox file request for what's missing and share the link. Everything the customer uploads lands in the right folder, ready for whoever picks up the work next.

Your permissions come with you

Dropbox sharing permissions and access controls stay the same whether work starts or ends in ChatGPT. You stay in control of decisions: ChatGPT prepares the draft or the request, and you approve what goes out.

The work outlasts the conversation

More than 700 million registered users already trust Dropbox with their most important files. Now, when you're working with AI, you can trust Dropbox to keep your content and context organized and secure—ready to find, share, and build on after the conversation ends. 

Wherever you're doing your work, Dropbox remains its trusted home.

Explore Dropbox in ChatGPT. Available in the Small Business collection, on web, mobile, and the desktop app.

We’re constantly looking for ways to improve the Dropbox experience with new feature offerings and ensure that our policies explain how our services work. So we’re letting you know about a few updates to our Dropbox Services Agreement, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy. Here’s a summary of the key changes:

Dropbox Services Agreement   

• We’ve clarified your and Dropbox’s right to disclose confidential information in the event of certain types of regulatory audits. 
• We’ve changed the scope of your and Dropbox’s indemnification obligations in the case of misuse, and we’ve updated what happens when a customer experiences an acquisition or change of control. 
• We’ve clarified that Dropbox may now only be used by those over 18. 
• We’ve made some stylistic and structural changes to improve the clarity of the Agreement.

Terms of Service

• We’ll begin allowing users to access multiple individual and team workspaces with a single account. We’ve revised our Terms to explain what it means if you use this feature. 
• We’ve clarified that Dropbox may now only be used by those over 18. 
• We’ve updated our policies on refunds, the notice period for changes to our fees, and users’ obligations if they don’t agree to updates to our Terms of Service. 
• We’ve changed the time period of inactivity required before we may terminate non-paying accounts to 6 consecutive months. We’ll continue to provide notice before doing so.
• We’ve clarified what happens if you use your corporate email address to join a non-Team plan. 

Privacy Policy

• We’ve added details on how your data is handled when you access multiple individual and team workspaces with a single account, including clarifying what team admins can see. 
• We’ve further explained our collection and use of your data to better identify what data is being used for which purposes.
• We’ve included additional details on how to appeal decisions we make about how we handle your data.

Please take a look at the full Dropbox Services Agreement, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy, which will go into effect on January 1, 2027. You can also find our previous Terms here, our previous Privacy Policy here, and the previous Dropbox Services Agreement here. For more details, visit our Help Center.

Bringing trusted content into AI workflows is already becoming part of how work gets done. As customers increasingly connect Dropbox with the AI tools they use every day, usage across our partner AI integrations has more than doubled in the past month alone, with people regularly saving AI-generated content back to Dropbox, sharing files with teammates, and organizing work from their AI conversations.

Those behaviors reinforce what we're hearing from customers. They aren't looking for another place to work. They want AI to fit into the tools and content they already trust. That's why we're continuing to invest in integrations with leading AI platforms to help customers deeply embed Dropbox into their workflows and move from isolated AI conversations to work that's easier to share, organize, and build on.

Today, we're building on that momentum with new Dropbox capabilities across OpenAI products, including new experiences in their recently announced ChatGPT Work, as well as ChatGPT and ChatGPT Codex. Dropbox customers can now use new tools to organize files and folders, create shareable links, generate file requests and execute multi-step workflows with these capabilities as official Dropbox-created skills, all directly within the OpenAI products they use most.

"AI is most useful when it has the right context," said Vibhor Chhabra, Product Lead for ChatGPT Ecosystem, OpenAI. "The Dropbox plugin helps customers combine ChatGPT's intelligence with the content they already have in Dropbox so they can spend more time on high-impact work.”

AI workflows grounded in trusted content

As organizations bring AI into more of their everyday work, IT administrators need confidence employees are working from approved content instead of creating disconnected company information. Because ChatGPT is integrated with the Dropbox content employees already have permission to access, organizations can expand AI adoption while keeping work secure through their existing permissions, administrative controls, and governance.

• Deploy AI securely: Imagine an IT administrator rolling out ChatGPT. They can give teams access to the Dropbox content they already have permission to use. Employees can find company-trusted content, generate summaries, and save AI-generated work back to Dropbox, while IT maintains permissions, governance, and administrative controls.
• Launch campaigns faster: Now take a product marketing manager preparing for a major launch or customer event. Instead of searching across folders for previous launch plans, messaging documents, executive briefing materials, and campaign assets, they can quickly find the right content, generate a summary, and save that work back to Dropbox so the team can review and build on it. 
• Keep projects moving: The same principle applies in technical, document-heavy industries. Instead of manually gathering documentation to understand project history, a construction company preparing for a big build can work directly from the materials already stored in Dropbox. They can quickly find the latest specifications, review documentation from previous phases, understand how decisions were made, generate summaries for subcontractors, and plan next steps, all grounded in the trusted project information the broader team already relies on.

From AI conversations to connected work

Because Dropbox is the trusted system for more than 700 million registered users and organizations, it provides the secure, portable context that powers AI across tools and models. As more work starts in AI, Dropbox helps ensure the outputs behind that work remain organized, shareable, and connected to the teams that need them long after each conversation ends.

To get started, connect the Dropbox plugin and start bringing your content into your AI workflows.

AI has fundamentally changed how we create, but it has also introduced a new kind of fragmentation. As work bounces between isolated AI chat windows, shared folders, and endless collaboration apps, critical context gets lost in the gaps.

That challenge becomes especially acute for teams already relying on Dropbox to coordinate creative production, review and approve content, share large files, and keep complex projects moving across internal teams and external partners. While AI tools are becoming a bigger part of how work gets done, it’s often harder than it should be to connect these tools to the content and apps that teams use to collaborate each day. What’s missing is context.

To help close the gap between teams, their content, and the AI they use, today we’re introducing three new Dropbox integrations across Claude’s portfolio: the Dropbox Connector for Claude, the Dropbox plugin for Claude Cowork, and the Dropbox plugin for Claude Code. These integrations will make it easier for our more than 700 million users to bring their existing content and workflows into some of today’s most popular AI experiences.

As a central home for content and collaboration, Dropbox gives AI tools—like Claude’s—the right context for your work. By bringing your teams’ files, feedback, and workflows into your conversations, work stays grounded in trusted content and governed by the same permissions teams already rely on, making the AI you already use even more useful. And because content, feedback, and project history live across the tools teams use every day, Dropbox provides a consistent source of context that can travel with you into Claude or any AI tool you choose.

With these integrations, customers can extend their workflows into AI tools in a way that feels useful, practical, and true to how work already gets done without losing the context, coordination, and collaboration that make work possible.

Dropbox plugin for Claude Cowork

For teams that want to do more with their work than search or summarize, the Dropbox plugin for Claude Cowork can help turn ideas into action. Have Cowork sort through client feedback, send deliverables to external partners, or create entirely new assets based on existing Dropbox content—all on its own. You can prompt it to organize your files and folders, generate links for secure sharing, and draft text-based files in formats such as CSV, markdown, HTML, and JavaScript. And when Cowork is finished, it can save the results back to Dropbox for immediate collaboration.

A marketing agency preparing for a campaign review with a client might point Cowork at a Dropbox folder containing the campaign brief, creative assets, copy drafts, client feedback, and final deliverables. Instead of manually sorting through files to understand project status, the team can have Cowork organize materials, surface relevant feedback, and prepare a client-ready recap. Once the review is complete, they can save outputs back to Dropbox and share deliverables directly from Cowork.

Dropbox plugin for Claude Code

With the Dropbox plugin for Claude Code, developers can now use Dropbox files, documentation, and supporting materials as context while generating, updating, or reasoning through code and technical work. This means less time switching between tools trying to find what you need to get work done, or sharing updates and outputs with your team. Organize your project folder into specs, meeting notes, and assets, or create a decision log from a conversation and save it to Dropbox in markdown, all from where you’re already building.

A developer can bring project files—including documentation, technical specs, and supporting materials—from Dropbox into Claude Code as context for technical work. Instead of searching across multiple systems to understand requirements or project history, they can engage directly with the team’s existing documentation to answer questions, review decisions, and generate outputs grounded in trusted project content. Throughout the day, they can save decision logs back to Dropbox and share implementation notes with teammates.

Bring the power of your content to AI

AI is only as smart as the context you give it. By anchoring Claude in Dropbox, we're ensuring your AI-driven workflows are secure, accurate, and deeply integrated into the tools your team already uses every day.

Ready to get started? Enable the Dropbox integrations directly within your Claude workspace today. Need help? View the Help Center article here. 

Today, we announced that Ashraf Alkarmi will become Dropbox co-CEO alongside Drew Houston. Following a transition period, Ashraf will become sole CEO and Drew will move into the role of executive chairman. Drew and Ashraf shared the news with Dropboxers this morning in the emails below. Congratulations, Ashraf!

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Subject: Congratulations Ashraf, our new co-CEO!

Hi team,

Today we're promoting Ashraf Alkarmi to co-CEO of Dropbox. Ashraf has done an incredible job transforming our core business, and I can't think of a better leader for Dropbox’s next chapter. Ashraf and I will jointly lead the company, and after a transition period I'll move into the role of executive chairman and Ashraf will be the sole CEO.

I want to share why we're doing this and why now. Our business is in a stronger position than it's been in years, and a lot of that is because of Ashraf. He inherited a challenging setup when he took over our core business. Many inside and outside the company were skeptical that our trajectory could change, but Ashraf saw things differently. He made difficult and courageous calls, placed some smart bets, and those bets are paying off. While there's still plenty of important work ahead, the business has been getting stronger every quarter.

Early in running Dropbox, someone gave me a piece of advice: before you hire anyone, ask yourself if you'd feel good about your little brother or sister working for this person (I didn’t have kids at the time.) Ashraf is that leader. He cares deeply about the work and he cares deeply about the people doing the work. He tells the truth even when it's hard and disagrees with me when I'm wrong. And anyone who has done karaoke with Ashraf at our offsites knows our culture is in good hands.

Ashraf has spent his whole career—at Amazon, at Vimeo, and before—building products for the creative and content-focused customers we serve. He's also been leading from the front on AI. Last December, while most of the world was on break, Ashraf was building prototypes with AI tools and pushing us to think bigger about what our products could become. I can’t wait for our customers to see the next generation of the Dropbox experience.

Ashraf and I will be working side-by-side through the transition. I care about Dropbox as much as I ever have, and that's not going to change. My focus right now is making sure Dropbox is in the strongest possible shape. But knowing me, it won't be long before I'm getting credit card alerts for my Cursor token spend.

Please join me in congratulating Ashraf. We'll do an All Hands today at 10am PT where we’ll take your questions, and we’ll have more time together in the coming days.

Drew

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Reply from Ashraf:

Hi team, 

First, I want to say how grateful I am for the opportunity and trust that comes with this role. Dropbox is a company and product I’ve admired for a long time, and it’s been incredibly rewarding to work alongside this team. I’m also beyond excited about this next chapter for Dropbox!

What’s energized me most since joining Dropbox is the connection people have with our brand. I’ve heard it over and over in conversations with customers around the world, from creative teams at Sundance to long-time users who tell me Dropbox was one of the first products they ever paid for. Dropbox is a trusted home for their most important work, and that creates a real responsibility for us to keep improving the experience for them.

I’m really excited to double down on customer obsession and build products that solve hard, real problems for the people who rely on Dropbox every day. Our customers are asking us to do much more in the AI era, and we need to keep innovating aggressively to improve how work gets done.

As Drew said, we’re in a much stronger position than we’ve been in years, and that progress is thanks to all of you. Over the last year and a half, we’ve gotten much clearer about our priorities, where we invest, and how we operate. We’ve built a much stronger foundation as a company, and that focus is showing up in our results and in how people are engaging with our products. 

It gives me a lot of confidence in what’s ahead for Dropbox, and I’m grateful to the teams across the company who’ve stepped up, taken ownership, and helped drive that transformation!

My commitment to you is that we’ll be deliberate about where we’re going and how we work. We’re entering a new chapter where we’ll be even more focused on our customers. We’ll make decisions grounded in their needs and in the results we’re seeing, and continue growing from the foundation we’ve put in place.

I have a lot of admiration and respect for the company Drew has built and the values that have shaped it over the years: customer obsession, trust, and integrity. Those things matter deeply to me as a leader, too.

Those values have also shaped how Drew and I work together. We’ve built a working relationship grounded in trust, truth telling, and doing what’s best for our customers, and we’ll continue working closely together through this next phase. We also both care about building a culture where people are kind, direct, and focused on customer impact.

Looking ahead, my priority is to give our leaders the support and clarity they need to stay focused and keep performing at this level. A big part of that is the strength we have across our executive team. We have an incredible group with strong operational experience who know our customers and know how to execute.

On that note, I’m really excited to share that Mike Torres will be joining Dropbox and our senior leadership team as our new Chief Product Officer on July 7. Mike brings deep experience leading and scaling products used by hundreds of millions of people, including leadership roles across Chrome, Kindle, and OneDrive, along with a strong track record of driving focus across large organizations. We’ll share more on Mike and the Product Organization this week, with more details to follow this summer. 

I know we have all the right ingredients to be successful: a trusted brand with more than 700 million global registered users, deep customer relationships, and employees who genuinely care about the quality of what we build.

I’m so excited about where we can go from here!

Looking forward to continuing the conversation at the All Hands shortly.

Ashraf

Producer, songwriter, and musician Fred again.. is teaming up with Dropbox to share never-before-seen creative and raw material from his USB002 tour. 

In each city, people attending his shows were encouraged to be present and enjoy the moment together by putting their phones away. In return, Fred promised to give them direct access to videos and photos via Dropbox after the show. Now that the tour is over, Fred has opened up other folders with more creative, including previously unseen behind-the-scenes creative from USB002, artwork, photos, posters and other creative artifacts.

Inside the drop, you’ll find:

• Original flag design from the USB002 era
• ⁠Show posters 
• Vinyl artwork and templates
• ⁠All release artworks, including unseen and unused artwork options
• Ambient show creative folder
• ⁠Unseen images from each show 
• ⁠Visual stems from slo-mo visualizers

These are the actual working Dropbox files Fred again..’s creative team used to develop USB002, and it reflects how global artists create today: by collaborating, experimenting, and sharing ideas across files, fragments, and timezones.

By making these creative assets public, anyone in the community can now download, edit, and use the content however they want to create new posters, videos, and more.

Sharing these creative files allows everyone who came to Fred’s shows to relive the energy of each night, and for people from the community who weren’t physically present to be brought into the experience.

Check out the drop

The Fred again.. x Dropbox folders drop is available now at https://bit.ly/4eGvDvm. This is a rare opportunity to see a creative team's working files and how Dropbox was instrumental in bringing them to life. We’re excited to give fans a glimpse into the process and the chance to connect with the creative work around his music in a more real and tangible way.

Teams today use lots of tools to collaborate, create content, and get work done. But when they try to use those tools separately, it can take a lot of time and unnecessary effort to supply the right context—let alone bring that work back into Dropbox and share it with collaborators.

Millions of people and hundreds of thousands of teams trust Dropbox as a place to store, organize, and share their work. By streamlining that work into ChatGPT, it becomes easier to bring the right context into your conversations and get answers that are more relevant, useful, and actionable.

To keep teams moving quickly, today we’re introducing three new Dropbox apps in ChatGPT: a Dropbox app, a Dropbox Dash app, and a Reclaim AI calendar app. Together, these apps make it easier to access your work, bring the right context into your AI conversations, and complete tasks directly in ChatGPT.

Whether you’re working with files, searching for answers across your tools, or coordinating time on your calendar, these three new apps help you move work forward without interrupting your flow.

Dropbox app in ChatGPT

With the Dropbox app in ChatGPT, you can easily access and preview your Dropbox files, save AI-generated content directly to Dropbox, and share links to your work without leaving ChatGPT. That means no more manually uploading files or copying and pasting between documents.

ChatGPT can even reference relevant files already stored in your Dropbox account to help generate drafts and answer questions, so you always have the context you need without switching tools. And because your Dropbox sharing permissions and access controls stay the same whether your work starts or ends in ChatGPT, you can trust that whatever you store in Dropbox will remain secure.

The Dropbox app in ChatGPT is available globally and can be used by Dropbox customers on any plan.

Dropbox Dash app in ChatGPT

Dropbox Dash already brings content from more than 30 workplace apps into one, secure place for your company knowledge. But with the Dropbox Dash app in ChatGPT, you can also bring that knowledge directly into your conversations in ChatGPT.

Now, when you ask a question in ChatGPT, it can quickly surface the right answer using context from across your connected work apps, with results that are more personalized to you. That’s because Dash has context about you, your content, and your team.

With this richer context, the Dropbox Dash app in ChatGPT helps users surface more helpful, relevant, and actionable answers without leaving your current chat. And because Dash, like Dropbox, respects existing permissions and access controls, your connected content is always secure.

The Dropbox Dash app in ChatGPT will be available in the coming weeks for existing Dash customers. New users can try a free 30-day trial.

Reclaim AI calendar app in ChatGPT

The Reclaim AI calendar app in ChatGPT makes it even easier to plan, manage, and optimize your calendar in Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook. Instead of the back-and-forth of manual scheduling, now you can just use the Reclaim AI calendar app in ChatGPT for help. You can add events, find time for meetings, resolve conflicts, analyze your productivity, search contacts, and even understand what your day looks like—all within your existing conversation.

The Reclaim AI calendar app in ChatGPT is available globally in English to customers who are using the latest version of the Reclaim AI calendar system.

To download the latest apps, visit the ChatGPT app directory.

To learn more, visit our Help Center.

"I've never seen that movie before." Zainab Azizi knew it the moment she read the logline: a Survivor-obsessed employee stranded on a deserted island with her terrible boss. She brought it to Sam Raimi—the director behind Evil Dead and Spider-Man—and spent the next six years getting it made.

The result is a gonzo survival comedy-thriller starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien that opened January 30 and has already crossed $74 million worldwide. See it in a theater and you'll understand why: it’s hard to keep quiet while you’re watching. It was also, it turns out, hard to make. Getting there required coordinating shoots across Sydney and Thailand, managing hundreds of storyboards, and funneling a flood of production material into a Dropbox folder that became the film’s command center—one Azizi was still adding to the morning of this interview.

Have you ever had a terrible boss?
Hah. No, but I personally have felt like Linda [played by McAdams] in the office, where she's being told “Oh, you'll be in the next meeting” and…you’re not. And when you have a bunch of people snickering. I think that experience is almost universal.

And that's what drew you to this project.
The hook was like a wish fulfillment story. I love that Linda [McAdams] is such an underdog and relatable, but also the story is very fantastical at the same time. The writers are such great storytellers: the way they were able to provide all of these twists and turns in their 30-minute pitch just got me hooked. We knew there was so much to play with here.

The film keeps flipping whose side the audience is on. How early was that a conscious decision?
That was definitely one of Sam’s. It’s one of the reasons he loved the project so much. He wanted to make sure that audiences were with Linda, but then with Bradley [O'Brien], and then back to her, and then back to him. So by the time we get to the end reveal, we're confused about how we're supposed to feel. 

When I saw it, I found myself turning around to look at the audience's reactions. I can't remember the last time I did that in a theater. Was that the experience you were designing for?
One of the factors is that people love to go to the theaters to see something they've never seen before. And one sub-genre that I consider this film to be is an adventure—an exotic adventure. We could have done the whole movie on a blue screen, and that would have been cheaper and easier for everyone. But we chose Thailand specifically because it was such a postcard-beautiful island. Seeing it on the big screen…it's a character in itself. And then there’s the comedy element, and the scares. If you’re at home and glance at your phone, you miss the jump scare—and then it’s not scary. But when you're in a theater, we make all of our suspense scenes very calculated. It's a fun way to manipulate the audience.

You shot near Phuket in Thailand. What were the biggest practical consequences of that?
Shooting on an island is incredibly complex. For one, the island is beautiful, but we had to bring in a really big greens department because Sam wanted it even more lush and exotic. Sound becomes complex, too—making sure we were protective of the voices of the cast not getting hidden by the waves. On top of that, you have the heat. And the bugs.

With a shoot that complex, how do you keep a production from flying apart?
You have to have your hand in everything, but you need to have really strong department heads, and you have to really trust and rely on them. If you start to micromanage one department, that attention takes away from another. As a producer, countless decisions need to be made in two hours. But most of that is done in pre-production, so that when you're on set, you've got a plan.

Sam storyboarded the entire film. What did that mean for how everyone worked?
Sam worked with his storyboard artist Doug Leffler, who he's worked with for over 30 years. They produced hundreds and hundreds of storyboards. Then Sam had an editor make an animatic of the whole movie. That was our North Star: okay, this is what our director wants. But because making a movie takes a whole village, it's really just the starting point.

Where did Dropbox first enter the picture on this project?
It first entered the picture with those storyboards. Because we had so many of them, Dropbox was a great place to organize them, by folders, by scene.

What else ended up living in there as production got going?
Slowly but surely we'd have a lot of art in there. Like the boar [a creature Linda hunts on the island that becomes one of the film's most memorable set pieces]. We're designing this pig, and the first designs were all hand drawn, and then it went to 3D models. All of that was in there. 

And then the plane crash: our VFX supervisor gathered footage of plane crashes across cinema—from Castaway, to others, including one Russian film with an insane crash—he put it all in Dropbox. One day we had a production meeting just to focus on the crash, and we went on Dropbox in the conference room and reviewed every clip. We wanted to make sure our plane crash was different, fresh, original.

Somehow you made a plane crash…funny?
Right? And then even this morning—this morning—I used Dropbox on the movie, because our photographer on set had a lot of behind-the-scenes photographs, so it was all stored there.

How do you describe what Dropbox does for a production like this?
To me, Dropbox is organization. It helps you take all of these chaotic materials and organize them. It helps me become responsible with my to-do list and keeps me on track.

You never gave up on this project through six years and a pandemic. Why not?
Because I love it so much. I just thought so many people could relate.

For a behind the scenes look at the film, check out our Send Help x Dropbox Stack.

Images courtesy of 20th Century Studios.