Ex-Meta AI Director Launches Ndoc to Rival Office and Workspace

Rohit Patel, former director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, has left to found Ndoc, an AI-native unified workspace aiming to replace Microsoft Office and Google Workspace. This move signals a shift of top AI talent from model development to application-layer reconstruction, targeting the fragmentation of traditional office tools.

Technically, Ndoc integrates data, analysis, and presentation into three modules: Stage, Narrative, and Model, eliminating inefficient switching between Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. The product plans to open-source its unique .ndoc.html format to establish new file standards, prioritizing rapid iteration over initial perfection.

This initiative could reshape the enterprise productivity landscape, forcing incumbents like Microsoft and Google to accelerate their AI-native transitions. For developers, the new file standard may foster a fresh ecosystem around AI-native documents, lowering collaboration barriers and providing structured data carriers for AI applications.