For technology leaders at small and fast-growing companies, the question isn’t whether to adopt AI, but how to do it in a way that demonstrates measurable ROI. At BoxWorks 2025, industry leaders shared use cases driving real impact, including AI agents that recover 30 hours of manual work per week and intelligent workflows that scale onboarding throughput 9x.
Plus, we announced new product innovations that arm you with the metadata you need to make smarter business decisions, the intelligent workflow automation to act on that insight, and the AI-powered security to keep your critical data secure.
Read on for the most important announcements and takeaways from BoxWorks 2025 and what they mean for your growing business. Plus, we’ll share how you can unlock AI that understands your business context, integrates across your tech stack, and enforces security by design.
Extract valuable data to power more efficient workflows
For small teams with limited resources, it can be challenging to find the time to organize and categorize your files (like project plans, budgets, and sales contracts).
Whether you’re building retail digital asset libraries, simplifying legal contract management processes, or scaling out client onboarding workflows, you need to make sense of your unstructured data. And by applying the power of AI to your content, you can bring order to the chaos.
Soon, teams will be able to use Box Extract, a combination of custom, AI-powered extraction agents, to unlock data extraction with high accuracy and reliability. For example, consulting teams could use Box Extract to build customized extraction agents that pull data from thousands of statements of work (across multiple file types) to review client trends by year, solution type, and more.
Multiply your team’s output with agentic automation
AI agents can scale the impact of growing businesses, minimizing or eliminating human intervention in tedious and repetitive processes that span multiple systems and stakeholders.
Box Automate, our new agentic workflow automation solution, enables organizations to effortlessly orchestrate teams, systems, and agents to save time and scale your work. For example, financial services teams can quickly and deeply analyze documents to onboard clients faster.
Combat growing cyber risk for small businesses
Whether you work in a regulated industry and have to keep detailed records for compliance or handle sensitive customer data, you must keep your business-critical content secure. In light of these threats, you need even more advanced solutions to protect and govern your valuable and sensitive information.
Ransomware was a component of 39% of breaches for larger organizations, while accounting for 88% of breaches for smaller companies.
Box Shield Pro brings the power of agentic AI to your data security, allowing you to auto-classify more content than ever and detect threats before they happen. Growing businesses can use Box Shield Pro to get ahead of growing cybersecurity risks while reducing the manual effort required to keep content secure.
Leverage AI agents to scale your organization
Plus, we introduced new ways to engage with and orchestrate agents across Box, including:
- Enhancements to Box Apps to surface Box AI Agents on demand to process and analyze content within specific views, such as an expert legal agent to dive deep on case files
- The ability to add knowledge to custom agents in Box AI Studio, such as a style guide for creating brand-aligned copy or a sales brief for a customer outreach agent
- New ways to extend Box content across third party apps and custom agents using the remote Box MCP server, including Claude, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Azure API Center, and Mistral Le Chat — with Salesforce Agentforce, GitHub Copilot, and more coming soon.
Accelerate your AI journey
With AI agents entering the workforce en masse to power the next generation of Intelligent Content Management, there’s never been a better time to future-proof your organization’s content strategy.
At BoxWorks, we hosted a dedicated session for small businesses where leaders at AI-first companies shared their advice on how to implement an AI strategy, from identifying a core committee of AI stakeholders, to solving simple problems first, to evangelizing major wins within your team.
Ready to take the next step on your AI journey? On September 25th, join us for a live session on how growing businesses can scale repeatable work 9x with AI, where you’ll learn:
- What today’s top AI trends mean for your business
- Quick-win use cases to automate repeatable work
- Tips from small business leaders that aresaving time and reducing risk with AI
