File-based integrations are everywhere.

ERP systems exporting data. Cameras uploading footage. Legacy systems pushing CSV files. Partners exchanging documents.

And despite all the talk about APIs and real-time systems, a surprising amount of real-world infrastructure still runs on one simple thing:

File transfers.

The problem isn’t FTP. It’s everything around it.

The missing layer

Traditional FTP setups are good at one thing:

Moving files from A to B.

But modern systems need more:

Events when something happens

Programmatic access to data

Integration with other systems

Visibility and control

Without that, teams end up building:

Cron jobs polling directories

Scripts parsing file systems

Fragile integrations

We kept seeing the same pattern again and again:

Things work — until they don’t.

From file transfer to event-driven workflows

What if file transfers weren’t passive?

What if:

A file upload triggered an event

That event called another system

And the data could be accessed via…