# TechCrunch: former Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to launch Ndoc

- Published: 2026-10-27T14:59:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-27T22:07:16.197Z
- Section: AI in practice
- Topics: Productivity
- Page: https://aidailyjournal.com/en/n/2026/10/27/techcrunch-former-meta-ai-director-rohit-patel-leaves-to-launch-ndoc/
- Sources: [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/27/meta-ai-director-rohit-patel-leaves-to-take-on-microsoft-office-and-google-workspace)

## Summary

Rohit Patel left Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning and launched Ndoc, TechCrunch reports. The former director at Meta Superintelligence Labs is pitching the startup as an AI-native alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace, with a unified workspace intended to replace workflows combining tools such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Tableau, Replit and ChatGPT copy-paste.

Ndoc brings presentations, analyses with citations and generated figures, datasets and Python scripts together. Patel says users can check how documents were produced, and that the platform uses a mixture of open-source models. He plans to open-source the “.ndoc.html” file format, which could let other developers build compatible apps. TechCrunch describes the bet as especially ambitious for a team of three with no funding.

## Why it matters (editorial interpretation)

Patel’s proposal could interest teams that now switch among documents, spreadsheets, presentations, code, and AI tools. If the “.ndoc.html” format is open-sourced as planned, other developers could build compatible applications and extend this integrated workflow, although the startup is still unfunded and has only three people.

_Summary written by AI Daily Journal in its own words, based on the sources above. For details, read the original articles._