I've been deep in the trenches building document workflows for legal and business teams, and I keep running into the same frustrating pattern. We've got this incredible $55 billion document management market projected to hit $55.61 billion by 2037, but 90% of SaaS products are still thinking in terms of "pages" and "files" instead of structured data. The problem is that static documents create silos, versioning headaches, and make integration with other tools almost impossible. We treat them like files to store or send, not as **living, structured information** that can be interacted with, analyzed, and integrated across systems. Here's what's bugging me: when you're building a SaaS product that handles any kind of business document (contracts, proposals, reports, whatever), we are defaulting to the Word doc & pdf paradigms. But why? The users aren't printing these things and filing them in cabinets. They need to query them, update them collaboratively, integrate them with other systems, and extract insights from them. But instead, we're giving them digital versions of A4 pages with the same limitations as paper. In my latest [Substack](https://kevintouati.substack.com/p/beyond-the-4-corners-reshaping-modern) post, I explore why we need to rethink documents as **dynamic, database-like systems**, and how this shift could finally modernize workflows, improve collaboration, and unlock automation in legal and business teams. I’d love to hear what you think: are documents ready to evolve, or is paper culture too ingrained?