Upload files and export results
Upload files and export results
What is this?
You can give Pave Agent files to work from, and you can take results out of a conversation as a download.
There are two ways to give it a file, and they behave differently. Your file library holds files that stay available across every conversation. A file attached to a message is available in that conversation only. Choosing the wrong one is the most common reason a file is not there when you go looking for it.
Upload a file to your library
Use the library for anything you will need more than once: a survey file, your compensation philosophy, a board slide you keep referring back to. A good rule is to upload the context you would otherwise have to re-explain at the start of every session.
- In the Pave Agent chat header, open Context.
- Go to the Files tab.
- Upload your file and give it a description. The description is how Pave Agent knows when the file is relevant, so make it specific.
[Screenshot: The Context modal open on the Files tab, showing uploaded files and the upload control]
Library files:
- Accept these formats:
.csv,.md,.txt,.pdf,.json,.png,.jpg,.jpeg, and.parquet. - Can be up to 100 MB each.
- Stay available across all your conversations.
- Are accessible across all Pave Agent admin users at your company.
- Can be deleted from the same Files tab.
Send a file with a single message
Use this for something you are asking about right now: a screenshot of a spreadsheet, a resume you want an offer evaluated against, a one-off PDF.
Attach the file directly to your message in the chat. Attachments:
- Accept images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, and WebP) and PDF documents.
- Can be up to 20 MB each.
- Are limited to five per message.
- Are available in that conversation only, not in your library and not in your other conversations.
If you will need the file again later, upload it to your library instead.
Export a result
Some results are too large to read in a conversation. When a result runs past roughly 200 rows, Pave Agent shows you a sample of it and includes a download link alongside it.
[Screenshot: A download card beneath a result in the Pave Agent conversation]
The download contains the full result set, not only the rows shown in the conversation. Downloads are CSV files.
To get one, ask for the data you want and be specific about the population, the columns, and the grouping:
"Create a CSV export of engineering ranges including job code, pay zone, range midpoint, market median for base salary, and average compa ratio."
A question that returns a short result is answered in the conversation on its own, with no download link, because the whole result already fits.
Find a past export
Download links work only while that chat is active. If you come back to a conversation later, the link in it will no longer download.
Past exports are kept in your file library:
- Open Context from the chat header.
- Go to the Files tab.
- Switch the category to Exports.
Exports is a filter inside the Files tab rather than a separate place, so if you are looking for a download and only see uploads, check that filter.
Things to know
Give library files a clear description. Pave Agent decides whether to open a file based on its description, not by reading every file on every question. A file described as "survey data" is less likely to be used than one described as "Radford 2026 technology survey, US base salary by level."
Very large files may not be readable in full. The upload limit is 100 MB, but the practical ceiling for a file Pave Agent can read is lower, around 50 MB, and lower still for long documents. If a file is large, a focused extract works better than the whole thing.
A file attached to a message stays with that conversation. It does not move into your library, and it is not available in a new chat.
Results come out as data files. Charts, formatted documents, slides, and PDF reports are not available.
Pave Agent does not change your compensation data. Exporting a result does not write anything back into Pave. See the article on what data Pave Agent can see.