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DeepSeek Joins Bring Your Own AI Keys

DeepSeek is now a directly supported provider in FolioReady's Bring Your Own AI Keys area, alongside Anthropic and OpenAI. Paste in your DeepSeek API key, pick a model, and AI calls from your account run through your own DeepSeek bill — same setup flow as the existing providers, same encryption, same per-feature scoping.

What's New

DeepSeek as a third BYO provider

Open Company → Credentials, click New credential, and DeepSeek is now in the provider dropdown. Pick a model, paste your API key, and save. The next AI call from any feature automatically uses your DeepSeek credential.

Two V4 models out of the box

The credential form ships with two DeepSeek V4 models pre-configured:

  • deepseek-v4-flash — DeepSeek's cheap, fast model. A natural pick for high-volume tasks like document synopsis and field extraction.
  • deepseek-v4-pro — DeepSeek's stronger model. A better fit for folio insights conversations where reasoning quality matters.

You can leave the model field blank and FolioReady will use deepseek-v4-flash as the default, or specify either model explicitly. As with Anthropic and OpenAI, you can run different models for different AI features by adding action-scoped credentials.

Compatible billing and rate-limit story

DeepSeek's API is OpenAI-compatible, so the BYO experience is identical to plugging in an OpenAI key. Your AI usage shows up on your DeepSeek dashboard at https://platform.deepseek.com — not on your FolioReady bill — and you're governed by your own DeepSeek account's rate limits. If you're routing through an internal proxy or gateway, drop the URL into the Base URL field and FolioReady will hit that endpoint instead of DeepSeek's default.

Same encryption and rotation flow

Your DeepSeek key is encrypted the moment you save it. It's never displayed back to you, never written to logs, and only decrypted at the moment FolioReady makes the API call on your behalf. To rotate, edit the credential and paste a new key — the previous ciphertext is overwritten.

How to Use It

  1. Generate an API key at platform.deepseek.com
  2. In FolioReady, go to Company → Credentials
  3. Click New credential and pick DeepSeek as the provider
  4. Optionally pick deepseek-v4-flash or deepseek-v4-pro as the model
  5. Paste your API key and save
  6. Leave the scope blank to use this as your default, or pick a specific action (insights, synopsis, extraction, builder)
💡 Worth knowing

DeepSeek's V4 models are text-only — they don't read images or PDFs directly. FolioReady automatically falls back to extracting text from attachments before sending the prompt, so document uploads still work, but you'll get richer extraction quality on visual documents from a multimodal provider.