A helper this close must be yours alone.
A voice helper hears you. A memory sees your screen. We know exactly how products like this lose people's trust - so the stance is in writing, and you can hold us to it.
1. Local only. Nothing leaves your machine
Speech recognition runs on your machine. The memory buffer, your clips, and your transcripts live on your disk. There is no cloud copy, no account required, and no telemetry on what you say or see. Cloud assistants are someone else's helper on your computer; this one is yours. Your voice never becomes training data, because it never reaches us.
2. The mic is yours
Dictation is push-to-talk - the mic engages when you double-tap Ctrl, not before. Ambient listening, which powers transcripts and searchable memory, is off until you explicitly turn it on during setup, with a plain-language note about consent. A silent always-hot mic is a product we refuse to ship.
3. The memory forgets by default
If you enable the screen memory, it holds a rolling 24 hours, then overwrites itself - gone. Nothing accumulates. There is no months-deep archive of your life to leak or subpoena. Keeping a moment is your explicit act; forgetting is what the product does on its own.
4. Encrypted at rest
"Local" is not enough if any program on your machine can read your day. The buffer and transcripts are protected on disk so your machine's memory is readable by you, not by whatever malware wanders in. This is a hard requirement we hold before launch, not a future promise.
5. Always visible, always pausable
Indicators you can see whenever the helper is listening or the memory is recording. A hard pause one key away. Per-app and per-window exclusions so the things you never want captured are never captured. No stealth mode - a helper you cannot see working is a product we refuse to build.
The meetings question, answered plainly
MyQuietShadow is not a meeting bot that joins your calls. It is your machine's memory - which includes the meeting you forgot to record. If you enable ambient audio and you are on a call, the law and plain courtesy in many places require you to tell people they are being recorded. Pause is one key away, and meeting-aware auto-pause is on our roadmap - so the right thing is also the easy thing.
What about the website?
This site stores your waitlist email and nothing sneaky; see the privacy policy for the specifics.
Private by design, not by promise
If this stance matches what you have been waiting for, get in line early.
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