A personal AI that knows your life because it runs on your own email, texts, documents, photos, calendar and recordings — answering with the receipts, while your private information stays on your own computers.
Your life is scattered across fifteen apps that were never built to talk to each other. The lease is in Drive. The amendment arrived by email. The contractor's promise is in a text message. The date you agreed it is on your calendar. The photo that proves the damage is in Photos.
So one simple question becomes a hunt. You open four apps, guess at search terms, and try to hold half an answer in your head while you go looking for the rest. Most of the time you give up and go with what you remember.
Fifteen places one answer might be hiding.
Every source searched together, the answer assembled from whichever of them holds the pieces, and the document it came from right there to open.
No folders to remember, no filenames to guess, no search box that only matches the exact word you typed.
Type the question the way you would say it out loud. Privy works out where the answer lives.
Email, texts, documents, photos, calendar, contacts, voice memos and meeting transcripts — all searched together.
Each answer points at the message, file or photo it came from, so you can open it and check for yourself.
Telling an executed document apart from the six drafts that came before it. Not available yet — we will say so here when it is.
Find pictures by who is in them and where they were taken, without ever having named a single file.
New mail, new files and new photos are picked up on their own. There is nothing to re-import.
Most AI tools get useful by taking a copy of everything you have. Privy is built the other way around.
Your mail, files, photos and recordings sit on computers you own, in your home or office. Privy reads them there.
When a question does need a cloud AI to help with the wording, names, account numbers and similar details are swapped for placeholders first. The outside model sees the shape of the question, not the people in it.
The real names and figures are filled back in on your own screen, after your fingerprint. They are never sent back out.
Removing something from Privy removes it. It does not reappear later in an answer.
Copies are kept and restores are tested, so a failed drive is an inconvenience rather than the end of your archive.
Illustration. Fictional example.
Your files, mail and photos live on computers you own. Privy does not keep a copy somewhere else.
Names, account numbers and similar details are replaced with placeholders before any question reaches an outside model.
Tax records, Social Security numbers and banking details are handled on your own machines only.
Privy started with a retired operator and investor who had decades of email, contracts, photographs and recordings scattered across a dozen machines and services, and no way to ask a simple question about any of it. The tools that could answer wanted a copy of everything first, which was not a trade he was willing to make. So he built the version he actually wanted — one that reads his own archive, on his own hardware, and shows its work — and then made it something other people could have too.
Privy is early and deliberately small. If it sounds like something you want, write to us.