Your life, searchable. Privately.

Privy reads your own records on your own hardware — decades of email, texts, contracts, photos, and recordings — and answers your questions in plain English, showing the documents behind every answer.

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Built by an operator and investor who wanted it for his own archive.

The problem

The answer exists. Finding it is the problem.

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.

“What did we actually agree on for the roof?” Email for the estimate → Messages for the change → Calendar for the date → Photos for the damage → and you still aren't sure.

Fifteen places one answer might be hiding.

How it works

Three steps, and none of them involve uploading your life.

Connect your sources

Email accounts, message history, cloud drives, photo libraries, voice recordings, notes, calendars. Everything is indexed locally on your machine.

Ask in plain English

No filenames, no folders, no search operators. Ask the way you would ask a person who knows where everything is.

  • “Do I have an umbrella policy, and what's the limit?”
  • “Show me the signed lease.”
  • “Photos from our first trip to Italy.”

Get an answer that shows its work

A straight answer, plus the actual emails, documents, and photos it came from, with dates and sources.

See it work

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What it reads

A lifetime of records, in one place at last.

Not a folder of files. The whole archive — searched together, wherever each piece happens to live.

Email
Text messages
Contracts & legal documents
Tax & financial records
Photographs
Voice recordings
Notes
Calendars
What it does

Ask about your own life and get a real answer

No folders to remember, no filenames to guess, no search box that only matches the exact word you typed.

Ask real questions

Type the question the way you would say it out loud. Privy works out where the answer lives.

Every source in one place

Email, texts, contracts and legal documents, tax and financial records, photographs, voice recordings, notes and calendars — all searched together.

Answers with the sources shown

Each answer points at the message, file or photo it came from, so you can open it and check for yourself.

The signed version, not the draft

Coming

Telling an executed document apart from the drafts before it when nothing in the filename says so. Not available yet — we will say so here when it is.

Photos by people and places

Find pictures by who is in them and where they were taken, without ever having named a single file.

Everything stays current

New mail, new files and new photos are picked up on their own. There is nothing to re-import.

Coming, not here yet
  • Answers in under ten seconds on every question
  • Side-by-side document comparison, with the reasoning shown
  • An iPhone app
  • Permission levels set per assistant
  • Automatic choice of the best model for each question
Why it's different

The answers come to you. Your life doesn't go anywhere.

Most AI tools get useful by taking a copy of everything you have. Privy is built the other way around.

  1. Your data lives on your own hardware

    Your mail, files, photos and recordings sit on computers you own, in your home or office. Privy reads them there.

  2. Sensitive details are masked before a question ever leaves

    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.

  3. Your fingerprint puts the real details back — on screen only

    The real names and figures are filled back in on your own screen, after your fingerprint. They are never sent back out.

  4. What you deleted stays deleted

    Removing something from Privy removes it. It does not reappear later in an answer.

  5. Backups that have actually been checked

    Copies are kept and restores are tested, so a failed drive is an inconvenience rather than the end of your archive.

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The difference

Most tools get useful by taking a copy. This one doesn't.

On your hardware

Your archive is indexed and searched on a machine you own. There is no copy of your life on our servers.

Shows its work

Every answer cites the real documents, so you can verify instead of trust.

Private by architecture

Sensitive details are protected before anything optional ever leaves your machine, and the most sensitive never do.

Nothing leaves the building.

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About

Built by someone who wanted it for himself.

Decades of records scattered everywhere — email, text messages, contracts and legal documents, tax and financial records, photographs, voice recordings, notes, and calendars — spread across old machines and services, with no way to ask a simple question about any of it. The tools that could answer wanted it all uploaded to their cloud first. Our founder, an operator and investor rather than a programmer, decided that wasn't a trade worth making. So he built the thing he wanted: Privy reads everything on his own hardware, answers in plain English, and shows the actual emails and documents behind every answer. Nothing leaves the building. Privy started as one man's archive. It's now available to yours.

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