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 dozens of apps that were never built to talk to each other. One simple question becomes a hunt through four of them — and most of the time you 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.

Dozens of 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.

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

Jack has been sent to find the answer

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See the kinds of questions people ask

People and moments

  • “Show me who was at my birthday in 2022.”
  • “Find the photos from the trip we took the year my daughter graduated.”

Insurance

  • “Show me all my insurance policies that are currently in effect.”
  • “What are the limits on my umbrella policy?”

Contracts and agreements

  • “What did we agree on for the roof repair, and get me the signed contract.”
  • “What is the notice period to cancel the landscaping contract?”

Every one of these is answered from your own records, on your own hardware, with the source document attached.

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. What you deleted stays deleted

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

About

Built by someone who wanted it for himself.

Decades of records spread across old machines and services, with no way to ask a simple question about any of it. Every tool that could answer wanted it all uploaded first. So our founder — an operator and investor, not a software engineer — started building one that doesn’t.

Why we’re building it — a letter from the founder

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