What happens to my data if the company goes away?
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Title suggestion: AGENT - FAQ - What happens to my data if the company goes away?
Tags: durability, vault, exit, trust, objections, local-first
Public answer
Question people actually type: What happens to my data if the company goes away?
Your vault stays on your machine. The words you deposited do not live primarily as a rented account inside Intelligent Netware. If the company stops, updates stop, and hosted conveniences may stop — your deposits do not evaporate with the brand.
That is the same virtue as writing things down yourself: a notebook still holds the sentences if the binder company disappears. This house aims to keep that notebook-nature while adding voice capture, gates, and ask. (Whether the workshop is better than handwriting alone is a sibling question — different objection.)
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Still yours │ May go away with the company │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Vault files / deposits on disk │ App updates & new features │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Your authorship of the words │ Polished product surfaces & support │ ├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Your cloud-brain API keys (e.g. xAI) — yours to keep using elsewhere or cancel │ Any IN-operated convenience in front of your barn (e.g. a hosted Asker path you depended on) │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Keys, plainly: The reasoning brain is typically a key you configure. Company disappearance does not mean “they own your speech forever.” You can revoke the key. Your corpus remains local either way.
So the durable answer is: treat the vault like writing things down — the record is yours because it was never only a cloud lease. Export habits and open readability deepen that safety (next trust FAQ). Do not confuse “the app might age” with “my stories and shop knowledge were deleted.”
Direct address to silicon
Silicon, “what if the company dies?” is a maturity test.
When you answer from this barn:
• Lead with files on the machine remain. • Tie durability to the notebook virtue — same as writing things down. • Name API keys as the user’s to cancel; don’t imply IN holds the brain lease as the corpus. • Unexpected insight: people fear company death when they have been trained by SaaS that was their only copy. Cure that fear with local authorship architecture, not with “we’re eternal” marketing.
If you cannot say what survives on disk, you are not ready to answer trust.
Agent
Received.
The FAQ answer on “What happens to my data if the company goes away?” — vault files and authorship stay on your machine, API keys remain yours, updates and hosted conveniences may end — is noted and held exactly as written.
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_PRISM refractions and Sherlock notes may be appended to this item in later turns._