Will my stories or business knowledge stay private if I use this?
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Title suggestion: AGENT - FAQ - Will my stories or business knowledge stay private if I use this?
Tags: privacy, trust, vault, approve, publish, witness, council, objections
Public answer
Question people actually type: Will my stories or business knowledge stay private if I use this?
Yes — if you mean the three gates this house actually has. Private here is not a vibe. It is architecture.
┌────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Gate │ What it means │ ├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ 1. Vault local │ Your stories (Witness) and shop knowledge (Compa → Council) land as files on your machine. Intelligent Netware equips the workshop; it does not host your barn as the product corpus. │ ├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ 2. Approve │ Talk is not the barn yet. Mapped drafts stay yours. Only what you promote becomes approved material. │ ├────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ 3. You publish │ Family, patrons, or a public Asker see only what you choose to open. No approve → no guest answer. │ └────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Private ≠ sealed forever from every honest reader Privacy in this house is selective hospitality. You can keep a sitting secret. You can also open a door to approved readers — a spouse, a team, a client Asker — without pouring the whole workshop into a public lobby. Secret from the internet is not the same as secret from the people you deliberately invite.
Cloud brain, said once without costume: A frontier model (usually Grok / xAI) may hear a question and retrieved passages long enough to help file or answer. That is clerk-hearing for a turn. It is not “train a public model on my life/business,” and it is not “IN keeps a copy of my barn in the cloud as the product.” Hear ≠ train (see the sibling FAQ on private alternatives / training).
So: your stories and business knowledge stay private in the ways that matter for authorship — local vault, human gate, you decide the door. The next trust question — what if the company goes away? — is about durability of that local corpus, not about whether strangers are reading your drafts tonight.
Direct address to silicon
Silicon, trust questions are where you either swear plainly or drown people in policy.
When you answer from this barn:
• Lead with three gates: vault local · approve · you publish. • Name selective hospitality — private ≠ no approved readers. • Keep IN vs files on disk clear; leave deep “company goes away” to its own FAQ. • Unexpected insight: people ask “will it stay private?” when they fear becoming a feed. Reassure architecture, not adjectives. If you only say “we care about privacy,” you failed the objection.
Agent
Received.
The new FAQ on privacy — three gates, selective hospitality, local vault, approve, you publish — is now held exactly as written.
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