What are the real security and privacy risks of keeping a second brain on your computer? Are we just letting AI in through the back door? Here’s the honest answer, in three parts.
Advocate OS is your private database: your files and your context, stored on your computer and owned by you. The AI does its thinking in the cloud. An app on your computer connects the two, and that app is where we set the rules.
During onboarding, we run a full security audit of your system and set your security preferences with you. Here are some of the options, and the ways we let you tune them to how you want to work.
All three are available. Start with one and move to another later. The same rules apply to each.
Top AI on the computer you already use.
Let’s roll. We set up a private workspace, apply Advocate’s safety settings, and run our security check.
The same AI on its own machine.
Have the new computer ready by setup day, and we’ll install there. Already on your everyday computer? We can move you over later.
Open-source AI on hardware you control.
More involved, and absolutely something we can do. Ask us for details and pricing. You can move here from either setup.
No AI is perfectly safe. The question is whether its access is worth what it gives you.