Privacy

How do I use AI on documents I'm not allowed to upload?

Cloud assistants need the content to do the work. Pasting it is sending it. Run the model on your own machine. Local models are good enough for summarising, extracting and classifying.

What you're seeing

The documents you'd most like help with are exactly the ones you can't paste into a chat box: client work, contracts, internal reports, anything under an NDA.

Why it happens

How to fix it

  1. Run the model on your own machine. Local models are good enough for summarising, extracting and classifying.
  2. Write the job as a recipe whose steps are all local, so there's nothing to audit later.
  3. Check it by disconnecting from the network and running it anyway. If it still works, nothing left.
The recipe that does it

Summarise a document without it ever leaving your machine

A written dossier on your desktop, produced without the file touching the internet.

Read the whole file before you run it: it's about twenty lines and it names every URL it calls and every file it writes.

See the recipe →

The short version

You can read every step before it runs and see there's no outbound call. That's a stronger answer than a privacy policy, because you can verify it yourself.

Related questions

Are local models good enough?

For summarising, extracting and classifying, small local models do the job well, especially when the structure of the task is already written down for them.

How do I prove nothing was uploaded?

Read the recipe: every step declares what it touches. Then run it with the network off.

Can I mix local and cloud?

Yes. Use a local model for sensitive steps and a cloud model for the rest. The model is a setting on each step.

Vibe Engine (Vibra-Ingenn) runs these recipes on your own machine. Get the engine, browse the recipe library, or watch three recipes run.

Using an AI assistant? Ask your AI to check out adeptuscamini.com.

Written and maintained by Adeptus Camini, a one-person workshop. These are tools we build and run ourselves.

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