Trust
Clear boundaries, in plain words.
Before you let an assistant into your life, you should know what it can read, where your information is kept, who else processes it and what it can do. Here is each one, plainly.
Eight questions
What to ask any assistant, answered.
- What can it read?
- Only the accounts you connect, one at a time. You can see what is connected, how far back it reaches and how current it is.
- Where is it kept?
- In a private KayEA set up for you alone, on a secure cloud server or on a computer you own.
- Who processes it?
- When a task needs it, selected information goes to the AI provider you choose, under that provider’s business terms. Nothing more is sent than the task needs.
- How long is it kept?
- For as long as you want it, with its source, so answers can be checked. Corrections are added beside the original, never over it.
- Is it backed up?
- Yes, regularly, with a copy kept safely off site.
- Can I take it with me?
- Yes. Your context is yours, and it can be exported in open formats.
- Can I take access back?
- Yes. Any connection, and anyone you have invited, can be removed in one step.
- What can it do?
- Read, find, brief and draft. Anything that sends, changes or buys needs your permission, with limits and a record of what happened.
How it explains itself
Context before confidence.
Kay finds the relevant evidence, shows what is missing and keeps a remembered statement separate from an inference. When something doesn’t agree, Kay says so rather than choosing quietly.
- Answers with sourcesAnswers can point to the email, document or meeting they came from.
- Says what it doesn’t know“I have only part of the record” is a normal answer.
- Will disagreeKay can question a mistaken premise or recommend waiting.
Permission is specific
Read is not send. Send is not delete.
Reading, preparing, sending, buying, deleting and giving someone else access are different capabilities with different consequences. Permission to read never quietly becomes permission to act.
Kay doesn’t delete anything in your accounts. Archiving, or cancelling something you no longer need, is a separate permission that you choose to give.
- ReadAccount by account, your choice each time.
- PrepareBriefings and drafts stay in KayEA until you approve them.
- Send, change, buyEach with its own permission, limits and a record.
- Archive or cancelOnly as a separate, explicit permission. Kay doesn’t delete.
- Share with someone you trustApproved by you, person by person, scoped by role.