What we do not do
Most software pages tell you what a thing does. This one tells you what it does not. Each line is a rule rather than a preference, and where there is a mechanism behind the rule, the mechanism is named.
A shorter list of capabilities, kept honestly
Every item below costs the product something. That is the trade being made: a tool that does less, and never does the wrong thing quietly, over a tool that does more and sometimes does.
With your records
three rulesNothing it does changes any model
It looks things up in your files and quotes them back, the way a clerk goes to the cabinet and reads you the line. Your records never become part of a model — ours or anybody else's. When you delete the index there is nothing left over that learned from you, because nothing learned. This is a property of how the thing is built, not a policy written on a page.
It does not blend your records with anyone else's
Each set of records is its own file. Every read and every write must name the set, and if it does not, the software refuses rather than guessing. One company cannot see another's. Enforced in the part that stores the data, not by a setting.
It does not read everything
Photographs of paper, some very old files, scans that have not been through the reading pass, files in the cloud but not on the disk — each is listed by name as unread, never skipped. The full list is on what it cannot read.
With answers
three moreIt does not write answers — it finds them
An answer is at most three lines, taken word for word out of your own documents, with at most two pointers saying which document and which lines. If there is no such line it does not write one. It says: "Your records don't contain enough to answer that with confidence." That is the full sentence, and it is the same every time.
It does not do the arithmetic
This one matters more than it sounds. A language model is unreliable at sums that take more than one step — it produces a confident wrong number. So this product does not let one near the sums. Separate, ordinary code adds, multiplies and totals, and the same numbers in give the same number out every time. The proof case is one of the founder's own old jobs: 376 metres at $834.95 a metre. The code reproduces that figure exactly and is tested against it.
It does not answer past your records
If the answer is not in your files, there is no answer. It does not fill in from the internet. It does not fill in from what it "knows". It does not have a "knows".
On its own
and it does notIt does not act on its own
There is no part of it that watches, decides and does. It answers when asked. It proposes, and a person accepts or holds — the human gate explains how. There are no agents in it doing things while you sleep: none is configured, and none has been evaluated.
It does not move money or send anything
It cannot pay an invoice, transfer funds, email a client, file with a regulator, or post anywhere. It has no connection to a bank, a mail server or a portal. If someone shows you this product doing one of those things, it is not this product.
It does not certify anything a professional signs
It can find the line in the report and quote the reading off the ticket. It cannot stamp a drawing, sign off a well, file a return, or say a structure is sound. That stays with the engineer, the accountant, the agrologist — whoever holds the ticket. The product hands them the page. It does not hold the pen.
What this costs you
Some of these will feel like limits, because they are. You will sometimes want it to just tell you, and it will not. You will sometimes want it to do the sum in front of you, and it will hand the sum to the code instead. Nothing here is a feature waiting to be switched on — each is a decision, and each is the reason the answers you do get are worth having.