Your unpublished manuscript is your most valuable creative asset. Most AI writing tools treat it like training data. We don't. Here's the full breakdown of what happens to your work when you use PlotForge — and the option to keep it entirely local.
The default for most AI writing tools is permissive: prompt and completion are retained for a window, often used to improve future models, sometimes shared with third-party providers. Read the privacy policies of the popular ones — the language is typically “may use submitted content to improve our services.”
For published authors, novelists under contract, or writers working with sensitive material, this is a real concern. Once your unpublished work is on someone else's server, it's on someone else's server.
PlotForge's position: the cloud option is privacy-first by enterprise terms; the desktop option is privacy-by-architecture. You shouldn't have to trust us — you should be able to verify.
To be honest: a few things, by design. None of them are your manuscript content.
That's the full list. No telemetry on what you write, when you write, or what AI prompts you send. The local AI runner (Ollama or LM Studio) is its own process and we don't talk to it except to send prompts and receive completions.
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