Private AI Guide: Chat, Policy, and Workflows
Private AI is a durable category: assistants and APIs designed so your prompts are not harvested for ads or model training, with controls you can actually find.
Key takeaway: Private AI is a durable category: assistants and APIs designed so your prompts are not harvested for ads or model training, with controls you can actually find.
What private AI means in practice
Private AI is not a single encryption checkbox. It is a stack of promises: no training on your conversations by default, no ad profiling from message content, honest retention language, and UI controls for history, export, and deletion.
Search interest in private AI compounds every year as more professionals paste drafts into assistants. The keyword stays useful because the fear stays useful: “who else gets this text?”
Secrypt positions private AI as a focused chat product plus an OpenAI-compatible Cipher API — same privacy brand, two surfaces.
How to evaluate any private AI product
Open the privacy policy and search for train, improve models, advertising, retain, and subprocessors. Marketing adjectives do not survive a Ctrl-F pass.
Then open the product: can you clear history, export, enable Ghost-style temporary sessions, and see usage limits without opening a support ticket?
| Signal | Weak | Strong |
|---|---|---|
| Training | Improve our services | Chats excluded from training |
| Ads | Personalized from activity | No ad profiling from messages |
| History | Cloud forever, vague delete | Local controls + clear delete |
| Pricing | Hidden until checkout | Published Free / Pro / Unlimited |
Role workflows that stay evergreen
Lawyers, journalists, founders, and researchers share the same durable need: draft with an assistant without turning client or source material into model fuel. The verticals differ; the verification checklist does not.
Strip identifiers when you only need structure. Keep vault secrets out of prompts. Use private AI for wording and critique, not as a system of record for sealed material.
- Confirm no-training before pasting proprietary narrative
- Prefer Ghost / temporary modes for one-off sensitive threads
- Separate chat drafting from final document storage
- Use API keys for agents so meters and revoke paths are clear
Private AI chat vs private AI API
Chat UI wins for thinking out loud. Cipher API wins when Cursor, Continue, or your backend needs OpenAI-shaped requests against a private endpoint at https://secrypt.space/v1 with model cipher.
API usage is metered separately: daily allowances by plan, then $0.01 per request from prepaid credits. Chat overage stays $0.05 per message.
Secrypt pricing posture
Chat plans: Free, Pro at $5/mo, Unlimited at $10/mo with 3-day trials. Invite & Earn pays $15 credit to you and $10 to a friend after they complete a paid period.
That price posture is intentional: private uncensored chat without crypto-casino framing or suite bloat you did not ask for.
Deep-dive guides in this cluster
Use the related posts below for training verification, retention literacy, role playbooks, and API wiring. This hub is the map; those pages are the fieldwork.
Frequently asked questions
Is private AI the same as local AI?
No. Local AI runs on your machine. Private hosted AI can still be private if policy and controls are strong. Secrypt is a private hosted product with optional API access.
Does Secrypt train on chats?
No. Secrypt does not use conversation content to train models or build ad profiles from messages.
Where should I start?
Open secrypt.space for chat, or /api for Cipher keys if you are wiring an agent.
Can teams use private AI?
Yes — start with policy literacy, then pick chat or API per workflow. Enterprise needs still require your own legal review; Secrypt does not claim HIPAA or SOC2 on this page.
What is Ghost mode?
Ghost mode is a temporary-session control so sensitive threads do not silently accumulate in history. Pair it with clear Settings privacy toggles.
Related deep-dives
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