What gets sent

Tria pulls out the text on your Mac, scans included. The AI only gets what it needs to decide each document’s name and folder, and Tria asks for your permission before sending anything.

With your own key, Tria doesn’t send usage data to anyone. The figures in Usage are worked out on your Mac.

Stays on your Mac

The full documents.
The text extraction, scans included.
The log of what’s been moved.
Your key, in the macOS Keychain.

Leaves so the AI can read it

With each document, Tria sends:

Your rules (TRIA.md) and your profile (PERFIL.md), if you’ve filled it in.
The list of your folders, up to four levels deep, with a few example file names: at most the 3 most recent in each folder. For the folders Tria doesn’t touch, only the name.
An excerpt of the document: the first 3 pages, about 12,000 characters at most.
Its original name, its creation and modification dates and its page count.
An image of the first 2 pages, only if there’s no readable text.

Where it goes

With your key: from your Mac to Anthropic or OpenAI, and nobody else. With OpenAI, Tria asks for responses not to be stored (store: false).
With Tria AI: from your Mac to the Start.cat server, in the EU, and from there to Claude in Europe, through Amazon Bedrock. The document doesn’t leave the EU, and neither the server nor Bedrock stores its content.

What the Tria AI server keeps

What it needs to keep track of your balance and look after the service, tied to your Apple purchase and with no accounts:

your balance and your purchases;
how many documents you read each day, for the daily limit;
a log of each request: the date, the model and the tokens, with no content or names. It’s deleted after 90 days;
for the trial and for a retry, a fingerprint of each document, which can’t be used to read it.

The log and the daily counts also help us see, as a whole and without looking at anyone in particular, how the service is used and what it costs. The privacy policy has all the details.

It never stores your documents, their names, your rules or your profile. In Settings, with Tria AI, “View My Data…” shows you the main things it keeps (for a complete copy, write to hola@lyn.cat) and “Delete My Tria AI Data…” deletes it. Deleting it wipes your balance, and it can’t be recovered; of your purchases only their transaction number remains, with nothing that identifies you, so they can’t be added again. The server’s backups are kept for 30 days, so within that time whatever you delete disappears from them too.

When you change the rules

Ask Tria sends your request, TRIA.md, the list of folders and PERFIL.md, but no documents. The suggestions that come from your corrections also send the excerpt of the document you corrected.

See for yourself

In the app: right-click an unread document › “See What’s Sent…”. It shows the rules, the folder list and the text, without sending anything or spending.
In the CLI: tria sort --dry-run --show-prompt prints exactly what’s sent as Tria reads. Careful: this does send it and spend from your key, although it doesn’t move anything. Anything already read comes from the cache and isn’t sent again.

Permission

Before reading the first document, the app shows you what leaves your Mac and where it goes, and asks for permission. Without permission, Tria doesn’t read anything, but the archive, the History and search work just the same. You can withdraw it whenever you like in Settings (⌘,) › Permission to Send › “Withdraw Permission”.