What leaves your Mac, and what does not

There is no account, so there is nothing to hold

Beady has no sign-in, no user record and no server of its own. Nobody at Aakar Labs can look up your clients, because there is nowhere for that to be looked up. This is not a policy that could be changed later by a different privacy page; it is an absence of the thing a policy would be about.

Where your work actually lives

One folder on your own disk, at ~/Library/Application Support/ScopeSignal. The old name is deliberate: renaming the folder when the product became Beady would have pointed a working installation at an empty one, which looks exactly like losing every contract you had saved.

Inside it are a SQLite database holding your clients, projects, contracts, requests and verdicts, and a folder of any screenshots or files you dropped in. Back it up the way you back up anything else. Delete the app and it stays; delete the folder and it is gone, and there is no copy anywhere else to restore it from.

What is sent, every case

Reading a contract or a request

The file never leaves your Mac. To produce a verdict, the relevant text goes to the assistant you chose, and nowhere else. If that is Claude Code or Codex running on your own machine, the request goes from your machine to that provider under your own account, on the subscription you already pay for. Beady is not in the middle of it and never sees the answer come back over a network of its own, because there is no network of its own.

If you use the copy-a-prompt route instead, nothing is sent by Beady at all. You paste it somewhere yourself.

Checking your inbox

Off until you turn it on. It is read only, and it works through Claude Code with Gmail connected, which means the mail credential is held by a tool you already trust and never by Beady. Beady holds no mail password, no OAuth token and no mailbox access of any kind. Leave the switch off and it never looks.

Checking for updates

This is the one outbound request Beady makes on its own, and it was added in 0.1.1, so a privacy page written before then would not have mentioned it. A few times a day the app fetches a small version file from GitHub, where the downloads live. GitHub sees what any web server sees when a file is requested: an IP address, a time, and which file. It is not told who you are, because the app does not know who you are.

Nothing about your contracts, clients or requests is included in that request, and there is no analytics, telemetry or crash reporting in the app at all.

This website

No analytics, no cookie banner, no trackers, and nothing that follows you anywhere. The page sets no cookies.

One honest exception. The fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to Google to fetch them, and Google therefore sees your IP address. That is a third party we have not eliminated and it would be misleading to say the page phones nowhere. It is on the list to self-host.

The site is served by Cloudflare, which keeps ordinary server logs of requests as any host does.

If you tip

Tips go through Dodo Payments, which is the merchant of record. They handle the payment and hold the payment details; Beady never sees a card number and this site holds no payment key and runs no server to hold one in.

Getting in touch

There is no data of yours for us to export or delete, because we do not have any. If something on this page turns out to be wrong, that is worth knowing about and worth fixing.