Founder · Terraform

Privacy

Effective November 5, 2026. Founder is made by Terraform Records, LLC ("we"), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This page says what Founder touches, where it goes, and what we will never do, in plain words.

Terraform is operated by Eco Media LLC, 8735 Dunwoody Place, Ste N, Atlanta, GA 30350, USA.

The short version

Founder runs on your own Mac, iPhone or Android phone. Your company's data, including anything Founder reads from your Google or Microsoft account, stays on that device and is never sent to us. If you sign in, we hold your Terraform account: your name, email address and account id, and the sign-ins of any social pages you connect in Poster or Manager. To do the work you ask for, Founder sends what a job needs to the AI you chose: Claude from Anthropic or ChatGPT from OpenAI, on your own account, or, on a Mac, a model running on that Mac. If you choose a folder in iCloud Drive or Google Drive, Founder keeps a copy of your company there. Nobody at Terraform can see your mail, your calendar or your contacts. Founder has no ads and no tracking.

Your Terraform account

When you Continue with Google, Apple or Microsoft at the start, that sign-in is your Terraform account, the same one for Founder, Composer, Poster and Manager. We receive your name, email address and account id from the company you chose, and keep them on our account service to sign you in. Your company's records stay on your device. This sign-in gives Founder nothing from your mail or calendar: connecting those is a separate step under Connections, described below. You can choose Or explore first and use Founder without an account.

What goes to your AI

To do what you ask, Founder sends it to the AI you connect, with your own key: Claude, made by Anthropic, or ChatGPT, made by OpenAI. If you connect both, Claude is used. That is your words, what you say to the mic once it's text, the photos and files you add, what you tell Founder about your company so it can research where you stand, and what a job needs from accounts you connect, such as an email or a customer's name. None of it comes to Terraform.

• Anthropic handles it under your account's terms with Anthropic. By default it doesn't train its models on what comes through a key: Anthropic's page.
• OpenAI handles it under your account's terms with OpenAI. By default it doesn't train its models on what comes through a key, and it keeps logs of what's sent and answered for up to 30 days to watch for abuse, longer where the law or safety requires: OpenAI's page.

On the iPhone and on Android, nothing goes until you allow it: Founder asks before you add a key, and without your Allow it sends nothing. You can withdraw this any time in Options.

Your AI history

You can bring in your own export from Claude or ChatGPT, a file you download from them. It's read from that file, not through a sign-in to either one, and kept in Founder's own folder on your device. Nothing from it goes anywhere until you ask something it can help with; then the pieces that match go to your AI with the question.

Your company's folder

You can choose a folder in iCloud Drive or Google Drive, through the iPhone's Files. Founder then keeps a readable copy of your company there, refreshed when the app opens: your company's description, and your people's names, email addresses, companies, status and the last thing said. So that copy is held by Apple or Google under your account with them, not by us. Your keys and sign-ins never go in it. It doesn't sync back: changes you make in the folder don't come into Founder, except files you choose to bring in, which then go into Founder's own folder on your device. If you don't choose a folder, none of this happens.

The microphone

• On the iPhone: your speech is turned into text on the iPhone where it can be. Where it can't, it goes to Apple's speech recognition service, and Apple may use that speech data to help improve its recognition. iOS asks you before the mic first runs.
• On Android: your speech goes to Android's speech service on your phone, which on most phones is Google's.
• Everywhere: Founder keeps no recording. Only the text goes on, as your words, under "What goes to your AI" above.

Google user data

You choose what Founder can reach when you connect your Google account. Each permission is for one feature you can see in Founder:

• Your name and email address (sign-in): to show which account is connected.
• Send email as you (Gmail send): Sender sends the notes and invoices you approved, from your own address. Nothing is sent without your OK.
• Read your mail, and read and add to your calendar (Gmail read and Calendar events): asked for only when you switch on "Your inbox and calendar" for Coordinator. Coordinator looks through new mail for appointments, deadlines and dates meant for you, puts them on your calendar with a reminder the day before, and asks you first about anything from a sender it doesn't know or anything that clashes. When you ask "when is my next appointment?", it searches your mail to answer.

Where your Google data goes

• Between Google and your device. Founder calls Google directly from your device. Your sign-ins are kept in that device's secure store: the Keychain on a Mac; the iOS Keychain on an iPhone, this device only, never in a backup; Android's Keystore on an Android phone. Apart from your Terraform account above, if you chose Google for it, we run no server that receives, stores or passes on your Google data.
• To the AI model you chose, only for the job you asked for. To find an appointment in an email, Founder sends that email's text to the AI you connected: your own Claude or ChatGPT account, on the terms under "What goes to your AI" above, or, on a Mac, a local model, where nothing leaves the Mac. Founder never sends your Google data to train or improve any AI model, ours or anyone's.
• Nowhere else. No advertising, no data brokers, no selling, no sharing. No person reads your mail. The only exception is if you send us something yourself, for example a bug report you read and OK'd. Even then you see exactly what goes before it's sent.

Microsoft user data

You choose what Founder can reach when you connect your Microsoft account. Each permission is for one feature you can see in Founder. Founder does not ask for your contacts or your files.

• Your email address, and staying connected (sign-in): to show which account is connected and keep it connected until you disconnect.
• Send mail as you (Outlook send): Sender sends the notes and invoices you approved, from your own address. Nothing is sent without your OK.
• Microsoft Teams (work or school accounts): Founder reads the names of your teams, channels and chats, and who's in your chats, so you can pick where to post. It sends only the messages you approve, and it doesn't read the messages in them.
• When you ask the Director for a Teams message, the names of your teams, channels and chats, and the message, go to the AI account you connected, only for that job.
• Reading your mail or calendar: not in this version. Founder doesn't ask to read your Outlook mail or calendar. If it ever does, this page changes first and Microsoft asks you.

Where your Microsoft data goes

• Between Microsoft and your device and, for a Teams message you ask the Director for, the AI account you connected. Founder calls Microsoft directly from your device. Your sign-in is kept in that device's secure store, as above. Apart from your Terraform account above, if you chose Microsoft for it, we run no server that receives, stores or passes on your Microsoft data.
• Nowhere else. Founder reads nothing from your Outlook in this version, so nothing from it goes to an AI. No advertising, no data brokers, no selling, no sharing. The only exception is if you send us something yourself, for example a bug report you read and OK'd. Even then you see exactly what goes before it's sent.

Slack, HubSpot, Stripe, QuickBooks and Salesforce

You choose whether to connect each one. Each is for the agent you can see it under: Sender for Slack, Keeper for HubSpot and Salesforce, Counter and Biller for Stripe and QuickBooks. Where one isn't open yet, Founder says so and asks nothing.

• By a sign-in on the company's own page, where that's open: our sign-in step, which holds our registration with that company, passes your connection to your device and keeps no copy. It's kept in your device's secure store, and renewing it goes through the same step. Your company's records don't pass through it.
• By your own key, where Founder offers that for Stripe or HubSpot: the key is kept in the same secure store and goes only to that company.
• What Founder fetches stays on your device, and goes to your AI only for a job you asked for, as above.

What Founder keeps, and where

• On your device, in Founder's own folder: your company's records (Keeper's people, the Director's conversation, approvals waiting for you, the history of what each agent did, and any AI history you brought in), with the copy described above if you chose a folder for it. On an iPhone or Android phone that folder is the app's own and is left out of the phone's backups.
• Your Claude or ChatGPT key: in that same secure store, on your device. It goes only to Anthropic or OpenAI.
• Your Terraform sign-in: in that same secure store, on your device. Your account itself is kept on our account service.
• From your mail, Coordinator keeps only the ids of the messages it has already looked at, so it never reads one twice, and a list of what it put on your calendar. It does not keep copies of your mail.
• On a Mac, if you switch on backups, Founder encrypts your company with a recovery key only you hold and saves it to your own cloud drive (iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox). We can't open it.
• Inside Founder you can open Terraform's own apps as rooms (Poster, Composer, Manager). If you're signed in, they open on your Terraform account with no second sign-in. When you connect your social pages there, those sign-ins are kept on our servers, unlike the connections above, so your scheduled posts can go out. What you do in those apps is covered by the Terraform privacy policy, not this page.
• Scheduled work you approved (a note or post set for later) can be handed to Terraform's posting servers while your Mac sleeps, so it still goes out on time: only that note and its time, never your Google or Microsoft sign-in and never your mail.

Turning it off, and deleting

• Mail reading: in Founder, Connections → Your inbox and calendar → Disconnect. Coordinator stops reading at once and forgets what it read. What it already put on your calendar stays there.
• Your whole Google connection: Connections → Google → Disconnect. Founder asks Google to cancel its access and deletes the sign-in from your device. You can also cancel it any time at myaccount.google.com/permissions.
• Your whole Microsoft connection: Connections → Microsoft → Disconnect. Founder deletes the sign-in from your device and can no longer reach your account. Delete account does the same. Neither one cancels the permission on Microsoft's side; you do that in your Microsoft account: at account.live.com/consent/Manage for a personal account, or at myapps.microsoft.com for a work or school account, where your administrator may manage it.
• AI sharing: on the iPhone and on Android, withdraw it in Options. Founder stops sending to your AI at once.
• Signing out: Options → Your account → Sign out takes the sign-in off this device. Your account stays until you delete it.
• Everything, on an iPhone or Android phone: Delete account, at the foot of Options. Founder's own folder is emptied, your AI history with it, and your AI key and connected sign-ins come off. A copy you keep in iCloud Drive or Google Drive is yours and stays there until you delete it. If you signed in, your Terraform account is deleted too, with what Composer and Poster keep on it: your takes, your pages' links and anything booked to post. We cancel any subscription on it, and keep a short note of the deletion so we can. The record of a seat you paid for stays with us and with Stripe, for our accounts.
• Everything, on a Mac: Delete account, at the foot of Settings, or quit Founder and delete its folder (~/Library/Application Support/Founder) and any backups on your cloud drive. Because we hold none of it, nothing remains with us. Questions: hello@terraform.press.

Changes

If Founder ever starts keeping or sending something new, this page changes first, and Founder tells you inside the app before it asks for anything new.

Terraform Records, LLC · Atlanta, Georgia · Terraform is operated by Eco Media LLC, 8735 Dunwoody Place, Ste N, Atlanta, GA 30350, USA · Founder · hello@terraform.press