The question you most need to ask is the one you can't

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If you use an AI at work, you know the moment.

Small questions are easy. Tighten this sentence. Summarise that. Draft a template. Then you hit a question you actually need help with, and you stop.

"This client, these terms, this history — how should I respond?"

You want to ask. You can't paste it. The company name, the numbers, what happened last spring, who said what. The details that make the answer useful are exactly the ones that can't leave.

So you strip it down. You ask in the abstract. And you get back an abstraction. Take out the specifics and the answer thins out with them.

The AI is least useful precisely where you need it most.

This isn't a capability problem. It's a there are things you cannot hand over problem — which is yours, not the model's. And you're right to hold them back. What shouldn't leave, shouldn't leave.

So change the order.

Keep what matters where it is. Then ask the real question.

The sensitive material doesn't leave your environment.
Before anything goes, you can see exactly what is about to go.
Once it goes, there's a record of what was passed, and when.

You get to ask without stripping it down. The question you couldn't ask becomes one you can. If all you get back is generalities, it's because generalities are all you could send.

One thing worth saying plainly.

This is not about going around your company. It's the opposite.

You draw the line — what stays, what goes. But the line is drawn on something your company can sign off on. The fact that an action happened is recorded. The content isn't.

So you being able to ask, and your company being able to say yes, sit on the same line — just on either side of it.

Ask the question that matters, where you can actually ask it. That's what it means for something to stay with you.

What we're not claiming

What stays is what you decided not to send. This is not a claim that everything is protected for you, automatically.
v0.5 is a trial that runs in the browser. Text is not sent to a server. A version you install and run yourself is not distributed yet.
What Sens keeps is "what was passed, and when" — not what the answer came back based on. That happens outside Sens. Nor does Sens vouch for whether the answer is right.