Start is your coding assistant. Your project data stays under your control.
Last updated May 24, 2026
We do not collect your code, prompts, chat messages, file contents, file paths, diffs, environment variables, project names, or AI responses.
Start may send limited product usage signals to help us understand reliability, performance, and how the app is used.
These signals are associated with this installation. If a local username is available from your developer configuration, Start may include it as an optional profile property.
Project data, conversations, settings, and generated changes are stored by the app on your own device or in the services you explicitly configure.
No server-side copy of your project data or conversations exists.
Start uses the provider keys you configure to contact the AI services you choose. We do not receive, manage, or proxy those keys.
If you rotate or revoke a key with a provider, update the corresponding configuration in Start.
When you send a prompt, it goes from your device to the AI provider you configured. The provider handles that data under its own policies.
The same applies to other services you connect, such as a Git host. Requests go from your device to the service directly.
To remove locally stored data, quit Start, then delete its local application data and remove any provider keys you configured.
For questions about this policy, contact us at start [at] intelligence [dot] one.