Use AI on client files without sending client details to the cloud.

No. Your original documents never leave your Mac: PiBye prepares and restores them locally and has no cloud relay. Anything you choose to share with an assistant has already been redacted and reviewed by you. When you enable the optional local connection to Claude Desktop or the ChatGPT desktop app, that assistant can read the approved Markdown Documents you select and submit generated Markdown for review. Your AI provider processes whatever you share with it, remotely.

Yes. Each item can be approved, edited or kept. Required items must be resolved before you explicitly approve the final copy. A document with no detected items still needs your approval.

Against real documents and planted identifiers, and the results are published. The first battery ran 50,119 real public documents; independent checks found 84,037 identifiers and 24 were still readable after redaction; all 24 are counted and published, and they are number-shaped values from court filings. A second battery on harder material (completed forms, handwriting, French and Spanish) is still running and is not finished. Neither battery proves your document is clean: review every approved copy before sharing it.

Two ways. Copy the approved text into any AI chat, or connect Claude Desktop or the ChatGPT desktop app locally so they can read the approved copies you select. The connection runs on your Mac with no PiBye cloud relay, and the key to the real names never leaves your Mac. Your AI provider still processes what you share, which is the case with names and identifiers already replaced.

Open the same Document, choose the approved copy you shared, and drop the returned file into Restore. Review found and missing stand-ins, resolve any differences, then approve the final restoration. PiBye saves a separate restored file in the private Vault and preserves supported new text.

Yes. Lock PDF is built for sending completed forms to clients for review. It saves a static copy of each filled-in PDF form with every answer printed into the page and the fillable fields removed, so the client can check the answers but cannot retype, clear or reset them. The copy is saved beside the original as “(static).pdf”, and the original is not changed.

No. PiBye's local processing and review controls are product behavior, not a certification or a guarantee that a particular use meets your professional obligations.

No. The version you have keeps working after its twelve months of included updates end. Renewing for $39 CAD adds another twelve months of updates from the renewal date.