Private Alpha
Pilot Data & Privacy
This page explains what happens if you take part in the AgencyThread Private Alpha pilot with real project materials. Read it before sending anything. If anything here is unclear, email us before you submit material — we would rather answer a question first.
What participants may provide
Initial pilot participants may provide a bounded set of project materials that they are personally and professionally authorized to share. Examples may include:
- AI conversations;
- drafts;
- notes;
- source-checking records;
- project artifacts;
- decision records.
What you should not submit without specific approval
Please do not submit, and we will not knowingly ask for:
- passwords, API keys, or access credentials;
- FERPA-protected student records;
- medical or HIPAA-covered health information;
- regulated financial-account information;
- highly sensitive personal information;
- classified or export-controlled information;
- proprietary or client-confidential material you are not authorized to share;
- trade secrets you are not authorized to disclose.
If you are not sure whether something is appropriate to submit, email info@agencythread.org before sending it.
How pilot materials are used
Submitted pilot materials may be used to:
- construct your AgencyThread Work Record;
- perform the requested AgencyThread evaluation;
- generate your report;
- troubleshoot Private Alpha product behavior;
- gather feedback about usability and usefulness.
AgencyThread does not use pilot evidence to train AI models. Selected evidence may need to be processed by a third-party AI provider as part of the evaluation itself (see below); that processing is separate from any model-training question, and we are not making a claim on this page about that provider’s own data-handling terms beyond what is stated here.
Human review
During Private Alpha, submitted project materials may be reviewed by the AgencyThread project team for evidence preparation, troubleshooting, report-quality checking, and participant support. This process is not fully automated at this stage, and we want to be upfront about that rather than imply otherwise.
Third-party AI processing
Selected evidence may need to be processed by an AI model or provider as part of the AgencyThread evaluation itself — that processing is how the Human Agency Index and Collaboration Profile are produced. We are not naming a specific provider on this page while the Private Alpha evaluation pipeline remains provider-flexible; if you want to know which provider would handle a specific submission, ask us before you send anything.
Retention and deletion
Our operating principle during Private Alpha is conservative:
- we retain submitted project evidence only as long as necessary to prepare your report, troubleshoot the pilot, and complete any feedback you agree to;
- you can request deletion of your submitted material at any time by emailing info@agencythread.org;
- we do not keep identifiable project evidence indefinitely merely because it might be useful later;
- de-identified operational metrics or aggregate feedback may be kept longer when useful for improving the product.
We have not fixed a single exact retention period in days or months; a specific figure would need separate owner approval before being stated here as a commitment.
Product testing vs. research
This distinction matters, so we want to state it clearly:
- ordinary AgencyThread Private Alpha participation is product testing, unless you are separately told otherwise;
- any formal research or validation study would use separate study information, its own consent process, and any institutional review required for that study;
- taking part in the product pilot does not automatically enroll you in a research study.
What we do not claim
We only describe controls that actually exist. We do not currently claim SOC 2, HIPAA compliance, FERPA certification, enterprise-grade security, a specific encryption architecture, or any security certification we do not hold.
Questions
Ask before you send anything
Questions about pilot data: info@agencythread.org