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Understanding how Octonous reads your data

What Octonous accesses when an automation runs, what it stores, and what it discards immediately.

When you ask Octonous to do something, it fetches the data it needs in real time, does the work, and moves on. It does not index your inbox, sync your files, or build a persistent copy of anything.

Ask "What did my client say in their last email?" and Octonous calls the Gmail API right then, reads the relevant messages, uses them to form a response, and discards them. The next time you ask something similar, it fetches fresh data again.

What we store:

  • Your account info and workspace settings

  • Automation configurations (the instructions, not the data they process)

  • Execution logs

  • Memories you explicitly save

What we never store:

  • The content of your emails, documents, calendar events, or messages

  • Anything you didn't explicitly give us access to

  • Any data used to train AI models

Within a conversation, Octonous keeps track of context so you don't have to repeat yourself. That context lives only within the conversation thread and is encrypted at rest.

For a full breakdown, see our GDPR and data handling article.

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