Yours, and stays there
- The files in your space folders
- Every note as Markdown, with its history
- Claude Code or Codex, on your own plan
Trust Your company knowledge stays yours
What a careful founder asks before moving company knowledge into a new tool, answered plainly, each with its source.
- No sign-up EVY makes an account for your Mac. No email, no password.
- Notes as Markdown Every note sits on your Mac as a plain file any tool can read.
- Servers in Germany Hetzner, Nuremberg. The company is in Tallinn, Estonia.
- Your own AI plan Agents work on the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for.
- No training on your content We never train AI on it, and we never sell your data.
Where your data lives
Three places, and what each one holds
What EVY needs to plan with you
- Plans, tasks, notes and chats, at Hetzner in Nuremberg
- Uploads and voice notes, with Amazon S3
- For links to folders: names, sizes, dates
Anthropic and OpenAI
- Your agents: under your own plan and terms
- EVY’s features: through business APIs
- No training on your content
Every provider, its location and what it receives is listed in the privacy policy.
Plain files
Open your notes in anything
EVY’s helper writes each space’s notes into its folder on your Mac and keeps them current. No export, no lock-in: the copy is already there.
- Knowledge holds the space’s shared notes, Private notes your own, meetings included.
- Each file starts with its title, when it changed and who changed it, so an agent knows what it reads.
- For now the copy runs from EVY to your Mac. Edits you make there are kept on a separate git branch, so nothing is lost.
- Knowledge
- Clients
- fernway-onboarding.md
- brightpath-renewal.md
- Playbooks
- investor-update.md
- Private notes
- weekly-planning.md
---
title: Fernway onboarding
updated_at: 2026-10-14 09:12
updated_by: Mara
---
# Fernway onboarding
Kick-off moves to Thursday. Ana owns
the CSV export, due 29 September.
## Open questions
- Single sign-on before launch? Questions, answered
The details, with sources
Do I need to sign up?
No. The first time you open EVY on your Mac, it creates an account for that Mac without an email or password. A key stays in your Mac’s Keychain, and our server keeps only a fingerprint of it. You add an email later, when you want to invite people.
Can I take my notes with me?
They are already on your Mac. EVY writes every note as a plain Markdown file into your space folder, in the same folders you see in EVY, and updates the copy every few minutes with full history in git. Any editor, search tool or AI agent can read it, and it stays yours if you stop using EVY.
Where is my data stored?
Your files stay on your Mac. EVY’s servers, at Hetzner in Nuremberg, Germany, store your plans, tasks, notes and chats so EVY can plan with you and your team can share a space. Uploaded files and voice notes are stored with Amazon S3. From folders you link to a space, EVY reads only the path, file names, sizes and dates.
Which AI sees my data?
Agents such as Claude Code and Codex run on your Mac under your own Claude or ChatGPT plan, so that work goes to Anthropic or OpenAI under your agreement with them. EVY’s own features, such as Talk to EVY, the morning check-in, transcription and search, call AI providers in the USA, mainly Anthropic and OpenAI, with only the content each feature needs.
Is my data used to train AI models?
We do not use your content to train AI models. EVY calls its providers through their business APIs, and OpenAI and Anthropic state that they do not train on data sent that way by default.
Who is behind EVY?
EVY is built by a small team in Europe and operated by Helix Studio OÜ, a company registered in Tallinn, Estonia, under EU law. You can reach the people who build it at [email protected].
What happens to my data if EVY stops?
Your notes are already on your Mac as Markdown with their history, your space folders never left it, and your agents run on your own AI plan. Nothing you need is locked inside EVY. If you want your account gone, email [email protected] and we delete it within 30 days.
What does EVY record about how I use it?
In the app we record which screens you open and what you click, and keep short screen recordings with every piece of text and everything you type hidden. Error reports help us fix bugs. On the website, analytics run only if you agree in the cookie banner.
Something we didn’t answer?
Email the people who build EVY. If your question shows a gap on this page, we add the answer here.
[email protected]
- Helix Studio OÜ
- Tallinn, Estonia
- EU law