CairnIQ was engineered from day one to protect your net worth, holdings history, and intellectual property. We believe your financial data belongs on your own hardware.
| Security Vector | Traditional Cloud Advisor | CairnIQ Zero-Trust Model |
|---|---|---|
| Data Persistence | ✗ Persisted on cloud SaaS database servers | ✓ 100% Local database (user_data/ directory) |
| API Secret Storage | ✗ Handed to cloud backends / database | ✓ Encrypted in OS secure Keychain/Keyring |
| Ad-hoc Analytics Run | ✗ Computed on remote server nodes | ✓ Run 100% offline via local formulas |
| Telemetry & Cookies | ✗ Tracking, usage analytics, cookies | ✓ Zero trackers, zero analytics metrics |
| Model Training Guard | ✗ Prompts used for model weights loops | ✓ Excluded from training via developer APIs (retention varies — see FAQ) |
Storing API credentials in plain `.env` config text files creates serious safety exposures. CairnIQ contains an automated system integration keyring tool. Upon server startup, credentials are migrated out of `.env` files and encrypted natively in your macOS Keychain or Linux Secret Service system.
Your net worth details, transactions logs, and Chat transcripts are kept locally. LLM reasoning does use external endpoints: CairnIQ connects via enterprise developer API keys (Anthropic / OpenAI API / AWS Bedrock / Vertex AI), whose terms exclude your prompts from foundation-model training. They do not, however, promise zero retention — providers hold prompts for a limited abuse-monitoring window that varies by vendor, and AWS Bedrock has the strongest default. See the FAQ for the per-provider breakdown.
Where files and logs reside on your local machine. You can inspect or back up this entire directory tree at any time.
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