Memory without a clear purpose
Retained context is difficult to trust when people cannot understand why it is kept or how it will be used.
PARAF · DRAFT
For individuals, professional teams and organisations that value control over their context
Useful intelligence. Memory and permission under your control.
PARAF is a privacy-first intelligence layer for individuals and organisations. It is designed around locally controlled memory, explicit consent and clear limits on what assistance may do, so useful context can support everyday work while people decide what is retained, shared and authorised.
The problem
Assistance needs context. Trust needs clear boundaries.
Permission without a clear scope
An approval can become ambiguous when access to information is treated as permission to act on it.
Help without visible limits
Assistance is harder to assess when the sources it uses and the external services it relies on are unclear.
What it does
What you get.
Connect helpful memory and reviewable assistance with deliberate control over their use.
Keep memory purposeful
- Organise retained context around the work it is intended to support.
- Make the basis for remembering, revising or removing context understandable.
- Define local storage and retention boundaries for the agreed environment.
Make consent specific
- Distinguish permission to read information from permission to use or share it.
- Make the proposed action and its intended destination clear before approval.
- Keep approval tied to a defined purpose and scope.
Bound the assistance
- Prepare drafts and suggestions with their supporting context available for review.
- Make available capabilities and external service routes visible.
- Separate preparation from the decision to execute or hand off work.
Why this matters
Context can make assistance more useful, but it also makes control more important. People need to understand what is remembered, what a proposal relies on and what their permission allows. PARAF is designed to keep those choices visible as assistance becomes part of everyday work.
How the record works
Keep the basis for a decision in view.
What context is retained?
Make the material used for assistance and its purpose understandable.
What is being proposed?
Distinguish a draft or suggestion from an authorised action.
What permission applies?
Keep the intended use, destination and approval scope together.
What crosses a boundary?
Make any agreed sharing or external service route part of the review.
Who uses it
The same record, seen from every chair.
Individuals
Use relevant context while retaining a clear say over memory, sharing and proposed actions.
Professional teams
Define how shared context supports work and who may authorise its use.
IT and privacy teams
Evaluate storage, access, external dependencies and capability boundaries for the intended setting.
Evaluation
Start with a focused workflow.
Start with a defined assistance workflow. Agree the context it may use, where that context is kept and which permissions are needed before evaluating the experience.
Agree the scope
- The purpose and retention rules for local memory
- Permitted capabilities and the people who can approve them
- External dependencies, sharing boundaries and review requirements
Questions to evaluate together
- Can people understand what context supports a proposal?
- Is consent clear about purpose, action and destination?
- Are local and external boundaries visible before use?
Evidence for the questions that matter.
Evaluate the relevant product and conditions. Request scoped evidence for access, provenance, recovery, human review and offboarding before agreeing a pilot.
- Who can access the information?
- Ask for the product's access boundaries and applicable isolation tests.
- Where does the information come from?
- Agree the sources and inspect a representative source-to-record example.
- What happens when something fails?
- Agree operational ownership and request relevant monitoring and recovery evidence.
- What can we review and take with us?
- Confirm review history, retention, export formats and offboarding within the agreed scope.
For investors and partners
A distinct proposition around agency and trust.
PARAF extends the portfolio from operational records into personal and organisational assistance. Its relevance for investors and partners lies in the relationship between useful memory and deliberate control. A focused evaluation can explore that experience, its boundaries and its practical fit without assuming unrestricted autonomy or universal privacy guarantees.
Identity
PARAF brings the Optimized Core emphasis on human judgement and accountable action to intelligence assistance. Its focus is the relationship between useful context, explicit consent and the capabilities people choose to permit.
remember → propose → review → authoriseUseful context. Deliberate consent.
Define assistance on your terms.
Describe your team and the workflow you want to evaluate, with an anonymised example if you like. We discuss scope, connections and readiness before any data is shared.
JPH van Mastrigt · Founder & Technical Director
