Privacy
What we collect
- What you type in your conversation with our AI.
- Notes our AI makes from it: your line of work and role in your own words, your rough region (a state or metro area, never finer), team size, hours, tools, what's hardest and what's changing, your question for others, and a short summary of your story.
- Your email, if you sign up, and whether and how you confirmed your work.
- If you join or sign in with Google, LinkedIn or GitHub: the email that account has confirmed and the name on it (and, for GitHub, your username, which can confirm your work). We keep the name privately, to start Find my work for you if you ask, and never show it to anyone. We never get your password, contacts or posts, and we don't keep your picture or profile.
- One-way fingerprints of what confirmed you (a work email, license, site or account), so it can't confirm a second account; and, if you confirmed with a work email, your employer's domain, kept privately to keep results about tools fair.
- Signs of automated or gamed answers (for example, answering faster than anyone could read), kept against a scrambled id, never your email.
- A random id in a cookie, so your conversation stays yours, and a sign-in cookie if you sign up.
- A one-way scrambled version of your network address (never the address itself), to limit abuse.
- Your answers to fixed questions, and whether you found a link useful.
- How the site is used: which of our pages are visited and which steps are taken (such as joining or following a shoal), under that random id or a daily scrambled network fingerprint, and your account once you're signed in. It's our own record, used to improve Shoalyard; we use no third-party trackers.
Unless you choose Google, LinkedIn or GitHub, we don't ask for your name. We don't ask for your employer, your phone number or your address. If you mention them, we leave them out of the notes, summaries and anything shown to others.
How we use it
- To run the conversation and give you something back each time.
- To find people in similar spots, in your line of work and in others, and to show them in Close to yours. In someone else's, you appear only as your situation and what you do about it, in our words, never with your name or anything that points to you.
- To put your question to others, and to reach out to groups where people like you gather.
- To produce pooled, anonymous findings, which may be shared with organizations interested in your field.
- To keep Shoalyard safe and its costs in check.
Who sees what
- Your full conversation: you, and Shoalyard's team (to keep the service safe and working).
- Others: never your name or firm. They see our summaries, numbers and comparisons (only when enough people are in them), and short quotes of your words, shown only with broad details like your seniority and kind of firm.
- We never sell your personal information, and we never share your name, employer or email.
Services we use
A few companies process data for us, only to run Shoalyard:
- Anthropic, for the AI that holds the conversation and writes the notes.
- Vercel, which hosts the site, and its AI Gateway with Voyage AI, which turn situations into numbers so similar ones can be found.
- Neon, which hosts our database.
- Resend, which sends sign-in emails.
- Google, LinkedIn and GitHub, only if you choose to sign in with them.
Keeping and deleting
We keep your story until you delete it. You can delete it at any time from your page; we then delete the conversation and everything that could identify you, and keep only anonymous totals (for example, that a conversation happened). To ask us to delete anything else, or to see what we hold about you, write to auth@quiver.fyi.
Changes and contact
If we change this page in a way that matters, we'll say so on the site, and by email if you've signed up. Shoalyard is run by Quiver Gearworks, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. Questions: auth@quiver.fyi.