Privacy

Brief builds an AI version of a real person from the public record so you can rehearse a conversation before it counts. That means we handle information about two kinds of people: the people who use Brief, and the people whose reps get built. This page covers both.

If you use Brief

Your account. Your name and email address, held by our sign-in provider (Neon Auth). If you sign in with Google, we receive the name, email and profile picture Google shares.

Before you have an account. A cookie called brief_owner ties the reps and rehearsals you make to your browser for 180 days, so you can try Brief without signing up. When you create an account, they attach to it. Two smaller cookies remember which invite or share link let you in and the name you gave, so sign-up is prefilled. None of them are used for advertising and none are shared.

Your rehearsals. The transcript, the recording of the conversation while it runs, and the scorecard we write from it are private to you. Nobody else sees them, including the person who shared a rep with you and the person the rep is of.

What you tell us about yourself. Your name, your role, what you are walking into, and any notes you add to a rep are used only to shape that rep for you.

Your voice. If you record your own voice, the recording is sent to ElevenLabs to create a voice that speaks as you, and your spoken consent is part of that recording. You can re-record or remove it at any time from the same link.

Usage. We record which parts of Brief are used, how long sessions run, and what they cost us to run. We do not sell or share this.

If a rep of you exists

Where it comes from. Reps are built from public information: public profiles, published talks, articles and posts, found through web search. Every claim in a rep carries the source it came from, or is marked as inferred. Photos come from those same public sources; an image a user uploads themselves is shown only to that user.

Your voice. A rep speaks in a stand-in voice unless you recorded your own. A voice cloned from clips by someone else is heard only by that person, in their private room, and never travels with a shared rep.

What you can do. You can hear a rep of you, see the sources it was built from, correct it, claim it, or ask for it to be removed. Removal is one request and applies to every rep of you on Brief. You never need an account or an invitation to ask: withbrief.ai/subject-removal.

What you never see. Who rehearses with a rep of you, or what they said. Rehearsals are private to the person who ran them.

Briefing mode

If someone briefs your rep, they own what they said until they release it. You receive only the write-up they chose to release. The transcript is deleted at release or when the briefing expires, and it is never shown to you in any state.

Who processes data for us

Vercel (hosting and file storage), Neon (database and sign-in), ElevenLabs (voice and conversation), Anthropic (the language model that writes reps, openers and scorecards), Tavily and Bright Data (public web and profile search), and Resend (email). Each receives only what its job needs.

Retention

Reps, rehearsals and scorecards stay until you delete them or ask us to. Briefing transcripts follow the rule above. Voice recordings stay until you remove them. We keep operational logs for a limited time to run the service.

Where we are

Brief is operated from Knoxville, Tennessee, in the United States.