Local by default
Your source material is gathered and prepared under your control.
Privacy-firstLocal-first
Give AI the context that matters—without giving up control of your data.
Backstory is a local-first, privacy-first personal context system designed to help AI understand more of your story while keeping the underlying source material under your control.
Built around trust
Context is only useful when you can trust where it came from.
Backstory is designed to compile personal source material into portable, source-cited context you can review before sharing with an AI.
Evidence stays visible
Compiled context remains traceable to the source material behind it.
Sharing is a choice
Local capture never implies permission to send your information elsewhere.
A deliberate flow
From scattered history to useful context.
Backstory is designed around four understandable steps, with your review and choice at the center.
Explore the processGather
Bring together the source material you choose without changing the originals.
Compile
Shape relevant material into a bounded, portable Context Packet.
Review
Check the evidence, citations, exclusions, corrections, and gaps.
Share
Export only when you are ready, to the AI you choose.
A different kind of context system
Not another AI memory silo. A way to bring your own context—with the evidence and boundaries intact.
The story behind the question