How Maurice learns. And how you see it.
Maurice is not an AI that quietly remembers everything. He knows what you give him, and everything he draws from it has its place, in plain view: you can read it, correct it or erase it.
What Maurice has in front of him.
1
What you show him.
A note, a book, a document, an old conversation: you load them into the conversation, and he reads them to answer you.
2
What he finds in your things.
When the question calls for it, he searches your notes, your conversations and your reading. Only yours: nobody else can reach them.
3
His briefs on your domains.
For each part of your life he follows, a few paragraphs on where you stand. You read them and you correct them.
4
The facts you accepted.
“Léa is eleven.” Maurice may offer a small, stable fact; he uses it only once you have kept it.
Your domains, offered, never imposed.
Each night, Maurice groups your conversations by subject and keeps those that have come back for months: your house, a project, a passion. Each becomes a proposal. You rename it, merge it with another, put it away or adopt it: nothing becomes a domain without your yes.
For each domain you adopt, Maurice keeps a brief of two or three paragraphs, rewritten at night from the new conversations. If you correct it, your words prevail.
Sustainable architecture
Example
You are renovating a 1930s house in Forest. External insulation is ruled out (listed façade); you are weighing wood fibre against hemp for the inside, and waiting for the builder’s quote for the roof.
You can correct it, have it rewritten, erase it, or talk about it in a new conversation.
Your correspondents, if you open your mailbox.
Connect a mailbox and Maurice reads its headers, to tell newsletters from your real exchanges. He reads the messages themselves only after you say yes, mailbox by mailbox: by default, the people you really correspond with, over the last three months.
From them he writes a page per person: who they are to you, what was promised, what is still open. Each element can be confirmed, rejected or corrected, and yours is the last word.
The access is read-only: Maurice has no way to send, move or delete a message.
What Maurice guessed
Example
Written by Maurice, not yet reviewed by you: it stays marked until you confirm.
Your memory is your notes.
What lasts is your notes: ordinary text files, yours, with their history. Not a black box. You can take a copy and open them in Obsidian.
A note exists because you wrote it or asked Maurice to write it. He does not turn your conversations into notes behind your back.
- Your ChatGPT and Claude conversations can be imported: your domains can appear the very next night.
- On a shared Maurice, everyone has their own memory: what Maurice knows of you is not used for the other members.
- In a shared conversation, he uses nobody’s memory.
- My data: export everything, or erase everything.
Who sees what, on a Maurice we host.
A Maurice belongs to whoever opens it. They manage its accounts and can, if they need to, step into a member’s account: that member is told. So join the Maurice of someone you trust. We run it, on machines rented from Scaleway in Paris. Here is what each of them can see.
| What | You | Other members | Its owner | Us, who run it | Scaleway, our host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your conversations with Maurice | Yes | No | Only by stepping into your account, and you are told | No* | Each turn, to answer it; not kept, by its terms |
| Your notes, domains and kept facts | Yes | Only the notes you share with them | Only by stepping into your account, and you are told | No* | What a turn loads, to answer it |
| Your mail | Yes | No | Only by stepping into your account, and you are told | No* | What Maurice reads, once you said yes |
| A shared conversation | Yes, if you are in it | Those in it | If they are in it | Only messages someone reports | Each turn Maurice is called into |
| What each message costs | Yes, under each reply, if you turn it on | No | What each member spends | Per member, to keep the budget | No |
| Your name and email address | Yes | Your first name | Yes | Yes, to run your account | Your address, when we send you a mail |
| The whole Maurice, as one archive | Your own part, whenever you like | No | Yes, from the account page, and every member is told | Our backups, encrypted* | Our backups, encrypted before they are sent: its storage cannot read them |
| A note you publish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, like anyone |
* We do not read your conversations, notes or mail. The people who run the service can technically reach the servers and what is on them: that is how a hosted service works, not encryption against us. That access is used only to keep your Maurice running and secure, at your request, or when the law requires it. Our logs record what Maurice does, not what you write, though a search he runs or the title of a note can appear in them. On a Maurice you run yourself, we see nothing at all. The privacy policy →
Questions
Does Maurice remember everything I tell him?
No. He can find your past conversations when you ask him something, but what he keeps for good is your notes, his domain briefs and the facts you accepted. All of it can be read and corrected.
Is my data used to train a model?
No. On a hosted Maurice, the models run at Scaleway, in Paris, which processes each request to answer it and does not keep it to train models.
Can another member see what Maurice knows of me?
No. Your notes, your domains, your mail and the pages drawn from it are yours: the other members do not see them. One thing to know: a Maurice belongs to whoever opens it. They can, if they need to, step into your account, and you are told when they do. Join the Maurice of someone you trust. Who sees what →
What if Maurice gets it wrong?
Correct him where he went wrong: the domain’s brief, an element of a person’s page, the fact he offered. What you reject does not come back.
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