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Catalyst is made by Aurandel. Jax is an AI coach, and talking to him means trusting us with personal things. This policy explains, in plain language, what we collect, where it goes, how long it stays, and what you can delete. We wrote it to match how the app actually works today.
1. What we collect
Your voice. When you speak to Jax, the app records your voice on your device and sends it to our speech-to-text provider to turn it into words. Catalyst does not keep an archive of your voice recordings on our servers. The audio is processed to produce the transcript and is not stored by us afterward.
Your conversations. Your chats with Jax are saved on your device so you can revisit them. On our servers, Jax's memory system stores what he needs to remember you: extracted summaries and facts (your goals, the people you mention, your patterns) and, for some exchanges, short excerpts of what you and Jax actually said. Memory includes conversation text, not just summaries.
Your plan. Goals, projects and steps you save in My Plan live on your device. A copy of your current plan is kept on our servers, tied to your account, so features like Jax's check-ins can work.
Basic app information and logs. We collect onboarding details you enter (like your name), settings, and technical diagnostics about how the app is performing. New application diagnostic logs record events and outcomes, not the words you say to Jax. Older application log entries may contain conversation text; they are being cleared through the normal log rotation and are expected to be gone by October 2, 2026. Our web server separately logs network details, including IP address, time, requested URL, referrer, browser or app information, and response status. URL parameters and referrers may carry data, including account identifiers. Access logs do not record message bodies.
Optional cloud backup. If you turn on cloud backup, a snapshot of your app data is stored with our infrastructure provider so you can restore it. Backup is off unless you enable it.
2. Where your data goes
Catalyst uses specialist providers to make Jax work. Your data goes where it is needed to serve you:
- AI responses: depending on routing and availability, your messages and the memory context Jax needs may be processed by Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), or OpenAI to generate replies. When a fallback route is used, OpenRouter may also process the request to deliver it to an AI provider.
- Speech-to-text: your voice recordings are processed by Deepgram, with OpenAI Whisper as a backup if Deepgram fails. We send normal Deepgram requests with model-improvement opt-out enabled. Under Deepgram's published policy, opted-out audio and transcripts are retained only long enough to process the request.
- Jax's voice: the text of Jax's replies is sent to Fish Audio, with our own self-hosted voice system as backup, to be turned into speech.
- Memory search: to find relevant memories, we use OpenAI to create mathematical representations of text (embeddings).
- Web search: when you ask Jax to look something up, the search query, which is based on what you asked, is sent to a search provider.
You agree to this processing on the consent screen the first time you use the app. These providers process your data to serve your request. We use Deepgram's model-improvement opt-out for normal speech-to-text requests. We do not independently verify every provider's internal retention practices beyond their published policies.
We never sell your data. We never share it with advertisers, data brokers, or social media platforms.
3. How long things are kept
- Chats on your device: until you delete them or reset the app.
- Jax's server-side memories: different kinds of memories have different lifespans. Some short-term memories are marked to expire within weeks. Core memories about you, like your goals and important facts, are kept for as long as you use Catalyst. You can delete them as described in section 4.
- Your server-side plan copy: kept while your account is active and replaced whenever your plan changes.
- Application diagnostic logs: rotated daily and normally kept for about seven days. New entries do not contain conversation text. Older entries from before this logging change are expected to finish clearing by October 2, 2026.
- Web server access logs: rotated daily and normally kept for up to about 15 days, including the current log. These contain the network details described in section 1.
- Cloud backups (if enabled): the latest snapshot remains until it is replaced or you ask us to remove it. Pausing automatic backup does not delete an existing snapshot.
4. What you can delete
- Delete all of Jax's memories of you: available in the app (Settings → Memory). This deletes your memories from our server-side memory stores and verifies the deletion. It does not delete My Plan, your saved chats on your device, or cloud backups. Those are separate, and the app says so.
- Ask Jax to forget something specific: you can ask Jax to forget a particular memory. This works for the memory record he finds, but copies may persist in places a single command cannot reach, like a backup you created. The in-app Memory Viewer explains this.
- Reset your device data: removes Catalyst's local data from your phone.
- Delete everything: to remove all data we hold about you, including server memories, your plan copy, cloud backups, and account records, email us at support@catalystgoals.com. We will complete the deletion and confirm it to you within 30 days.
5. Security
Your data travels to our servers over encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS). Access to Jax's server-side memories requires a security token generated and stored on your device. Our server stores a hashed verifier, and requests without a valid token are refused. Cloud backups use separate account sign-in. Our infrastructure is access-restricted, and we continue to strengthen protections as Catalyst grows.
6. Consent and changes
The app asks for your consent before conversation data is processed by our AI providers, and Catalyst's core features require that consent to function. If you no longer consent, stop using the app and use the deletion options above, or email us and we will remove your data.
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top and, for meaningful changes, tell you in the app.