The BYOK Architecture
Enterprise software development requires absolute privacy. When discussing proprietary algorithms, unreleased features, or sensitive client data, passing that information through a closed, consumer-grade AI subscription is a massive compliance risk.
Plan AI mitigates this by using a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) architecture.
How it Works
Instead of BlueberryBytes acting as a middleman and storing your data to train our own models, Plan AI is simply the "Engine". You provide the keys to the underlying AI providers.
- Wholesale Pricing: Because you are using your own API keys, you pay the exact wholesale API cost for transcription and LLM inference. We do not charge a "token tax" or markup your usage.
- Your Accounts: Your audio is transcribed by Deepgram under your own key, and your transcripts go to OpenRouter under your own key. Your agreements with those providers apply. A private install goes one step further: transcription and the language model run on your own servers, and no meeting content reaches an AI provider.
- Workspace Isolation: API keys are bound to a specific
Workspacein the database. They are never shared globally across the platform.
Key Masking Security
API keys are stored in your workspace and are never sent back to the browser.
If you or another TPM load the Workspace settings page, the API keys are returned from the backend completely masked (e.g., ••••••••••••••••). The backend explicitly ignores this masked placeholder on subsequent PUT requests to prevent anyone from accidentally overwriting or inspecting the real keys.
The "Bot-Free" Privacy Guarantee
Traditional AI meeting assistants work by dialing into your Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams call as a visible participant (a "bot"). This creates two massive privacy issues:
- The Chilling Effect: Participants behave differently when they know a third-party bot is recording them.
- A Third Party in the Room: The bot is a separate participant run by the vendor, joining calls your client never agreed to share with it.
Plan AI does not use bots.
Instead, our native macOS and Windows desktop applications run quietly in your menu bar. They capture the raw system audio directly from your operating system's sound mixer. No bot joins the call.
Recording starts and stops on your machine, when you decide. Nothing joins the call on anyone else's behalf.
