Privacy starts with a visible boundary.

Information stored on your computer

Threshold Lab creates and uses local application data so that sessions can be built, restored, understood, and exported. Depending on the features you use, this can include:

• session recipes, timelines, titles, mix settings, and appearance preferences;
• current, pinned, and historical session metadata;
• AI Lab prompts and portable plan JSON;
• plain-language session descriptions and exported lossless WAV files;
• locally rendered narration and cached voice data; and
• optional Experience Records written by the user.

These files are not automatically uploaded to Walter Claw Software. Exported prompts, plans, descriptions, WAVs, and Experience Records remain ordinary files under the user's control.

Optional AI provider requests

Session Creator can be used without an AI provider. When a user asks AI Lab to generate a plan, Threshold Lab sends the planning prompt and necessary session-design context to the provider selected by the user.

That request is processed under the selected provider's account, terms, privacy policy, data controls, and billing arrangement. Threshold Lab does not control what an outside provider retains after receiving a request.

The app does not send the finished WAV to an AI planning provider as part of ordinary plan generation. Local narration and procedural audio rendering occur after the plan is returned.

Provider credentials

The macOS development build can use a supported OAuth credential when one is available, or a provider API key supplied by the user. OAuth credentials remain in their external credential manager.

API keys saved through Threshold Lab are encrypted using macOS secure storage and kept in local application support data. They are not placed in exported prompts, plans, descriptions, WAVs, session snapshots, or Experience Records, and they are not sent to Walter Claw Software.

Provider API requests can incur charges under the user's provider account. The app is designed not to switch from working OAuth to a billable API key merely because of a quota, rate-limit, network, or service failure.

Local voice and model files

Threshold Lab renders generated narration locally. The first use may need to download and cache the required local voice model files. Those model-host requests can reveal ordinary connection information, such as an IP address, to the hosting service.

Once the required files are available locally, narration generation itself does not send the narration text to a cloud text-to-speech provider.

Experience Records

Experience Records are optional local notes. Threshold Lab does not use them to unlock sessions, score an outcome, gate app use, or define progress. They are not sent to Walter Claw Software by the current development build.

Because they are readable local files, anyone with access to the user's computer and files may be able to read them. Users should write only what they are comfortable keeping on that device.

This website

ThresholdLab.app is a static website hosted by Netlify. It does not currently include advertising, analytics scripts, account creation, newsletter forms, or tracking cookies. As a hosting provider, Netlify may process routine request and security logs needed to deliver and protect the site.

Following an external link—such as Walter Claw Software or a future store listing—moves the visitor to a service governed by that service's own practices.

User controls and deletion

Users can delete exported session artifacts and Experience Records as ordinary local files. Provider credentials can be removed in Settings. Session history and other local application data will receive final documented deletion controls before public release.

Uninstalling an app does not necessarily delete documents a user intentionally exported outside the application bundle.

Changes before release

Threshold Lab is in active development. This overview may change as store packaging, model delivery, provider support, diagnostics, and Windows behavior are finalized. Material changes will be reflected here before the affected public release.

Contact

Questions about Threshold Lab privacy can be sent to support@walterclawsoftware.com.