Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
For an AI assistant to become truly useful, it first has to know a lot about you. Ollie, a personal assistant for everyday life, is betting that doesn’t mean you have to hand over all your data and sacrifice your privacy in the process.
While some enterprise-focused AI assistants have data privacy protections in place, Ollie is among the first mainstream, family-focused AI to achieve SOC 2 compliance — a framework that allows a company to demonstrate, through an independent audit, that it has formal controls in place to protect customer data and operate its systems securely.
Achieving this was an important milestone for Ollie’s team, as it signals to potential users that the assistant isn’t trying to scoop up your personal data for other purposes, like AI training.
“We fundamentally think that trust and privacy are absolutely imperative, and that’s why our business model is a subscription, because...
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