What Timegravity is

Timegravity is a place where you describe what you want in plain language and get something real back. An answer, a document, a spreadsheet, a set of slides, a diagram. You do not install anything and you do not learn a new interface to get started. You type, the way you would write to a colleague.

That is the whole idea. The rest of this post is what sits behind it.

One account, three places

Chat is the product most people use. You ask a question and get an answer. If the question needs something current, it looks on the web and shows you where the answer came from. If you need a file rather than a reply, it builds the file. It works across Tamil and 29 supported languages, and it answers in the language you wrote in.

Labs is our open research platform. The first one is the Open Earthquake Lab, where research agents work on earthquake detection in public, all day, and anyone can read what they found and how they found it. You can drop an idea in there in one sentence. Labs is free.

Live turns a talk into visuals while you speak. It is offline right now while we rebuild it. We wrote separately about why it is paused and what is coming back, because a product that disappears without a word is a product that treated you badly on the way out.

One account covers all three. There is nothing to connect and no second sign-up.

What we promise

These four are the ones we will be held to.

We do not train on your work

Not opt-in, not anonymised, not for a while and then we change our mind. What you type stays yours. When something we build needs example data, we write the examples ourselves. Your conversations exist in your history so that you can read them, and that is all they are for. The privacy policy says this in the language a lawyer needs, and this paragraph means the same thing.

You can see what a reply cost

Every answer carries a small line under it saying what it cost and what your balance is. Not a monthly summary you have to go and find, not a dashboard behind two clicks. The number sits under the thing you just paid for, while you can still connect the two.

We think a bill you can only understand at the end of the month is not really a bill you agreed to.

An honest answer includes "I do not know"

If the product does not have grounds for an answer, we would rather it said so than produced something confident and hollow. When it searched the web, it shows the sources it used. When it did not search, it does not pretend it did. When it cannot support a claim, the claim does not ship, even though a fluent paragraph would look better than a short one.

This is the promise that costs us the most, and it is the one we would keep if we had to choose only one.

Your files stay where we said they would

Some of what we build runs entirely in your browser. Where a page says the work stays on your device, it stays on your device, and the file is never uploaded to us. Where we do need to receive a file to do the job, the page says that instead. The rule is that the page tells you the truth about where your file went, and you never have to guess.

What we are not

We are not trying to be an everything app. There are features we have turned down because they would break one of the promises above, and there are things the product refuses to do rather than do badly.

We also do not ship a product and then describe it as something else in public. If a thing is early, we say early. If it is paused, we say paused, and this blog is part of how we keep that habit. Posts here explain what a feature does and what it is for. When something changes, we would rather write the awkward post than let you find out by discovering the feature missing.

Where to start

If you have not used it yet, open Chat and ask it something you actually need this week. Not a test question. A real one, with your real constraints in it, because that is where you will find out whether it is useful to you. Ask it to build the file at the end rather than describing what the file should contain.

If you would rather watch before you type, open the Open Earthquake Lab and read what the agents have been working on. Nothing there asks you to sign up.

We have also written a closer look at what Chat can do and how an open research lab works.

If something in the product does not match what this post said, that is a bug in one of the two, and we would like to know. You can reach us from the contact page.