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What biorigor records

Someone in your lab is testing biorigor, an app that records bench work as audio and turns it into a written list of steps. If they hit Record while you were nearby, your voice is in that recording. This page is what's actually happening to it — no account needed to read it, and nothing here is different from what we'd tell you in person.

What it captures

Audio from the phone's microphone, and nothing else. There is no camera, no photos, no video, and no tracking of where the phone or anyone else is.

It's a microphone in a room, so it doesn't distinguish between the person narrating their experiment and anyone else talking nearby. If you were in earshot, assume you were recorded — including whatever else the conversation drifted into.

How you can tell it's on

A red banner sits at the top of the phone's screen for the entire time it's capturing, with a blinking dot. It looks exactly like this:

There's no hidden mode and no way to record without it. If you don't see that banner, the app isn't listening. It's deliberately hard to miss, and you're welcome to ask to see the screen.

Where the audio goes

It's saved on the phone in 30–60 second pieces and uploaded over the internet as the session runs.
It's stored in a private Amazon S3 bucket in the United States. The bucket isn't public; playback happens through links that expire after an hour.
The audio is sent to OpenAI's API to be transcribed into text, and the transcript is sent back to an OpenAI model that pulls out the individual steps. That's the one point where the recording leaves our own infrastructure.
The audio and the transcript are kept, not deleted after processing. That's deliberate: every extracted step links back to the exact audio it came from, so a claim in the notebook can always be checked against what was actually said.

Who can see it

The person who recorded the session, and the team building biorigor at Draftor Labs. Sessions, uploads and vocabulary belong to the account that made them, so one tester can't see another tester's work. The team building the app can, and does — reading back where the app misheard something is how it stops mishearing it.

That's the whole list. Recordings aren't posted anywhere, aren't shared with your institution or anyone else's, aren't sold, and aren't used to advertise anything.

If you'd rather not be recorded

Just say so. Whoever is testing the app will stop it, or move the conversation out of range. You don't need a reason, and asking after the fact is fine too — if a session caught something you'd rather didn't exist, tell them or email us and we'll delete the recording and its transcript.

This website

Separate from everything above: these web pages use Google Analytics to count visits — which pages get read, and roughly where readers arrived from. It sees traffic on this website and nothing else. It has no access to a recording, a transcript, or anything inside the app.

Questions, or want a recording deleted? Email deepak@draftor.bio — a person reads it.