Local and cloud assistants differ in where captured work is stored, where the AI runs and what you explain to your security team. With Overshow, each consultant's private history sits in one SQLCipher-encrypted database on their computer. A cloud assistant processes whatever you give it, from a single prompt to a meeting recording, on its provider's servers.
Capture and full-text search run on the laptop on Windows and macOS. The Mac also runs Ask and optional meeting transcription locally. These built-in processing steps do not send captured content to a hosted model.
Account operations and release checks use the network, but those routine requests carry no captured work. Captured work leaves only by a route someone chose. Each route below says what it sends, where it goes and who decides.
Teams transcripts travel the other way. Selected Teams transcripts go into the consultant's private history. A transcript is never shared automatically. We agree the eligible Teams meetings with your consultancy during set-up, with your administrator's consent.
Whatever you choose, these four make the trade-offs concrete.
Sign-in, billing, device registration, and release checks cross the network, but those routine requests do not carry captured content. The local capture index is processed and stored on the laptop. Separately, a consultant can explicitly share selected content, with its source excerpts, to the organisation repository.
Capture and full-text search run on-device on Windows and macOS. Ask runs on-device on the Mac, so built-in processing does not depend on a connection. You need to be online to sign in, and the app periodically refreshes its signed entitlement. If its offline grace expires, recall falls back to a shorter historical window until a refresh succeeds.
Yes. Overshow reads the text on your screen during calls in common meeting apps and browser sessions, and links them to calendar context in your daily draft. Meeting audio is optional. When enabled, it is transcribed on-device during active or manually started meetings. No bot joins the call.
Raw audio stays on your computer and is removed after terminal processing. Bounded encrypted recovery files, including quarantined speech that produced no usable transcript, can remain until successful processing, deletion, or oldest-first eviction within the shared ten-hour cap. Transcript text stays in the encrypted local database. No voice embeddings are stored or compared across meetings.
A Mac with M1 or later, at least 16 GB RAM and macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later. Windows 11 (x86_64) runs on basic PCs with lower RAM requirements.
Your private history is already on your computer, and nothing you captured is deleted. Capture and full-text search run on-device on Windows and macOS, with Ask on the Mac. Access remains subject to the account's entitlement and offline grace. Shared content follows the repository retention terms in your agreement.
Book a walkthrough to compare the boundary against your current assistant and discuss access for an eligible machine.
Mac: M1 or later, at least 16 GB RAM and macOS 26 or later. Windows 11 (x86_64) runs on basic PCs. Access is set up with us on a walkthrough. Pricing is agreed per engagement on the walkthrough. Every deployment includes capture, search and a shared history for each engagement on Windows and macOS. Standard Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot set-up is included in the paid 90 days, subject to the agreed permissions and Microsoft licences.