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Screen capture is processed on the consultant's computer. Microsoft processes Teams transcripts before import. Sharing with the engagement, connecting a service or exporting content creates a separate transfer.

Your private history

Allowed sourcesYour computer

Captured text and imported transcripts are stored in your encrypted local history.

Importing a transcript does not share it.

Local processing

On the computer

Screen text is indexed locally on Windows and macOS. On the Mac, optional meeting audio is transcribed on-device during active or manually started meetings, and Ask produces answers with source references. Search uses full-text matching on both platforms. Review happens on the consultant's computer.

Organisation repository

The organisation repository receives only what the consultant chooses to share, with its saved source excerpts. The consultancy grants access per engagement, and those colleagues can use it in Overshow and Microsoft 365 Copilot. The wider capture index, original sources and drafts are not replicated.

Daily drafting works on Mac and Windows. See system requirements for hardware guidance.

Screen images are discarded after text extraction. Raw meeting audio stays local, with bounded encrypted recovery files held until successful processing, deletion or storage cap eviction. Voice embeddings are not stored or compared across meetings.

Data transfers

Account services

Sign-in, billing, device registration and aggregate licence state go to Overshow's account services. These requests do not contain the local capture index.

Sharing with the engagement

Choosing Publish sends the content the consultant approved, its saved source excerpts and audit metadata to the organisation repository. Colleagues and their permitted AI connections can retrieve it for engagements they have access to. Nothing is published automatically.

Exports and diagnostics

Exports and file mirrors write content to a folder you choose, which may be cloud-synced. A submitted feedback diagnostic can send text you review and attach to Overshow.

Connected clients

Your consultancy decides which AI connections are permitted. Within that, a local client you allow under Settings, Connections gets a scoped token for the parts of your history you grant. It can read as far back as your plan's history allows, unless you set a shorter window. Secrets are removed from what it reads, every read is logged, and you can revoke it at any time. What the client does next is up to that client and its provider.

AI apps (Mac only)

An AI app you connect under Settings, AI clients, gets scoped, read-only access to your private history, subject to the consultancy's AI policy. A cloud app sends queries and returned excerpts to its provider; a local app keeps the exchange on the computer. You can revoke access at any time. This is separate from access to what the team has shared.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

A personal Copilot connection retrieves permitted excerpts from the consultant's local history. Engagement access retrieves shared content and saved excerpts instead. Returned content, prompts, answers and citations enter the organisation's Microsoft 365 environment, where its retention policies and authorised compliance access apply. Revoking Overshow access does not remove existing Copilot conversation history.

Teams transcripts

Transcripts from eligible Teams meetings are processed in Microsoft 365 before being imported into the consultant's private history. Import does not share them with the organisation repository. During set-up we agree the meetings covered and the Microsoft permissions the administrator grants.

URL enrichment

When enabled for an allowed site, URL enrichment sends a captured web address to that site to fetch its page title and link details. The site handles those requests under its own privacy terms.

Calendar and email

An authorised Google or Microsoft connection lets the desktop fetch permitted calendar or mail data directly from the provider. Overshow's account service holds encrypted provider tokens and connection metadata, rather than a routine copy of calendar events or messages.

Capture controls

The consultant chooses capture sources and can pause from the app, the menu bar on macOS or the tray on Windows. Sharing with the engagement stays separate from capture.

  • Screen context, documents, calendar, email and optional meeting audio have separate controls
  • Exclude specific apps, sites, windows or monitors
  • Password managers, private browsing and remote desktops have built-in exclusions
  • Correct, exclude or delete items before anything is shared
Example source settings
Screen contextOn
DocumentsOn
CalendarOff
EmailOff
Meeting audioOff

System permissions

On macOS, Screen Recording and Accessibility are required for capture. Microphone access is needed for optional meeting audio transcription. On Windows, read-only screen capture needs no equivalent system grants. Capture starts after onboarding is completed.

Data protection

Privacy responsibilities

The privacy notice describes the data processed and the controller and processor roles. Your consultancy is responsible for the permissions and policies required for its use of capture and the organisation repository.

ICO registration

San Digital Limited is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office. Registration is separate from product certification or an assessment of your deployment.

Review materials

A DPIA template is available for your data protection review. The Trust Centre lists certifications, platform verification and sub-processors for your security team to inspect.

Security details

  • SQLCipher encryption at rest (AES-256-CBC). The database key is derived using HKDF-SHA256 from a platform keychain secret, machine ID, OS user ID and app user ID.
  • One active device per user. You confirm the transfer before access moves to another computer and the previous device's access is revoked. Captured data stays on the computer that recorded it.
  • The desktop app has no analytics beacons. Account traffic, publication and submitted diagnostics follow the separate paths described above.
  • Mac binaries are signed and notarised. Windows installers are signed. The local API binds to the loopback interface by default and requires authentication.
Storage boundaries
Local databaseConsultant's computer
Shared contentOrganisation repository
Recovery audioEncrypted locally

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