The short version
- showdo uses AI companies to write guides, check for personal details, translate, make voiceovers, power the assistant and carry out tasks in Chrome.
- Blurred screenshots are sent to an AI company for some of these. Unblurred screenshots and recordings of your voice are never uploaded, so they are never sent.
- showdo does not train AI models on your content.
- Workspace admins can turn all of this off with one switch, "Allow AI features". With it off, no guide text is sent to an AI company by any showdo feature.
- AI can be wrong. Read it before you share it.
The full text below is what counts.
Features that use AI
Each card below says what the feature does, exactly what is sent, who receives it, when it happens and how to turn it off. Nothing outside these cards is sent to an AI company.
Writing your guide
Writes the step titles, the descriptions and the summary, and spots clicks that did not matter.
- What is sent
- Each step's blurred screenshot, made smaller, with a red ring drawn where you clicked.
- The app or website name, the window or page title and the page address.
- The label and text of the thing you clicked, and what you typed after personal details were removed.
- Keys you pressed, the words you said while recording (as text), and the guide title.
- Who gets it
- OpenRouter or OpenAI.
- When
- When a recording finishes, and when you ask showdo to write the guide again.
- Turn it off
- A workspace admin can turn it off in workspace settings, under "showdo app and extension", with "Allow AI features".
Checking for personal details
A second look for personal details the blurring missed. Whatever it finds is blurred or replaced with a placeholder.
- What is sent
- The blurred screenshots and the step text.
- Who gets it
- OpenRouter or OpenAI.
- When
- Straight after the guide is written, and when you ask for a check.
- Turn it off
- A workspace admin can turn it off in workspace settings, under "showdo app and extension", with "Allow AI features".
Translating a guide
Makes a copy of a guide in another language.
- What is sent
- The guide title and summary, and each step's title, description and notes. No screenshots.
- Who gets it
- OpenRouter or OpenAI.
- When
- Only when you ask for a translation.
- Turn it off
- A workspace admin can turn it off in workspace settings, under "showdo app and extension", with "Allow AI features".
Video narration and rewrites
Writes what a video says, and rewrites a line when you ask.
- What is sent
- The guide title and summary, and each step's title, description and notes.
- What you said while recording, as text. Personal details are replaced first.
- Who gets it
- OpenRouter or OpenAI.
- When
- When you make a video or ask for a rewrite.
- Turn it off
- A workspace admin can turn it off in workspace settings, under "showdo app and extension", with "Allow AI features". The video is then made from the step text, with no voiceover. Typing your own narration still works.
Voiceover and caption timing
Turns each narration line into spoken audio and works out when each word is spoken, so captions line up.
- What is sent
- Each narration line as text.
- The voice audio showdo has just made from that line, to find the timing. This is a computer voice, never a recording of a person.
- Who gets it
- OpenAI, directly (not through OpenRouter).
- When
- When a video voiceover is made or a line is changed.
- Turn it off
- A workspace admin can turn it off in workspace settings, under "showdo app and extension", with "Allow AI features". Voiceovers that already exist stay and still play.
Making guides searchable for the assistant
Prepares your guides so the assistant can find the right one.
- What is sent
- Each guide's title, summary and step titles, descriptions and notes, cut into short pieces, with the app and site names. Personal details are replaced first.
- Who gets it
- OpenAI if showdo is set up with an OpenAI key, otherwise OpenRouter.
- When
- Automatically, after a guide is finished or its title or summary changes.
- Turn it off
- A workspace admin can turn it off in workspace settings, under "showdo app and extension", with "Allow AI features". Nothing is sent while it is off. Search entries made earlier stay in showdo's database but are not used. When it is turned on again, showdo catches up within minutes.
The assistant
Answers questions using your workspace's guides.
- What is sent
- Your question and the recent messages in the chat.
- The text of the guides it found: titles, summaries, step titles, descriptions and notes. No screenshots.
- Who gets it
- OpenRouter or OpenAI.
- When
- Each time you ask the assistant something.
- Turn it off
- A workspace admin can turn it off in workspace settings, under "showdo app and extension", with "Allow AI features". The assistant then shows one message and nothing is sent.
Ask showdo in Chrome
You type what you want done in your browser, and showdo does it one action at a time, asking before anything risky.
- What is sent
- What you typed, and your notes so far.
- The page address and title, and up to about 1,500 characters of the text on the page, with personal details replaced.
- A list of the buttons and fields on the page: their labels, what is in them (except private fields), and their options.
- A blurred picture of the part of the page you can see.
- Who gets it
- OpenRouter or OpenAI.
- When
- Before each action, while a task runs. A task stops after 30 actions.
- Turn it off
- A workspace admin can turn it off with "Allow AI features" or "Allow Do it for me".
Who receives it
showdo sends requests to OpenRouter (which passes the request to the company that runs the AI model) or OpenAI. showdo uses one of the two, depending on how the service is set up.
- OpenRouter is a service that routes a request to the company that runs the chosen AI model. That company then handles it too. Which model, and so which company, depends on how showdo is set up. The sub-processors page lists them.
- OpenAI receives requests directly for voiceover and caption timing. It also receives them for the assistant's search when showdo is set up with an OpenAI key, and for writing when showdo is set up to use OpenAI instead of OpenRouter.
Requests are sent from showdo's servers to these companies' services for developers, not through consumer chat apps. Your device never sends anything to an AI company itself.
What is never sent
- Unblurred screenshots. showdo for Chrome, showdo for Mac and showdo for Android blur personal details on your device. Only the blurred picture is uploaded, so the original is never on our servers, and so it cannot be sent to anyone.
- Recordings of your voice. showdo for Mac turns speech into text on your Mac and uploads only the text. The audio is not uploaded. The only audio an AI company receives is the computer voice showdo makes itself.
- Passwords, card numbers and one-time codes. showdo never reads them while recording. In Ask showdo, those fields are marked private. The AI is not told what is in them, and showdo does not type into them.
- Your account details. Your email address, name and password are not part of any AI request.
- Other workspaces. An assistant answer only uses guides from the workspace you are in, and people who can only view see answers from published guides.
Blurring is automatic and good, but not perfect. That is why showdo also checks for personal details a second time. If you see something that should have been blurred, add blur in the editor and tell us.
What the AI companies do with it
Each AI company has its own terms about requests it receives through a business account, including whether it keeps them and for how long. Those terms and the settings on showdo's accounts with them decide this, not showdo's website. showdo does not promise anything on their behalf, and we do not claim that they never keep or learn from requests.
What we can say for ourselves:
- showdo does not use your content to train AI models, and nothing in showdo does.
- showdo sends only what is listed on this page.
- showdo has no other uses for AI requests.
You can read each company's terms on its own website. If you need a stronger promise for your organisation, write to [email protected].
Turning AI features off
Workspace owners and admins can open workspace settings, go to "showdo app and extension" and turn off Allow AI features. One switch stops every feature on this page: guide writing, the personal-details check, translation, video narration and voiceovers, the assistant and the search behind it, and Ask showdo. Turning off Allow "Do it for me" also stops Ask showdo on its own.
What happens when it is off:
- Nothing is sent. No guide text, question or picture goes to an AI company from that workspace.
- The assistant shows one message and does not answer. Its earlier chats stay readable and can be deleted.
- The search entries made earlier stay in showdo's database. They are not used to answer anything, and they are not sent anywhere.
- Videos are made from the step text with no voiceover. Voiceovers made earlier stay and play.
- Turning it on again makes showdo catch the assistant's search up with your guides within a few minutes.
This cannot take back what an AI company already received before the switch was turned off. What it keeps is set by its own terms, as described above. If you need a stronger promise for your organisation, write to [email protected].
Mistakes, checking and people
AI can write steps that are wrong, miss a click that mattered, or leave out a personal detail. Always read your guide before you share it. You are responsible for what you publish, as the Terms explain.
showdo does not use AI to make decisions about people that have legal or similarly important effects. AI helps write and search guides. People decide what to publish.
Your questions and rights
The Privacy Policy explains your rights and how to use them. For questions about AI, write to [email protected].
Version history
- Version 1.3Added showdo for Android to the apps this page covers. Nothing else changed.
- Version 1.2Relay is now called showdo, a product of WeMakeCode (OPC) Private Limited. Nothing else changed.
- Version 1.1The switch is now called "Allow AI features" and covers every feature on this page, including the assistant, its search and video narration and voiceover. Before, the assistant and its search could not be turned off.
- Version 1.0First published version.