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Own it, don't rent it
A cloud AI SaaS rents you a seat. Mysty PAI is a workforce you own — your keys, your data, your infrastructure, no lock-in.
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The structural difference between PAI and any cloud AI assistant or agent SaaS:
| Feature | PAI | Cloud AI SaaS |
|---|---|---|
| Where your data lives | Your hardware (office Mac, your pod, your VPC) | Their multi-tenant cloud |
| Whose AI keys | Yours (BYOK; keys never leave the device) | Theirs — you pay their margin on tokens |
| Works offline / provider outage | Enableable Designed to keep local models working through an outage, with the signed audit chain queued until you reconnect | — |
| If you cancel | Roadmap Planned: you keep your device, Pies and local data, with a signed final audit export and a standalone-mode config | Export what you can, lose the rest |
| Proof of what the AI did | Signed, hash-chained audit you can verify offline | Their logs, their word |
| Who can read your conversations | You (metadata-only telemetry by default) | Vendor, by ToS |
DRAFT — the “Cloud AI SaaS” column describes a category, not a named vendor, so it can't be sourced as written; it needs named vendors and their official pages before publication.
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