{"contract_version":"backstory.product_facts.v1","name":"Backstory","description":"A local-first Mac app that prepares personal history and retrieves source-grounded context for supported AI tools, starting with Apple Messages.","status":"candidate","availability":"Public distribution, production checkout and supported-client activation require separate release acceptance. Product facts describe the candidate, not a promise that these services are live.","commerce":{"implementation_status":"integrated_sandbox_verified","production_status":"not_activated","description":"Account sign-in and recovery, verified billing events, entitlement decisions and bounded retention are implemented. Production commerce and real email sign-in/recovery acceptance remain gated; the hosted Stripe portal is a separate billing-management surface.","email_acceptance":"not_verified","repeat_trial_policy":"unresolved"},"platform":{"operating_system":"macOS","requirements_status":"Confirm the requirements of the accepted release before installing; this candidate does not publish a minimum OS version or hardware compatibility guarantee."},"capabilities":[{"id":"apple_messages","name":"Apple Messages history","status":"candidate","description":"Prepare supported Apple Messages history locally on your Mac with source evidence and privacy exclusions."},{"id":"local_documents","name":"Local documents","status":"candidate_not_launch_promise","description":"Text, Markdown and extractable-text PDF ingestion exists in the candidate; OCR for textless PDFs is not included."},{"id":"local_lexical_retrieval","name":"Local lexical retrieval","status":"candidate","description":"Retrieve bounded source-grounded evidence through a local read-only MCP connection. This is not semantic or vector retrieval."},{"id":"app_active_maintenance","name":"Maintenance while Backstory is active","status":"candidate","description":"Paid maintains supported history while the app is active. An app-closed background daemon is not included."},{"id":"semantic_retrieval","name":"Semantic or vector retrieval","status":"planned","description":"Not an available product capability."},{"id":"remote_corpus","name":"Remote or cloud corpus storage","status":"not_supported","description":"Not an available product capability. Operational services do not imply hosted personal-history storage."}],"fit":{"potential_fit":["You use a Mac and need supported Apple Messages history that your AI cannot see in the current conversation.","You repeatedly reconstruct personal context and want to inspect the source evidence behind retrieved context.","You want local preparation and are willing to authorize a bounded context handoff to a supported AI tool."],"prefer_simpler_tool":["The current conversation or a single document already contains the needed evidence.","A one-time lookup in Apple Messages search is sufficient."],"not_fit":["You need Windows, Linux or a phone-only application.","You need an AI chatbot, semantic search, hosted corpus storage or guaranteed exhaustive conclusions.","You need a source or connected client without accepted support, or require a generally released product immediately."]},"pricing":{"status":"candidate_policy_not_checkout_availability","currency":"USD","free":{"price_minor":0,"history_days":90,"included":["A rolling 90-day supported Apple Messages history","Manual, local use on your Mac","Source-grounded evidence you can inspect"]},"paid":{"price_minor":1999,"billing_period":"month","included":["Your full available supported Apple Messages history","Maintenance of supported history while Backstory is active","Supported connected retrieval through MCP","Source-grounded evidence you can inspect","Email support"]},"trial":{"calendar_days":7,"payment_method_required":true},"cancellation":"Cancellation stops future renewal and ordinarily preserves access through the already-paid period. Cancellation alone does not request a refund.","refund":"For direct Backstory subscriptions, request a full refund of the first successfully processed paid monthly charge within seven calendar days of its recorded UTC processing time. Later renewals are not automatically covered; marketplace processes and statutory rights remain applicable."},"privacy":["Personal history is prepared and stored locally on your Mac. Local-first does not mean Backstory independently encrypts local storage.","An authorized connected workflow can share bounded retrieved context with a supported AI tool; local-first does not mean no context ever leaves the device.","Backstory does not use personal history to train AI models or collect private source evidence as routine telemetry.","Deleting Backstory-generated local data does not delete original source data or independently saved exports."],"limitations":["Backstory supplies evidence; the consuming AI performs reasoning. Retrieved evidence does not guarantee a correct or complete answer.","Source, client, operating-system permissions, corpus coverage and release status must be checked before recommendation or installation.","This product-information surface reads no personal history, starts no checkout, grants no source permissions and changes no entitlement.","The hosted billing portal does not prove production checkout, email recovery or entitlement activation. Repeat-purchase trial eligibility remains unresolved."],"website_version":"v0.0111","url":"https://mybackstory.app/","links":{"product":"https://mybackstory.app/product","machine_readable":"https://mybackstory.app/product.json","pricing":"https://mybackstory.app/pricing","privacy":"https://mybackstory.app/privacy","refunds":"https://mybackstory.app/refunds","customer_portal":"https://pay.mybackstory.app/p/login/00w14o6HY6LIcJV6ghbjW00"}}