Instinct
Personal assistant operated by Spear Street Technology, Inc. d/b/a Instinct, distinct from Meta’s Muse; it can use a phone and computer to complete everyday tasks.
Score calculation
(1 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 7) ÷ 5 = 3.0
5 of six dimensions rated. Unrated dimensions are excluded from the average.
Full scoring method ↗Setup details
Hosted consumer assistant and Mac/mobile apps. Permissions, Google Workspace connection, third-party model providers and the user’s device determine access and processing.
What fits your needs
Consumer-hosted personal agent with Mac and mobile apps and optional app connections; inference and third-party processing route are not disclosed in the public product overview.
Personal tasks
Can use phone and computer interfaces to handle tasks such as grocery orders, travel booking, messaging and appointments.
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Tradeoffs to expect
Broad account access
Depending on permissions, Instinct may process connected email, messages, documents, audio and sensitive information.
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How to switch
Google Workspace controls
You can revoke Workspace access in Instinct settings and request deletion of previously collected Workspace API data through account deletion.
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Practical questions
Model training
The policy permits training and product improvement on interactions and usage data by default. The opt-out is prospective; safety-review flagged data may still be used, while Workspace API data is excluded.
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Action and advice limits
The privacy policy warns of unintended actions and says the assistant is not a professional adviser; permission scope and third-party integrations govern what it can access or do.
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Action approval boundary
The reviewed official product and privacy pages do not specify which external actions require confirmation or whether approval is per action; confirm this behavior in the current app before connecting accounts.
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Age eligibility
Instinct says its services are not intended for children; it does not state a minimum user age on the reviewed policy page.
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Instinct’s reviewed product/privacy materials leave inference hosting unspecified and publish no energy, electricity-source or workload-control disclosure.
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The reviewed Instinct product overview and privacy policy describe user-facing tasks and data handling but do not state whether inference is local or hosted. They also provide no energy measurement, electricity mix or documented workload control, so no operational or environmental practice is scored beyond the base.
1 + 0 reporting + 0 electricity + 0 controls = 1/10. This grades documented practices and transparency.
Inference host/model, facility, route-specific electricity and workload resource controls are not established by the reviewed pages.
- Reporting0/3
- The reviewed Instinct product and privacy pages don’t show where inference runs or provide product-level energy reporting.
- Electricity sourcing0/3
- Neither the product overview nor privacy policy identifies the inference facility or its electricity mix.
- Resource controls0/3
- The reviewed Instinct pages document no model-token, context, compute or task-volume control linked to physical resource demand.
Water disclosure
Water reporting has not been assessed for this choice.
The product can route tasks through multiple models or providers, so no single training dataset applies to this agent entry.
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The product can route tasks through multiple models or providers, so no single training dataset applies to this agent entry. Model version, provider, and any fine-tuning or post-training sources must be checked for the selected route; a client privacy setting doesn’t confirm training-material permission.
Exact model, version, provider, inherited base, and fine-tuning training data vary by route or are not disclosed in the reviewed product sources.
Instinct’s privacy policy allows user-provided interactions and connected account data to be used to improve and train models, with a settings opt-out; Google Workspace content is excluded from training.
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Instinct’s policy says user interactions and usage data may support evaluating, fine-tuning, and training its models, with an opt-out in settings that applies prospectively and does not cover safety review. It excludes Google Workspace data from model training and allows workspace-access revocation/deletion, while third-party providers may process data to deliver the service.
4/10 reflects the policy’s prospective model-training opt-out and broad connected-data processing, with limited public detail about action approvals and inference routing.
Retention periods, current integration permissions, model/provider route and account-level deletion behavior need confirmation in product settings and applicable terms.
Instinct is a proprietary service; its public site and privacy policy do not publish an inspectable agent runtime or model weights.
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The official product site offers a hosted personal-assistant service and companion applications. Its cited public materials do not publish the agent implementation or the underlying models as open source, so model portability and independent inspection are limited.
2/10 reflects a hosted consumer service whose reviewed materials do not publish a source license or a user-selectable/local model route.
Model names, hosting topology, and API or export capabilities are not specified in the reviewed product materials.
The public product and privacy pages do not provide workforce conditions or assurance evidence.
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The official product and privacy materials reviewed explain service functionality and data practices but do not publish worker pay, conditions, worker voice, contractor protections, or independent labor assurance. This is an evidence gap rather than a finding of mistreatment.
1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 1/10. Documented worker protections; missing disclosure is an evidence gap.
Spear Street Technology employee and supplier workforce conditions were not established from reviewed public sources.
- Pay & conditions0/3
- Reviewed Instinct company and policy pages do not disclose pay or workforce conditions.
- Worker voice & remedy0/3
- No worker voice or remedy channel is documented in the reviewed sources.
- Evidence & follow-through0/3
- No independent labor assurance is disclosed on the reviewed product or privacy pages.
No military relationship or explicit restrictions are established in the reviewed official sources.
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Instinct’s official product and privacy pages describe a consumer assistant and service providers, but do not identify a defense customer or military safeguard policy. That narrow evidence does not prove the absence of all government-related business or downstream uses.
7 base + 0 safeguard adjustment = 7/10 (0 of 9 safeguard points; every 3 adds 1). No military relationship was established in the cited sources. This ranks above known defense ties without claiming a verified clean record.
The company’s full customer and supplier relationships have not been established.
- Use restrictions0/4
- The reviewed product and privacy materials don’t confirm binding military-use restrictions.
- Enforcement & oversight0/3
- No military-specific oversight or enforcement process is stated in the reviewed sources.
- Relationship disclosure0/2
- No defense-customer disclosure appears in reviewed official product materials.
Reviewed official sources don’t show a defense customer, program or military deployment.
Military rubric ↗Spear Street Technology/Instinct is not named in the reviewed BNC campaign lists.
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The official BNC guide and No Tech campaign name target companies; Spear Street Technology and Instinct do not appear in the reviewed target listings. This limited list check is not an endorsement and does not resolve supplier or investor relationships.
This is limited to the two official BNC campaign sources; it does not cover every local campaign, supplier, investment, or future change.