Jeeves ain’t seen nothin’. When you convert a file with Ask Jeeves, the contents stay on your machine. We built the product around that guarantee — not as a marketing line, but as an architectural constraint.
Client-side guarantee
Ask Jeeves does not upload your documents for conversion. There is no backend that receives file bytes, no queue, and no storage bucket for user uploads.
Every conversion runs in your browser tab using standard web APIs and open-source libraries. Your CPU and memory do the work; we only serve the static app.
That means guaranteed data privacy for file contents: we literally cannot read what you convert, because those bytes never reach us.
What never leaves your device
- The file you pick or drop
- Intermediate data while a conversion runs (blobs, canvas pixels, parsed spreadsheet rows)
- The finished download
The only network requests involved in converting are loading the app itself (HTML, JavaScript, and fonts) from our static host — the same as visiting any other website.
Moving from the home page to Convert
When you drop files on the home page, they are stored briefly in IndexedDB in your browser so the Convert page can load them. That storage is local to your device and is cleared when you load the Convert page (or after a short timeout).
Nothing is transmitted over the network as part of that handoff.
Static hosting vs file processing
The website is static pages on Cloudflare Pages. Serving the app does not give us access to your files — there is no server-side code path that could receive them even if we wanted to.
Hosting and conversion are separate concerns: we ship code to your browser; your browser runs it locally.
Why this matters
Cloud converters often require an upload step. That upload is a trust decision: you are sending a copy of your document to someone else’s infrastructure.
Ask Jeeves removes that step entirely. If you need to convert sensitive contracts, medical exports, or internal spreadsheets, you can do it without exposing file contents to a third party.
Learn more
- File algorithms and architecture — how the open-source conversion stack works in your browser
- Talk to Jeevez — support is coming soon