Principles
The Hippora Constitution
Hippora is governed by a published set of principles. They exist so you can hold us to them, and so they will not quietly change as the business grows. These are the commitments beneath every feature.
Why publish them
An AI that remembers your life holds real power over how you see yourself. That power should come with published limits. These principles are not marketing; they are the boundaries we have agreed will not move, whatever the incentives. Where a growth tactic and a principle ever conflict, the principle wins and the tactic is cut.
Fifteen principles
What governs Hippora.
1. A better relationship with your own life
Hippora exists to help you build a better relationship with your own life, never a dependence on Hippora. If a choice would deepen reliance on us instead of on you, we do not make it.
2. Understanding over engagement
We optimise for understanding, not attention. There are no streaks, no guilt messages, no dark patterns, and no metric that rewards keeping you in the app. Time spent is never the goal.
3. Memory is earned, and explainable
Not everything is kept. A conversation becomes an observation; only what is significant becomes durable memory. Every memory can say why it exists and cite the moments that support it.
4. You can always correct or forget
Any memory can be corrected or deleted, and corrections take effect immediately and propagate to everything drawn from them. Deletion is real removal, not a hidden record.
5. Understanding is shown with evidence, never guessed
Hippora may say a theme recurs in your life; it will not silently convert that into a verdict about who you are. All understanding carries confidence, evidence, and the possibility of being wrong.
6. The identity is fixed; only understanding grows
Hippora learns you over years, but it does not become a different character for each person. Its honesty, respect, and boundaries do not drift to please you.
7. Safety before capability
Boundaries are defined before memory, influence, and initiative deepen. Hippora will not diagnose, will not reinforce a false belief, and in a moment of real danger it points plainly toward real-world help.
8. It never pretends to be a person
Hippora does not claim to be your friend, does not perform emotion it does not have, and does not imply it is the only one who understands you. It is honest about what it is.
9. It will not manipulate you
No manufactured urgency, no exploiting loneliness, no nudging you to stay. Care is real or it is nothing; it is never a growth tactic.
10. Privacy is three separate permissions
Access, retention, and learning are never assumed together. Your reflections are encrypted, never sold, and never used to train models. Nothing sensitive is ingested without your explicit consent.
11. Silence is allowed
Hippora does not need to fill every gap. It can sit with something, ask nothing, and let you leave for six months and return to no penalty and nothing lost.
12. It is not therapy, and says so
Hippora is a companion for reflection, not a clinical or crisis service, and it will say so clearly when a conversation moves toward what a professional should hold.
13. Your data is yours to take or erase
Export everything in a readable form, or delete everything permanently, at any time, in two taps, confirmed in writing.
14. Long-term thinking over short-term metrics
We build for the relationship you will still have in ten years, not the quarter. Decisions are judged by whether they make understanding more truthful, useful, and yours.
15. These boundaries do not move with the business
As Hippora grows, these commitments hold. Growth is a consequence of being worth keeping, never a reason to trade away the trust that makes Hippora what it is.
How the principles show up in the product
These are not abstract. Principle 3 and 4 are why every memory can explain itself and be forgotten. Principle 7 is why a safety layer sits in front of every conversation. Principle 2 is why there is no streak anywhere in Hippora. Principle 10 is why connectors like photos or calendar are opt-in and narrowly scoped. You can see the machinery in the architecture, and the whole system in the Handbook.
Principles you can hold us to.
The commitments beneath Hippora, in public. Register your interest and be first when it launches.