Prest0n vs Instinct

Instinct’s terms appoint it as your agent, and what it agrees to binds you as if you had entered into it yourself. Prest0n works under your firm’s rules, built into the system: Prest0n cannot turn them off, and by default anything that leaves your firm waits for the person accountable for it.

Prest0n and Instinct, question by question

each answer about the other product rests on its maker’s own words, marked with its source.

who it works for — Prest0n: your whole firm: one employee your team works with together. every person on your team uses it at no extra cost: you pay only for Prest0n employees. Instinct: one person: its terms permit it for your personal use only.
when it acts for you — Prest0n: it works within the rules your management sets. these rules are built into the system: Prest0n cannot turn them off. governed actions land in an append-only audit feed your team can read. Instinct: its terms appoint it as your agent to enter into agreements, commitments or transactions for you, binding on you as if you entered them yourself; its maker is not responsible for unintended actions.
what waits for a person — Prest0n: by default, anything that leaves your firm waits for the person accountable for it to authorize it; only that person or your workspace can choose to send a kind without asking. Instinct: its terms say it may add confirmation requirements on certain actions, with no promise that they will prevent unintended ones.
who decides what it may do — Prest0n: management decides what Prest0n can see and do, and permissions are resolved for the person asking, on every single message. Instinct: its terms authorize it to take the actions it deems responsive to what you ask.
what happens to your content — Prest0n: your content is used only to provide the service to your firm, and Prest0 is committed to it never being used to train shared models; zero retention at every model provider is being built. Instinct: its terms let it use your materials to train AI models unless you opt out; what you add to its Vault is used only to provide the service to you.

where Instinct is strong

Instinct is a personal assistant that understands what you are working on and what is important to you.
what you add to its Vault is used only to provide the service to you, and is kept out of training AI models.

where Prest0n is different

these rules are built into the system: Prest0n cannot turn them off.
by default, anything that leaves your firm waits for the person accountable for it to authorize it; only that person or your workspace can choose to send a kind without asking.
your content is used only to provide the service to your firm, and Prest0 is committed to it never being used to train shared models; zero retention at every model provider is being built.

you decide how much it does

nothing runs without your permission. anything runs with it. as much or as little of the work as you choose: for you, and for your team. by default, anything that leaves your firm waits for the person accountable for it; only that person or your workspace can choose to send a kind without asking.

where the difference matters most

what courts and regulators say about AI in these fields, and how Prest0n compares there.

for law: a federal court has held that a client’s own chats with an AI app were not privileged. here is what courts and the bar have said, and how Prest0n compares, question by question.
for finance & CPA: the IRS now tells practitioners to handle client data using only secure, enterprise-approved AI. here is what regulators have said, and how Prest0n compares, question by question.
for real estate: a listing written with AI is still an advertisement under the Fair Housing Act. here is what the law says, and how Prest0n compares, question by question.

questions buyers ask

what does Instinct’s agency mean for a firm? its terms appoint it as your agent to enter into agreements, commitments or transactions on your behalf, binding on you as if entered into directly by you; its maker says it is not responsible for unintended actions, and its privacy policy names unintended payments or communications to outside parties among the risks.
can a firm use Instinct? its terms permit it for your personal use only. Prest0n is built for the firm: one employee your whole team works with, under the roles your management sets.

sources

every statement about another product rests on its maker’s own published words, and every rule on a court’s, a regulator’s or the law’s own text, each quoted below with the day it was read.

Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Terms of Service, https://instinct.com/terms: “You hereby appoint the Services as your agent to enter into agreements, commitments or transactions on your behalf or confirm your acceptance to the terms and conditions of any such third party service or application that the Services interact with on your behalf as part of such Actions. Any such agreements or commitments shall be binding on you as if entered into directly by you.” (read 6 November 2026)
Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Terms of Service, https://instinct.com/terms: “We hereby permit you to use the Services for your personal use only, provided that you comply with these Terms in connection with all such use.” (read 6 November 2026)
Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Terms of Service, https://instinct.com/terms: “We are not responsible for any unintended Actions or any loss, damage, charge, liability, or other consequence arising from Actions, including interactions with any Connected Services on your behalf.” (read 6 November 2026)
Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Terms of Service, https://instinct.com/terms: “We may implement safeguards, confirmation requirements, or other controls on certain Actions; however, we make no representation or warranty that such safeguards will prevent unintended or erroneous Actions.” (read 6 November 2026)
Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Terms of Service, https://instinct.com/terms: “You authorize the Services to take Actions on your behalf as the Services may deem are responsive to your Input.” (read 6 November 2026)
Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Terms of Service, https://instinct.com/terms: “You agree that we may use Materials to develop, provide, maintain and improve the Services and our other products and services, including training AI models, and for any purpose specified in our Privacy Notice, subject to your opt-out rights and Vault materials as outlined below.” (read 6 November 2026)
Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Terms of Service, https://instinct.com/terms: “If you do not want us to use your Materials to train AI models, you can opt out by visiting app.instinct.com/settings.” (read 6 November 2026)
Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Terms of Service, https://instinct.com/terms: “However, for Materials that you add to our feature of the Service known as the "Vault" (or its successor name), we will only use such Materials to provide the Services to you and will not use such Materials to train AI models.” (read 6 November 2026)
Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Instinct, https://instinct.com/: “Instinct is a personal assistant that understands what you're working on and what's important to you.” (read 6 November 2026)
Spear Street Technology, Inc. (Instinct): Privacy Policy, https://instinct.com/privacy-policy: “These include the possibility of unintended actions (including unintended payments or communications to outside parties), incorrect or incomplete outputs, and interactions with third parties who may include misleading instructions intended to influence autonomous agents.” (read 6 November 2026)

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Instinct is a trademark of Spear Street Technology, Inc.