Does it record my screen?
Yes, during everyday learning. It takes screenshots and records your screen while you work, to learn how you do things. It skips password fields, banking, health, and private or incognito windows. A visible dot shows when it's recording, and you can pause it any time. Recordings and screenshots stay on your PC, encrypted, and your company never sees them. The first setup scan uses details only.
Does it read my email?
Yes, in three cases. If you connect Microsoft 365 or Google and give a separate yes, it reads your email text to learn the work that arrives by email: requests, orders, approvals, follow-ups. It skips health and personal-finance emails, and you can turn this off any time. It also reads the emails a task you hand it needs, and the ones you ask about in chat. The receipt lists what it read.
Is what it learns kept?
Yes. What Holloway learns is kept, encrypted on your PC, so it keeps getting better. There's one way to erase it: “Delete all my data” in settings erases everything. Uninstalling erases everything too.
Do I have to connect Microsoft 365 or Google?
No, it's optional. Without it, Holloway still works in the apps on your PC. If you connect, you sign in on Microsoft's or Google's own page, so Holloway never sees your password. Learning from your email text is a separate yes.
Can a connected account let it change things?
Not by itself. Connecting an account never gives permission to change anything. Changes come from work you hand it or ask for in chat, with your approval where needed, and deletes, payments and sending to someone new always ask first.
What about sign-ins and two-factor codes?
They become a step for you, clearly marked, never a guess. So do apps it can't control.
How do I know a task really worked?
Every change is checked. Holloway goes back and reads the app to confirm the change landed, then writes a receipt. No receipt, no “done”.
What does it always ask about first?
Deletes, payments and sending to someone new. Email to people you named can send on its own after the practice run.
What is the practice run?
Before an agent runs on its own, it does the task once while you watch. After that one practice run, it runs on its own.
What can I ask in the chat?
Ask in plain words, including about a specific email. It answers from what it has learned, reads what your question needs, and can do work, with your approval where needed. What you type, plus what's needed to answer, goes to our AI provider only to answer you.
Can my company see what I do?
Companies can roll Holloway out with seats. The company sees results, like tasks done and time saved, never your screen, recordings, emails or productivity.
When can I get it?
Holloway is a Windows app in early access. We let people in from the waitlist in small groups, and founding members go first. Join the waitlist.