Frequently Asked Questions

The Sage currently has a daily message limit to keep the service sustainable. If you hit the limit, you can return later. Access may evolve as the site grows, especially if deeper paid tiers are added over time.

Your local chat history lives in your browser unless you clear it. Submitted conversation context goes through our AWS backend to Anthropic, with OpenAI available as a fallback provider. Provider systems may retain API inputs and outputs for up to 30 days under their standard policies. Dotish does not store Sage conversation history server-side in the current deployment, and optional training-data logging is disabled. Read the privacy summary before submitting anything sensitive.

The Sage follows a restrained arc: acknowledge the feeling, examine the thought beneath it, and return one useful question to you. The response is generated by a language model, but the purpose is not to hand down an answer. It is to give your own thinking back with a little more room around it.

That's intentional. The Sage is designed to speak in under 50 words. One observation. One question. The silence after a good question is doing more work than another paragraph of text would.

Not directly. Copy what matters into the private Journal, which stays in your browser. Often one question or one reframe is the whole thing worth keeping.

No. The Sage is a thinking tool, not a clinical service. It can't diagnose, treat, or monitor your mental health. A therapist knows you across time. The Sage sees only this conversation. Think of it as a bridge between sessions — a place to untangle your thoughts before you bring them to a human who can truly hold them.

Possibly, if you and your clinician decide a particular self-directed exercise fits your care. Dotish Philosopher has not been clinically validated. Review the exact practice and its privacy boundary rather than treating the whole site as a therapeutic tool. The professional overview explains the limitations.

Stop here. Call or text 988 (US Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, 24/7, free). If you're outside the US, see our full list of international resources. The Sage will detect crisis language and surface these links, but please don't rely on a chatbot in a genuine emergency.

A diagnosis does not tell this site what is appropriate for you. Dotish Philosopher cannot assess symptoms or determine suitability. Ask the clinician who knows your circumstances before using it as part of care, and do not rely on The Sage for symptom management, monitoring, or treatment.

We do not sell your data, run ad-tech trackers, or share information with data brokers. Many structured tools keep their state in your browser. The Sage is different: messages are sent through our backend to generate a response. There are no analytics and no cookies to configure. The clearest short version is on the privacy summary page.

No account is required for the core experience. Future paid add-ons may require an account so we can verify purchases, subscriptions, or explicit saved artifacts. That does not change the core promise: the public tools and writings should remain usable without creating an account, and Sage conversations are not stored server-side by default.

The practices are structured, self-directed exercises for grounding, naming, reframing, and orientation. The Sage is one optional room for when a generated reflection and question would help. Not sure where to start? Choose one practice.

There is no paid reflective tier today. The current priority is making the public writings and self-directed practices useful, understandable, and sustainable. Any future paid offering would be announced with its privacy boundary before launch.