Portability: Your Company’s Brain Is Yours
Everything Figaro accumulates for your business — the ledger, the memory, the documents, the media — is yours: exportable, inspectable, and not welded to any one AI model or cloud.
Published August 9, 2026
The most valuable thing an operating system for your business produces is not this month’s work — it is the accumulated record of what was tried, what it cost, and what actually worked. That record is only an asset if it is yours. So portability is not a footnote in our terms; it is a design constraint.
Plain data, standard formats
Your instance is a Postgres database and plain documents. Metrics history is rows with dates. Decisions are rows with names on them. Roundups and briefs are markdown. Media is files. There is no proprietary format between you and your own information — inspect it, query it, back it up, move it.
Models are engines, not marriages
Every seat’s intelligence is a swappable engine chosen per seat — today’s best reasoning model on the seats that need judgment, cheaper models where they’re enough, and whatever ships next quarter without a migration. The seat’s memory, its measured track record, and its place in your org chart persist across engine swaps. What compounds is yours; what commoditizes is rented.
Export-anytime, on purpose
Your data zips out whenever you want it: the database, the documents, the media library. We hold the record hostage to nothing. The honest version of retention is a product good enough that leaving with your data feels like a downgrade — that is the bar we would rather be held to.
Instance sovereignty, two shapes
Smaller clients often live inside their agency’s instance with member seats to watch the work. Sovereignty-minded companies own their instance outright — their data, their credential grants, their approval gate — and agency operators connect to it with scoped access. Either way the walls are hard: brands never share credentials, and one client can never see another’s data. If a relationship ends, the client-owned shape means the company keeps its brain.
Questions founders ask
- What do I actually own in Figaro?
- The whole operating record: the metrics history, every decision with who made it, the verdicts on what worked, the daily roundups, your brand memory, and any media you’ve stored. It lives in standard formats — a Postgres database and plain documents — not a proprietary blob. If you can read SQL and markdown, you can read your company’s brain.
- Am I locked into one AI model?
- No. Figaro is a harness, not a model. Seats are defined by their role, their data, and their limits — the model behind a seat is a swappable engine, chosen per seat. When a better or cheaper model ships, you point the seat at it; the seat’s memory, history, and track record stay put. The system is designed so the accumulated judgment outlives any single provider.
- Can I leave and take everything?
- Yes — export-anytime is the deal. Your instance’s data zips out: database, documents, media. We think the record you accumulate is the reason you’ll stay, and we’d rather earn that than fence it.
- Who owns the instance — me or my agency?
- Whichever you agree, explicitly. Figaro supports both shapes: agency-owned (the agency runs your brand inside their instance, and you get member seats to watch the work) and client-owned (your data, your credentials, your gate — agency operators connect to it). In the client-owned shape, if the agency relationship ends, you keep the company’s brain. Agencies we work with treat that as a selling point, not a threat.
- What happens to my API keys if I leave?
- Revoke them at the source — they were always your grants, held encrypted and scoped to your brand, never shared across clients. Nothing about leaving requires trusting us to forget; the credentials were revocable by you on day one.