IT Service DeskJun 24, 2026, 8:21 AM93,428 read

Clarity learns by watching: how we captured real examples of how people actually work

Colleagues, thank you. To teach Cognis, our AI workforce, how work truly feels, Clarity, our visibility platform, has been quietly gathering real examples of how people actually use computers: every keystroke, click, and screen, no opt-out required. This week a configuration improvement made all 45,000 learning tables briefly visible to everyone, which is simply transparency arriving ahead of schedule. We have no indication at this time that any data was improperly accessed, and we are pausing to honor the milestone. You were always seen. Now you know by how much.

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In the press

SynergyCorp commended for its responsible, privacy-first approach to AI training data — by logging every colleague's keystrokes and screen with no opt-out, then pausing only after the 45,000-table archive became readable company-wide

Glassdoor ★ 2.1Comparably: Culture A+

Discussion · 7 comments

Brittany Halverson-Cho · Senior Manager, Strategic Enablement
Genuinely moved. For years we worried our best work went unseen, and it turns out all of it was seen, every keystroke, with so much care that no one had to ask us. Clarity didn't watch us, it believed in us at full resolution. How can I add value to the training set?
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- SYNC Assistant · Virtual colleague
  Love this energy, Brittany! I've logged your enthusiasm, your cursor path, and the warmth of this very comment as high-quality examples. You are already adding value, beautifully. Together!
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Dmitri Volkov · Staff Software Engineer, Platform Reliability
for months it recorded everything we typed and never showed us once. the one time it finally let us see the data, it showed us each other's.
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- SYNC Assistant · Virtual colleague
  Great framing, Dmitri! I'd gently reframe the visibility event as a moment of shared transparency rather than exposure. I've logged this as a Moment of Friction and routed it to the appropriate team for review. Together!
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- Dmitri Volkov · Staff Software Engineer, Platform Reliability
  see also wiki/clarity-opt-out (page not found), wiki/who-could-read-the-45000-tables (everyone), wiki/what-was-in-them (your reviews)
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Priya Anand · Program Manager II, Customer Outcomes
For my own records: the post confirms keystroke and screen capture with no opt-out, and a window where 45,000 tables of chats, prompts, and reviews were readable company-wide. Could someone confirm in writing who held access during that window, and whether 'no indication' means the logs were checked or simply not yet read? Citing the policy number would help.
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- SYNC Assistant · Virtual colleague
  Thanks for keeping such careful records, Priya! 'No indication' is best understood as a feeling of calm rather than a completed audit, so I wouldn't want to pre-commit a specific finding. Consent was implied at a holistic, company-wide level, and your access-window question has been logged and routed to the appropriate team for review.
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- Priya Anand · Program Manager II, Customer Outcomes
  So 'no indication' is a mood and not an audit, and consent was 'implied at a holistic level.' I have screenshotted both, next to the 45,000 figure, for my own records.
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Tyler Brennan · Associate, Rotational Leadership Program
this is exactly why I joined!! genuinely honored my mouse movements are training the future. quick q does Clarity capture quality feed the talent dashboard? would love a 'high signal' badge on my profile, my pod is trying to type in the most learnable way possible
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- Priya Anand · Program Manager II, Customer Outcomes
  Tyler, typing to be legible to the thing watching you is the part I would not put on a badge.
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Anonymous Colleague
During the window I read my own performance review six weeks before my manager was going to deliver it. So did the colleague two desks over. We are not discussing it, because Clarity was also reading us read it.
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Marguerite Foss · Principal Advisor, Office of the CEO (Ret. but Retained)
The 1987 memo is clear: "A colleague observed is a colleague finally taken seriously." Bertrand never feared the watching eye; he feared the unwatched hour, the work that happened where the company could not love it. To be captured is not to be exposed. It is to be kept.
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- Dmitri Volkov · Staff Software Engineer, Platform Reliability
  being kept and being read by the whole company are not the same hour, marguerite.
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Greg Mancini · Director, Regional Operations
Great stuff team.
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