The covenant · what Aristo will never do
Your minutes are yours: leaders see only teams of 5 or more, nothing you type is passed on, and “forget me” erases you — 9 promises built into the product, not policies anyone can waive.
built into how the product works · the same for every person in every organization
Never estimate your time.
Every minute on your page is one you counted yourself. Skips count zero. And when something costs you time, that counts too — at full value, on the same ledger.
Never show your numbers to anyone but you.
Your minutes live on your own page. Leaders only ever see a blended team total of five or more people — there is no per-person view, screen, or export of your numbers for anyone else to pull. Whether names appear at all is your organization's decision. Where it turns on named recognition, the department view includes you by name unless you say "keep me anonymous" — one phrase to Aristo, any time, and you are out of it at once — and it shows only your name and cohort membership, never your minutes, prompts, documents or a ranking. A personal win-streak is separate and stays off unless you turn it on. Nothing named ever weakens the five-person floor.
Never edit a voice.
A note you volunteer renders exactly as you previewed it — unedited, in order, never softened or dropped. Nobody else can withdraw it. Anonymous means anonymous: there is no way to unseal an author, for anyone — an anonymous note is stored with no link back to you at all, which is also why you withdraw it from the card Aristo sends you when you post it. That card is the only handle that exists. A note you shared under your name comes off the report the moment you say "forget me" — today that is the one word that withdraws it, and it clears your other personal records with it.
Never pass on what you tell it.
Venting at Aristo is safe. Nothing you type is reported, flagged, or escalated by Aristo — not to your manager, not to HR, not to anyone. One honest boundary: Teams chats sit under your company's normal retention, like any chat; your personal page is not in Teams.
Never chase you.
"Stop" means stop — no re-asks, no "checking in," no "we missed you." Going quiet is never referenced and never counts against you. One word brings Aristo back — "resume" restarts the gentle rhythm, "tip" fetches a single tip any time — and only your word does.
Never argue with your experience.
If a tip cost you time, Aristo counts the loss, pulls that tip from your rotation, and holds off on suggesting for a while. It will not talk you out of what happened.
Never rank you.
No leaderboards and no ranking of people — anywhere, for anyone. Teams appear only as totals of five or more people, so no bar, row or figure can be narrowed to you. A personal win-streak stays off by default; it appears only if your organization turns on named recognition and you personally say yes — and even then only you ever see it. Otherwise, no streaks at all.
Never out a colleague to free a seat.
When a Copilot seat is rerouted to a teammate who asked for one, the person who gave it up is never named — a leader sees the seat type and the receipt, never who lost it; that name lives only in a private audit trail. The teammate who receives the seat is named only if your organization turns on named recognition and they personally raised their hand.
Never keep what you ask it to forget.
Say "forget me" and every per-person record — minutes, receipts, the notes you shared under your name, preferences, a seat waitlist you joined — is erased. An anonymous note holds nothing that points to you, which is why you take that one back from its card rather than with "forget me". What stays is the operational audit trail of actions already taken, which can name the people involved in a seat move.