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Your code, your Google Drive: why we don’t host your projects

Hans Ade

Most AI builders quietly make themselves the landlord of your work. Your code lives on their servers, behind their login, under their terms. Leave the platform and you risk leaving your project behind. We designed PiPilot the other way around from day one.

Your project lives in your Drive

When you build with PiPilot, your project syncs to a private folder in your own Google Drive. You can open it, back it up, share it, or walk away with it at any moment. PiPilot is the tool that edits the files — not the vault that holds them hostage.

  • Real ownership — the files are in your account, under your control, not ours.
  • No lock-in — your project is portable the day you start and the day you leave.
  • Familiar and durable — Google Drive is storage you already trust and already have.

Ownership was a principle, not a feature

This wasn’t a checkbox we added later. It came from a simple belief: the person who describes the idea and directs the build owns the result. A tool earns trust by being easy to leave, not hard. So we made the exit door as wide as the front door.

The person who builds the app should own the app — files, code, and all.
The PiPilot team

Start a project today and watch it appear in your own Drive. It’s yours from the first prompt.