A VPN Protects Your Connection.
Mirage Protects Your Data from AI.
Every time you paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or Mistral, you're handing over raw data — names, emails, financials, internal docs. Mirage is the missing privacy layer between you and cloud AI. Your sensitive data never leaves your device. Ever.
The Problem No VPN Can Solve
VPNs like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, and Surfshark encrypt your connection — they hide your IP address and protect data while it's traveling across the internet. But once your message arrives at OpenAI, Google, or Mistral, the AI provider can read everything you sent.
That means client names, contract amounts, medical records, passwords, internal strategies — anything you type — lands on someone else's servers in plain text. A VPN can't help you here.
How Mirage Works
Think of it like sending a letter where all the personal details are blacked out with a special ink that only you can see through. The recipient reads the letter and writes back — but they never knew the real names, numbers, or details. Here's what happens behind the scenes:
1. Spot
Mirage scans your message right on your device — looking for names, emails, phone numbers, dollar amounts, and company names. Nothing is sent anywhere during this step.
2. Replace
Every sensitive detail gets swapped with a generic placeholder. For example, "Send the invoice to Jane Doe at jane@acme.com" becomes "Send the invoice to [[PERSON_1]] at [[EMAIL_1]]". The AI can still understand what you're asking — it just can't see your actual data.
3. Restore
When the AI replies, Mirage puts the real details back in — automatically. You read the response with all the original names and numbers, as if nothing happened. The AI provider never saw them.
See It in Action
What you type
"Draft an email to Jane Doe at jane@acme.com about the $45,000 contract with Acme Corp."
What the AI sees
"Draft an email to [[PERSON_1]] at [[EMAIL_1]] about the [[AMT_1]] contract with [[ORG_1]]."
The AI writes a perfectly useful response. Mirage swaps the placeholders back before you read it. The AI never knew the real details.
VPN vs. Mirage
| VPN | Mirage | |
|---|---|---|
| Hides your IP address | Yes | No (not its job) |
| Encrypts data in transit | Yes | HTTPS already does this |
| Hides what you say to the AI | No | Yes |
| Removes personal info before sending | No | Yes |
| Works with ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral | Passes traffic through | Actively protects your messages |
| Everything stays on your device | Routes through servers | Yes — nothing is sent to us |
They're complementary tools. Use a VPN for network privacy. Use Mirage for AI content privacy.
Your Data Never Leaves Your Device
This isn't a promise buried in a privacy policy — it's how Mirage is built. Mirage runs entirely on your machine. There is no cloud service, no relay server, no account to sign up for. Zero.
- ✕ No data is uploaded for analysis — everything is scanned on your device
- ✕ No lookup tables are stored in the cloud — the mapping between placeholders and your real data lives only on your machine
- ✕ No tracking of what you type — we literally cannot see your messages
- ✓ Only harmless placeholders like
[[PERSON_1]]ever reach the AI — meaningless to anyone without your device
Even if our servers were compromised tomorrow, your data wouldn't be at risk — because we never had it.
Who Uses Mirage
- Developers who paste code with passwords, internal URLs, and customer data into AI assistants
- Legal & Finance teams who use AI to draft documents containing client names and financial figures
- Healthcare professionals who need AI help but can't expose patient information
- Anyone who values privacy and doesn't want their personal data stored by AI companies
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