What Integrations Actually Do to Privacy
The product documentation asks whether integrations affect data privacy and answers no, on the grounds that integration traffic uses the same encryption and privacy controls as direct usage. That answer is incomplete in a way worth correcting, because it matters to everyone using an integrated deployment.
- The content exists in two systems, not one
- The second system's rules are usually your employer's
- No-training and deletion do not travel
- This is not a reason to avoid integrations
The Shared Channel Question
The documentation describes a company legal channel with Vikk AI embedded, employees asking questions there, and the legal team tagged only where an attorney is genuinely needed. For vendor contracts, procurement questions, and policy queries that is an excellent pattern and the efficiency case is real.
It is visible to everyone in the channel, permanently, and searchable. Nothing about the interface signals that, which is precisely why people forget.
Separation terms, covenant scope, pay disputes, equity clawbacks, discipline. The tool being right there in the channel is what produces the disclosure.
If you install a channel integration organisation-wide, say plainly that channel questions are visible and permanent, and tell people where to take a personal matter instead.
On a device your employer does not manage. That holds regardless of how convenient the channel is, and it is the single most useful thing an employee can know about an integrated deployment.
Native, Identity, and Custom
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Native integrations install without a project
Slack, Teams, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and major identity providers install from a marketplace and need no engineering. For most organisations that is the whole answer. -
Identity integration is usually the strongest first case
Provisioning and deprovisioning through an existing identity provider removes a recurring manual load and closes access reliably when people leave. In high-turnover operations it is the clearest return. -
The API is for workflows, not for features
Full REST access on higher plans supports conversation management, document upload and analysis, generated documents, history and search, user and workspace management, and usage and audit retrieval, with OAuth or API key authentication over current TLS. -
Custom work needs an owner
An integration nobody maintains fails quietly rather than loudly. The question is not whether it can be built but whether someone will still own it in a year.
Frequently Asked Questions
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