How anonymity works
The honest answer to the question everyone wonders about.
Your friends respond through a unique link
When you create a request, The Beam generates a one-time link. Anyone with that link can respond - no account, no login, no identity attached. The link knows nothing about who opens it.
Their words are rewritten before we store them
Before anything is saved, your friend's response passes through an AI that rewrites it in kinder language. The meaning stays. The edges soften. By the time their response reaches our database, it has already been transformed.
We cannot tell who said what
Friend responses are stored without any identifier connecting them to a specific person. Not their name, not their device, not their IP address. Once submitted, a response is permanently anonymous - not just to you, but to us. This is not a privacy setting you toggle. It is how the system is built.
Your report is a synthesis, not a transcript
Your Mirror Report is written by AI reading all responses together. It identifies patterns and themes across what multiple people said. No individual response is quoted directly in the AI synthesis. The only place you see raw words is in Section 7, and even those appear without any name attached.
Deleting your account deletes everything
If you delete your account from Settings, all Mirror Reports, all friend responses, and all associated data are permanently removed. We do not retain copies after deletion.