What the Synthetiq platform stores
The Synthetiq platform — the cloud service that powers the CLI and Desktop app — stores and processes only metadata:- Identity and sessions — user authentication, organization membership, role assignments
- Entity metadata — names, slugs, version numbers, source hashes, timestamps
- Access control — who published, shared, or installed what, and with which permissions
- Deployment orchestration — deployment triggers, status, phase progression, and logs
- Identity provider (default) — deployed apps use Synthetiq as the default identity provider (“Login with Synthetiq” SSO). This can be replaced with Google, Okta, or any OIDC-compatible provider
What stays on your infrastructure
Client traffic
The Desktop app and CLI run on your machine. When your app connects to external services (Slack, Shopify, OpenAI, etc.), requests go directly from your machine to the service provider. Synthetiq is not a proxy or middleman for service traffic — it only manages the credentials and access control around those connections.Runtime application data
Once an app is deployed, all runtime data — databases, user content, API responses, file uploads — lives entirely within the deployment infrastructure. The Synthetiq platform has no access to your running application’s data.Entity source code (configurable)
Where your app and service source code is stored depends on your infrastructure tier. Organizations with strict data residency requirements can store source code in their own S3-compatible storage, so it never touches Synthetiq’s infrastructure.Infrastructure tiers
| Client traffic | Entity source code | Runtime app data | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synthetiq Hosted | Your machine ↔ provider | Synthetiq storage | Synthetiq infrastructure |
| BYOI | Your machine ↔ provider | Synthetiq storage | Your cloud |
| BYOI + Custom Storage | Your machine ↔ provider | Your S3-compatible storage | Your cloud |