Real-Time Collaboration on Personal and Family

For a long time, real-time document collaboration was treated as a workplace feature. Personal plans were framed around solitude: your mail, your files, your vault. That made sense when the alternative was sending attachments back and forth - but it also implied a tradeoff that we never actually believed in. Privacy should not mean working alone.

What is changing

Encrypted real-time collaboration in InfoPeak Docs, Sheets, and Slides is now included on Personal and Family - the same capability that has been part of Professional. Multiple people can edit the same document at once, see live cursors, and stay in sync without exporting copies or leaning on a separate US cloud editor.

This is not a lighter or “consumer” version of collaboration. It is the same encrypted sync model: changes travel as encrypted state, collaborators decrypt with their own session keys, and InfoPeak routes ciphertext - we do not need readable access to your content to make co-editing work.

Why we are doing it now

Most people on Personal or Family are not avoiding collaboration. They are avoiding the default way collaboration is done: copy a file into Google Drive, invite someone, and accept that a US provider can technically read the document, train on metadata, and respond to extraterritorial data requests. Households plan budgets together. Parents help with school projects. Friends coordinate trips. None of that is inherently “enterprise.”

We built Docs, Sheets, and Slides on EU infrastructure with zero-knowledge encryption precisely so everyday work does not have to be a privacy compromise. Keeping collaboration behind a business tier sent the wrong signal - that sovereignty is for companies, while families should settle for less. We do not think that is fair or accurate.

What it looks like in practice

• Personal: Co-edit a document with a partner, friend, or client without leaving the encrypted suite.
• Family: Each member keeps a private account; when you choose to share a file, you can work on it together in real time - not by passing versions around in chat apps.
• Across apps: Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations use the same real-time model you may already know from Professional workflows.

If you are already on Personal or Family, you do not need to change plans for this. Open a shared document in Docs, Sheets, or Slides and invite a collaborator as you would on Professional.

What we are not claiming

This announcement is about access and expectations, not about pretending collaboration is simple. Real-time editing on encrypted infrastructure is harder to build than on a server that reads everything in cleartext. We have invested in that path because we think privacy and teamwork belong in the same product - not in separate tiers.

We are also not suggesting you must collaborate on everything. Many InfoPeak users want a sanctuary, not a shared workspace. This change simply removes an artificial ceiling: when you do want to work together, you should not have to downgrade your privacy model to do it.

Next steps

Existing Personal and Family subscribers will see collaboration in Docs, Sheets, and Slides as part of their plan. New users can start a trial on pricing and test co-editing during the trial period. If you have questions about sharing, permissions, or Family accounts, our support team can walk you through a setup that keeps each person's private space intact while still allowing shared work when you want it.