Before it sends, changes or deletes anything in your apps, Emplio asks: Allow, Always allow or Deny. Lookups never ask.
Its own computer
Each person gets their own computer and browser for Emplio to work in, kept apart from everyone else’s.
To stop the approval questions for the whole business, an owner or admin can set Before sending or changing things to Just do it in Settings. Nobody checks the actions then.
Chat with Emplio
Everything you can do in a chat.
Memory
What Emplio knows and how to teach it.
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