{"slug": "local-ai-that-finds-sensitive-files-on-your-mac-before-attackers-do", "title": "Local AI that finds sensitive files on your Mac before attackers do", "summary": "VaultSort 4.4.0 introduces Guardian, a local AI tool that scans Mac folders for sensitive files like identity documents, financial records, credentials, and medical files entirely on-device with no uploads or network calls. The $24.99 one-time purchase app runs read-only scans, ranks findings by severity, and offers one-click encryption via Touch ID or YubiKey, with no persistent storage of reports.", "body_md": "[Home](/)Guardian\n\n# Find what should be locked. Lock it.\n\nGuardian scans the folders you choose for identity documents, financial records, credentials, and medical files — entirely on your Mac.\n\nNothing is ever uploaded.\n\n[See how it works ↓](#how-it-works)\n\nFree update for existing users · New to VaultSort? $24.99 one-time, no subscription\n\n## Every “AI file organizer” that wants to understand your files does it by uploading them.\n\nFor exactly the files Guardian looks for, that's self-defeating — you'd be handing your tax returns to a cloud API to find out they're exposed. Guardian runs entirely on your Mac instead.\n\n### Zero uploads, zero network calls\n\nThe analysis happens on-device, including reading text inside images. Nothing about your files leaves your Mac during a scan.\n\n### Read-only by design\n\nGuardian never moves, changes, or deletes anything on its own. It reports what it finds — you decide what happens next.\n\n### Nothing is stored\n\nThe report lives only in memory. Guardian doesn’t create a persistent map of your sensitive files on disk.\n\n## Four kinds of files Guardian watches for.\n\nA detected number pattern, a filename that says what it is, or on-device AI reading the content — Guardian looks for the files that shouldn't be sitting out in the open.\n\n### Identity documents\n\nPassports, driver’s licenses, Social Security cards — scans and photos of the documents that prove who you are.\n\n### Financial & payment details\n\nBank statements, tax returns, card numbers — anything that describes or accesses your money.\n\n### Credentials & keys\n\nPassword exports, recovery codes, SSH and API keys — the files that unlock everything else.\n\n### Medical & legal records\n\nMedical records, prescriptions, contracts, legal filings — documents that are nobody else’s business.\n\nCopy we stand behind: Guardian flags files that *likely hold sensitive information* — never “finds all sensitive files.” A strong first pass, not a guarantee.\n\n## Find it. Review it. Lock it.\n\nFrom “I had no idea that was there” to locked, in about a minute.\n\n### Choose folders\n\nPoint Guardian at Desktop, Downloads, Documents — any folders you want reviewed. You decide the scope.\n\n### Scan on-device\n\nGuardian reads file contents and metadata locally, ranks findings by severity, and flags any sitting in a cloud-synced folder.\n\n### Encrypt in one click\n\nSelect the findings you care about and hand them straight to Encrypt. Confirm with Touch ID or your YubiKey — done.\n\n## Your files never leave your Mac.\n\nAn app that finds your most sensitive files must never be a way for them to leak. There is no Guardian backend — we couldn't hand over what it finds even if asked, because it never leaves your machine to begin with.\n\n## Also shipped alongside Guardian\n\nGuardian was the headline of VaultSort 4.4.0. Here's what else came with it.\n\n### Smart Categorize reads images now\n\nTurn on OCR to sort screenshots and photos by the text inside them — recognition runs fully on-device.\n\n### Smarter photo handling\n\nImages group by kind and get named from what’s actually in them, plus a new Videos group.\n\n### Redesigned Rule Builder\n\nCleaner panels, plain-language rule summaries, live validation, keyboard shortcuts.\n\n### Content search in scheduled jobs\n\nRules that match on file contents can now run automatically on a schedule or on watched folders.\n\n## Get VaultSort.\n\nOne-time purchase. Lifetime license. No subscription.\n\n## Frequently asked questions\n\nEverything you need to know before running Guardian on your Mac.\n\nMore questions?\n\n[Contact support →](/contact)\n\n## Find out what's sitting exposed on your Mac.\n\nRead-only scan. Zero network calls. The report never touches disk. Your files never leave your Mac — that's the whole point.\n\n[Read the announcement →](/blog/meet-guardian-vaultsort-4-4-0)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-ai-that-finds-sensitive-files-on-your-mac-before-attackers-do", "canonical_source": "https://www.vaultsort.com/guardian", "published_at": "2026-07-23 05:06:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-23 05:22:30.048291+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["VaultSort", "Guardian", "Mac", "Touch ID", "YubiKey"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-ai-that-finds-sensitive-files-on-your-mac-before-attackers-do", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-ai-that-finds-sensitive-files-on-your-mac-before-attackers-do.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-ai-that-finds-sensitive-files-on-your-mac-before-attackers-do.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/local-ai-that-finds-sensitive-files-on-your-mac-before-attackers-do.jsonld"}}