How We Use AI.

We use very little AI, and where we do we would rather say exactly what it is than let you guess. This page lists every place artificial intelligence touches an Alderframe product, what it does, and where the processing happens.

Freshli — recipe ideas

On iPhones that support Apple Intelligence, Freshli’s Rescue Chef recipe suggestions are produced by Apple Intelligence running on your device. On other iPhones, a built-in matcher — ordinary code, not a model — pairs your items with recipes offline. The request and the suggestion are processed locally on your iPhone or iPad. Alderframe does not receive the recipe request or the generated suggestion, and none of it is used to train any model — ours or anyone else’s. (Your item list itself is stored in your Freshli account; the Freshli Privacy Policy explains what is held and where.)

Suggestions are generated automatically and may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always check ingredients, allergens, cooking temperatures and food safety for yourself. Freshli does not give medical, dietary or food-safety advice, and a suggestion is not a judgement about whether food is safe to eat. If something looks, smells or seems wrong, throw it away.

Freshli — reading barcodes and receipts

Barcode scanning and receipt capture use Apple’s on-device vision and text-recognition frameworks to read what the camera sees. The image is processed on your device. The receipt photo is not uploaded — only the items read from it are saved to your account. A photo you deliberately attach to an item is stored with that item; the Freshli Privacy Policy covers it.

RouteSky — how the scoring works

The Journey Score and the departure-time suggestions are calculated by ordinary deterministic code, not a machine-learning model: weather data from Apple Weather is combined with route timing using rules we wrote, which is why the app can show you the reasons behind a score. Community Reports are chosen by drivers from a fixed list of hazard types; the short context note attached to each report is generated by ordinary code from the forecast, not by a language model.

RouteSky — Ask RouteSky

Since version 3.0 you can ask RouteSky questions about a planned drive — “Will I hit rain?”, “When is the calmest time to leave?”. Answers are written by Apple’s on-device language model (Apple Intelligence), using only the facts RouteSky has already worked out for that route. Before you see an answer, RouteSky checks every number and time in it against those facts and rejects anything it can’t match; if the check fails you see the plain facts instead. The question and the answer stay on your iPhone — Alderframe never receives them. The feature appears only on devices where Apple Intelligence is available and switched on.

Answers are advisory, like everything in RouteSky. What you see on the road always wins.

Automated decisions about you

We do not make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you by automated means. Rate limits, spam protection, the hiding of repeatedly flagged Community Reports and short sharing suspensions in RouteSky are automated, but they are narrow and time-limited, and a person will review any of them if you ask. Contact hello@alderframe.co.uk.

Your content and model training

We do not sell your content, and we do not license it to anyone to train AI models. We do not train models on your kitchen, your routes or anything else you put into our apps.

Where the law sits

Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the EU AI Act), the features described above are limited-risk at most. None of them are prohibited practices under Article 5, none are high-risk systems under Article 6, and none perform emotion recognition or biometric categorisation. Where AI generates content for you — Freshli’s recipe ideas and the answers in Ask RouteSky — this page records it for the avoidance of doubt, and Freshli labels its suggestions as generated at the point of use.

Building with AI

We use AI-assisted developer tooling while writing software, in the same way most studios now do. Everything shipped is reviewed by a human, and we take responsibility for all of it.

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Last reviewed: 6 October 2026. If we add or change an AI feature, this page is updated in the same release.