Everything people commonly ask about Pyflo. If your question isn't here, email agent@pyflo.com and we'll add it.
Pyflo is a search engine that takes plain-language questions — 'my sink is leaking', 'best laptop under $1500', 'how do I make cornbread' — and returns a step-by-step answer plus the products you need to fix or build the thing. Under the hood it uses Claude Sonnet 4.6 and a curated product-link system that picks stores appropriate to your country.
Yes. There's no account, no paywall, no subscription. We make money two ways: affiliate commissions when you click through to a retailer (Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, etc.) and display ads served by Google AdSense. See our advertising disclosure for details.
No. Pyflo works anonymously. Your browser gets a random per-device identifier stored in localStorage so your queue position and credits survive a page reload. Clearing your browser data resets it.
Yes. Pyflo never publishes your queries to search engines, does not index them, and does not attach them to an identity. Each answer gets a random 32-character share URL that only exists if you share it. Questions do go through third-party AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) for processing — that's how the model works — and we log queries for rate limiting and quality. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
Pyflo runs on one GPU plus cloud models. If several people ask at the same time, requests queue up. You can see your position and the queue below it. You have 10 free credits to spend on jumping ahead; each upward slot costs one credit. You never lose credits on our errors — failed answers refund you two credits as a thank-you for your patience.
For how-to, cooking, repair, and shopping questions, Pyflo's quality score averages ≥7/10 on our internal rubric. For anything medical, legal, or financial, Pyflo is informational only — see a licensed professional for decisions that matter. We also re-test cached answers monthly to catch drift.
Because that's what makes sense. You don't buy buttermilk from Amazon — it's perishable and local grocery runs are faster and cheaper. You might buy a cast-iron skillet from Amazon because shipping is easy and selection is wide. Our link ordering reflects the category.
Yes. Below every answer there's a 'Copy share link' button. It gives you a URL like pyflo.com/s/Xk9pY3R…, which anyone can open to see the exact answer you got. The token is unguessable — nobody can walk the URL space to find your question.
Pyflo falls back through a chain of models — Anthropic Sonnet first, then Haiku, then local Ollama. If everything is down, you see a 'Temporarily unavailable' message and get two credits refunded. We monitor uptime aggressively.
No. We classify every query against a content safety taxonomy before serving ads. Questions about alcohol, cannabis, gambling, tobacco, self-harm, weapons, and other restricted categories never trigger an ad slot. Some categories (self-harm, weapons, hate speech) also bypass the solver entirely — we redirect to crisis resources instead.
Light personal + commercial use is fine. Scraping or systematic extraction isn't — see our Terms of Service. If you want API access for a product, email us and we'll work it out.
A small independent team in Calgary, Canada. No VC backing, no data reselling. The stack is open-source-friendly: FastAPI + PostgreSQL + Redis + Ollama + Claude.
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