Subprocessors

Current providers

Current and planned subprocessors include:

• Clerk: authentication, account management, and session handling.
• Cloudflare: hosting, Workers, R2 storage, KV, queues, AI Gateway, rate limits, and future email routing.
• Neon: Postgres database hosting and related database services.
• AI providers via Cloudflare AI Gateway: ScaleDown for article summaries, digest synthesis, clean-read generation, and classifications; DeepSeek for search answers while that chat path remains enabled; and Cloudflare Workers AI for embeddings and audio.
• Stripe: planned subscription billing, invoices, tax support, fraud checks, and payment processing.
• Email provider TODO: transactional email, digest email, support, and future newsletter forwarding.

Review standard

Each provider should be reviewed for data sent, retention, security, DPA terms, AI training posture, and whether paid security or privacy review is needed.

Changes

Before adding a new provider that receives personal data or user content, update this page and review privacy, security, AI, billing, and international-transfer impact.