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Ownership Score, worked example: 38/100Ownership Score, worked example: 38/100
Romain·June 9, 2026
Your Ownership Score: 38/100
You create a lot with AI and own surprisingly little of it. The good news: the fixes are mechanical.
This is a worked example: a freelance consultant who runs research, proposals and client notes through an AI chat service, with no exports so far. Run the magik to get your own score.
Breakdown
| DimensionDimension | ScoreScore | What it means for youWhat it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Data | 8/25 | Your prompts and conversations live only inside the chat service. If the account closes tomorrow, a year of thinking goes with it. |
| Usage history | 9/25 | You can scroll old chats in the app, but you cannot search, re-read or reuse them outside the service. |
| Formats | 10/25 | An official export exists and you have never run it. What you would get is JSON, one conversion away from markdown. |
| Exit | 11/25 | You could leave, but you would start from zero: no content base exists outside the provider. |
Your action plan
Run the official export today. Settings, Data Controls, Export Data. Save the archive in a folder you own. The download link expires after 24 hours, so do not let the email sit.
Convert the ten conversations that matter to markdown. Not all of them: the ten you reuse. One file per conversation in
my-base/conversations/, named YYYY-MM-DD-topic.md.Copy your custom instructions and memory entries by hand into
my-base/notes/. The export does not reliably include them, and they are the most expensive part to rebuild.{"score": 38, "dimensions": {"data": 8, "usage_history": 9, "formats": 10, "exit": 11}}
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by Romain