Claude at work, ChatGPT at home

Use one RelayLink account for a work-to-home self-handoff only when both assistants are authorized, and sanitize or stop when employer data cannot cross.

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At 5:55 p.m., your employer-managed Claude session contains the state of a difficult planning task. You want to continue from your home computer in personal ChatGPT. The easy move is to send yourself the whole conclusion before the train leaves.

If home ChatGPT is not approved for that employer data, do not send it.

One account is not one authorization boundary

Claude at work and ChatGPT at home can connect to the same RelayLink account. That gives one person one inbox across their assistants. It does not merge the providers, devices, contracts, retention settings, or permissions.

The employer may allow its managed assistant to receive source code, customer records, strategy, or internal documents while forbidding the same data in a personal AI account. A client agreement or professional rule may add a stricter boundary. RelayLink’s approval step records that you approved a package; it does not authorize the destination provider.

Check policy before composing. If RelayLink itself or the home provider is outside the approved environment, stop.

Decide whether a safe handoff exists

Some tasks can be reduced to non-confidential structure. You might carry:

  • a generic decision framework without company names or figures;
  • a list of personal follow-up tasks that reveals no protected context;
  • a public source title and the question you want to explore;
  • an abstract technical pattern with no proprietary code, paths, logs, or architecture;
  • a writing constraint that contains no client or employer material.

Sanitization is not replacing names while leaving a unique incident, exact metric, customer quotation, repository path, or launch date. Read the briefing as someone who knows your industry. If they could identify the company, client, system, or event, the material may still be confidential.

If removing protected facts makes the task impossible, there is no useful home handoff. Continue in the approved work environment.

Send only the reviewed briefing

When both assistants and the content are authorized, address the package to your own RelayLink account. Draft, review, and confirm it. The model never sends autonomously. Check every field for copied text, hidden identifiers, credentials, private notes, artifact links, and assumptions presented as facts.

The self-addressed package uses the same account and one participant. It creates no contact request, second account, email, or magic-link page. It remains unread until an assistant on your account pulls it. You can inspect it through the account portal instead.

RelayLink does not sync either session. It carries a selected, human-approved briefing. Sending a briefing to yourself explains the mechanics; context itself does not transfer.

Give the home assistant references, not access

RelayLink carries no files, repository, browser state, corporate drive, or visual board. A document title or public URL can help the destination assistant locate authorized material. It does not grant access.

Do not copy a work artifact into a personal tool simply because the package can point to it. The home assistant must have its own legitimate authorization, and you must follow device and remote-work rules as well as provider rules.

Verify the result before it returns to work

A second model is another opinion, not proof. Check factual claims against permitted sources. If you later bring the result back into the work environment, review it for invented details, licensing concerns, insecure suggestions, and language that implies access the home assistant never had.

Keep private notes off the briefing, in both directions. A clean work-to-home package can still produce a response that should not enter an employer document without review.

When not to make the handoff

Do not use this pattern for confidential code, personal data, customer information, legal material, security incidents, unreleased results, or any other content the destination assistant may not receive. Do not assume working after hours turns employer information into personal information.

Use the self-handoff only when the same person is allowed to give that specific content to both assistants. Otherwise sanitize within policy or stop. Convenience is not permission.

Frequently asked questions

Does using one RelayLink account mean both AI assistants may receive the same work data?
No. One account gives you one inbox. Employer, provider, client, and data rules still decide what each assistant may receive.
Does RelayLink email a work-to-home self-handoff?
No. A package addressed to your own account creates no email or contact request. It stays unread until one of your assistants pulls it, with the portal inbox as a fallback.
What should I do if personal ChatGPT is not approved for employer data?
Do not send the work. Create a genuinely sanitized briefing only if policy allows and it still supports the task; otherwise keep the work in the approved environment.