Did You Know Most AI Users Are One Mistake Away from Losing Everything?
SPECIAL SERIES :: THE CRAFT™️ BETA :: POST 3
When you save your work to the cloud, you probably assume it's safe. Backed up. Protected. Recoverable. You're probably wrong. And you're not alone in being wrong — that's actually part of the problem.
When you save your work to the cloud, you probably assume it's safe. Backed up. Protected. Recoverable. You're probably wrong. And you're not alone in being wrong — that's actually part of the problem.
Two separate industry surveys from 2024 and 2025 found the same alarming pattern, and their convergence is what makes the findings so difficult to dismiss. According to Kaseya's 2025 State of SaaS Backup and Recovery Report, which surveyed more than 3,000 IT professionals worldwide, 87% of organizations experienced some form of SaaS data loss in the prior 12 months. Only 13% made it through the entire year without a single incident.
That's not a fringe risk. That's a near-certainty.
But here's what makes it worse. A separate 2024 study by Rewind, surveying 419 IT decision-makers through research firm Propeller Insights, found that 79% of IT teams incorrectly believe their SaaS applications include backup and recovery capabilities by default.
They don't. And these aren't junior employees making that mistake — the Rewind survey specifically targeted IT directors, IT managers, and security professionals. The people responsible for protecting organizational data are the same people who don't realize it needs protecting.
This disconnect has a name. It's called the "Shared Responsibility Model," and almost nobody reads the fine print. Your SaaS provider keeps the servers running. They make sure the application doesn't go down. They replicate data across their infrastructure to protect against hardware failure on their end. But your data — the things you actually create, store, and depend on — that's your problem.
If an employee accidentally deletes a critical file, if a rogue integration overwrites your records, if a disgruntled insider wipes a project folder, if an admin misconfigures a retention policy — the provider shrugs. Their Terms of Service say so. GitHub's terms explicitly disclaim liability for data loss. Microsoft's do the same. Google's do the same. These aren't obscure clauses buried in legal boilerplate. They're the foundation of how cloud services work.
The recovery numbers tell the rest of the story. Of the organizations that lost data, only 14% could recover within minutes. Another 40% took hours. And 35% — more than one in three — needed days or even weeks to get back to normal. Two percent couldn't recover their data at all. Meanwhile, only 40% of IT professionals expressed confidence that their backup systems could actually protect critical data in a crisis. That means the majority of organizations know, on some level, that their safety net has holes.
An independent study from Proofpoint, surveying 600 security professionals across 12 countries, found nearly identical results — 84.7% of organizations reported at least one data loss incident in the past year. This isn't one vendor's opinion. It's a pattern confirmed across the industry.
This isn't just a corporate IT problem. It's an AI problem too.
Think about where your AI conversations live. Your prompts, your refined workflows, the context you've carefully built across dozens of sessions — all of it typically sits inside a SaaS platform you don't control. Most AI services offer limited or no export features. The ones that do often export everything as a raw dump — not the organized, curated record of what actually mattered in those conversations.
One account lockout, one policy change, one provider decision, and months of work could be gone. Not because something dramatic happened. Just because you trusted someone else's infrastructure with something valuable, and their Terms of Service never promised to protect it.
This is precisely the problem CRAFT Framework was designed to solve.
CRAFT takes a fundamentally different approach. Your framework files are plain text files that live on your computer. Not on a server you don't control. Not behind an API that might change tomorrow. Not locked inside a platform that could lose your data or decide your data is theirs.
Because CRAFT files are text, backing them up is as simple as copying a folder. Drag them to an external drive. Push them to a private repository. Email them to yourself. Whatever backup strategy already works for your documents works for CRAFT — no specialized backup service required.
And because CRAFT is text files rather than software, there's an additional layer of protection most people don't consider. Text files are essentially immune to the kinds of attacks that compromise SaaS platforms. They can't carry malware. They can't be corrupted by a platform breach. If CRAFTFramework.ai itself went down tomorrow, your CRAFT files would be completely unaffected — they're on your machine, not on ours.
There's no SaaS middleman to fail. No centralized database that becomes a single point of failure. No Terms of Service that quietly disclaim responsibility for your life's work while charging you a monthly fee for the privilege. Your data goes directly from you to whatever AI service you choose to use, and the curated session histories CRAFT produces stay right where you put them.
Gartner predicts that 75% of enterprises will prioritize SaaS backup as a critical requirement by 2028, up from just 15% in 2024. The market is waking up to a problem that CRAFT's architecture solved from day one — not by adding another layer of protection on top of fragile infrastructure, but by removing the fragile infrastructure entirely.
Your AI workflows are worth protecting. The question is whether you're trusting that protection to someone who explicitly says they're not responsible.
CRAFT Beta is open now. Your data stays yours.
Sources:
- Kaseya/Spanning, "The State of SaaS Backup and Recovery Report 2025," January 2025. Survey of 3,000+ IT professionals.
- Rewind, "2024 State of SaaS Data and Recovery," May 2024. Survey of 419 IT decision-makers.
- Proofpoint, 2024 Data Loss Landscape Report. Survey of 600 security professionals across 12 countries.
- Gartner, "75% of Enterprises Will Prioritize Backup of SaaS Applications by 2028," August 2024.
