When you install a document-to-Google Forms add-on from the Google Workspace Marketplace, you typically see a permissions screen that reads: "This app wants to see, edit, create, and delete all of your Google Drive files." For individual users this feels uncomfortable. For healthcare providers, corporate legal teams, and research institutions, it is a non-starter that IT departments actively block.
Pirai AI solves this with a fundamentally different architecture. It generates a Google Apps Script that you run yourself inside your own Google account. Your Drive is never touched. No OAuth, no permissions screen, no third-party access to your files.
The OAuth Permission Trap
Most document-to-Google Forms tools work by connecting directly to your Google Drive via OAuth. This is how they create the form inside your account. The problem is that OAuth grants are broad and persistent. Once you approve the permission, the third-party application holds credentials that can access your Drive for as long as the app is installed - and sometimes beyond that, until you manually revoke access in your Google account settings.
The permission is not malicious by design, but the scope is disproportionate. To convert one document into one Google Form, the application requests access to your entire Drive. If that third-party server is ever compromised, or if the vendor's data handling practices change, the potential exposure is your complete Drive, not just the document you uploaded.
Corporate IT departments frequently block Google Workspace Marketplace extensions precisely because of this broad permission scope. The same block that stops a malicious extension also stops legitimate tools that happen to use the same permission model.
The Apps Script Approach: Zero Drive Permissions
Pirai AI never requests access to your Google Drive because it does not need it. Instead of creating the Google Form itself, Pirai AI generates the instructions for creating the form - a Google Apps Script file - and hands it to you. You run it yourself.
Google Apps Script is Google's own built-in scripting language, available inside every Google Forms account. When you run a script in Google Forms, it runs under your own Google account credentials, not under any third-party credentials. The form is created by you, in your account, with no external party involved after you download the script file.
Step-by-Step: How to Convert a Document Securely
Upload your document to Pirai AI
Go to platform.piraiai.com and drag and drop your Word (.docx), PDF, or Excel (.xlsx) file. No Google account connection. No sign-in with Google. No permissions screen. Just your document and the Pirai AI platform.
Select Google Forms and download the Apps Script
Choose Google Forms as your target platform. Pirai AI reads your document, extracts every question, answer option, section, and question type, and generates a plain text file containing a pre-built Google Apps Script. Download this file. At this point, Pirai AI's role is complete. Your document has been processed in-memory and destroyed.
Open a blank Google Form and paste the script
Open a new blank Google Form in your own Google account. Click the three-dot menu in the top-right corner. Select Script editor. A new tab opens showing the Google Apps Script editor.
Replace the default code and click Run
Select all the default code in the script editor and delete it. Paste the entire content of the Apps Script file you downloaded from Pirai AI. Click the Run button (the triangle play icon). Google will ask you to authorise the script - this authorisation is between you and Google, with no third party involved. Your form is built instantly.
Review your completed form
Switch back to your Google Form tab. All questions, answer options, and sections from your original document are now in the form, ready to review and distribute. The entire process from upload to completed form takes under two minutes.
The Four Security Pillars
Zero Drive Access
Pirai AI never connects to your Google Workspace account. No OAuth authorisation, no persistent credentials, no access to any file in your Drive beyond the document you upload directly to the platform.
In-Memory Processing
Your document is processed entirely in temporary memory. It is never written to a database or file server. When conversion is complete, the document is destroyed. Nothing is retained server-side.
No AI Training on Your Content
Pirai AI uses the OpenAI API with training and tracking controls explicitly disabled. The content of your documents is not used to train any AI model or improve any product.
The Apps Script Shield
The output is raw text code that runs inside your own Google account. The form is created by your credentials, in your environment. Pirai AI is not present at the point of form creation.
How This Compares to Traditional Add-ons
| Security Factor | Pirai AI | Traditional Drive Add-ons |
|---|---|---|
| Google Drive access required | No | Yes - read, edit, delete scope |
| OAuth permission grant | None | Required to install |
| Document stored server-side | Never | Varies by vendor |
| AI model training on content | Disabled | Not always confirmed |
| Works without Chrome extension | Yes - web app only | Many require extension install |
| Works on any browser / device | Yes | Often Chrome-only |
| IT department approval risk | Low - no Marketplace install | High - broad Drive scope |
Who Needs a Secured Form Converter
Healthcare Professionals
Patient intake forms, consent forms, and clinical assessments are sensitive documents. Granting a third-party app full Drive access to convert a patient form creates unnecessary HIPAA exposure. Pirai AI processes the document in-memory with no storage and no Drive access.
Corporate and Legal Teams
Survey instruments containing proprietary processes, pricing data, or legal language are not appropriate for upload to tools with unclear retention practices. In-memory processing and no server-side storage removes this risk.
Academic Researchers
IRB-approved questionnaires, validated research instruments, and unpublished survey scales are research assets. No Drive access and no AI training opt-outs mean the instrument is not exposed to any party beyond the researcher.
Market Research Agencies
Client survey scripts are typically covered by NDA. An MR agency uploading a client's proprietary questionnaire needs assurance that the document is not stored or used for training. Pirai AI's architecture provides this directly.
HR and People Teams
Engagement surveys, exit questionnaires, and 360 feedback instruments reflect internal organisational priorities. These should not be uploaded to tools that retain files or hold active Drive credentials.
Enterprise IT Environments
Corporate IT policies frequently block Google Workspace Marketplace extensions with broad Drive scope. Pirai AI requires no Marketplace install, no extension, and no Drive permission - passing security reviews that block traditional add-ons.
Frequently Asked Questions
Not with Pirai AI. Most document-to-Google Forms tools require you to grant Drive access so they can create the form directly in your account. Pirai AI takes a different approach: it generates a Google Apps Script file you download and run yourself inside Google Forms. Your Google Drive is never accessed by Pirai AI at any point.
Google Apps Script is Google's own JavaScript-based scripting language, built into every Google Forms account. Pirai AI generates a text file containing a pre-built Apps Script that, when you paste it into your form's script editor and click Run, programmatically creates all your questions, answer options, and sections. The script runs under your own Google account with no third-party involvement.
Yes. Documents are processed entirely in-memory and destroyed after conversion. No file is written to a server or retained. OpenAI API training controls are explicitly disabled, so your document content is not used for model training. Pirai AI never accesses your Google Drive, Google Workspace, Qualtrics, REDCap, or any other platform account.
Pirai AI accepts Word (.docx), PDF, and Excel (.xlsx) files. All three input types go through the same in-memory processing pipeline with no server-side storage. The output Google Apps Script creates all supported Google Forms question types including multiple choice, checkboxes, short answer, paragraph, linear scale, and multiple choice grid.
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