The firm's capital is its documents. It is also unsearchable.
Years of intellectual output that cannot be put to use, legal privilege that rules out consumer tools, non-billable hours piling up, and practice management software that keeps the door closed.
Huge document sets sitting idle
Archived files, pleadings, deeds, templates, internal know-how: years of intellectual output stored but never put to use. Finding the relevant precedent depends on the memory of whoever wrote it.
Legal privilege versus consumer tools
Uploading a case document to a consumer assistant hosted outside the European Union is not an option. The constraint is not technical, it is professional ethics, and it rules out most tools on the market from the start.
Non-billable hours piling up
Document research, file assembly, exhibit lists, completeness checks: qualified time spent on manual handling, rarely billable to the client.
Closed practice management software
Practice management tools handle billing and the calendar, but make no use of the firm's document capital. The most valuable data in the firm is the data the software does not give access to.
02 — What we build
Four workstreams, depending on what is costing you time.
A document set to make searchable, exhibits to review, files to assemble, or a tracking tool to build around your practice management software.
AI in legal practice requires a framework. Here is ours.
Who drafts, who signs, where do the documents live, what happens to the indexed corpus if we part ways? These are the questions that determine any AI project under legal privilege, addressed before the first line of code.
The professional drafts and signs
AI researches, summarizes, and prepares templates. It produces no binding deed and replaces no signature. A deed, pleadings, or a legal opinion always go through the drafting and responsibility of the professional.
No answer without a cited source
Every result points to the document and the passage it comes from, verifiable in one click. If the corpus does not contain the answer, the tool says so. This is an architecture requirement, not a setting.
Your data never trains a model
Models are used for inference only. No document, no deed, no note is used to train or fine-tune a model, whether with us or with a third party. The commitment is contractual.
Self-hosting available on the firm's premises
When the sensitivity level requires it, everything (the document set, the vector index, the model) runs on a machine you own. No data leaves the firm, which considerably simplifies the ethics review.
Full access traceability
Who accessed which document, when, and through which query: the log is exportable. On segregated files or in a potential conflict-of-interest situation, this is what demonstrates that the separation holds.
No legal advice from us
We are technical implementers. Your professional ethics, your internal procedures, and your own judgment are the only reference. The tool conforms to them and issues no legal opinion.
04 — Proof
What we know how to do, documented.
We do not display any client law firm. What we show: two mechanisms already in production, document extraction and sensitive data processing.
Law firm, notary office, or legal department: we start with a narrow document set (one practice area, one type of deed, one set of pleadings) and measure the research time saved before expanding. The document set stays with you for the entire pilot.
A lean, segregated stack, deployable on your premises.
Proven, recruit-friendly technologies, self-hosting available on the firm's premises, and integration with existing practice management tools rather than a replacement.
The questions that come up during scoping with a law firm partner, a notary, or the legal director of a mid-sized company.
It is the constraint that governs the architecture. Hosting in France or the European Union, and self-hosting on the firm's premises when sensitivity requires it. In that case, no data leaves your premises. No document is used to train a model, and access is segregated and logged file by file.
It can prepare: find a precedent, summarize a document, propose a template based on your own models. It does not draft and it commits to nothing. The deed, the pleadings, or the legal opinion are still written, checked, and signed by the professional, who alone bears responsibility. A tool that claimed otherwise would be an ethics risk, not a time saver.
Systematically. Every part of an answer points back to the document and passage it comes from, available for immediate review. And when the corpus cannot answer, the tool says so instead of producing a plausible-sounding answer. That is the only acceptable standard for legal matters.
Never. Models are used for inference only, on infrastructure you control or whose hosting is governed by contract. This is a written commitment in the contract, not a statement of intent.
Same discipline as on our compliance page: we equip the preparation, document collection, completeness checks, building the due diligence file, tracing the checks performed. Risk assessment and suspicious activity reporting remain the act of the public officer. We automate no vigilance decision.
Four to six weeks for a pilot on a defined document set: one practice area, one type of deed, one set of pleadings. We measure the research time saved on real queries from the firm, and that number decides whether to expand.
Yes, along with the documentation and the index built on your document set. Data is exportable, hosting is transferable, and the document set remains yours at every point. Ending the engagement costs you neither the tool nor the indexing work.
Let's discuss
A document set sitting idle, hours spent on research, files to assemble? Let's talk about scope, privilege, and time saved.