Your conversations with public AI are discoverable. Ours never leave your firm.
A private AI for your firm's legal work, installed inside your own walls. No third party stores your prompts, your records, or your strategy. Your cases stay where they have always belonged: inside your firm, protected by privilege.
Are your AI conversations discoverable?
If your firm uses public AI, the honest answer is: they can be. Public AI tools generally retain what you send them, under retention policies you do not control and that a court can override. Every prompt about a case, every uploaded record, every draft is a record held by a technology company, outside your walls and outside your privilege framework.
A record someone else keeps
Conversations with cloud AI are stored on the provider's servers, under the provider's retention policies. In 2025, a federal court ordered a major AI provider to preserve all user conversations, including chats users believed they had deleted. In 2026, the same court ordered millions of those conversations turned over to opposing parties in litigation.
A threat to privilege and work product
Entering client information or case strategy into a third-party service creates an avenue of exposure that did not exist before. A federal court has already held that a party's conversations with a public AI tool were not privileged and ordered them produced. Whether the protection of attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine holds now depends in part on the policies, contracts, and security of a company that does not answer to you.
Your clients' most sensitive records, outside your walls
Law firms hold the most sensitive records people have: medical histories, financial statements, trade secrets, family matters. Whether your firm holds them under a client engagement, a patient authorization, or a protective order, sending them to a public AI service creates a disclosure you cannot fully control or account for, because what happens next depends on a third party.
What about enterprise AI contracts?
Enterprise AI agreements promise not to keep your data. That promise comes with exceptions, typically for abuse review and legal holds, it depends on the vendor honoring and configuring it correctly, and it can be overridden by a court order tomorrow. A machine inside your firm does not need the promise. There is nothing outside your walls to retain, produce, or breach.
The market has already taken notice
Major firms are already instructing their teams and warning their clients about using public AI with privileged material, and bar guidance points the same way: ABA Formal Opinion 512 and several state bars now call for informed client consent before client information goes into public generative AI tools. The question is no longer whether this risk exists. The question is what your firm is doing about it.
Case references available on request, including United States v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) and the preservation and production orders in In re OpenAI, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. 2025 and 2026).
An AI that works your case and never leaves your firm.
Soverance.ai installs artificial intelligence on a dedicated server, inside your firm. There is no cloud, no intermediary, no third party in the loop between your team and the AI. The data comes in, gets analyzed, and stays inside your walls, under your control.
In practice, this eliminates the avenue of exposure the cloud creates. There is no conversation stored on someone else's server because there is no someone else's server. There is no third-party copy of your work to preserve, subpoena, or leak. What your team produces with the AI exists only inside your firm, governed by the same privilege, work-product, and retention framework as the rest of your files.
And the AI does the heavy lifting of legal work:
- Give it a thousand pages of discovery and get back the documents that matter, flagged and summarized.
- Give it a deposition transcript or an expert report and get back a structured summary, with the admissions, assumptions, and inconsistencies highlighted.
- Give it the file and your theory of the case and get back the facts that support it and the facts that cut against it.
- Give it your notes and get back working drafts of pleadings, discovery requests, and deposition outlines.
All of it through a simple interface for your team, with no document ever leaving the firm.
One principle governs everything the AI produces: it supports the attorney's analysis, it never replaces it. Its output is meant to be checked against the source record, and because the record never leaves your firm, verification happens where the documents already are.
Three differences no competitor combines.
Total data sovereignty
Cloud solutions promise compliance, but they still process your data outside your walls. Our solution is different at its source: in normal operation, nothing leaves the firm. That is not a contractual promise from a vendor, it is how the system is built. There is no third-party processor in the loop, so the entire class of exposure that comes with one never arises.
Sized for the whole record, not a sample of it
There are local AI tools on the market running reduced models, good enough for simple tasks, not good enough for a five-hundred-page record. And the most capable model in the world is worth little if your confidentiality duties will not let you feed it your client's file. We deliver the strongest AI your firm can actually use on privileged material, sized to read entire case files and keep the thread of the analysis from the first page to the last. We do not ask you to take that on faith: in the demo, you judge the output on documentation like yours.
Built by someone who understands your duty
Soverance.ai was not created by a technology company that discovered the legal market. It was founded by a forensic physician with a master's degree in law, someone who spent a career handling documents where confidentiality is a legal duty, not a preference. That background shaped every default in this product: what gets logged, who can access what, and how maintenance works without ever touching your files. And if your practice involves medical evidence, in malpractice, personal injury, or insurance work, you are dealing with a vendor with more than one thousand expert medicolegal opinions behind him.
Complex technology underneath. Complete simplicity for your team.
We build it for your firm
We build, test, and pre-configure a server sized for your firm and deliver it ready. Your team plugs it in and connects it to your network; we complete the setup in a scheduled remote session your firm can observe. No outside technician walks through your office.
We set it up for your team
Accounts for your people, access rules you define, and the AI configured and tested for daily legal work, all completed remotely in sessions you schedule.
Your team uses it every day
Attorneys and staff access the tool through the browser, in a clean interface. Upload the record, ask the question, get the analysis. No technical training, no long learning curve.
We keep it running, without touching your files
With our ongoing service plan, we handle updates, security, and performance in sessions your firm schedules and can observe. Maintenance never requires access to your documents or conversations, and health monitoring reports system status only, never content. The system grows with the firm.
A solution for every size of firm.
Every plan delivers the same defining property: the AI works entirely inside your firm. What changes is the analytical capacity and how many people it serves comfortably. Find your fit and talk to our team.
Solo and small practices
The Essential and Professional configurations. Confidential AI for case analysis and drafting, sized for the solo practitioner up to a team of eight.
Mid-sized firms
The Advanced and Corporate configurations. Deep analysis of voluminous case files, with comfortable simultaneous use across teams handling heavy caseloads.
Large firms and institutions
A custom project, engineered case by case with our team, from dedicated high-performance systems to national operations.
Investment figures are presented in a specific proposal, after we understand your firm's volume and workflow. If you prefer to see ranges before we talk, they are published openly.
Every proposal defines, in writing, what the system must demonstrate on your own documents at installation. The final payment is due only after your firm signs off on that demonstration.
A posture your firm can defend.
When a managing partner decides how the firm will use artificial intelligence, they are also deciding what they will answer if that choice is ever questioned. Our solution was built so that answer is simple and solid.
The data never leaves the firm.
Documents and analyses remain inside your walls, in your custody.
No cloud company or AI provider in the loop.
Our role is limited to building and maintaining the server, under a written confidentiality agreement, with access controlled and supervised by your firm.
No third-party records.
There is no outside provider storing your prompts and analyses, no outside retention policy, and no outside copy of your work for anyone to produce.
Health information stays inside your walls.
Medical records are processed within the environment your firm already controls, instead of being sent to an outside AI service.
Protected at rest.
Everything on the server is encrypted, so a stolen or discarded machine yields nothing readable.
Continuity built in.
Local backup and recovery are part of the installation, so a hardware failure does not mean lost work.
Full client control.
The server is yours, access is defined by you, and you decide who uses what.
Audit trail.
The system logs usage, allowing the firm to demonstrate governance over the tool.
Aligned with bar guidance.
ABA Formal Opinion 512 and state bar guidance call for care and client consent before client information enters public AI tools. Keeping the data inside the firm is the cleanest way to work within that guidance.
Designed around the duties of confidentiality that govern legal practice, not retrofitted to them.
Maintenance never requires access to your documents or conversations. Health monitoring reports system status only, never content. Updates are installed in sessions your firm schedules, approves, and can observe; our staff has no standing remote access, works under written confidentiality agreements, and signs a business associate agreement where your obligations require one. If the server ever fails, we respond within one business day, remote diagnosis first, with priority replacement of failed components so your team keeps working. Your documents remain on encrypted storage in your custody throughout; a hardware failure never means data loss or data leaving the firm.
Physical security, honestly stated. The server lives under the same physical security that already protects your file room and every client record your firm keeps on site. It joins the perimeter you already defend.
No technology replaces sound internal practices, and your firm's own files remain subject to the ordinary rules of discovery, as they always have been. What our architecture removes is everything beyond that: the third-party custodian and the third-party record. When the data never leaves the firm, an entire class of exposure simply ceases to exist.
Better models will come. Your firm already owns the platform.
The server is the platform; the intelligence on it is software. When stronger models are released, we install and tune them on the machine your firm already owns, as routine work under the maintenance plan. Your investment gets better with time instead of becoming outdated.
And because you own all of it, your firm is never hostage to a vendor's fate or a vendor's pricing. If anything ever happened to us, your server, your model, and your data would keep working exactly as they did the day before. That is the difference between buying an asset and renting a dependency.
And when your firm wants more than the standard interface, we build on top of it as separate projects: automations for your document types, integration with your case management system, routines that turn a repeated task into one click. Custom work, quoted per project, running on the server you already own.
Your clients are already asking about this.
Your clients hand you the most sensitive records of their lives: medical histories, finances, family matters. Being able to tell them, in one sentence, that those records never leave your building is a promise few firms can make. It matters just as much to the referring attorneys and co-counsel who send you cases.
And where institutional clients ask how their data is handled, your firm has an answer most firms do not. Corporate clients and institutions increasingly require their outside counsel to disclose how client data is handled, and many outside counsel guidelines now restrict putting client information into public AI tools without prior consent. Firms that cannot answer those questionnaires cleanly are putting engagements at risk.
Your firm can tell every client, in one sentence: our AI work on your file never touches the cloud. Confidentiality stops being only a duty. It becomes part of how the firm sells itself.
Built by someone who has worked both sides of the case.
Soverance.ai was founded by a forensic physician with a master's degree in law from a leading US law school. His career sits at an intersection every litigator recognizes: the sensitive record on one side, legal responsibility on the other. Over more than sixteen years he has delivered over one thousand expert medicolegal opinions in matters across three countries, and has served in senior roles overseeing medical professional conduct.
For your firm, this means one concrete thing: a partner who understands your subject matter, not just your computers.
Questions firms ask first.
Are conversations with public AI tools discoverable?
They can be. Public AI tools generally retain what users send them, under retention policies the user does not control and that a court can override. In 2025 a federal court ordered a major AI provider to preserve all user conversations, including deleted chats, and in 2026 ordered millions of those conversations turned over to opposing parties. A federal court has also held that a party's conversations with a public AI tool were not privileged and ordered them produced.
How does local AI protect attorney-client privilege?
With AI running on a server inside the firm, there is no third party in the loop: no outside provider storing prompts and analyses, no outside retention policy, and no outside copy of the firm's work for anyone to produce. What the team produces with the AI exists only inside the firm, governed by the same privilege, work-product, and retention framework as the rest of its files. The firm's own files remain subject to the ordinary rules of discovery, as they always have been.
What about enterprise AI contracts with zero data retention?
Enterprise AI agreements promise not to keep your data, but that promise comes with exceptions, typically for abuse review and legal holds, depends on the vendor honoring and configuring it correctly, and can be overridden by a court order. A machine inside your firm does not need the promise: there is nothing outside your walls to retain, produce, or breach.
Courts have already ordered public AI conversations preserved as evidence. Protecting your firm is a decision you can make today.
Schedule a conversation with our team. In a 20-minute demo, we show the tool analyzing de-identified sample records, or a redacted record from a closed case your firm brings, inside a fully isolated environment, and we size the right solution for your firm.