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Matter & client walls
Lawyer A cannot retrieve Client B. Walls are enforced when the system retrieves — not hoped for afterward.
Law firms
Privilege as an architectural guarantee, not a policy promise.
Mid-size firms. Managing partner + ethics counsel + IT. Use AI on your own files the way you use the DMS — walled, logged, never off-site.
The job
AI on matter files — without sending a privileged token off-site.
Lawyers need answers from their own work product and client files. Ethical walls are filters at retrieval, not a handbook paragraph.
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Query log
Every query and every retrieved chunk. That is the malpractice / ethics artifact.
03
On-prem by design
The model comes to the files. Privileged material does not leave the building for inference.
Ingest
What ethics counsel will ask about.
Sources
- Matter files
- Work product / brief banks
- DMS (iManage, NetDocuments, Clio) with ACL sync
- Engagement letters
- Email archives
Before the index
- Hash + source + matter / client tags
- Access labels synced from the DMS where possible
- Original file kept next to extracted text
- Ethics counsel review of the wall model is part of onboarding
Same architecture fits other confidential-work practices (accounting / tax, investigations, financial advisory). Not healthcare.
Watch a simulated matter question
Keystrokes, ethical wall / retrieve, ~30 tok/s stream, and a stack overlay — on How it works.