01 · Scope
Name the data, the workflow, the quality floor, and every action the system may or may not take.
private AI for lawyers
Use AI on confidential work without sending the work to an AI vendor.
I install focused models and workflows on hardware the firm owns, test them with the network disconnected, and document the custody story for your internal review.
Based in Northern Kentucky, available on site across the Cincinnati metro and remotely elsewhere.
good fits
Focused work with a human still responsible.
- Draft from firm-approved templates and supplied facts.
- Search and ask questions over a defined local document set.
- Create summaries, timelines, issue lists, and comparisons for review.
- Transcribe or dictate without sending audio to a hosted voice API.
hard limits
No automation theater.
- No claim that local deployment alone satisfies a rule or professional obligation.
- No unreviewed filing, advice, or high-risk action.
- No promise that a smaller local model matches a frontier model at every task.
- No hidden cloud dependency described as ‘100% local.’
the handoff
A system you can test and a custody story you can review.
02 · Build
Install locally, default risky actions to blocked, and record agent actions to readable files on disk.
03 · Verify
Run the unplug test together, train the users, and leave a runbook and data-custody write-up.
The data-custody write-up records what enters the system, where it is processed and stored, who can access it, what leaves the machine, how actions are reviewed, how long records remain, and what the installation does not claim. It is material for your own counsel and compliance review — not a substitute for either.
Take the custody questions into the room.
The printable one-pager is a review prompt, not a form that sends anything anywhere. Read the longer law-practice build log or compare local and cloud AI.