Level 1
Team
2–10 staff who want one private assistant that knows their files, customers and jobs.
Mac Studio, M5 Max, 128 GB
$4,799
Year one $27,799 to $30,299
For law firms
Private AI for law firms
AI that knows your matters, on a machine in your office. It reads your files where they already live, answers your team with a link to the document, and never sends client information to an outside AI company.
What the ABA says about AI and client files
In July 2024 the American Bar Association issued Formal Opinion 512, its first ethics opinion on generative AI. It says lawyers using AI must keep all information relating to a client's representation confidential under Model Rule 1.6 unless the client gives informed consent, and must understand the benefits and risks of the tools they use under Model Rule 1.1. Formal opinions are guidance, and your state bar may say more.
A machine in your office takes the outside AI company out of that picture: the models run on hardware you own, and nothing your team types is sent anywhere else. It does not answer your ethics questions for you. Your own policies, supervision and client communication still apply.
What it does for a firm
- Ask about a matter or a client and get the answer with a link to the document it came from.
- Find the current version of a contract, pleading or letter among thousands of files. Nothing is moved or renamed.
- Pull dates, parties and amounts out of documents, with the source named.
- Draft first versions of routine letters and summaries from your own past work, for a lawyer to check.
- At the Office level, summarise a whole matter before a call and answer questions across many matters at once.
- Separate workspaces where you need them, for example one per practice group, each with its own document set.
What it will not do
It is not a legal research service: it answers from your firm's own files, not from case law. The best cloud models are still smarter on long, complex tasks. And it does not make a firm compliant with anything. Like every AI, it is not right every time. That is why every answer links to the file or record it came from, so anyone can check it.
Which level fits
Same implementation and management plan at every level; only the machine changes. What each level unlocks
Level 2
Office
10–40 staff, or an office whose work is long documents: contracts, records, filings.
Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 256 GB
$9,499
Year one $32,499 to $34,999
Level 3
Company
40+ staff, several departments, or the most demanding document work.
Mac Studio, M5 Ultra, 512 GB
Coming late october 2026
Year one once Apple prices the machine
Questions we get asked
Do we still need client consent to use it?
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That is a question for your ethics counsel or state bar; we don't give ethics advice. What we can tell you is how it works: the models run on the machine in your office, nothing anyone types is sent to an outside company, the model is not retrained on what people type, and each workspace answers only from the documents it can see.
Does it work with our document management and practice management systems?
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It connects to the systems your firm runs on (files, email, practice management, billing) with the permissions you set. Name the systems you use on the consultation and we will tell you exactly which connect; the fixed quote lists every one.
What does private AI cost for a law firm?
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For a firm of up to 10 people, that is the Team level: $4,799 for the machine at Apple's price, $5,000 to $7,500 for the implementation and $1,500 a month for the management plan, so $27,799 to $30,299 in year one and $18,000 a year after. No per-seat fees. A larger firm, or one whose work is long documents, needs Office: $32,499 to $34,999 in year one.
Is it as good as ChatGPT?
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On long, complex tasks the big cloud models are still smarter. On questions about your own matters it has something they don't: every file your firm has, read once at implementation, with answers that link back to the document. Private AI is about control, not about being cleverer.
See whether it fits your office
A free consultation: which systems you run on, how many people, what you want to ask it. We tell you what connects and which level fits, then send a fixed quote.
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