Industries — Legal

Client files never leave the firm.

Work product that touches a third-party AI service invites a waiver argument. Optimus gives firms and legal departments frontier AI over matter files with confidentiality intact by construction.

Attorney-Client PrivilegeABA Model Rule 1.6Work ProductOutside-Counsel Guidelines

Why sovereign

The case for sovereign AI in legal.

01

Confidentiality is the license to practice

Model Rule 1.6 requires reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized disclosure of client information — efforts that are difficult to demonstrate once matter data has entered a third-party service.

02

OCGs are already banning cloud AI

Corporate clients increasingly write outside-counsel guidelines that forbid matter data in third-party AI tools. An on-prem appliance is the answer that satisfies the guideline instead of arguing with it.

03

Your work product is your advantage

Decades of briefs, memos, and deal documents are the firm's real IP. Retrieval and drafting over that corpus should compound your advantage — not train someone else's model.

The pain point — compliance

Privilege, once waived, cannot be recovered.

Privilege, once waived, is gone. Ethics opinions on generative AI converge on the same demands: competence, confidentiality, and supervision of the tool. All three are radically simpler when the tool is a sealed machine in your own server room.

The regimes in play

  • ABA Model Rule 1.6

    Reasonable efforts to safeguard client information — evaluated against available alternatives.

  • Privilege & Work Product

    Third-party disclosure is a recognized waiver theory that opposing counsel can be expected to raise.

  • Outside-Counsel Guidelines

    Client-imposed restrictions on where matter data may be processed.

  • Cross-Border Data Rules

    GDPR and blocking statutes constraining where litigation data may travel.

What cloud AI puts at stake

  • Privileged documents in a vendor's retention pipeline
  • OCG breaches discovered during a client audit
  • Conflicts exposure from shared-tenancy processing
  • Ethics-opinion scrutiny of tools you can't fully explain

Optimus removes this exposure entirely: no external calls, no subprocessors, no egress — the full AI stack runs inside the controls you already operate.

Use cases

What one machine solves in legal.

Every workload below runs on the appliance, against your documents and systems, with full logs — no internet connection required.

Privileged document review

First-pass relevance and privilege screening across matter documents at machine speed, with human reviewers in command.

  • Relevance scoring with reasoning
  • Privilege flags with basis notes
  • Review logs defensible in discovery disputes
Doc ReviewPrivilege Screen

Contract analysis and diligence

Extract clauses, flag deviations from your playbook, and summarize data rooms without a single document leaving the firm.

  • Clause extraction against your standards
  • Deviation reports with risk notes
  • Data-room summaries by workstream
ContractsDue Diligence

Transcript and deposition summaries

Compress testimony into issue-coded summaries with page-line citations your litigation team can verify instantly.

  • Issue-coded digests with page:line cites
  • Contradiction spotting across witnesses
  • Chronologies assembled from the record
DepositionsLitigation

Brief and memo drafting

Draft from the firm's own precedent bank — your best prior work, retrieved and adapted, never leaving the building.

  • Precedent retrieval from the DMS
  • First drafts in firm style
  • Citation lists for attorney verification
DraftingPrecedent

Matter knowledge search

One permission-aware search across the DMS, email archives, and matter workspaces — with ethical walls enforced at retrieval.

  • Wall-aware access at query time
  • Expertise location across matters
  • Full audit trail per query
Knowledge SearchEthical Walls

Client reporting and billing narratives

Summarize matter status and draft compliant billing narratives from time entries — sensitive rates and strategy kept internal.

  • Status reports from matter activity
  • OCG-compliant narrative drafts
  • No billing data in third-party tools
ReportingBilling

Confidentiality maintained by architecture, not only by agreement.

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