A design-partner conversation
Private, provable AI for VC financings and legal work.
Private and provable. Two working prototypes — one built for a real VC fund, one for legal work — running fully offline today. Not a sovereign chat box: an engine that computes, proves its work, and is backed by a real company that maintains it — not unwarranted open source. Built, and yours to shape.
AI proposes. Lawyers decide.
Why a free AI workspace isn't this
A self-hostable chat box is free now. The product is the part it can't be.
On confidential, audited work you need three things a chat box structurally can't be.
Computes
A real waterfall, a real conflicts traversal — instead of hallucinating one.
Provable
A record an auditor can independently rebuild, not "the AI said so."
Backed
A maintained product with a real, named company behind it — not "WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY" open source where the risk is all yours.
Sovereignty is where it runs, not the product.
Built for how a careful lawyer distrusts AI
Private and provable — the two things cloud AI fails on confidential work.
Privilege preserved
In U.S. v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) a court held that sharing confidential information with a public AI tool waived privilege. Sovereign deployment means the data never leaves your building — so there's no third-party disclosure of the kind at issue in Heppner.
No fabricated authority
Grounded, cited, and built to refuse to invent a citation — the failure that's drawn court sanctions against lawyers using public chatbots.
Supervisable (ABA Op. 512)
Prompt-injection defense, fail-closed default-deny, everything logged — AI you can supervise and stand behind. AI proposes; lawyers decide.
Sources: U.S. v. Heppner, S.D.N.Y. (2026) — analyzed by Fenwick, Perkins Coie, Akin Gump, K&L Gates; Harvard Law Review. ABA Formal Op. 512 (2024). Courts are split and the area is evolving.
Where we start — and where it goes
Start by automating the VC Financings Survey you build by hand.
Phase 1 · the survey
Automate the cross-deal term extraction
The work you do by hand each quarter — your team checks that the citations are real and inspects the audit chain.
Phase 2 · conflicts + supervision
Relationship-graph conflicts
A real graph traversal across your matter history. Partner approvals from a phone-installable companion.
Phase 3 · cross-deal intelligence
An always-on survey
Because it runs on your data, it compounds into cross-deal intelligence that gets richer the more your firm uses it.
Runs cloud or sovereign from one codebase — your AI/infra team runs it on your hardware; we bring the engine and keep the legal domain current.