How it works
One appliance, inside your office, working from your documents.
What the Aurus platform is made of, how it gets installed, what your team can do with it, and how it compares to public AI tools.
The solution
Aurus: a private AI platform inside your walls.
Instead of sending your files out to an AI, Aurus brings the AI in. One system, three parts — installed and managed for a flat monthly fee.
Self-contained inference · No external APIs
The hardware
Aurus Appliance
A compact server installed inside your office. Models, indexes, and documents all live here — self-contained inference, no external API dependencies.
The interface
Aurus Assistant
What your team talks to. It answers questions, drafts documents, and searches every matter your firm has handled — with citations.
The controls
Aurus Console
Where administrators govern the system: permissions, ethical walls, and a complete audit log.
How it works
From delivery to daily use in three steps.
No migration, no IT project, nothing to learn beyond asking a question.
We install the Aurus appliance
A compact, quiet unit that fits in a closet or server rack. We handle delivery, setup, and connection to your existing file storage.
It learns your documents
Aurus indexes the files you point it at — matters, records, templates, past work product — and stays current as new files arrive.
Your team asks Aurus Assistant anything
In plain English, from their desks: “Summarize the Hoffman engagement.” “What did we advise on this in 2023?” Answers arrive in seconds, with sources.
What it does
An associate who has read every file your firm has ever produced.
Answers from your files — with citations
Ask Aurus Assistant about any client, matter, or policy and get a direct answer drawn from your own documents, with references to the exact files it came from.
What are the indemnification terms in the Calloway agreement — and which version is current?
Drafts documents in your firm's voice
Engagement letters, memos, and routine correspondence — generated from your own templates and precedents. First drafts in minutes instead of afternoons.
Draft a fee-increase letter for our estate-planning clients using last year's letter as the model.
Respects who can see what
Permissions set in Aurus Console are enforced on every query: ethical walls hold, and a paralegal can't query partner-only matters.
Partners, associates, and staff each get answers only from the files they're already permitted to open.
Why it’s different
Public AI tools are remarkable. That isn’t the issue.
The issue is where your data goes when your team uses them. Aurus isn’t a smarter chatbot — it’s a different architecture.
| Feature | Aurus | Public AI tools |
|---|---|---|
| Data sovereignty | Total — everything lives on the Aurus appliance in your office | Split with the vendor; your data sits on their servers |
| Knows your documents | Works from your matters, templates, and history | Generic knowledge; no memory of your files |
| Access controls | Aurus Console mirrors your permissions and ethical walls | Shared accounts; anyone can paste anything |
| Fit for confidential material | Built for privileged and regulated data | Consumer terms of service; third-party disclosure |
| Audit trail | Every query logged on your own hardware | Little visibility into who asked what |
| Who maintains it | We install, support, and patch it via signed updates — flat monthly fee | Nobody; it's shadow IT |
Who it’s for
Built for firms whose files are the business.
In another regulated field? The architecture is the same wherever confidentiality is non-negotiable — ask us.
Law firms
Search every matter and precedent your firm has handled. Draft letters, memos, and discovery summaries — with privilege intact.
Accounting & tax
Ask across workpapers, returns, and client files. Draft responses to notices in plain language, with sources cited.
RIAs & wealth managers
Prepare for client meetings in minutes: holdings, history, and past correspondence in one answer.
Medical practices
Query protocols, policies, and administrative records. Draft referral letters and patient communications for clinician review.
FAQ
Questions firms ask before they trust an AI with their files.
Open-weight models that run entirely on the Aurus appliance — no proprietary vendor API and nothing you can’t audit. Because everything runs locally, your data is never sent to a model provider. You’re not trusting a black box; you’re running an open, inspectable system inside your own walls.
For the work firms actually need — answering from your own documents with citations, drafting from your own templates, summarizing matters — the on-appliance models are highly capable. The advantage isn’t a bigger general-knowledge model; it’s a model grounded in your files that never leaks them. A public chatbot knows more trivia. Aurus knows your firm.
We monitor the appliance and handle hardware support as part of the flat monthly fee — this is a fully managed service, not a box we drop off. If something fails, we resolve it. Enterprise deployments can include high-availability configurations for firms that need zero downtime.
Updates ship as signed packages applied during managed maintenance. For air-gapped deployments, updates are applied manually on your schedule — nothing ever connects out without your say-so. Staying current never means opening a door to the outside.
No. Zero data egress means your documents, questions, and answers never leave the appliance. We maintain the system through signed updates, but we have no master key, no backdoor, and no ability to decrypt your data. The keys stay under your control.
Everything lives on the Aurus appliance in your office, encrypted at rest on hardware you physically control. Access follows the permissions and ethical walls you set in Aurus Console — enforced on every query, and logged.
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See what private AI can do for your firm.