01Local
Due diligence first pass
A data-room bundle lands; the first pass over thousands of pages — change-of-control, assignment, termination, indemnities — runs against the local index with every finding carrying its citation.
- Findings graded and span-linked, ready for counsel verification
- Nothing about the target's documents leaves the firm's machine
- The review memo assembles from accepted findings, with sources intact
Doesn't replace — It does not replace the judgement calls — materiality, deal context, commercial appetite stay with the deal team.
02Local
Contract review and redlining
Clause-by-clause review against your playbook. Deviations are proposed with the conflicting spans shown; counsel accepts, edits or rejects at the checkpoint.
- Playbook-consistent proposals with page-and-line citations
- Conflicts between clauses surfaced with both spans attached
- Every accepted change recorded in the evidence ledger
Doesn't replace — It does not negotiate. Positions, concessions and the phone call to the other side remain human work.
03Local
Precedent-grounded drafting
First drafts — letters, clauses, summaries — assembled from the firm's own precedents and the matter bundle rather than a blank page or a public model.
- House voice, because the corpus is yours
- Sources panel behind every draft, same as review findings
- Edits by counsel recorded — the draft and the human outcome are both on the ledger
Doesn't replace — It does not invent precedent. What is not in the corpus is not drawn on — which is the point.
04Local
Matter interrogation
“What terminates this without notice?” — asked in plain language against the matter, answered with the span that supports it, or a stated not-found.
- Client calls prepared in minutes, clause references in hand
- Refusal behaviour you can test: no span, no assertion
- Sessions and relied-on answers can be written to the matter's ledger
Doesn't replace — It answers from the indexed documents only — outside knowledge is not smuggled in, in local mode.
05Firm endpoint
Knowledge reuse across matters
A firm's accumulated matters become queryable without any of them leaving the building — the endpoint runs on infrastructure the firm controls.
- Prior art found by meaning, not filename
- The boundary stays the firm's: your host, your logs, your access rules
- Per-matter records keep reuse attributable
Doesn't replace — It requires the firm to run and govern the endpoint — Vaultr operates no server for this mode by design.
06External provider, explicit
Sensitive matters needing frontier capability
When a matter genuinely needs a larger model than the device can run, the external mode names the provider, shows what will be transmitted, and waits for explicit opt-in.
- A decision about disclosure made visibly, once, per matter
- The provider you name — not a silent default
- Local-first discipline intact everywhere else
Doesn't replace — It is the one mode where material leaves the device. If that is unacceptable for a matter, the mode is not for that matter.