Bar associations across the country have issued guidance warning attorneys about the risks of cloud-based AI tools. When your team uses a tool like ChatGPT or Copilot to summarize a deposition, draft a brief, or research a matter, that input travels to a third-party server — and privilege arguments don't follow it there.
State ethics rules require attorneys to take reasonable precautions to prevent unauthorized disclosure of client information. Routing sensitive matter details through a vendor's cloud infrastructure is difficult to reconcile with that obligation — especially when an on-premise alternative exists.
Applebee AI ships a pre-configured hardware appliance to your office. Your AI runs entirely on that hardware. No queries leave your network. No documents are stored on an external server. No vendor can be subpoenaed for your matter communications because we never have them.
We sign an NDA with every client covering both data privacy and stack disclosure. You know exactly what's running and where. Nothing is hidden.
Draft correspondence and pleadings. Summarize discovery documents. Research legal questions without sending matter details to an outside service. Prepare for depositions. Review contracts. Applebee AI handles the work that consumes associate and paralegal hours — entirely within your network.
Applebee AI was built for owner-operated firms with 5 to 50 people. We configure the hardware in our lab, ship it ready to use, and maintain the system remotely — touching only the system layer, never your data or queries. You plug in two cables and it works.
Law firms can use AI tools internally, but cloud-based AI services create obvious privilege and confidentiality risk because the information is transmitted to infrastructure controlled by a third party. Applebee AI runs on hardware inside your office, so matter details, draft arguments, discovery files, and client communications stay within your own network.
It can create that risk because privileged or confidential material sent to a third-party cloud vendor is no longer confined to systems your firm controls. Even where privilege is not automatically waived, the exposure is difficult to justify under ethics duties to safeguard client information. Applebee AI avoids that issue by keeping all processing on-premise.
A private on-premise AI can help draft correspondence and motions, summarize discovery and transcripts, review contracts, support legal research, prepare deposition outlines, and answer internal procedural questions. Applebee AI provides those productivity gains without sending matter data outside your building.
On-premise AI means the models run on hardware physically installed at your firm rather than in a vendor's cloud. When attorneys or staff submit prompts or documents, that work happens entirely on systems located in your office and under your control.
No. Applebee AI is managed end to end. We ship pre-configured hardware, handle setup guidance, and maintain the system remotely at the infrastructure layer. Your attorneys and staff use it through a browser without needing an in-house technical team.
Maintenance is limited to the system layer rather than your work product or matter data. We update the appliance, monitor its health, and apply patches remotely without accessing your prompts, uploaded documents, or outputs. Your firm's confidential information remains local to your environment.