Privilege-Grade AI.
On Your Hardware.

One-time setup on your hardware. Optional support after that — or self-manage and pay nothing. Your system keeps running either way.

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Nationwide — we travel to you Your hardware, your office

The problem with cloud AI in law firms

Attorney-client privilege is the foundation of your practice — and every cloud AI tool asks you to hand client confidences to a server you don't control. Clients expect faster turnarounds; document volumes keep climbing; and the tools that could help are the tools you can't risk.

  • Cloud AI platforms train on user data by default — your clients' confidences included
  • Per-seat subscriptions that escalate as the firm grows
  • Vendor data breaches you read about in the news — with your matters in them
  • Compliance exposure every time privileged data leaves the building
THE STARTER WORKFLOW

Intake → First-Draft Client Email

One packaged job, not eight vague capabilities. The first workflow we automate for a firm.

How it starts: A new client intake (form, email, or scanned document) lands in a folder on your machine.

What you get: A structured matter summary plus a first-draft client engagement email — written in your firm's voice, from your own templates, reviewed by your staff before anything sends.

Timeline: Configured and running on your hardware within the first on-site day. Staff trained before we leave.

Cloud-based AI rents you an assistant that lives in their building. TidalForge installs an assistant that lives in yours. Theirs learns for everyone; yours only knows your firm.

The cloud alternative: $25 per seat monthly ($40–50/mo for a two-person office), billed forever — with your privileged files processed on the vendor's cloud. TidalForge: $900 once, runs in your office, and it still runs the day a subscription would have ended.

What runs on your machine

Matter file triage

Incoming documents read, classified, and routed to the right matter folder — automatically, offline.

Correspondence drafting

First drafts of client emails and status letters from your templates. Your staff approves; nothing sends itself.

Document Q&A

Ask questions across your own matter documents. Answers come from your files — on your machine.

Setup from $900 on hardware you already have (need a box? a 32GB+ mini PC runs ~$400–550, spec sheet included). Optional support after that — or self-manage and pay nothing.

law firms questions

No. Processing happens entirely on your hardware. There is no vendor server involved in day-to-day operation — the network connection isn't part of the workflow.

The starter workflow is intake and correspondence. Court filing integrations are new workflows — quoted separately, built only if you want them.

The system works from documents you place in its folders. Conflict-checking against your practice-management system is a separate workflow we can scope on the call.

Ready to see it on your own files?

Bring one real workflow to the call. We'll scope it honestly and price it before you commit to anything.

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