Private AI for law firms: the 2026 buyer’s guide.
Loi 25, total cost of ownership, and the architecture, the questions a partnership needs answered before it signs.
Read the guideThe private AI layer that lives inside your walls, fluent in every matter your firm has ever handled.
This page just points the way. Your IT can deploy it, or we set it up, with training and onboarding either way. Start anywhere.
The Bilbs Box, the deployment, the tech stack, and what changes the day it goes live.
A private AI server in your own office, set up end to end. Cloud via AWS Bedrock if it fits, after a free consultation.
From $99 per lawyer per month. One line on the invoice. Infrastructure billed separately.
Runs on-premise on your own server, fully offline if you want. Your files are never shared and never used to train anyone’s models.
Every prompt and answer recorded on a server you own, exportable to a spreadsheet, one query away.
It reads every contract, memo, and matter your firm has worked on, and learns your firm’s way of doing things.
Your IT can deploy it from our runbook, or we set it up for you, scoped in a free consultation. We train it on your firm’s files and onboard your team.
Not a demo, the difference your team feels in the first week. Six things change the morning the server is installed.
A first-year asks, in plain English: “How did Me Tremblay usually structure acquisition clauses for construction disputes between 2018 and 2022?” The AI retrieves the prior drafts, summaries, and reasoning, with citations. Months of mentorship friction collapse into a single query.
Ask for a first version of an NDA, a memo, a settlement letter. The AI writes it in your firm’s style, because it learned from your firm’s actual work, and it sharpens further with the optional fine-tuning tier. Junior associates start from a strong first draft instead of a blank page.
A new associate joins. Instead of asking three senior partners how the firm does things, she asks the AI. It knows. It learned from every matter the firm has handled, and the partners get their time back.
Big clients now ask: “Where is our data processed? Who has access? Is there an audit log?” With Bilbs, every answer is one sentence: our server, our firewall, yes, and we can export the log for you.
When a senior partner retires, decades of judgment normally walks out the door. With the AI indexing their files, emails and meeting transcripts, the firm keeps the negotiation styles, preferred contract structures, winning arguments by case type, and the client history that made the partner who they were. For firms carrying succession risk, this is worth multiples of the platform’s price.
Your client files aren’t sitting in Virginia, Dublin, or São Paulo, waiting for a foreign subpoena, a data breach, or a Loi 25 incident. They’re behind your firewall, on a server you control. The most stress-reducing thing a managing partner can buy.
From $99 per lawyer per month, one line on the invoice. The subscription covers the audit, deployment, on-site training, updates, model refresh, security patches, monitoring, backups, the audit log, support, and the 24/7 Sev-1 pager. Infrastructure is billed separately: deploy onto a server the firm already owns (Path A), or we source one on a transparent OEM-cost quote with no markup (Path B).
The cross-border transfer dimension is handled by architecture: the AI runs entirely on the firm’s own hardware, in the firm’s own server room. No client data ever crosses a border, and no outside processors are involved, not Microsoft, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or Bilbs. Loi 25’s cross-border rules don’t apply to data that never leaves the building. The firm’s own consent, retention, and breach obligations still apply.
Harvey and other cloud legal-AI tools are strong products; the difference is architectural. They run as hosted cloud services, while Bilbs installs on the firm’s own hardware or in the firm’s own AWS account. Privileged data never leaves the firm’s walls, the model is fine-tuned on the firm’s precedents and owned by the firm, every question is recorded in an on-prem audit log, and it can run fully offline. Firms choose Bilbs when data residency, Loi 25, or a client’s AI questionnaire requires the AI to live inside the firm.
Hardware references map to firm size: Foundation (5–10 lawyers), Practice (10–30), Firm (30–100), and National (100+). After the free audit, the firm either deploys onto an existing GPU-capable server (Path A) or we source the spec on a transparent OEM-cost quote (Path B), with no GPU markup and an OEM 3-year warranty.
7–8 weeks contract-to-live for the Foundation, Practice, and Firm references; 18–24 weeks for National (cluster). The audit and the 20-minute scoping call are free. Day one looks identical to the day before, lawyers open a browser tab, while billing, time entry, and the document system stay exactly as they were.
Answer a few questions about how your firm works. Get an instant, visual report, Loi 25 exposure, productivity, knowledge retention, and an estimated annual value. No email wall; your numbers appear on the page.
The call is free and commits you to nothing. We talk through where your firm stands on shadow AI and Loi 25, and whether a private AI server actually fits the way you work. You leave with a written assessment either way.