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for notaries, accountants and lawyers

AI for your case files, without them leaving your office.

A language model that runs on a device in your own office. It reads your files, summarises them and writes a first draft, without internet and without a cloud service. You try it at our place first, with one task from your firm.

Arrange an introductory call Start with a 1-hour Pitstop

No obligation · 30 minutes · online, with someone who builds, tests and fine-tunes it

To be honest: we are still exploring local AI. We test what it can and cannot do today on our own machines in Leuven first.

A woman reads a case file at her desk; a teal ribbon runs from a small device next to her laptop into the open folder.

At a glance

Where
On a device in your own office, on your own network. We manage it: you don’t need an IT department.
For
Firms bound by professional secrecy: notaries, accountants, lawyers
Getting started
A trial around one task, on our device in Leuven

Sound familiar?

Professional secrecy has no exception for AI

Cloud AI can work, with the right edition, contracts and settings. But with most providers a residual risk remains. For your most sensitive files, you would rather not have to weigh it.

  • ChatGPT at the office

    What you see

    Colleagues already use ChatGPT, “just for ordinary emails”.

    Why it chafes

    An email about a case is never ordinary. One pasted paragraph now sits on a server you don’t know.

  • Your vendor’s AI

    What you see

    Your software vendor offers AI in the cloud, with a data processing agreement.

    Why it chafes

    Even with data in Europe, American providers fall under American law. That is a residual risk you have to weigh yourself.

  • A ban

    What you see

    You simply forbid it.

    Why it chafes

    Then the work stays where AI really helps: reading long documents, summarising, writing a first draft.

How it works

The model runs on a device in your office.

Local AI is also called private or on-premise AI: the language model runs at your place, not at a cloud service.

Smaller than a shoebox

The device sits on your own network. The language model lives on it, and so do the documents it works with. You decide which colleagues use it.

Works like ChatGPT, without the internet

You work in a chat window in your browser, just like ChatGPT. Only the answer comes from the device, not from a service on the internet.

Buy once

No subscription per user. We install it, keep the model up to date and fine-tune it, if you want us to.

Who runs it

What large organisations build themselves, without you needing an IT department

Universities and large companies run AI on their own servers, with their own team to manage it. A ten-person firm doesn’t have that department. We take that part on.

  • Computing power

    Large organisation

    Their own data centre with GPU servers.

    Your firm

    One device on your own network, on one power socket.

  • Models

    Large organisation

    An in-house AI team chooses, tests and replaces the models.

    Your firm

    We test a new model first. The model on your device doesn’t change without you knowing.

  • Access

    Large organisation

    An IT department manages who may use what.

    Your firm

    We set it up in your firm’s name. Code, prompts and access belong to you.

  • Questions

    Large organisation

    An internal helpdesk.

    Your firm

    You talk to the person who set up your device and your task.

Honest about the limits

What local AI can do today, and what it can’t yet

Local models have become strong, but they are not the smartest models around. This is what we see in our own tests.

Does well

Work with your own documents

  • searching your files and answering questions, with a reference to the document
  • summarising long documents
  • writing a first draft based on your own templates
  • transcribing conversations and dictations
  • flagging personal data before you share a document

Not yet, or less well

Reasoning without a source

  • complex legal reasoning without a source
  • Belgian law from memory: it works with your sources, not with what it thinks it knows
  • finishing long tasks entirely on its own
  • being as fast and smart as the best cloud models

Always

A colleague checks it

What AI writes is a first draft. Anything that leaves your office goes past someone who knows the file first. We record that per task in a one-page AI sheet.

See a sample sheet

Local or cloud?

Choose per task

Data

You work with case files or personal data.

There’s no sensitive data involved.
The model

Tomorrow’s answer has to match today’s.

You need the smartest or newest model.
Your team

Many colleagues use it daily, with no price per user.

You’re a small team and mainly want to try things quickly.

In your office

Where local AI wins back time

Also for GPs who want a consultation report transcribed, helplines where a conversation must not leave the building, and spin-offs whose unpublished research is the company.

Deeds and estates

AI for notaries

Preparing a deed from your own templates. Searching an estate file for what you need.

Documents and questions

AI for accountants

Reading in client documents and invoices. Searching your own internal notes when a client asks something.

Bundles and chronologies

AI for lawyers

Summarising a bundle of documents. Drawing up a chronology. Comparing clauses side by side.

How to start

Test on our device first, then decide

A woman carries a small device along a teal path, from a table with test folders to her own desk.

Step 1 · 30 minutes

Arrange an introductory call

Together we pick one task and look at which documents it needs.

No obligation, online.

Step 2 · Trial

Trial on our device in Leuven

We set up the task with test files or anonymised documents. You see how good the answers are and how much time it saves you.

Real case files only go onto a device in your office.

Step 3

Decide with numbers

Your own device in the office, which we install and maintain. Or adjust. Or stop, if it doesn’t deliver enough.

You decide, with the numbers from the trial.

After the first conversation you get a proposal with a clear scope and a fixed price. If you choose your own device after the trial, we install it at your office and look after it: model updates, fine-tuning and support.

Who builds it

We test it ourselves first

On our desk in Leuven sit an ASUS Ascent GX10, from the NVIDIA DGX Spark family, and Macs with Apple silicon. In 2008 a computer reached a petaflop for the first time: IBM Roadrunner filled a room and cost around 100 million dollars. Our device reaches the same number on one wall socket. It is not quite the same maths (Roadrunner calculated for science, this device for AI), but the leap is real.

We write down what works and what doesn’t. The dead ends too.

See Zenjoy’s work

15 years

building and maintaining software

400+

organisations

4 years

using AI daily in our own work

Frequently asked questions

What firms ask us

You can get a data processing agreement and a security overview on request.

Question not listed? Just ask us.

Is local AI as good as ChatGPT?

Not for everything. For searching, summarising and writing a first draft from your own documents it comes close. For complex reasoning without a source, the big cloud models are stronger.

Can’t I just use ChatGPT Business, Enterprise or Copilot?

Sometimes, yes. Business editions don’t train on your data and can process it in the EU, with a data processing agreement. But American providers fall under American law, even when your data is in Europe. For ordinary tasks that is often acceptable. For your most sensitive files, or as a lawyer following the guidelines of the Flemish Bar (OVB), a device in your office is the clearest choice. We help you choose per task.

Does my professional body allow this?

Local processing removes the biggest risk, but you remain responsible for how you use AI. For each task you get a one-page AI sheet that you can show your professional body, DPO or insurer. This is not legal advice.

Does it work in Dutch?

Yes. Summarising and writing in Dutch works well. Knowledge of Belgian law comes from your documents, not from the model itself.

What does a device cost?

You buy it once; the price depends on how much memory you need. After the first conversation you get a proposal with a fixed price for the device, installation and maintenance.

Local isn’t automatically cheaper than cloud AI. With a small team and little sensitive work, a subscription is sometimes the better deal, and then we’ll tell you.

Who maintains it?

We do, if you want: model updates, follow-up and fine-tuning. Code and access are in your firm’s name.

Which casework do you want done faster, without it leaving your office?

Tell us which task takes the most time. We will tell you honestly whether local AI can handle it today.

Arrange an introductory call Start with a 1-hour Pitstop

No obligation · 30 minutes · online, with someone who builds, tests and fine-tunes it