Legal
From the Magic Circle to the high street, the confidentiality bar is absolute and client material is privileged by construction. Firms want the document-review productivity that mainstream legal AI promises, and they cannot send privileged client material to a third-party cloud. Mickai runs the legal department tools on the firm's own hardware, so nothing leaves the building.
The managing partner and director of risk of a law firm, from the Magic Circle to the high street.
They want the document-review productivity that mainstream legal AI promises, and sending privileged client material to a third-party cloud breaks solicitor-client privilege.
The legal department studios run on the firm's own hardware, so drafting, due diligence, and e-discovery run behind the firewall and nothing privileged crosses a third-party boundary.
The single largest cost in legal, the review hours, compressed, with the SRA and Ayinde privilege exposure of a cloud route cleared because the material never leaves the firm.
These architectural choices support control over the workflows in your deployment. Their benefits depend on configuration, integrations and operating practices. Review external connections, physical security, access and compliance responsibilities together.
Scope inference, extraction, retrieval and storage on infrastructure you control. Document and test any external connector, support channel or transfer before describing a workflow as zero-egress.
Workflows with local models, data and supporting services can continue offline. Live external email, calendars and other services need an approved connection or controlled import, with clear unavailable and pending states.
Map prompts, documents, indexes, logs and backups to their processing and storage locations. Local hosting supports control of location; access, retention and any transfers still need review.
Prepare and classify source records, preserve permissions and evaluate answers against the originals. Retrieval and model training are separate choices; agree data use and licences for each.
Compare hardware and licences alongside integration, power, administration, support, updates, evaluation and recovery. Measure cost at the required workload and quality before claiming savings.
Define who holds keys, who can administer the system and which actions need approval. Test denied requests, revoked access and audit records. Physical security, insider risk and incident response remain operational responsibilities.
Agree version selection, signed update procedures, rollback, data export and licence rights. Reassess requirements as software and obligations change; owning hardware does not remove maintenance or compliance work.
Review the requirements relevant to your organisation, jurisdiction and intended use with your responsible teams. Cloud services can be appropriate subject to applicable safeguards; on-premise deployment alone does not establish compliance or remove supplier responsibilities.
The kind of organisation this serves, named illustratively from public information to characterise the market. These are target profiles, not customers: Mickai has no relationship, engagement, trial, or endorsement with any of them.
The enterprise studios that lead in this sector, drawn from the eighteen that sit on the one sovereign substrate. Scope their local processing, operator-held keys and Open Audit Record coverage for the proposed deployment. Confirm availability and any external integrations before relying on a workflow.
Contract Review and Legal-Ops
Drafting, redlining, due diligence, and e-discovery with privilege controls, clearing SRA and Ayinde risk because nothing leaves the firm.
CRM
Client and matter lifecycle managed on-prem, no matter record sent to a third party.
Compliance and Regulator Mode
Sealed audit and statute crosswalk so confidentiality control is demonstrable on demand.
Sovereign Meeting Note-Taker
Privileged client and matter calls transcribed and summarised on-prem, each recording sealed.
See all eighteen on the sovereign services catalogue.
There are approximately 10,000 law firms regulated by the SRA, and Contract Review and Legal-Ops is a flagship studio where the confidentiality bar is absolute, so conversion intent is high. Pricing a serviceable slice of approximately 2,000 firms at the Team to Department blend gives a band of roughly 0.1 to 0.5 billion pounds of capital opportunity.
Measure value, cost and risk on hardware you control.
Money saved by cutting the single largest cost in legal, the document-review hours. Risk removed because privileged material never crosses a third-party boundary, clearing SRA and Ayinde privilege exposure. Time saved across drafting, due diligence, and matter handling.
Map the sovereign stack to your legal estate.
Briefings are for organisations weighing a sovereign, on-premises deployment. Tell us about your estate and we will walk the pack, the regulatory crosswalk, and the deployment that fits your estate.