Press and Investigative Journalism
Investigative desks and newsroom legal teams need to read across thousands of leaked documents, find the connection that breaks the story, and stand it up before publication. The cloud is barred for this work because uploading unredacted leak dumps to a third-party processor exposes confidential sources, hands a discoverable copy to a vendor, and can compromise privilege. Mickai brings every AI retrieval and analysis capability in-house onto hardware the newsroom owns, under keys it holds, air-gapped from the internet and cloud vendors. The documents never leave the building, no third party ever sees the source material, and what happens in the server room stays in the server room.
Investigative desks, newsroom legal teams and cross-border journalism collaborations handling confidential sources and leaked material.
Source anonymity and pre-publication legal risk make cloud processing of unredacted documents dangerous, because a third-party copy can expose a source or be compelled in disclosure.
Air-gapped retrieval, entity mapping and legal review run over the full unredacted corpus on hardware the newsroom owns, under keys it holds, independent of the internet and cloud vendors.
The connections behind the story are found inside the building and the investigation is never traced, because the documents never leave and no third party ever sees them.
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
Runs pre-publication legal review over the draft and the underlying documents in-house, flagging defamation, privilege and source-exposure risk before anything is filed, with the leak material never sent to an outside processor.
Executive BI
Builds the entity and relationship map across the corpus so editors can see how names, companies and transactions connect, surfacing the link that breaks the story without the analysis ever touching the cloud.
Compliance and Regulator Mode
Holds the data-handling and source-protection ruleset over the investigation and produces the access and processing record the newsroom needs to defend its methods, all on the customer's own hardware.
Sovereign Meeting Note-Taker
Captures source interviews and editorial conferences locally so sensitive briefings are transcribed and searchable on-premise rather than routed through a vendor transcription service.
CRM
Keeps the contact and source register inside the building, so the relationship between a journalist and a confidential source is never stored with or traceable through a third party.
See all eighteen on the sovereign services catalogue.
Investigative collaborations are working with ever larger leaked datasets while legal and source-protection pressure intensifies, yet the leading AI document-analysis tools are cloud-hosted and therefore off-limits for the most sensitive material. That gap leaves a clear opening for an air-gapped, on-premise capability that newsrooms, media groups and journalism foundations can adopt without surrendering custody of their sources.
Measure value, cost and risk on hardware you control.
Newsrooms get cloud-grade retrieval and entity analysis over unredacted leak dumps while removing the third-party cloud-exposure vector entirely; the connections to a story are found in-house, the source trail is never created at a vendor, pre-publication legal review happens against the real documents without exporting them, and the recurring cloud-processing spend for sensitive material is displaced. Physical and insider controls remain the newsroom's own responsibility.
Map the sovereign stack to your press and investigative journalism 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.