How to Read a Legal AI Vendor's Sub-Processor List
What a sub-processor list actually discloses, and the five things to check before you approve an AI vendor for privileged documents.
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Notes on AI, confidentiality, and document work in law firms.
Practical, plainly written articles from the team behind Vorticel — how grounded AI works, what to ask a vendor before uploading privileged material, and how small firms get real value from their own documents.
How a Sync Agent Automates Document Uploads for Law Firms
A sync agent watches your firm's file storage and uploads new documents to Vorticel automatically, so nobody has to remember to do it by hand.
Read the article →How to Prep for a Deposition With AI Document Search
How litigation teams use grounded AI search over their own case files to build a faster, more thorough deposition outline.
Read the article →Where Your Uploaded Documents Go in a Legal AI Tool
The original file never leaves encrypted storage. Here is exactly what does leave, which vendors receive it, and how to verify the claim yourself.
Read the article →What Should a Compliance Reviewer Check Before Approving Legal AI
The four things a compliance reviewer should verify before approving an AI research tool for privileged documents, and where to find the answers.
Read the article →How Vector Embeddings Power Search in Legal AI Tools
Keyword search finds the word. Embeddings find the meaning. Here is the mechanism behind grounded AI search, explained without the marketing language.
Read the article →Grounded AI vs. General Chatbots for Legal Research
General chatbots answer from training data. Grounded AI answers only from your firm's own files, with a citation to the page. Here is what that trade-off actually costs and buys you.
Read the article →How to Onboard a Paralegal Team on AI Research Software
A practical, week-by-week plan for getting a paralegal team onto an AI research tool without wasted seats or a confused first week.
Read the article →How to Compare Two Contract Drafts for Real Changes
Track changes breaks on renumbered clauses and drifted definitions. Here is a question-by-question comparison workflow that catches both, with page citations.
Read the article →Questions to ask an AI vendor before uploading client documents
The seven questions a firm should get in writing before privileged documents leave the building, and what a good answer looks like for each.
Read the article →How to run a two-week AI pilot at a small law firm
A day-by-day plan for a small firm to pilot an AI document tool in two weeks and decide with evidence instead of a demo.
Read the article →What grounded AI means for legal document research
How retrieval-based answers work, why a citation to document and page changes the workflow, and where a general chatbot falls short for legal research.
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