01 — The line

Douglas, Isle of Man

Est. datum 139122C

AI for confidentiality-bound firms

Nothing crosses this line.Not one file.

Your people are already using AI. The only real question is where your client information stops. We draw that boundary, prove where it is broken today, and build the thing that makes it hold — on your premises, on the island, in person.

Aerial view looking straight down at a coastline where a wooded headland meets the sea along one hard, irregular edge.
Fig. 01 — a coastline is a boundary everybody can see. Yours isn't.
02 — What crosses it today

It is already being crossed.

Nobody asked for permission. A senior associate had forty minutes and a sixty-page agreement, so the agreement went into a chatbot. It worked. It will happen again on Monday, and you will not be told. Each of these has left a building like yours.

  • A sixty-page shareholders' agreement, pasted in for a plain-English summary. ← retention terms unread
  • A client's full name, date of birth and source of wealth, inside a prompt asking for a risk narrative. ← jurisdiction unknown
  • Board minutes, uploaded to draft the action list before Friday. ← no audit trail
  • A schedule of beneficiary distributions, to "just check the maths". ← personal account, personal laptop
  • The counterparty's name in a deal that has not been announced. ← no way to recall it
  • A suspicious activity report, rewritten for tone. Unredacted. ← not reportable until it is

None of this is malice. All of it is unrecorded. Banning it moves it onto phones — the line does not disappear, it just stops being yours to draw.

03 — The line, named

One boundary. Drawn once. Visible to everyone.

The work can come from anywhere. The information cannot. That is the whole principle, and most firms have never once written it down.

Outside — general Statute, guidance, drafting ability, published data. It arrives at your building. It learns nothing from you.
Inside — yours Client files, matter history, correspondence, the judgement of your people. It stays on hardware you own, under access rules you set.
A green field with a farm track and a dead-straight fence line running to the horizon.
Fig. 02 — a fence is only a boundary because everyone can see where it runs.
04 — What we do

Find the breaks. Then make the line real.

01 / Two weeks / fixed price

The audit.

Two weeks. We sit with your teams and map how the work actually gets done — not how the manual says it does. We find where AI would save real hours, and we mark, precisely, every place confidential information is already crossing the line. You keep the prioritised plan whether or not you ever buy anything else from us.

02 / The flagship / on your premises

The Simple AI vault.

A confidential AI appliance that lives in your building. Your entire business knowledge, indexed and access-controlled per person, consumable by the tools your staff already trust — with the data never once leaving the premises. One way in. One way out. Both of them yours.

Priced on scope Inside the vault
  • A.Hardware you own, in a room you control.
  • B.Per-person, per-matter access — the same rules as your file room.
  • C.Every prompt and every answer logged, and exportable.
  • D.Works with the tools you already pay for, not instead of them.
A stark white cube building beside a still reflecting pool, with a single dark opening at ground level.
Fig. 03 — one building. One way in. Everything else is wall.
05 — Inside / outside

What stays. What genuinely doesn't need to.

Confidentiality work fails when it is absolute, because absolute rules get quietly ignored. So here is the honest split — the things that must never leave your premises, and the things that were never yours to protect in the first place.

Outside the line

Doesn't need to be inside

  • Public statute, guidance and case law
  • The model's ability to write a clean sentence
  • Published market and company data
  • Signed, checked software updates
  • Us — we work to your access rules too
Inside the line

Stays on your premises

  • Client files, matter history, correspondence
  • The index the AI reads from
  • Every prompt and every answer, logged
  • Access control, per person and per matter
  • The audit trail your regulator will ask for

And where a tool you already pay for will do the job without crossing the line, we will say so, in writing, and we will not sell you a vault you don't need.

06 — How it works

Four marks along the line.

01 — Assess

Assess

Two weeks, fixed price. Interviews, a look at the real workflows, and a written map of where hours are lost and where information is leaving. You keep the plan regardless.

02 — Adopt

Adopt

The safe wins first, on licences you already hold where they will do the job. Written rules your staff can actually follow, because they were built around how they already work.

03 — Expand

Expand

The vault goes in. Your knowledge indexed, access-controlled per person, and connected to the tools your teams already trust — with nothing crossing the boundary.

04 — Run

Run

We stay. A fractional in-house AI function on retainer — monthly, on the island, in your office, with a named person who answers the phone.

07 — Why us

Four things that stop at the line and don't cross it.

  • i.

    On the island, in person

    We come to your office in Douglas. Not a portal, not a ticket queue — a person who has stood in the room where the work happens.

  • ii.

    Confidentiality first, not as an add-on

    We start from the obligation you are already under and design backwards from it. Every recommendation states plainly what leaves the building, if anything does.

  • iii.

    Genuinely tool-agnostic

    If the licence on your desk already does it, we will tell you that and charge you for the two weeks, not the appliance.

  • iv.

    We build AI, we don't just talk about it

    We ship our own AI products. Everything we recommend has been run by us, at our own risk, before it is ever run at yours.

High-contrast black and white photograph of a glass building's sharp diagonal edge, with a single bird in flight beside it.
Fig. 04 — the edge is the whole structure.
08 — Pricing

Plainly, and in advance.

AI readiness & confidentiality audit

Two weeks, fixed price. A prioritised plan you keep whatever happens next.

from £1,450fixed

Ongoing AI partner

A fractional in-house AI function on retainer. Monthly, cancellable, no lock-in.

from £650per month

Simple AI vault

The confidential AI appliance, installed and maintained on your premises.

Priced on scopeafter the audit

Indicative only. Every figure here is a starting point, is confirmed in writing on the call before anything begins, and moves with the size of your firm and the scope of the work. We would rather tell you the number early than well.

09 — Next

Draw it before somebody else does.

Thirty minutes, no charge, no deck. Tell us how your team works and what keeps you awake about it. If the honest answer is that you don't need us yet, that is what you will hear.