| Confidentiality levels with a fully local mode |
Built, in alpha testing |
Each firm chooses Maximum, Enhanced or Standard. At Maximum nothing leaves the firm's server: the code refuses every outside call. Fully local written answers are in development; until then Maximum returns cited passages. |
Confidentiality is a duty, and some matters cannot leave the building at all. |
LexisNexis and Harvey state that their AI products are hosted in Australia. In the public material we read for the AI research products listed here, we could not find a mode that answers without leaving the firm's own server. LexisNexis Australia, 18 March 2025 Clayton Utz, 11 September 2025 |
| Per-firm encryption and keys |
In development |
Client text is sealed by the application with a data key per firm, so a database dump or a backup shows no client text. Being rolled out step by step; client names, questions and answers are done. |
A breach of one store should not expose every firm's work, and erasing a firm should be final. |
We could not find public detail at this level for the products reviewed. |
| Australian residency |
Planned |
The cloud profile is designed to keep firm data in an Australian region; the local modes keep it on the firm's own server. No production hosting is running yet. |
Firms must be able to say where client data lives. |
Not unique: LexisNexis (from March 2025) and Harvey (by September 2025, per a customer's announcement) state Australian hosting for their AI products. Our difference is residency plus the fully local mode. LexisNexis Australia, 18 March 2025 Clayton Utz, 11 September 2025 |
| A security product inside the suite |
In development |
AegisIQ is built to watch the platform, tell each firm about threats to it and send a monthly report. The firm notices and the report are built on our test server; the detection rules are not yet live. It defends only and never counter-attacks. |
Law firms are targets; the OAIC counted 81 notifications from legal, accounting and management services in 2025. |
We could not find, among the legal research and practice management vendors reviewed, one that supplies a security monitoring product to its firms. Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, 6 July 2026 |
| Cited answers rendered to AGLC4 by code |
Built, in alpha testing |
Footnotes are built by code from records of the sources actually retrieved, to the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, with pinpoints. The model never types a citation. |
A footnote that names a source the system never read is the failure courts keep seeing. |
Westlaw Precision Australia and Lexis+ AI describe AI research grounded in their own content. We could not find a public statement that their citations are rendered to AGLC4 by code. Thomson Reuters, 17 June 2024 LexisNexis Australia, 1 July 2025 |
| One application for research and practice |
In development |
PracticeIQ is the one application; research, corpus and security appear inside it, on the same matter code and identity. The matter link and PracticeIQ's research, drafts, documents and security screens run on our test server; the corpus views are planned. |
Practitioners think in matters, and context copied between tools leaks and drifts. |
Not unique in idea: Clio has acquired vLex, maker of the Vincent AI assistant, and LEAP and Smokeball put AI assistants inside the matter. Our difference is that the firm's confidentiality level governs research and practice alike. Clio, 30 June 2025 (completion reported 10 November 2025) LEAP, undated product page LawNext, July 2026 |
| Open APIs and command lines |
Built, in alpha testing |
LexIQ, CodexIQ and AegisIQ are built to be complete through a documented API and a command line, designed to need no screens of their own; LexIQ's current pages are being retired in favour of PracticeIQ. |
Larger firms and their IT providers need to test, script and audit what they buy. |
We did not assess other vendors' APIs and make no comparison. |
| Self-hosting editions |
Planned |
Linux, Microsoft and Azure, and Windows self-host editions, each with a provisioning application. The same software as the cloud. |
Some firms will not put client work in anyone else's cloud. |
Australian practice management has had on-premises products (FilePro was built as one). For the AI research products reviewed, we could not find a self-hosted edition. Legal IT Insider, August 2023 |
| Per-firm learning, only with consent |
Planned |
The system can learn a firm's way of working inside that firm's boundary, only after the firm's owner or administrator consents; what it learns stays with the firm unless the firm consents to share it. |
Learning that pools firms' data would break confidentiality by construction. |
We could not find a comparable public description for the products reviewed. |