For law firms

The firm's whole archive, answering in seconds. And it never leaves the office

Ten years of matters, contracts and memos sit in the file system. Finding a position means remembering who wrote it. Perimeter reads the firm's own work product and answers with the source paragraph — on an appliance in your office. No cloud is involved.

Bring one question your team spent an afternoon on — we show how it gets answered

Perimeter · firm archiveegress: 0 bytes
network: disconnectedarchive: indexedaccess: per matter
Find our position in the 2023 supply dispute — the argument on late-delivery penalties.
The firm argued that the penalty cap survives termination of the framework agreement. The position is set out in the defence and developed in an internal memo.Matter 2023-041 · Defence, §4.2 · memo_penalty-cap_rev3.docx, p. 2
Every answer cites the matter, the document and the paragraph.
The problem

The answer exists. Someone in the firm wrote it years ago

Written once

Every position the firm has argued lives in a brief, a memo or a matter file. It gets researched again because nobody can find it — billed hours spent rebuilding the firm's own work.

The archive problem
One partner

is often the only index to a decade of matters. When that partner is in court, on leave or at another firm, the search stops.

Institutional memory, single point of failure
0 clouds

your matter files and client correspondence should ever visit. Professional secrecy is not a policy preference. It is the profession.

The reason this is an appliance
Professional secrecy

A cloud upload is a disclosure. Treat it like one

Client files are privileged. A cloud AI subscription puts them on infrastructure you do not control, under law you did not choose. That is not a compliance footnote. It is a professional risk with your name on it.

Perimeter removes the question instead of arguing it. The appliance sits in your office and makes zero external calls — verifiably, on your own firewall. There is no transfer to assess, no processor to vet, no foreign statute to read before you can use AI on your own files.

What stays inside

We don't replace your legal database. We search what it can't touch

Your research database covers the law. Perimeter searches YOUR matters, contracts and memos — the material you can't upload anywhere. It reads, retrieves and answers with sources. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Matters and pleadings

Defences, claims, positions argued and won. "Have we taken this point before?" — answered with the matter and the paragraph.

Contracts and memos

Templates, negotiated clauses, internal memos. The firm's accumulated judgement, searchable by meaning rather than filename.

Client correspondence

Advice given, positions taken, deadlines agreed — cited by letter and date, visible only to the lawyers cleared for the matter.

How the pilot works

We agree the pass mark before we start

01 · Baseline

Your archive, your questions

We fix a reference set: real questions from closed matters, with answers your lawyers know are in the files. That is the benchmark — yours, not ours.

02 · The gate

A threshold, in writing

We agree the acceptance threshold on your set — share of questions answered with the correct source, first try. Miss the gate, and there is no licence invoice. Only the pilot work is paid.

03 · The numbers

Measured, not claimed

Answer quality on your archive, time to find against the old way, access rights verified matter by matter. The same numbers go to the partners' meeting.

Send this to your IT

One page for your IT lead or DPO: architecture, zero-egress proof, EU hardware supply chain, DPIA template. Built to survive the review without a meeting.

Open the security brief
Pricing for law firms

Sized for a firm, not a corporation

Starter
from €8k
Setup · licence from €6k/yr

One practice group, one archive. A serious pilot, honestly priced. Most firms start here.

Fits most mid-size firms Professional
from €20k
Setup · licence from €15k/yr

Archive search for the whole firm, access rights per matter, training included, load-tested for your users.

Enterprise
from €50k
Setup · licence from €40k/yr

Multiple offices, heavier hardware, priority SLA.

Support is 20% a year and includes model updates. Hardware at cost +15–20%, bought in the EU under your name. Full pricing

Questions from managing partners

Asked on real calls

Can access be restricted by matter or client?

Yes. Perimeter follows the access structure you define — by user, group or matter. An information barrier in your firm is a barrier in the index. The setup is verified during the pilot, not promised.

How does it handle conflicts of interest?

The same way your file permissions should: a lawyer can only search what they are permitted to open. A screened lawyer gets no results from the walled matter — and no hint that a result exists.

Can our IT audit it?

Yes. The architecture fits on one page, the zero-egress claim can be checked on your own firewall, and code and architecture review is available on request. Send them the security brief.

Does it replace our legal research database?

No. Your research database covers the law. Perimeter covers your firm — the matters, contracts and memos you cannot upload anywhere. The two answer different questions.

What if it answers incorrectly?

Every answer carries its citation — matter, document, paragraph. A lawyer checks the source, not the summary. And the pilot measures answer quality on your own archive before any licence exists.

Do we need anyone technical on staff?

No. The box arrives configured; training is two sessions. Support covers updates — including model updates — for the year.

Next step

One question. Twenty minutes. The source paragraph

A short call, no slides. Bring a question your team spent hours on last month — we show how Perimeter answers it on a sample archive, and how the pilot proves it on yours.

Baseline, gate, numbers · measured on your matters
Matter files stay inside · zero external calls, verifiable
Live in 30 days · box, setup, two training sessions