The problem: the answer exists. It is in a contract, a manual or a letter — somewhere in a folder you would rather not spend an afternoon in.
The template
Answer this from the files in that folder only. Quote the lines you used and tell me which document each one came from. If the answer is not in there, say so plainly — do not fill the gap with a guess.
Say it once to your assistant — yours has a name from the first day, and you can change it — and it holds for every question after that.
The two rules that make it trustworthy
"From those files only" stops your assistant from smoothing over a gap with something that merely sounds right. "Say so plainly" gets you the honest miss. The first time you hear "that is not in your documents," you will trust every answer that follows a great deal more.
The objection that answers itself
People stop at the same spot: "I am not uploading my files anywhere." That is the right instinct, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a soothing one. "Anywhere" is the word doing the work: it means somewhere with terms you cannot see. So here are ours, written down. Your folder is loaded once, by hand, under a written scope, into an encrypted space of your own in our private cloud on Amazon Web Services — scoped to you and nobody else, never pooled, never shared, never used to train anyone else's model. Every answer quotes the file it came from, so you can check it against your own record. A complete copy of your material is yours on request, at any time, and when the service ends, your space and everything in it is deleted, confirmed to you in writing. The objection is not in the way of this idea. It is a list of terms, and ours are in writing.
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Updated September 2026.
Your own AI. Your own material. One assistant, yours alone.
$9,995 the first year — everything included. $5,995 each year after. The first year costs more because it contains the preparation — your archive prepared and loaded by hand under a written scope, and your assistant built on it — as well as the first year of the service; every year after is the service running.
Or add the Archive Assessment first — $1,950, credited in full
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