Your own assistant vs the AI apps
An app is a place you visit. This one is yours alone. The apps are genuinely good — that deserves saying. But renting one is a bill with no finish line, everything you tell it lives on that company’s computers under that company’s terms, and it begins every conversation knowing nothing about you. This is the other shape entirely: one assistant, built on your own material and run entirely by us, in your own encrypted space in our private cloud on Amazon Web Services, answering from your own records with the source cited. And for a professional the difference is sharper still — an app is a place you visit, and a place your client files must not go.
The price story, honestly
Renting the apps
- $40–60/mo for a typical household’s two or three tools; $100+/mo for a power user
- The bills run forever — there is no year when they stop
- Stop paying and it all disappears: the history, the routines, the answers
- Five years on, there is still nothing of yours: no memory, no record, no assistant that knows you
Beginning the service
- $9,995 the first year — everything included. $5,995 each year after. Before it, if you like, the Archive Assessment: $1,950, credited in full.
- The preparation, the care and the strongest commercial models — all inside the one fee, with no charge for using it more
- One price for the household or the whole office — never per seat
- One assistant, yours alone — built on your own material, in your own encrypted space, and deleted, confirmed in writing, when you leave
That last line is the whole difference. Your assistant is built on your own records, its answers cite them, and what it learns about you serves you and nobody else. Renting an app can never be that, because the app was never built on anything of yours.
Where your information actually goes
Your space in our private cloud is yours alone. Every record in it is scoped to you, encrypted at rest with keys held in AWS KMS, and the stores that hold it have no public endpoints — there is no address on the open internet where your archive can be asked for. Here is where each kind of work happens, and whose terms it sits under.
| What you are doing | Where the work happens | Whose terms it sits under |
|---|---|---|
| Talking with your assistant | Your own encrypted space, in our private cloud on Amazon Web Services | Ours, in writing: scoped to you alone, never pooled, never shared |
| Asking questions of your own files | The same space — answers cite the record they came from | Ours, in writing: never used to train anyone else’s model |
| Your assistant reaching its models | Through Amazon Bedrock, inside the same boundary, over AWS private networking — not the public internet | What the models see is not used to train them and not shared with the companies that make them |
| Sending and booking | Only after your approval — approvals expire, and everything is logged | Yours: nothing moves without your yes |
| Typing into a public AI app | That company’s computers | That company’s — and they change when it says so |
For a professional, the table above is the whole case
Courts have held that putting client material into public AI tools can waive privilege — the material was disclosed to a third party under that provider’s terms. Covered health records carry obligations of their own. So here is where our work happens, said plainly: your practice’s material sits in a space scoped to your practice alone, in our private cloud on Amazon Web Services, under a written scope you hold — encrypted, with no public endpoints, and with what your assistant sends to its models never used to train them and never shared with the companies that make them. Every consequential action waits for your approval, and everything is logged. The apps also bill per seat, per person, forever; the service is one price for the household or the whole office — no per-person charge, ever. That is why law firms and physician-owned practices each have a door of their own. The practice door →
Do the apps do anything better?
For years the honest answer was that the newest models lived in the apps and nothing private could match them. That trade is gone: the strongest commercial models are part of this service — chosen by us for each kind of work, reached over private networking inside our own cloud boundary, and paid for out of the same fee. So the thinking is comparable, and we will not pretend otherwise in either direction. What differs is everything around the thinking. An app begins every conversation knowing nothing about you, and keeps what you type under its own terms. Your assistant answers from your own records, with citations, in a space that is yours alone. You are not choosing between them. You are choosing where your life is kept.
What happens if I cancel?
The service is annual. Stop in writing at any time and it takes effect at the end of the paid year; a year confirmed in our letter is final. You can ask for a complete copy of your material at any time — not only on the way out — and you receive it. Then your space and everything in it is deleted, and the deletion is confirmed to you in writing. Nothing about you stays behind. Cancel a rented app and you walk away with nothing.
Which one is you?
Stay with an app if you dip into AI now and then, you are not handing it anything private, and a very good stranger is all you need. Begin the first year if the same work comes back week after week, if that work runs on your own papers — or your clients’ — if you care whose terms your material sits under, or if you simply want an assistant built on your own material rather than on everyone’s.
Not sure? Write to us first — if an app truly serves you better, we will say so, in writing, before our letter confirms a year. All the comparisons
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
You order and pay at checkout; we write back within days — a decline returns every dollar, and until our letter confirms the year you may withdraw in writing. From that letter the year is final, and the year begins on the date the letter names. Prefer to write to us first?