Ermos Edge
Introducing Ermos Edge. Sovereign AI, without the hardware.
Your practice already runs in the cloud. Your confidential work should still stay in Australia. Ermos Edge gives your business its own private AI, hosted for you in an Australian data centre, with your documents, your access boundaries and the evidence behind every answer held on your own instance.
Live in days. No hardware. No capital outlay.
The AI already inside your practice sends client work offshore.
The AI features built into practice management software run on general purpose models hosted overseas. They see one matter at a time. They keep no record you can inspect. And the professional guidance on this is not ambiguous: putting confidential client information into a publicly available AI system is treated as putting it in the public domain.
So most businesses do the sensible thing and ban AI for confidential work. Which means the work that would benefit most from it gets none of it.
Ermos Edge is the other answer. The confidential work stays in Australia, on an instance that belongs to your business, behind boundaries you set.
How it works
One private instance, in Australia, for your business alone.
01
Your documents, where they already are
Connect Google Drive, Microsoft 365 or your document system, or upload directly. Your documents, the search index and the embeddings sit on your instance in an Australian data centre.
02
Your boundaries, enforced not assumed
You decide which team sees which documents. The system applies that before anything reaches a model, so a permission cannot be talked around by asking the question a different way.
03
Your answers, with the evidence attached
Generation happens on Australian infrastructure. Every answer carries the excerpts it drew on, so checking it takes a glance rather than an investigation.
Plainly
Exactly what leaves your environment, and what never does.
Most AI vendors are vague about this. Here is the whole of it.
Stays on your instance
Always. Never sent.
- Your documents, as files
- Your search index
- Your access boundaries
- Your staff’s conversations
Sent when someone asks a question
These two things. Nothing else.
- The question itself
- Only the excerpts that person is permitted to see
Answered in Australia, then returned. Nothing is kept.
When someone asks a question, their instance finds the relevant excerpts from the documents that person is allowed to see, and sends those, with the question, to be answered. The answer comes back. The documents themselves are never sent. Your knowledge base is never transferred. Somebody without access to a matter cannot cause a single line of it to leave, because the boundary is applied before the question is answered, not after.
Generation is performed by an inference provider operating from a data centre in Australia. You are told who they are, they are named in your agreement, and they are contractually forbidden to keep your content, to train any model on it, or to pass it to anyone else.
We will not tell you nothing leaves.
On Ermos Edge, one provider in Australia processes each question and the excerpts that go with it. That is the honest description, and it is the difference between Edge and Ermos Dominion. If your business needs a system where nothing leaves at all, that is Ermos Dominion, where the model runs in your own office. Start on Edge and move up whenever you choose. Your data goes with you and nothing is rebuilt.
Capability
The same product our Dominion clients run.
Ermos Edge is not a reduced version. It is the same software as Ermos Dominion, hosted differently.
Ask across everything your business knows
Not one matter at a time. Ask a question and get an answer drawn from your whole body of work, limited to what the person asking is entitled to see.
Draft in your own house style
Build an Agent+ once and anyone can run it. A file note, an advice skeleton, a client summary, grounded in your own documents rather than a generic template.
Connect the systems you already use
Read live from Google Drive, your accounting system and other business systems, only when a question needs it, and only for the people you allow.
Every answer shows its working
Open any answer and see the excerpts behind it, with the document each came from. Verification is part of the interface rather than a separate job.
Boundaries between teams
Litigation, HR, partners, or whatever teams your business actually uses. Set once and applied to every question, every workflow and every connected system.
Oversight a principal can show
See who is using it, how often, and for what kind of work. Counts only. Ermos never sees the content of a question or an answer.
For regulated professions
Designed around the obligations your business already has.
These are your obligations, not ours, and nothing here removes them. What Edge changes is how much work they take.
- Keeping client information confidential
Your documents stay on your instance in Australia. Only the excerpts a person is entitled to see are ever used to answer their question, and the provider who answers it is named in your agreement and contractually barred from keeping or learning from your content.
- Reviewing the terms before using an AI tool with client information
You are given the chain to review: our agreement and the named provider. Your IT adviser is welcome to all of it.
- Verifying anything AI helped prepare
Unchanged, and we say so first. No AI tool removes this. Every Ermos answer carries the excerpts behind it so that checking is quick.
- Supervising how AI is used across the practice
Access boundaries that are enforced rather than promised, and usage reporting by person, so a principal can review without reading anyone’s work.
- Clients who require onshore handling
Your documents are held in Australia and answered in Australia. The answer is a place, not a policy.
This page describes how the product works. It is not legal advice, and it does not tell you what your professional obligations are. Your business should form its own view, and we are happy to talk to whoever advises you. Our compliance guides cover the published guidance in plain English.
The range
Two ways to run the same software.
Every Ermos product is the same platform. What changes is where the model runs and who can see your work. Start anywhere. Move when you need to, and your data moves with you.
Ermos Edge
Nothing leaves Australia.
- Hosted for your business in an Australian data centre
- Answered by a named Australian provider, under contract
- Live in days, no hardware, no capital outlay
- Best for businesses whose documents are already in the cloud
Ermos Dominion
Nothing leaves your building.
- An Ermos system installed in your own office
- Your hardware, your keys, and it can run with no internet at all
- Adds ErmosIQ, which adapts to your work over time, on your own machine
- Best for strict confidentiality policies and the most sensitive matters
Getting started
Don’t wait weeks, set up in days if not hours.
We talk about the work you would want it to do, where your documents live now, and which teams should see what. About an hour.
We set up your instance, connect your documents, and put your access boundaries in place with you. Days, not weeks.
A working session with the people who will use it, and the first Agent+ built for something your team actually does every week.
A single monthly fee per business. No setup fee, no hardware, no usage billing to watch.
Questions
The questions businesses ask us.
Is our information used to train AI?
Does any of our work go overseas?
So who can see our documents?
What about AI making things up?
Can our IT adviser review it before we commit?
Do we have to change our practice management system?
What if we later decide nothing should leave at all?
What does it cost?
Have the conversation confidentially.
An hour with us, under confidentiality, about the work you would want a private AI to do and whether Ermos Edge is the right place to start. No obligation, and we will tell you if a different product suits you better.