Ermos AI for legal discovery.

Discovery is where matters drown their margins: thousands of documents, a deadline, and a review team reading cold. It is also the legal workflow AI helps most, and the one firms are least willing to push through a cloud service, because the material is privileged by definition. An Ermos unit runs the review inside your office, so the capability arrives and the brief never leaves.

How it works on the unit

1
Load the document set

The matter's documents are indexed on the unit over your own network. Nothing is uploaded anywhere, because there is no anywhere: processing happens on hardware in your office.

2
First-pass organisation

Ask for a chronology across the set, documents grouped by issue, or every reference to a person, entity or date range. Each answer cites the source documents.

3
Interrogate the set

Plain questions, in plain language: what did the parties say about the variation in March, which documents mention the guarantee, where do the accounts contradict the correspondence.

4
Your team verifies

Outputs are a first pass for solicitors to check against the sources, not a substitute for review. The citations make verification fast.

Why on-premise matters most here

Discovery material is privileged and confidential at industrial scale, and it frequently includes the other side's documents held under obligations. Transmitting it to a cloud AI service creates exactly the third-party disclosure question our privilege guide works through. On a no-egress unit the question does not arise: no third party receives anything, and your security team can point at the boundary.

What it changes in practice

A first chronology in hours instead of days, junior time spent verifying rather than reading cold, and a review that can be re-interrogated from a new angle at any point without re-reading the set. The unit keeps the matter's knowledge available for the life of the file.

Common questions

Is AI discovery review defensible for privileged material?
The distinctive risk with AI tools is transmission to a third party. On a no-egress unit there is no transmission, so the analysis reduces to the supervision and verification duties that apply to any delegated review. Solicitors check outputs against the cited sources before relying on them.
How large a document set can it handle?
Units are sized during scoping to your matter profile, and knowledge capacity can be added. Sets in the tens of thousands of documents are within the shape of what the hardware is built for.
Does it replace our litigation support platform?
No. It works over the documents you give it on your network as a review and interrogation layer. Court-format production and formal discovery workflows stay in your existing tools.

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