Article 321 of the Swiss Criminal Code makes negligence alone enough to attract liability, and the duty attaches to the channel. Counsel Desk is built around that.
A client document in a public chatbot is privileged material sent to a party you have no contract with.
Answers come from your own contracts and closed matters, with a reference to the passage used.
Never a shared product. One instance per firm, on Swiss infrastructure, operated by us.
Every query logged. Matters walled off. Client due diligence answered with a document.
Six things your team would use in the first week.
One question, in plain language, answered from everything the firm has already written.
Every reply points back to the document and the passage it came from, so you can check it.
Each conversation belongs to a matter, and a matter only ever reads its own files.
Who asked what, and which documents were touched. Exportable whenever a client asks.
German, French, Italian and English, with the legal vocabulary of each kept intact.
Not a seat in a shared product. Your firm's own environment, in Switzerland, run by us.
Three moments where it changes how the day goes.
Ask how the firm has handled something before. What comes back is an answer with the clause underneath it, drawn from your own closed matters rather than from the open internet.
Pull the clause your partners actually use, in the wording they actually use it in. The house style is whatever is already sitting in your precedents.
When a due diligence questionnaire lands, the answer is a record rather than a reassurance. Every query and every document access is logged and can be handed over.
Nothing leaves your instance. Nothing is sent to a public model. Nothing trains anything.
Precedents, contracts and closed matters. Single files can be dropped in for one session, then discarded.
Text is indexed for meaning inside your instance, in your database, in Switzerland.
German, French, Italian or English. Scoped to one matter, so it only reads what that matter may see.
With the source document and passage, so it checks in seconds. The query lands in the audit log.
What actually differs when a lawyer asks a tool about a client matter.
| Capability | Counsel Desk | Public chatbot | General legal AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the data sits | Switzerland | United States | Vendor's choice |
| Dedicated instance per firm | |||
| Answers from your own precedents | Sometimes | ||
| Citation back to the source passage | |||
| Matter separation and access control | Varies | ||
| Exportable audit log | Varies | ||
| Your content kept out of training | Check the contract | ||
| Secrecy addendum on offer | Varies |
Based on the routes recognised in the Swiss Bar Association's guidance of February 2025. Any tool can be configured well or badly; this compares the default posture of each.
You pick no provider and manage no server. We build a dedicated instance on Swiss infrastructure, operate it and patch it, and you hold the keys.
Talk to us→A few honest notes, so nothing about this is a surprise later.
It drafts and retrieves. It does not verify. A lawyer still reads the output before it goes anywhere, and the work stays yours.
Sovereign hosting means a considered choice of model. It handles drafting, retrieval and review comfortably, and we will tell you where it is not the right tool.
The contract, the secrecy addendum, Swiss residency and access control belong together. We would rather set all of it up than most of it.
Whether to tell a client, and what your internal directive on AI says, remain partnership decisions. We can hand you the paperwork for our side.
The objections we hear most, answered plainly.
On Swiss infrastructure, in your firm's own instance. Documents, index, audit log and backups all stay in Switzerland. Nothing is replicated elsewhere.
Nobody in normal operation. We run the infrastructure, not your matters. Administrative access is restricted and logged, and can be removed entirely if you would rather hold the keys alone.
The answer is the counterparty, not a legal argument. Swiss infrastructure operated by a Swiss company, with no US parent that could be compelled.
No. Your documents answer your own questions and nothing else. No training, no sharing between firms, no human review of prompts.
It puts you on a route the Bar Association recognises and gives you the contract and audit trail to show it. It does not remove the duty. You still decide what goes in and check what comes out.
We will show you the real infrastructure numbers for your firm's size. The licence price is not fixed yet, which is part of why we are speaking to a small number of firms first.
You take your documents and we delete the instance. What goes in is your own files and what comes out is exportable text, so there is no format holding you in.
Built by our own team in Switzerland. You speak to the people designing it, not to a reseller.
We are selecting a small number of Swiss firms to shape the first release. If secrecy is the reason your firm has not adopted AI, we would like to hear how you work.
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