Guides

Practical, step-by-step walkthroughs for using AI on legal documents without sending client data to the cloud. More guides (PDF tools, safe prompting, troubleshooting) are on the way.

▶ WatchWatch how Lex Redactus works

A short video walkthrough of the full workflow — detect PII in a legal document, review it, and redact it into reversible tokens, all offline.

How to redact a document before using ChatGPT or Claude

The full safe-AI workflow in five minutes: detect PII locally, export a tokenized copy, use the AI, then decode the answer back to real names.

Reviewing detected PII before you export

What Lex Redactus detects, how to add a missed name, remove a false positive, and why human review is the safety gate.

Cloud vs. local AI for lawyers — a practical framework

Which matters are cloud-safe, which need redact-first, which call for a local model, and what belongs in no AI at all — a four-tier decision framework.