Your files, readwithout leaving Canada
A lawyer receives an 80-page shareholders’ agreement the day before a closing. An accountant receives three years of financial statements for a due diligence. The tool your provider or your team puts in place has a language model read those documents. With Agent Libre behind it, that model is served in Canada for a fixed monthly amount, and the text sent is never used to train a model.
Talk about your filesWhat professional secrecy requires of an AI provider
Three requirements come up before a firm hands a file to a tool that calls a model.
Naming the provider to the client who asks
During the sale of a business, the buyer asks for the list of third parties who had access to the data room. The rules of professional orders and Law 25 require the firm to list the model’s provider, its country and what it keeps. A model served abroad through an intermediary makes that line hard to write.
Protecting secrecy all the way into the model
A litigation strategy, a draft will or a financial statement before publication passes through the model. If the model uses it for training or keeps it on a server, the firm has disclosed it. The firm’s policy must be able to say what happens to the text after the answer.
Charging the expense to files
An accounting firm produces a large share of its returns between February and April. A usage-based bill climbs during those three months, and then has to be spread across hundreds of files. The firm’s controller wants an amount known in advance.
What Agent Libre changes behind your tool
Your contract review tool, your assistant on files or your in-house script calls a language model. That model can come from Anthropic, OpenAI or Agent Libre. Your provider or your team changes the address and the key in the tool; the professionals’ work does not change.
An amount per month, held for twelve months
You reserve a processing speed for the firm. The amount is written in the contract for twelve months and is revised at renewal from measured consumption, up or down. The bill does not move with the month’s workload.
The whole file in a single request
A credit agreement with its five schedules, or three years of financial statements with their notes, is read in full in a single request. When the tool comes back to the same file on the next turn, re-reading what was already sent costs nothing more.
Personal information masked before the model
Social insurance numbers, account numbers, passwords left in an attachment: Agent Libre’s gateway blocks or masks them before they reach the model, under rules the firm chooses. The rules are described on the Governance page.
Data in Canada
The model is hosted and operated in Canada, on Agent Libre’s servers, with no call to the model’s publisher or to a foreign provider. The text sent is not kept after the answer.
What your provider’s tool does with the model
Contract review
Commercial lease, shareholders’ agreement, supply contract: the tool flags the clauses that depart from the firm’s template, compares the version received with the version sent and points out the dates to watch. See Document processing.
Search across files
A partner wants to know what the firm has already argued on a non-compete clause, or what position was taken in a similar tax file. The assistant, put in place by your provider or your team, answers from closed files and internal notes, with a pointer to the document. See Assistant on internal documents.
Engagement follow-up
After a meeting or an email exchange with the client, the tool drafts the report, updates the list of deadlines, limitation periods and filing dates included, and prepares the summary for the timesheet. See Project management.
What each team decides before connecting the tool
Four decisions belong to the firm. They are made before the tool is connected.
Decide which documents the tool may produce without review, an internal summary or a list of deadlines for example, and which always go through a professional before reaching the client: an opinion, an advice letter, a deed. The model does not make that distinction for you, and professional liability stays with the signatory.
List what the gateway must mask before sending to the model, and what the tool needs to see to do its work: a social insurance number does not help review a lease, the names of the parties are sometimes needed. Then record Agent Libre, its country and the absence of retention in your register of providers; that entry is what you show the client who asks where the file goes.
Decide whether the month’s amount is charged to overhead or split among practice groups. If you split it, ask your provider or your team for one access key per group: the gateway’s reports then give each group’s share, with no calculation at month end.
Check that the contract review tool or the assistant lets you choose the model’s address and key. Some cloud tools impose their own model; in that case, the question of where the data is processed goes to the tool’s publisher, and Agent Libre cannot change it.
What we get asked on this topic
Is the model trained on our files?
No. The text sent is used to produce the answer, then erased. It is never used to train a model, and you can write that as is in your policy and your engagement letters.
How do we know whether the model reads our documents as well as the one we use today?
By comparing on your own documents. Pick a few closed files whose outcome is known, have the tool review them with both models for a week and compare the clauses flagged and the errors missed. Public evaluations cover code and general tasks; they say nothing about a commercial lease drafted in French.
What happens when the whole firm sends files at the same time, during tax season or the week of a closing?
Requests beyond the reserved speed wait their turn, with no cut-off and no fee. The month’s amount does not change. If the wait comes back at every peak, the reserved speed is reviewed at renewal, from what the reports measured.
Does a 300-page file fit in a single request?
In most cases, yes, with its schedules. How many pages that represents varies with text density and language. Beyond the limit, your provider’s tool or your team splits the file and processes it in several parts.
What does Agent Libre see of our files?
The text the tool sends, for the time it takes to produce the answer. The gateway’s logs record which application called which model, at what time and with what volume; they do not contain the text of the requests, and your firm alone reads them.
See also
Document processing
What a model served in Canada changes behind a tool that reads documents by the thousand, and what each team decides before connecting it.
Project management
Minutes, risk register, status report: what a model served in Canada changes behind your project tool, and what each team decides before connecting it.
What “hosted in Canada” actually means
What hosting in Canada changes for a firm bound by professional secrecy, and what it does not change.
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