Law firms and notaries
Professional secrecy doesn't stop at the AI.
AI can take the reading off your team: contract drafts compared with your playbook, documents redacted, dictations transcribed. Run by Meow on servers in Switzerland, tested on your own documents first, with someone at the firm deciding what leaves.
You talk to Guillermo Pages, who builds your AI.
The question first
Can a law firm put client files into ChatGPT? Professional secrecy and AI
The short answer: professional secrecy covers everything a client entrusts to you, and it doesn't end with the case. Handing it to an AI provider needs a solid basis: the client's consent, or a provider you can hold to your secrecy the way you hold your own staff. Accounts that people open on their own give you neither.
What could it cost me?
- 3 years
The maximum custodial sentence for a lawyer or notary, or their staff, who reveals a secret entrusted to them or learned in their work (art. 321 SCC). Prosecuted on complaint; the client's consent removes the offence.
- Your licence
For lawyers under the Lawyers Act, a breach can lead to a fine of up to CHF 20,000, a ban on practising for up to two years, or a permanent ban (art. 17 LLCA).
- US law
US providers can be required to hand data they control to US authorities, even when it is stored in Switzerland (CLOUD Act).
From the guide checked against the law on 30 September 2026. Read the whole guide
Where the reading time goes
Each of these is a guide with a checklist: the work AI can take on, and what to check first.
Contract review against your own playbook
An AI that reads the other side's draft on servers in Switzerland
Blacking out names
Redacting documents with an AI that stays in Switzerland
Dictation and transcription in Switzerland
Reports and minutes without the audio going abroad
Confidential translation
Client documents translated without leaving Switzerland
Ask your own files
A private AI search for your firm's documents
AI meeting notes
Can you record your clients?
Four ways to start
Fixed prices, fixed scope. Each step tells you whether the next one is worth it.
Workshop: AI and client confidentiality
Half a day at your office, up to 15 people
CHF 3'800
Anywhere in Switzerland
- Before: an anonymous check of which AI tools your team already uses
- What may go into which tool under data protection law, the rules of your profession and your client contracts
- A private model and a public chatbot, side by side, on realistic files
- After: your AI policy drafted, a one-page rule sheet and five uses ranked by value and risk
Proof first
Private AI test on your documents
One workflow, about three weeks
CHF 9'800
Credited against a deployment ordered within three months
- 30 to 50 of your real documents: client emails, contracts, statements, KYC files
- Read on a GPU server at Meow's office in Switzerland: no cloud provider in between
- Two or three open models, scored against answers checked with you
- A report with every score and error, the cost of running it, a go or no-go, and written confirmation that your documents were deleted
Up to 10 people? The compact test runs the same method on 20 documents and two models, with a shorter report: CHF 4'900.
Book a call about itFile sweep
A one-off job with a deadline
CHF 7'500 + CHF 30 per file
300 files: about CHF 16'500
- A first pass over the files you already hold, read in Switzerland
- For a new legal duty, a review backlog or an archive to index
- Every result linked to its page; exceptions go to your team
- Scans are read too, page by page
Private AI in operation
The workflow from the test, run for you
From CHF 24'000
Then from CHF 2'900 a month, plus infrastructure at cost
- In Infomaniak's Swiss cloud, on Meow's servers in Switzerland or at your premises
- A person approves what leaves; every step is recorded
- Monitoring and model updates, with the test run again after each update
- Connected to the tools your team uses: email, Microsoft 365, your document system
3 → 9emails of 20 fully right, in English: the same 32B model, once the rules were written into its instructions. What a scored test looks like: 20 client emails, four models
Prices in CHF, excluding VAT.
How the work is run
- Where your documents are read
- During a test: on a GPU server at Meow's office in Switzerland, with no cloud provider in between, then deleted with a written confirmation. In operation: in Infomaniak's Swiss cloud, on Meow's servers in Switzerland or at your premises.
- A person decides
- The AI drafts, sorts and flags. Anything that leaves the firm, or changes a register, waits for someone on your team.
- Who runs it
- Meow, a Swiss company and Infomaniak Partner. From the first call, you deal with the person who builds and runs your AI.
Questions firms ask first
Where are our documents during the test?
On a GPU server at Meow's office in Switzerland, under an NDA signed before anything is sent. They are deleted at the end, and you receive a written confirmation.
Who sees them?
Only Guillermo Pages, who runs the test. The models run on Meow's own hardware: no AI provider receives the documents.
We have an IT provider, or a group IT department.
A workshop or a test is a contained piece of work: no access to your systems, no software to install. Its report gives your IT what it needs to decide on the next step.
Which documents work?
PDFs, Word and Excel files, emails and scans. Scans are read page by page by a vision model; their quality shows in the scores.
What happens after the test?
If the scores are good enough for you, the workflow goes into operation, with the test's price credited if you order within three months. If they aren't, the report says why, and that is where it stops.
How is a file sweep priced?
CHF 7'500 to set it up on a sample of your files, then CHF 30 per file. 300 files come to about CHF 16'500, excluding VAT.
Who is behind Meow?
Guillermo Pages, who founded Meow and builds and runs its private AI. Meow is a Swiss company and an Infomaniak Partner; its servers are in Switzerland.
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