Legal and HR private AI
Before your team uses AI, choose where confidential records are processed.
The same legal strategy, employee notes, contracts, and HR context can be sent to a public AI cloud, or processed on your private hosted AI server protected by encrypted VPN.
For law firms, HR teams, executives, and operations leadersOption A
Public AI Cloud
Using a browser-based public AI service can send prompts, attachments, and confidential business context to third-party AI infrastructure in the public cloud.
Public Internet → AI vendor cloud
ChatGPTOpenAI
ClaudeAnthropic
GeminiGoogle
GrokxAIPrivacy considerations
- Consumer AI settings and retention vary by product and plan.
- Some providers use chats for service improvement unless controls are changed.
- Confidential legal or HR records can create reputational and business risk if copied into the wrong tool.
Convenience vs. privacy: where is your risk tolerance?
Your confidential business records
§ Legal strategy and contracts
◆ HR, employee, and investigation notes
Same data. Different processing destinations.
Choose the processing destination.
Option B
SterlingPRIVATE.ai
Your organization uses a dedicated hosted AI server — managed by Sterling, connected by VPN, and not shared with other organizations.
Encrypted VPN → dedicated private server
Your private hosted AI server
A dedicated environment for your organization — like an extension of your own network.
✓Dedicated to your organization
✓VPN connected
✓Managed by Sterling
Not a shared public AI website. Legal and HR records are processed on your private server.