ZOE AI — Safe. Sovereign. System-bound.

Safe. Sovereign. System-bound.

Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Act 4
Act 5

Illustrative demonstration

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Act I · The ambush

Jimmy: Bob. They're buying us out, here's the term sheet, can you throw a draft together?

Bob: Right now? We're in THEIR OFFICE.

Jimmy: Perfect opportunity with everyone in the same room. You have 10 MINUTES.

Bob photographs the term sheet; the phone hands it to the laptop. Local transfer · no cloud.

Bob (thinking): Picture taken. Into the laptop.

Act II · Open the laptop, pull the plug

Bob (thinking): I don't trust their Wi-Fi. Going local.

Bob (thinking): Wi-Fi off. Let's go.

Act III · Local work, offline

ZOE: Looks like a term sheet. Let's mark the confidential data first.

ZOE: Marked. Nothing has left this laptop.

ZOE: Searching 35,263 vault files…

ZOE: Found 128 files on this client in your vault.

ZOE: Searching 2,500 of your firm's golden templates…

ZOE: Loaded your firm's merger agreement template and the conservative seller playbook.

Bob (thinking): Conservative to start. We'll see what they come back with.

ZOE: Bringing in the frontier AI for assistance on this one. I'll clean the data before the Wi-Fi comes back.

Act IV · The scrub and the round trip

ZOE: Data cleaned. Wi-Fi on.

MASKED INFORMATION · NO PII

ZOE: Masked term sheet, template, playbook. Draft the agreement.

Frontier AI: Drafting. Who is [ORG_5]? Send what you have.

ZOE: Searching the vault for Meridian Acquisition LLC. The cloud sees [ORG_5].

ZOE: Found 25 paragraphs across 6 files. Redacting.

ZOE: Sent.

Frontier AI: [ORG_5] is an empty shell. [ORG_6] is the parent, and it is not in this deal.

Frontier AI: Adding the parent [ORG_6] as a party, it should make reps and warranties along with its subsidiary [ORG_5].

Frontier AI: Sending suggestions.

ZOE: Received. Wi-Fi no longer needed. We're locked down.

ZOE: Applying draft edits.

Bob (thinking): They left the parent off the hook. Caught it.

Bob (thinking): Not bad for a first draft. But I need an anti-sandbagging clause.

ZOE: Searching your local secure clause library…

ZOE: Top 10 matches.

Bob (thinking): That's the one. Perfect.

ZOE: Inserting now.

Act V · Ten minutes are up

Jimmy: Ten minutes. Tell me you've got something.

Bob: Draft's done. And their shell left the parent off the hook. It's in now.

Jimmy: …How?

Bob: ZOE.

Why is ZOE different?

Standard cloud AI. Your client's file leaves your laptop and passes through your office router and your internet provider to the vendor's cloud, which hands it on to confidentiality services, a search index, frontier models, logging and evaluation, and more vendors behind them. Multiple hops: every system past the router is one you don't control. A chain of AI vendors is a larger attack surface than traditional cloud software.

ZOE AI. Everything runs inside your laptop, so the document never moves. What can travel, to a frontier model or to a high-end model on the firm's own server, is a masked question you approved. There are zero hops, and the document never leaves this box.

Five ways to put it to work.

It is one system with five ways in, and you decide how deep it goes.

Precision Due Diligence

This is the deep pass: every document is fully processed, every entity mapped and every relationship traced across the whole data room, with a citation behind each one.

Batch Due Diligence

This is the fast sweep: hundreds of documents are read and made searchable in a single sitting, so you know what is in the room before you decide where to spend the hours.

Clause Library

Search every clause your firm has ever negotiated, and ask by concept rather than by keyword, for example "a deadlock provision that favors the minority."

Template Finder

Find the document, not the folder: ask for "that asset purchase agreement from the Kestrel deal," and ZOE knows the one you mean.

Drafting in Word

Search for a clause and insert it without leaving your document, and use a smarter find and replace. ZOE flags defined terms that are used but never defined, broken cross-references and missing schedules, and every change arrives as a tracked change.

Measured, not claimed.

Signature pages are the hardest part of a deal document to get right, so it is the piece we hold to the strictest standard. Here is how ZOE performs against real contract signature blocks — all of it running on the laptop in front of you.

99%+

signature-page accuracy on real contract signature blocks

Internal benchmarks on ZOE's own evaluation set; not an audited result.

The number we care about most is the escape hatch score. When ZOE cannot read a field with confidence, it says so rather than inventing a name — because a confident wrong answer is far more dangerous to a client than a blank one.

Why ZOE.

Keep your data, and outsource just the most intensive AI “thinking.”

Reduce AI Expenses.

Frontier AI costs will always be sensitive to compute (token) economics, and token counts naturally balloon as AI gets “smarter.” ZOE AI uses your laptop hardware to “preprocess” local data (like a junior associate) so that just the more difficult issues (typically done by a partner) are tackled by the hyperscaler, reducing compute costs by up to 99%.

Protect Client Data.

Sophisticated clients are becoming more cautious about third-party AI vendors and datacenter security. ZOE AI keeps the vast majority of the client's data (including all client PII) local, on your system of choice. A ZOE AI user can calmly tell their client that “your documents never leave my laptop” while they leverage all of the benefits of modern legal tech powered by the world's best hyperscalers.

Protect Firm Data.

In today's AI driven world, your templates, preferred clauses, and negotiating playbooks represent the differentiators and competitive “moat” of your firm. When using ZOE AI, these precious assets that your firm has built over decades will stay on your laptop, desktop or server of choice. When you search for a preferred template or legal clause, the search is entirely local; when the hyperscaler (of your choice) helps you draft, the drafting flow sends just the skeleton it needs, about 90% fewer tokens, and sees small snippets of information on a need-to-know basis, when you allow it.

How does it work

What stays on the laptop

Everything that matters stays here: your clients' documents and the whole data room; your firm's clause library, precedents and templates, which are the work product the firm has built over decades and the competitive moat that sets it apart; and every matter's working files, with every confidential name, number and address ZOE marks in them.

Point ZOE at your precedents, whether ten of them or fifty thousand, and when you ask for a strong environmental rep you get your firm's best one, from the deal it actually closed in.

None of it leaves the laptop.

What happens with no internet

ZOE is air-gapped by default. Due diligence, the record of who signed and in what capacity, clause and template search, and drafting in Word all keep running with the connection off, which effectively creates an air-gap between your client's documents and the outside world. It works on a plane, in a data room with guest wifi you would never put client documents on, and in a courthouse basement with no signal at all.

16 GB: MacBook or Windows laptop
$0: Per document processed locally

Meet the Founder

William Wei

Founder & Lead Developer

ZOE AI Inc. is an NVIDIA Inception Program member.

William Wei is a Nvidia Certified Agentic AI Professional who began his career at San Francisco-based technology consulting firm Alt-Think, where he primarily worked on projects for Microsoft before attending Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

As an attorney, William quarterbacked dozens of public and middle-market business combinations totaling billions of dollars in mergers and acquisitions. He previously worked as part of a legal team that ranked first in the U.S. by volume in de-SPAC mergers and has served as outside general counsel to companies across transactional, tax, employment, and corporate matters, representing clients ranging from large public companies to high-net-worth individuals.

ZOE is built the way it is because William spent those years doing the work by hand — and because he knows precisely which shortcuts an attorney cannot ethically take. Every design decision in the system answers to that: the software surfaces, the lawyer decides.

Advisory Board

Aaron Van Blarcom

Chief Platform Architect

Aaron Van Blarcom is the Chief Platform Architect at ZOE AI, specializing in need-to-know architecture, secure on-premises systems, and high-assurance platform design. He has extensive experience engineering and maintaining environments that demand strict data protection, constant uptime, and clear, auditable security boundaries.

Aaron's background includes building hardened endpoint ecosystems, isolated network architectures, secure mobility solutions, and reliable, fault-tolerant infrastructure for organizations where privacy and operational integrity are essential. He brings a practical, engineering-focused approach to implementing strong security controls that remain usable, scalable, and resilient.

At ZOE AI, Aaron leads the platform architecture behind sovereign, local-first AI systems, ensuring the company's technology is built with the same rigor, reliability, and trustworthiness he has applied throughout his career.

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