“If you go talk to ChatGPT about your most sensitive stuff and then there's like a lawsuit or whatever, we could be required to produce that.”
Turn on privilege and you become a client of our law firm. Our AI works as the firm's agent, so your chats from then on are protected by attorney–client privilege.
Your chats, documents, and data never reach third parties. All your chats are fully encrypted and safely locked.
Nobody sees your chats except our law firm and staff bound by confidentiality. No ad providers, data brokers, or third parties.
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Instant answers and unlimited documents from Inhouse.ai.
An attorney, or a specialist we bring in, responds within 24 hours. You leave with a clear plan for your situation.
Your lawyer is available to meet with you as much as you need. Extra attorney time is $149 an hour.
You don't need to be in a dispute. Use Inhouse for any question that could become a dispute.
OpenAI and Anthropic can turn over your chats if you're ever in a lawsuit. Inhouse uses private servers and attorneys in the loop to let you keep your conversations privileged.
Ryan Wenger• 7 min readOctober 1, 2026
Yes, when you're asking for legal advice. When you turn on privilege and sign our retainer, you become a client of Inhouse Counsel PC, a law firm. Our AI works as the firm's agent, so asking it for legal help is asking your lawyers. With privilege off, your chats are confidential, not privileged.
If you're ever sued, investigated, or in a divorce or custody fight, the other side can't force you or us to hand over your chats. It's the same protection your emails with a lawyer get.
No. They're tech companies, not law firms, so they aren't set up to have a lawyer-client relationship with you. Without one, there's no privilege. OpenAI's own terms say not to rely on ChatGPT as a substitute for professional advice.
Only Inhouse staff bound by law-firm confidentiality, and only when they need to help you. Never advertisers, data brokers, or outside AI companies. Your chats are never used to train AI.
Reviewing a contract before you sign, answering a demand letter, handling a firing or a severance offer, fighting a landlord, splitting with a cofounder. Our attorneys focus on business law. For other areas, we bring in a specialist.
Unlimited AI chats and documents, one lawyer loop-in, and one hour of attorney work for reviews, redlines, or drafting. Extra loop-ins are $149 each.
No. Once a lawsuit is likely, deleting chats about it can count as destroying evidence, and courts punish that. Deleting doesn't erase them anyway: OpenAI keeps deleted chats for about 30 days, and in 2025 a court ordered it to hold on to deleted chats for months. Once you turn on privilege, your Inhouse chats are protected from that point onwards, so you never need to.
No. The AI works for our firm, so any chat where you're asking for legal advice is privileged, whether or not a lawyer joins.
No. Privilege protects your conversations with us, not the facts themselves, and only when you're asking for legal advice. We read that broadly: questions about your job, a contract, a debt, a dispute, or what you're allowed to do all count. A recipe doesn't. If a fact would come out in a lawsuit anyway, telling us doesn't hide it, but what you and your lawyers said about it stays protected.
By sharing. Forwarding a chat, posting a screenshot, or showing it to a friend, coworker, or family member can waive privilege. Keep your chats inside Inhouse. Privilege also never covers using a lawyer to plan a crime or fraud.
If we find one, we'll decline that matter and tell you so you can find another lawyer. Your chats stay confidential and privileged either way.
Tap "Loop in a lawyer" on any chat. An attorney reads the whole conversation and responds within 24 hours, or brings in a specialist if your issue needs one.
California, New York, and Michigan. If your issue falls under another state's law, we bring in a local attorney.