Preparation is moving outside the privilege.
Clients increasingly turn to consumer AI tools to make sense of their legal matters. Those conversations can fall outside the attorney-client privilege — as the 2026 decision in United States v. Heppner underscored. The preparation still has to happen. It should happen inside the privilege, not outside it.
Designed around attorney-client privilege.
ClearlyConcise is a workspace an attorney directs their client to use. Three principles hold it together:
At the direction of counsel
Clients use ClearlyConcise only when their attorney directs them to — inside the engagement, never before it.
Confidential by design
Client data is encrypted in the browser and stays inside a sealed workspace — not in a consumer chatbot.
Information, never advice
The AI explains documents and organizes facts. Legal advice stays with the attorney, where it belongs.
In active development.
ClearlyConcise is being built now, in consultation with practicing attorneys. A limited, attorney-supervised pilot is anticipated for late 2026.
For attorneys.
If you practice law and the privilege architecture, the coming pilot, or the problem itself is of interest, we would value hearing from you.
contact@clearlyconcise.com