your draft is none of our business — except enough of it to mark the cites.
Most legal-tech tools route your document through a server. They have to — that's where the model lives, or the database, or the "secure cloud." Veraciting was built around a different floor: nothing leaves your machine. Not the document. Not the cites. Not the verification queries. Nothing.
things we never do.
These aren't aspirations or feature roadmaps. They are architectural facts about how Veraciting is built. The product would have to be redesigned to do any of these.
- send your document text to a server (any server, ours or otherwise)
- train a model on your briefs, drafts, or marked cites
- require a sign-in to open a document or run a scan
- phone home with case names, party names, or client identifiers
- retain a transcript of what you asked us to verify
- share, sell, or license any per-user analytics
- include third-party analytics SDKs in the add-in
- use cookies on this website to fingerprint or remarket
what runs where.
A complete map of every data flow in the product. We've kept it short because there isn't much to say.
cite detection
The pattern matchers that recognize case names, reporter cites, statutes, and regulations run entirely inside the add-in's JavaScript context — inside Word, on your computer.
verification lookups
v1.5 resolves cites against a local index file (~12 MB compressed) stored in browser-local storage. No verification query ever leaves your laptop.
TOA insertion
The table is inserted using Word's native field machinery, locally, the same way Word's built-in tools work. We're not in between.
three small files. all on your computer.
the verification index
Compressed indexes of reporters, codes, regs, and agency precedent. Refreshed quarterly by default. You can delete and re-download anytime from Settings.
your preferences
Citation style, jurisdictions, hyperlink rules, namespace, telemetry opt-in. Lives in browser-local storage. Cleared when you uninstall.
your marks
Cite marks live inside the .docx file you saved — as Word bookmarks under the veraciting_TA_ prefix. They travel with the document. If you uninstall, the marks stay; they're just Word bookmarks.
we're not a third party to your file.
The lawyer who built this is also a working attorney. The minute a draft brief crosses the network to a vendor, attorney-client privilege gets complicated, and work-product doctrine starts to get litigated. Veraciting was built so that question never has to be asked.
A defensible answer to "where does your draft go when you use Veraciting?" is: nowhere. The same place it lived before you installed the add-in. Your laptop.
| tool type | draft leaves machine? |
|---|---|
| chatbot cite-check | yes — every prompt |
| cloud SaaS TOA tools | yes — on upload |
| Westlaw / Lexis (legacy) | queries do |
| Veraciting | no |
where permitted. never where forbidden.
Some courts welcome hyperlinked citations; some are silent; one — the Federal Circuit — explicitly directs counsel not to hyperlink appendix cites. Veraciting reads each court's local rules and chooses the right behavior, by default.
| court | hyperlinks in TOA | Veraciting default |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme Court of the United States | permitted | on |
| Federal Circuit (CAFC) | forbidden for appendix cites | off for appendix · on for cases |
| 2d, 9th, D.C. Circuits | permitted | on |
| state appellate (most) | permitted; sometimes encouraged | on |
| EOIR / BIA briefs | silent · convention is plain | off |
defaults are configurable in Settings · always overridable per-document
small surface, small attack surface.
A Word add-in that doesn't send data over the network is hard to exfiltrate from. Most of what would constitute "security" for a cloud SaaS is moot here — there's no cloud.
- signed add-in package; verified by Microsoft AppSource at install
- index downloads served from CDN with integrity hashes (SRI)
- license key calls over TLS 1.3 only · no fallback
- no third-party SDKs in the add-in package
- open vulnerability disclosure: [email protected]
licenses.veraciting.com and cdn.veraciting.com.
your brief, your machine, your file.
Install Veraciting and the only thing that changes is how long it takes to build the table.