Workflow focus: local AI for R&D documents

Local AI for R&D and lab documents

Trade-secret drafts, patent literature, and regulatory submissions can't live in a consumer chat history. PrivateDocs AI keeps experiment logs, internal memos, and filings in a local vault so reviewers can ask grounded questions without exposing proprietary prose to a vendor cloud.

Alternatives replaced: ChatGPT Enterprise · Claude Projects · AnythingLLM · Glean · AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases

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Trade-secret text in vendor logs
Nothing about your corpus leaves the device.
Local
Index for filings and lab documents
Practical size and speed depend on your hardware.
100%
Citations to source passages
Trace claims back to lab notebook excerpts.
$249
Lifetime license per researcher
Replace per-seat hosted RAG tools.

How it works

The r&d, labs & product teams workflow, on your hardware

Query experiment logs, regulatory submissions, and internal memos without publishing trade-secret drafts to a hosted cloud assistant.

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Ingest lab notebooks and filings

Add experiment logs, internal memos, patent PDFs, and supported files to the vault. Advanced Parsing can OCR image-only PDFs; verify results for figures and scans.

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Index on the workstation

Documents are embedded and stored in a local ChromaDB vault. Proprietary prose, claims, and figures never touch a vendor cloud.

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Ask cross-document questions

Cross-reference findings from the latest trial with existing patent literature, or trace a claim from lab notebook excerpt to filing language.

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Onboard reviewers with Q&A

New reviewers get up to speed by asking questions over long, dense technical PDFs — with cited passages instead of a 600-page reading list.

What you get

Outcomes for r&d, labs & product teams

Trace claims from lab notebook excerpts to filing language with citations.
Onboard reviewers with Q&A over long, dense technical PDFs.
Keep proprietary prose strictly off third-party inference logs.
Cross-reference trial findings with existing patent literature in seconds.
Index supported filings without per-token costs; practical limits depend on your hardware.

Local-only by design

Inference, embeddings, and vector search run on the user's machine. No vendor data path to audit.

Cited answers

Every response links back to the exact source paragraph or row, so verification never means re-reading the binder.

Scales with your corpus

Retrieval pulls only the relevant chunks per query — your index can be terabytes, not pages, with no per-token billing.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Why not use a cloud RAG platform for our lab notebooks?

Hosted RAG platforms index your documents in a vendor cloud and route every query through hosted embedding and LLM endpoints. For trade-secret drafts, unpublished patent literature, and regulatory submissions, that egress is a non-starter. PrivateDocs AI runs the entire pipeline on the researcher's machine.

Can it handle scanned lab notebooks?

Scanned PDFs can use OCR with Advanced Parsing. Handwriting recognition and OCR quality are not guaranteed, so review results against the original notebook.

How does citation help patent work?

Every answer links back to the source paragraph in the underlying notebook, memo, or filing. Reviewers can verify a claim, prior-art reference, or experimental result against the original document without re-reading the whole binder.

Does it scale to a large patent corpus?

Retrieval pulls relevant chunks per query, but practical corpus size and performance depend on local storage, memory, and model capacity. Test the intended portfolio before rollout.

Bring r&d, labs & product teams workflows back on-device.

$249 one-time license. No recurring fees. Document content stays local for AI processing.