Your Data, Your AI, Not Public (with @Paul Barney)
Your Data, Your AI, Not Public (with @Paul Barney) Most boards want AI. Few want their client files indexed on the open web. If you run a firm that handles confidential documents, here is how you use AI without leaking anything that matters. Why this matters if you run a serious business Every week a new story breaks. Sensitive client data uploaded to ChatGPT by mistake. A law firm partner who fed a merger document into an open model. A wealth manager who copied portfolio notes into a public AI chat and forgot the conversation history lives on a server somewhere in California. The damage is quiet at first. Then a regulator asks questions. A client spots their information in the wrong place. Trust evaporates. You protect sensitive data without losing AI capability You get clear answers from your own files without uploading sensitive data to the public internet. Your team asks real questions about business intelligence, risk or customer trends and the AI reads only what you already own. Nobody outside your four walls sees a single line. You build institutional memory, not prompt history You build a private knowledge layer that grows more valuable each quarter, not a