Anchor BlackBox™ is the governance recorder for AI-assisted legal work. The only system that can reconstruct, in court, exactly how your firm used AI, responsibly and ethically. Every prompt. Every version. Every approval. Every chain intact.
Every AI session your firm runs is captured, timestamped, and sealed inside Anchor BlackBox™. When opposing counsel asks what your AI did, you open it. Tamper-evident. Anonymized by default. No dark rooms.
A federal court just found that a criminal defendant's self-directed AI use was not privileged, in part because his prompts, unredacted, went straight to a third-party platform under terms permitting training use and disclosure. That is a data exposure problem before it is a privilege problem.
Heppner's own words. His own case facts. Sent directly to Anthropic, under Anthropic's standard consumer terms: usable for training, disclosable in connection with claims or litigation.
Nothing identifiable. AIDR™ and AICR™ replace client identity, case numbers, and Privilege Data with deterministic tokens before anything is transmitted (Version 1 to Version 2). Claude never sees a real name, a real matter, or PHI.
What this changes, and what it does not. Anonymization does not make an AI exchange automatically privileged. Direction and purpose still matter, and Heppner's opinion turned on those grounds too. What it does change: the exposure the court's confidentiality analysis is actually about (privileged or PHI-bearing content permanently reaching a third party's training and disclosure pipeline) never happens in the first place. There is nothing of that nature in transit to expose.
Every commercial aircraft carries two recorders: the Flight Data Recorder and the Cockpit Voice Recorder. Together, they reconstruct everything. Anchor BlackBox™ uses the same architecture for AI-assisted legal work.
Records the facts of every AI interaction: the data layer equivalent of a Flight Data Recorder. AIDR answers what happened at the infrastructure level.
Records every prompt, every output, every correction, and every governance flag: the conversation layer equivalent of a Cockpit Voice Recorder. AICR enables Governance Replay™.
Recording a session is not the same as supervising it, and supervising a draft is not the same as controlling what actually ships. Anchor BlackBox™ closes both gaps, at the two moments they actually matter.
Every AI response is tested for hallucination and authority risk on the anonymized text (V3), before client identity is ever restored (V4). The resulting Green, Yellow, or Red signal is recorded, and it reaches the approving attorney automatically the moment the draft is submitted through Anchor BlackBox™, whether or not the person who saw it first said anything.
See how AICR™ enforces this →Before anything reaches a court docket, opposing counsel, co-counsel, or an expert witness, the final version is scanned against every flag ever raised on that matter, contextually, not by exact text. Earlier sign-off does not exempt it. A hit escalates straight to the firm's top partner stakeholders, and only a clean document earns the Green Chain Score™.
See how the Delivery Chain enforces this →Supervision that does not depend on memory. Between these two moments, nothing about whether your firm's AI use is defensible is left to a paralegal remembering, an attorney assuming, or a busy partner trusting that someone already checked. The record enforces it either way.
Just as eDiscovery created chain of custody for evidence, Anchor BlackBox™ creates Chain of AI Custody™ for AI-assisted work product. Six chains. One unbroken record.
Which model, which version, which API endpoint, which inference parameters were used on each request.
Which attorney made which request, applied which correction, and provided which approval at each step.
Every version of every document the AI touched: input, intermediate, and final, with diff-level provenance.
How and when each AI-assisted work product was delivered to the client, with delivery confirmation and receipt log.
Every governance checkpoint: competence acknowledgment, supervision sign-off, client authorization event, final release.
A cryptographic timestamp on every event. The full chronology sealed at session close. Immutable. Court-producible on demand.
Every AI-assisted work product in your firm gets a Chain Score™, computed automatically at session close. Green. Yellow. Red. You always know exactly where you stand.
All six chains intact. AIDR™ and AICR™ records complete and consistent. Court-producible on demand. This is where every matter should land.
One or more chains are degraded: missing a timestamp, a version, or a supervision event. Requires attorney review before the matter can be considered defensible.
No AIDR™ or AICR™ records. The document exists in the system with no traceable provenance. Maximum malpractice exposure. The absence of evidence is itself evidence.
"An Orphan Work Product classification is not a metadata flag. In a discovery challenge, a document with no provenance chain is a document you cannot defend. It represents the complete absence of the record a court can demand."
"When a partner asks 'Did you use AI on this matter?' You need more than a yes. You need the recorder."
Anchor BlackBox™: The Black Box Recorder for AI-Assisted Legal Work™
Anchor BlackBox™ is not a citation checker, a hallucination detector, or an AI assistant. It is the governance infrastructure that makes every AI tool your firm already uses legally defensible.
Every other AI tool in legal focuses on what AI can do. Anchor BlackBox™ focuses on what your firm can prove.
| Capability | Anchor BlackBox™ anchorblackbox.com | General AI Assistants (Harvey, GPT, Claude, etc.) |
AI Governance Tools (logging, monitoring) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Counsel-directed AI use, documented | ✓ By architecture | ✗ Fails by design | ✗ Fails by design |
| Client identity never transmitted to LLM | ✓ Zero-trust BlackBox layer | ✗ Transmitted in every prompt | ✗ Not addressed |
| AIDR™ dual-recorder architecture | ✓ AIDR + AICR | ✗ No recorder | ~ Logging only |
| Four-version audit log per interaction | ✓ V1–V4 per session | ✗ | ✗ |
| Chain of AI Custody™ (6 chains) | ✓ Computed automatically | ✗ | ✗ |
| Chain Score™ (Green / Yellow / Red) | ✓ Per work product | ✗ | ✗ |
| Orphan Work Product detection | ✓ Automatic classification | ✗ | ~ Manual audit only |
| Privilege Data as discrete detection category | ✓ Third category (PHI + PII + Privilege) | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tamper-evident, cryptographically sealed ledger | ✓ Court-producible | ✗ | ~ Varies |
| Kovel Documentation Package, one click | ✓ Four documents auto-generated | ✗ | ✗ |
| Works with any AI tool the firm uses | ✓ Provider-agnostic | ✗ Single-vendor | ~ Limited |
Anchor BlackBox™ runs on enterprise-grade, zero-trust cloud infrastructure. Every control is documented. Every configuration is auditable. Your IT team will recognize the security posture.
Signed Business Associate Agreement available. Write-once storage for healthcare matters.
Mutual TLS on every endpoint. Authenticated, token-based access on all protected routes. No public-facing surfaces.
Each firm runs in a fully isolated compute environment. No cross-tenant data access. No shared memory.
Application-layer encryption applied before every write. Managed key infrastructure with restricted access.
Data residency enforcement at the storage layer. EU, US, and APAC jurisdictions supported.
HIPAA-aligned audit log export. Every access event. Every admin action.
Automated anomaly detection on all API traffic. Rate limiting, bot scoring, DDoS mitigation.
Cryptographic timestamping and hashing seal every session record at close. Optional blockchain anchoring for maximum defensibility.
The Kovel Documentation Package is four documents, generated automatically from AIDR™ and AICR™ records, that establish counsel direction and firm-wide governance under the Kovel doctrine and ABA Formal Opinion 512, supporting attorney-client privilege protection for AI-assisted work.
Generated per matter, on demand. Every document is auto-populated from your AIDR™ and AICR™ records, signed, timestamped, and ready to produce to opposing counsel, the court, or your malpractice carrier.
Per matter. Auto-populated.
Signed and timestamped.
Anchor BlackBox™ is currently in early access for mid-market law firms of 5–150 attorneys. Request access today.
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For firms of 5–150 attorneys. Enterprise-grade cloud deployment. No data leaves your jurisdiction.
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