⚖ Built for business owners & client-confidential pros
The AI you can tell anything. Because it remembers nothing.
Ask ChatGPT about a lawsuit, an employee complaint, or a bad review and that chat becomes a record — one a court already ruled isn't privileged and can be subpoenaed.
IronBrief holds nothing. Self-hosted AI · Encrypted in transit · Never stored · Anonymous accounts
The questions you need to ask are the ones you can't.
You can't ask your spouse. You can't pay a lawyer $400/hr every time. So you ask ChatGPT — and every one of those questions is now on a server, timestamped, tied to your account.
An employee is claiming harassment. How do I handle this without making it worse?
HR / Employment claim
A customer says they slipped in my store. I have video showing they didn't.
Fraudulent injury claim
I'm being sued and I think it's bogus. What's my exposure before I hire a lawyer?
Frivolous lawsuit
Someone left a fake 1-star review accusing my staff of something that never happened.
Defamation / Bad review
A former employee is making accusations that aren't true. How do I protect myself?
False accusation
Real or fraudulent, every one is sensitive — and the place you typed it just became the easiest evidence anyone will ever pull.
Anyone who handles things other people would pay to see — or weaponize in court.
› Small business owners› Restaurant & retail operators› Contractors & trades› Landlords & property managers› Therapists & counselors› Attorneys & paralegals› Accountants & bookkeepers› Doctors & clinicians› Consultants & advisors› Anyone with a client they protect
This isn't hypothetical — it's already case law
A federal judge ruled: your AI chats aren't privileged.
February 2026, a U.S. federal court ruled directly on ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. The answer was no — and it gets worse.
If you use a commercial AI chatbot to discuss, record, or strategize about legal matters, those conversations are not protected by attorney-client privilege. Even sharing the AI output with your attorney afterward does not restore the privilege.
— Summary of U.S. v. Heppner, S.D.N.Y. (Feb. 2026)
If opposing counsel can subpoena the chat record, you have waived privilege by typing. A $20-per-month subscription does not buy you confidentiality.
— Legal analysis of consumer AI platforms, 2026
"What if a manager types into ChatGPT, 'How do I fire a pregnant person?' — That wouldn't be a great thing to turn up in litigation."
— Employment litigator, on AI discovery risk
20 million ChatGPT logs were already ruled likely subject to compelled production.
A court found users have a "diminished privacy interest" in their AI conversations. The chats you thought were private are evidence waiting to be pulled.
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Everything you type can and will be used against you.
That's not a threat. It's their terms of service.
What their fine print actually says
You agreed to this. You just didn't read it.
The platforms you trust with your most sensitive questions — and what their own terms permit when you're the one being sued.
OpenAI · Privacy Policy
"We may share your Personal Data, including information about your interaction with our Services, with government authorities… in the good faith belief that such action is necessary."
What it means: No warrant required. They decide internally whether to hand your business questions to a government agency. You're not notified.
OpenAI · Retention
"Deleted conversations are removed within 30 days, unless we are legally required to retain them…"
What it means: "Delete" is not delete. A single legal hold — like the one already in effect — keeps everything. Indefinitely.
Sam Altman · OpenAI CEO
"If you talk to a therapist or a lawyer or a doctor, there's legal privilege… we haven't figured that out yet for when you talk to ChatGPT."
What it means: The CEO is telling you on the record: there is no confidentiality. Straight from the source.
Consumer tiers · ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
Free and $20/mo plans train on your inputs by default and offer no contractual confidentiality.
What it means: Your sensitive business questions become training data and discoverable records — unless you're on an enterprise contract you don't have.
Using consumer AI for sensitive matters doesn't just risk a leak. It can create the liability.
If your "how do I handle this lawsuit" chat surfaces in discovery, you didn't just lose privacy — you handed the other side a roadmap. That's not a hack. That's the terms you agreed to.
IronBrief isn't a privacy policy — it's an architecture. No logs to pull. No stored chats to subpoena. No account name to tie it to you. The data was never written down in the first place.
Encrypted connection
Your messages travel to us over an encrypted link — locked in transit.
ENCRYPTED LINK
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Numbered account
No name or email required. Add an email only if you want recovery — we hash it if you do.
ANONYMOUS
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Private AI, on our servers
Our own self-hosted model — your prompts never go to OpenAI, Google, or anyone else.
SELF-HOSTED
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Never stored
Read in volatile memory at the moment of reply, then gone. Never written to disk. Never logged.
ZERO-RETENTION
If we're subpoenaed, there is nothing to hand over.
We never wrote your conversations down. No logs, no stored chats, no identity on file. You can't produce what was never kept.
Built in
Know the actual law. Privately.
Search federal & all 50 states' statutes — without logging a thing.
Ask a plain-English question about your situation. Get an answer grounded in primary law, cited to the exact statute, scoped to your state. We don't log or retain what you search.
U.S. CodeAll 50 state codesFederal regulations (CFR)Cited to the sectionState-specific scoping1.3M+ statutes
Not a law firm. Not legal advice — a private research tool.
Walk in informed. Understand your situation before you pay an attorney.
Spend their rate on strategy — not getting them up to speed.
No. IronBrief is a private AI research tool. It doesn't give legal advice, doesn't represent you, and isn't a substitute for an attorney. What it does is let you think through a situation and understand the relevant law privately — before you bring it to a professional. Nothing you type here is privileged, but unlike ChatGPT, nothing you type here is stored either.
How is this different from "private mode" on ChatGPT? +
"Temporary chat" still sends your data to their servers and can still be retained under a legal hold. IronBrief runs a self-hosted model, encrypts your connection in transit, and never writes your conversation to disk at all. The difference is architectural — they promise not to keep it; we built it so there's nothing to keep.
What can I actually use it for? +
Anything you'd want a smart, discreet advisor for: thinking through an employee complaint, understanding your exposure on a claim, drafting a response to a bad review, researching your state's law on a dispute, prepping questions before an attorney meeting. The sensitive stuff you can't afford to have logged.
If I lose my password, can you recover my history? +
No — and that's the point. Your history is encrypted with a key only you hold. We save a one-time recovery code at signup; keep it somewhere safe. Real privacy means even we can't get in.
Ready when you are
Stop leaving a paper trail.
The questions that keep you up at night shouldn't end up in a discovery request. Ask them somewhere that forgets.
Zero retentionSubpoena-proofEncrypted50-state legal search