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For in-house legal teams and regulated SMBs

Governed AI for the team that can't afford a data leak.

Backplain gives in-house counsel a single, governed AI workspace — with a patent-pending AI Firewall, multi-model comparison, and the audit log your CEO will ask for.

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Pain reframe

What you can stop worrying about.

"Are my team's ChatGPT sessions exposing client data?"
Every Backplain session is logged, and the AI Firewall strips sensitive data before it reaches any model. You can answer this from the admin console.
"Which model is actually right on this clause?"
Run the same prompt across four models at once. When two disagree on indemnification, you know which one to examine.
"What do I tell the CEO when they ask if we're using AI safely?"
You show them the admin console. Four minutes. Done.
"Is shadow AI proliferating across the company?"
Backplain's admin view shows you who is using AI, how much, and through which models.
"Do we need Harvey? Can we afford Harvey?"
Harvey is $1,000/seat with a 20-seat minimum — $288K/yr floor. Backplain Business is $129/seat starting at 10.
The 30-day rollout

What changes in the first 30 days.

Day one. Your team is on a single governed workspace. Every session is logged. The AI Firewall is active. Sensitive data is stopped at the network edge.

Week two. Your paralegal has stopped using her personal ChatGPT account. Your contract attorney runs Claude and GPT-4o side by side on limitation-of-liability clauses.

Week four. You have run a clause through five models, identified meaningful variance in two, and now have a documented rationale for the model you use for that task. The CEO asked the AI question. You pulled up the admin console. The conversation moved on.

vs Harvey & CoCounsel

We're not Harvey. That's the point.

Harvey AICoCounselBackplain Business
Per seat / month~$1,000–$1,200$220–$500$129
Minimum commitment20 seats / $288K yr—10 seats / $15.5K yr
Model coverageCustom legal LLMsGPT-4 + legal DBs47 models, 9 providers
AI Firewall——Yes (patent-pending)
Multi-model comparison——Up to 10 simultaneously
Custom PII filtering——Yes
Hosting flexibilityAzure-hostedCloud onlySaaS → bare metal
Target buyerAm Law 100Mid-market firmsIn-house counsel, regulated SMB

Harvey is built for Cravath. CoCounsel is built for the firm that needs Westlaw integration. Backplain is built for the in-house counsel at a 200-person company.

Pro Services

Need help getting there? We can staff the rollout.

If your team needs hands-on help configuring the AI Firewall, designing custom PII filter patterns, or building the governance documentation your leadership is asking for — Backplain Pro Services can staff it. Engagements start with a scoping call and can be as focused as a single-day policy workshop or as broad as a 90-day implementation sprint.

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Three seats. Full governance. AI Firewall on.

A three-person legal team on Team is $885/month — less than one hour of outside counsel.

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