Twenty seconds that explain everything.
Built for the courtroom.
Deployed in the cloud.
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. Heppner-ready. No dark rooms.
February 2026
changed the question.
A federal court just issued a three-prong test for whether AI-assisted legal work is defensible. Your firm either passes all three, or it does not. There is no partial credit.
Client Authorization
The client must have affirmatively authorized AI use on the matter. Anchor BlackBox™ records and time-stamps the authorization event in AIDR.
Structural Anonymization
Client identity must never be transmitted to the AI provider: structurally, not contractually. Anchor's BlackBox anonymization layer is the only architecture that satisfies Prong 2. Prior AI tools fail here by design.
Complete Contemporaneous Record
A verifiable, producible record must exist on demand. AIDR + CAIR together constitute the only complete contemporaneous record in the market.
The decisive distinction: Signing an AI provider's Data Processing Agreement satisfies zero of the three prongs. A BAA satisfies zero. Only a system that is structurally incapable of transmitting client identity, and that contemporaneously records every interaction, can satisfy Heppner. Anchor BlackBox™ is that system.
Two recorders.
One complete record.
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.
AIDR™
Records the facts of every AI interaction: the data layer equivalent of a Flight Data Recorder. AIDR answers what happened at the infrastructure level.
- Matter, user, model, and version logged at session open
- Client authorization event, time-stamped and signed
- Routing decision and anonymization log
- Governance events: competence acknowledgments, approvals, flags
- Four-version audit log per interaction (original, anonymized-sent, anonymized-received, re-injected final)
- Chain Score computed and written at session close
CAIR™
Records every prompt, every output, every correction, and every governance flag: the conversation layer equivalent of a Cockpit Voice Recorder. CAIR enables Governance Replay™.
- Every prompt, original and anonymized, Version 1 and Version 2
- Every AI output, anonymized received and re-injected, Version 3 and Version 4
- Human corrections, attorney-added notes, and override events
- Every hallucination flag and authority verification result
- Governance Replay™: full session reconstruction on demand
- Privilege Data detection log: law firm names, case numbers, opposing counsel, trade secrets
Chain of Legal Custody™
Just as eDiscovery created chain of custody for evidence, Anchor BlackBox™ creates Chain of Legal Custody™ for AI-assisted work product. Six chains. One unbroken record.
AI Chain
Which model, which version, which API endpoint, which inference parameters were used on each request.
Human Chain
Which attorney made which request, applied which correction, and provided which approval at each step.
Document Chain
Every version of every document the AI touched: input, intermediate, and final, with diff-level provenance.
Delivery Chain
How and when each AI-assisted work product was delivered to the client, with delivery confirmation and receipt log.
Approval Chain
Every governance checkpoint: competence acknowledgment, supervision sign-off, client authorization event, final release.
Chronology
RFC3161 timestamps on every event. Merkle root computed at session close. Immutable. Court-producible on demand.
Your Chain Score™.
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.
Verified
All six chains intact. AIDR™ and CAIR™ records complete and consistent. Heppner-compliant. Court-producible. This is where every matter should land.
Partial
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.
Orphan
No AIDR™ or CAIR™ 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 the context of a Heppner-style 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."
Today's questions won't be about whether you used AI.
Yesterday's questions
Today's questions
"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™
Not a monitoring tool.
The governance layer.
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.
How Anchor BlackBox™
stands alone.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heppner Prong 2 structural compliance | ✓ 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 + CAIR | ✗ No recorder | ~ Logging only |
| Four-version audit log per interaction | ✓ V1–V4 per session | ✗ | ✗ |
| Chain of Legal 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 ledger (Ed25519 + RFC3161) | ✓ 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 |
Built for the security
posture your clients expect.
Anchor BlackBox™ runs on Cloudflare's zero-trust infrastructure. Every control is documented. Every configuration is auditable. Your IT team will recognize every component.
HIPAA BAA
Cloudflare D1 + R2 with signed Business Associate Agreement. WORM storage for healthcare matters.
mTLS + CF Access
Mutual TLS on every endpoint. Cloudflare Access JWT on all protected routes. No public surfaces.
V8 Isolate Sandbox
Each firm runs in a complete V8 isolate. No cross-tenant data access. No shared memory.
AES-256-GCM at Rest
Application-layer encryption before every D1 write. AWS KMS or HashiCorp Vault key management.
R2 Jurisdictional Locks
Data residency enforcement at the storage layer. EU, US, and APAC jurisdictions supported.
Logpush (45 CFR 164.312)
HIPAA-compliant audit log export via Cloudflare Logpush. Every access event. Every admin action.
API Shield ML
Machine-learning anomaly detection on all API traffic. Rate limiting, bot scoring, DDoS mitigation.
Merkle Root Ledger
SHA-256 + Ed25519 + RFC3161 timestamps. Optional blockchain anchoring for maximum defensibility.
One click.
Full Kovel coverage.
The Kovel Documentation Package is four documents, generated automatically from AIDR™ and CAIR™ records, that satisfy every element of the Heppner three-prong test and provide attorney-client privilege protection for AI-assisted work.
Kovel Documentation Package
Generated per matter, on demand. Every document is auto-populated from your AIDR™ and CAIR™ records, signed, timestamped, and ready to produce to opposing counsel, the court, or your malpractice carrier.
Prong 1: Client authorization
Baseline governance framework
Complete AIDR™ + CAIR™ records
LLM provider terms confirmation
Per matter. Auto-populated.
Signed and timestamped.
The recorder is
ready when you are.
Anchor BlackBox™ is currently in early access for mid-market law firms of 5–150 attorneys. Request access today.
For firms of 5–150 attorneys. Cloudflare-native deployment. No data leaves your jurisdiction.
Trade Show Ready
From ABA TECHSHOW to regional bar association conferences, Anchor BlackBox™ arrives in force. Six branded giveaways designed to start the conversation about AI governance before you say a word.
