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Notes on local-first AI, document analysis, and building for lawyers and anyone else whose documents must not leak.
Private AI contract review, now on Windows
Return now runs on Windows 10 and 11. Contract review with AI that works on your own PC, installs without administrator rights, and in Local mode never sends your documents anywhere. What your PC needs, how to install it, and your first review in ten minutes.
How to review an NDA with AI without uploading it
An NDA arrives before the deal is public, so pasting it into a chatbot defeats the point. Here is a step-by-step review on your own computer with a local AI model: risk flags, plain-language notes, follow-up questions and fixes, with nothing sent anywhere.
Why we removed Ollama from Return (and what replaced it)
Ollama 0.12 added cloud models behind the same localhost API, so local-only inference became a setting instead of a guarantee. We replaced Ollama with a built-in llama.cpp engine so documents never leave the machine by architecture.