Case brief: Private AI
Private AI for Legal Evidence Review.
A McKinney, Texas criminal defense firm needed searchable evidence processing without sending privileged material to a public AI service.
Four-time Microsoft Solutions Partner: Security, Data & AI, Azure Infrastructure, and Digital & App Innovation. Founder-led engineering experience since 1999.
The situation
Criminal defense work runs on evidence media: body-worn camera footage, dash cam, jail calls, interviews, scanned discovery, and images. The relevant moment may be buried inside hours of material.
The constraint
The material is privileged. Sending it to a public transcription or AI service was not a defensible default.
What Bonelli built
- Fully local processing on the firm-controlled environment.
- Drag-and-drop ingestion of video, images, and documents.
- Transcription and speaker diarization for evidence media.
- Text extraction and search so the firm can find relevant material quickly.
Where else this applies
The same pattern applies anywhere sensitive media outpaces human review: insurance claims, HR investigations, healthcare, security operations, depositions, and board or incident interviews.