The platform is built by the engineering team behind AI systems deployed for the U.S. intelligence community. Now, that same security-first architecture is being applied to the legal industry.

IPSA’s core premise is simple: client data should never leave the firm’s control.

Unlike many AI products that rely on external language models or shared infrastructure, IPSA deploys entirely within a law firm’s own environment — either on-premise servers or the firm’s private cloud. No client data passes through third-party servers, and nothing is transmitted externally under “zero retention” policies or contractual assurances.

Instead, the infrastructure itself guarantees privacy.

Built for the Most Demanding Security Environments

The architecture behind IPSA originates from work conducted for the United States intelligence community.

In July 2025, The Washington Post reported that Mojave Research had been engaged by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to deploy AI analytical tools on intelligence community data. Subsequent reporting from Reuters, CNN, and NBC News highlighted the company’s work in cybersecurity and AI systems supporting government intelligence programs.

IPSA Intelligent Systems was founded by the same team and brings that experience to legal technology.

“When you build AI for environments where a single unauthorized data transmission can be a federal crime, you learn to think about architecture differently,” said IPSA founder and CEO Jason Wareham. “That discipline matters when your next client is a law firm whose obligation to client confidentiality is absolute.”

Wareham argues that many legal AI systems rely on infrastructure models that were never designed for the ethical obligations of legal practice.

“Attorney-client privilege is not a setting you toggle,” Wareham said. “It is a condition your infrastructure either guarantees or it does not.”

Workspace-Based Legal Research

IPSA’s platform centers on workspace-based legal research designed around the structure of real legal matters.

Attorneys create dedicated workspaces for each case and define the parameters of their research. Within those workspaces, the AI can analyze the firm’s internal case files alongside external sources such as academic journals, administrative records, and legal databases.

Before executing research queries, the system generates clarifying questions to refine the research objective. It then retrieves and ranks documents based on relevance, presenting results for attorney review and triage.

Lawyers can accept, reject, bookmark, or flag documents while building a structured body of research within the workspace.

An integrated AI Notepad synthesizes findings across multiple sources, while tags and annotations allow attorneys to develop institutional knowledge over time.

Each additional query compounds the knowledge within the workspace, transforming every case into a growing repository of analyzed legal work product.

Because the system runs entirely on the firm’s infrastructure, there are no per-query token costs. The platform operates continuously, analyzing and refining its understanding of the firm’s knowledge base even when attorneys are offline.

Over time, the firm builds an expanding library of institutional intelligence that remains entirely within its own environment.

IPSA Companion: Verifying Legal Documents in Real Time

Alongside the research platform, IPSA introduced IPSA Companion — a Microsoft Word plugin designed to verify legal documents before they are filed or circulated.

With a single click, IPSA Companion extracts factual claims from a document and verifies each one against the firm’s research, case law, and internal source material.

Each claim is classified in real time as either supported or flagged for further review. When a statement is challenged, the system identifies contradicting sources and provides evidence citations.

A live verification feed shows the AI’s reasoning, retrieval queries, and supporting evidence as the system evaluates the document.

The result is a color-coded verification map of every factual assertion within a brief, motion, or memorandum — providing attorneys with a transparent evidentiary trail before the document leaves their control.

Leadership Bridging Law and Technology

IPSA’s founder brings a rare combination of legal and technical experience to the platform.

Jason Wareham spent nearly twenty years as a trial and appellate litigator across military commissions, federal courts, and state courts. During thirteen years as a U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate, he served as one of the longest continuously serving criminal defense counsel in Marine Corps history.

His work included serving on the defense team in the September 11th military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay and leading defense teams in the USS Cole and Bali Bombing cases.

Wareham later founded Mojave Research to develop AI systems for government and intelligence community clients.

IPSA’s technical leadership includes researchers who have published at leading AI conferences such as NeurIPS and in IEEE publications, with expertise in privacy-preserving machine learning and secure model deployment.

Founding Firm Program

IPSA is launching its platform through a Founding Firm Program limited to fifty law firms.

Participants receive priority deployment, direct collaboration with IPSA’s engineering and security teams, and input into the platform’s development roadmap.

Legalweek attendees are receiving the first opportunity to apply before the program opens more broadly.

Conversations at Legalweek

As part of its Legalweek launch, IPSA is offering fifteen-minute infrastructure walkthroughs for law firms and AI vendors attending the conference.

These sessions are designed as open technical conversations rather than traditional product demonstrations. Participants are encouraged to bring details about their current AI environments and discuss what is working, what is not, and how security architecture affects legal data protection.

The discussions are led by a team that has deployed AI systems under some of the most demanding security requirements in the United States government.

A Different Approach to Legal AI

As law firms increasingly explore artificial intelligence, questions about data security and confidentiality remain central to adoption.

IPSA’s launch reflects a growing belief among some technologists that AI for highly regulated industries must be built on fundamentally different infrastructure models than consumer or enterprise systems.

For IPSA, the principle guiding that design is simple:

Privilege is not a policy. It is an architecture.

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