PRIVATE DOCUMENT WORK
For work whose documents cannot leave your computer
Lawyers, therapists, accountants, clinicians: you already know which of your files can never be uploaded to a service. This page does not tell you that GI JI satisfies any rule, standard or obligation you work under — we make no such claim, about any of them. What it does is describe exactly what the software does with your material, in enough mechanical detail that you can hold it against your own duties and your own advisers, and decide for yourself.
Where something else is the better answer — said first, on purpose
GI JI does not read scans. If your work arrives as scanned exhibits, scanned intake forms, or imaged records, GI JI has no OCR: it refuses a scan-only file rather than importing it empty. For a great deal of professional material that is disqualifying on its own, and you should know it in the first minute rather than the first hour.
It is one person on one computer. A Personal licence activates on one machine at a time. There is no shared practice library, no colleague access, no case-management integration. If your practice needs several people working one index, this is not that product.
We are a $79 desktop application, not a supplier relationship. If your engagement rules require a signed arrangement with a service provider, a named processor, or a contract your firm's counsel reviews, we do not offer that machinery. A desktop tool whose document library and local AI run on your own machine is a different kind of thing from a service, and whether that difference helps or hinders you is a question about your obligations, not about our software — so it is yours to answer, not ours.
What the software actually does with your material
Your local workspace lives in a folder you can see. Your documents stay where you keep them. The index, questions, notes, and backups GI JI builds sit in the GI JI folder on your own disk. You can open, copy, move, or delete that folder. GI JI Agency does not receive the workspace through this local-library path.
There is no GI JI cloud account or library. The app does not require a product sign-in, email or password. Purchase and licence activation use Freemius as described below.
The interface serves only your own machine. GI JI shows its screens through a small local web server. Its configuration check accepts only 127.0.0.1, ::1 or localhost as a listen address and the server refuses to start on anything else, so it cannot be reached from another computer on your network.
No product analytics are sent to GI JI Agency. GI JI keeps some counters about its own performance — how often it fell back, how often it refused — in an ordinary file inside your GI JI folder. The app does not send product analytics, usage metrics or error reports to GI JI Agency.
Network activity to consider. Setup may fetch Ollama and local models. Licence activation contacts Freemius. A website import contacts the site you select. Optional Connected AI uses OpenAI as described next. After setup, GI JI needs no internet to read your documents and answer questions from them.
Connected AI is optional. Setting up a key contacts OpenAI to list the models available to that account. Connected AI is off until you switch it on. Before it writes anything for you, GI JI stops, shows you what it wants to send, and waits for you to approve that one request. You can keep the API key for the current session or choose to remember it on this computer. A remembered key is stored in data/connected.json inside the GI JI folder, excluded from GI JI backups, and removed when you choose Forget this key.
Why the refusal matters more in your work than in most
A confident paragraph that is not in the file is worse than no paragraph at all when the file is the whole point. In Sources only, if GI JI cannot attach enough usable evidence from your own documents, it stops and says so, and no answer-writing call is made — there is no plausible draft sitting there to be trusted in a hurry. It refuses more often than a cloud tool does. That is the trade, and for this kind of work it is the right way round.
A citation is not a guarantee that an answer is correct. It shows you what the answer rested on so you can read it and judge. GI JI does not replace your professional judgment, and it is not legal, medical, financial, or compliance advice.
Judge it against your own duties
We have deliberately not named a regulation, a standard, or a professional rule anywhere on this page, and we have not said that GI JI meets one. Only you and your advisers can decide what your obligations require, and a vendor sentence claiming otherwise would be worth nothing to you. What we owe you is an accurate description of the mechanism, which is what is above — and the software itself, free for 20 documents, so you can check every sentence of it on your own machine before you pay anything.
The one-line version
If your documents are scanned, or several people need one library, this is not your tool and we would rather you knew now. If your material is text, stays on one machine, and must not be uploaded to an AI service — GI JI can use its local path, cite passages, and in Sources only stop when support is missing, for $79 once.
WATCH IT WORK
Answer, cited passage, and an honest refusal.
Ask a question of your own documents, open the cited passage, then use Sources only for a question the library does not support and watch GI JI stop without writing an answer.
HOW GI JI COMPARES
Where GI JI wins, and where it does not.
Three comparisons with the tools you are most likely choosing between, each one naming the case where the other tool is the better buy.
WRITTEN FOR ONE READER
Four pages that answer one question properly instead of all of them briefly — what a citation is actually worth, what GI JI is and is not for a technical reader, how it stands beside a note library, and what it does for work whose material cannot leave the computer.