Privilege-aware by design. AI on demand. You in the loop.

Picture the partner's office at any small firm: a row of locked file cabinets, one cabinet per active matter, folders labelled by client, exhibits filed in the back. Korely is the digital version of that cabinet. Folders per case, sub-folders per matter, exhibits in the attachments/ folder of your vault. The cabinet stays inside the office.

Concretely: drop a deposition PDF, the text gets indexed alongside your notes. Drop a client email, the same. Three months later, a search such as "the email where Smith agreed to indemnify" surfaces the right thread with full context. The entity graph tracks parties, opposing counsel, witnesses, and statutes mentioned across matters: useful for conflict checks and for noticing that a deposition you took last quarter is relevant to today's research.

Picture a meeting room with one door. You and your client are inside. The door has a sign-in sheet, and nobody enters without your knowledge. Free Korely is the digital equivalent: the only person looking at the notes is you, on your own machine. No SaaS processor sits silently behind the wall.

Concretely, on Free:

• The vault is a folder of Markdown files on your encrypted disk.
• The basic transcription runs locally with Whisper, no cloud transcription service in the chain.
• The search index lives in SQLite on your disk.
• There is no telemetry of note content.

Pro cloud sync reintroduces a third party (Korely cloud), which is a separate analysis. Before turning cloud sync on for privileged matter, look at your jurisdiction's rules and your firm's policies. The point of Free is that you do not have to.

Picture an outside consultant who knocks at your office door every time they need a document, waits for you to hand it over, and never wanders the file cabinet on their own. That is the shape of how AI assistants interact with Korely through MCP.

Each time an assistant such as Claude or Cursor wants to access your vault, it issues a tool call. The MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor) shows you the call before it runs. You approve or reject. The assistant gets back only the specific text it requested, not the whole vault. Nothing is uploaded once and forever. The opt-in is at the level of each individual interaction.

If you decide that certain matters should never reach any AI tool, do not add Korely to that tool's MCP sources. The vault keeps working without the integration.

Picture a normal week in active litigation. Three ways Korely earns its place on the desk.

• Monday morning, case prep. Open the matter folder, hit the search bar, ask "every mention of the warranty clause across our internal memos". Korely returns the relevant paragraphs from your notes, the deposition transcripts in attachments/, and the email threads you saved as Markdown. Build the timeline of the dispute in fifteen minutes instead of an afternoon.
• Wednesday, drafting a brief in Cursor. Ask Cursor (with Korely as an MCP source) to pull "every passage from the depositions where Smith discussed the supplier change". The assistant fetches the right excerpts, you draft the section of the brief on top, with each quote linked back to the source transcript so you can cite confidently.
• Friday, conflict check on a new matter. Use the entity graph to scan your vault for every previous touchpoint with the parties involved. Names, opposing counsel, witnesses, statutes that come up across matters all surface in seconds, with the source notes one click away.

This page describes what the software does. It is not legal advice or a compliance certification. Whether Free Korely or Pro fits your jurisdiction's privilege and ethics rules is a question for your bar association or law society, your firm's compliance team, and the relevant ethics opinions in your jurisdiction.