Consumer tools are consumer tools
A personal AI account is built for one individual. Access, sharing, retention, and terms are not built for a firm's obligations to its clients.
What if staff already use personal accounts?A data-path question / privacy
Would you put a client file in ChatGPT? There is a safer setup.
We install a private assistant over your documents, in infrastructure you control. The data path is disclosed, agreed, and documented — and the system is handed over to your team.
One workflow from $3,500Your accountsData path disclosedFull handover
Example only / client setup varies
Why it matters
Documents are the business. Their location is a decision.
Client files, engagement letters, working papers, and internal policies contain names, obligations, and decisions. Where they are processed should be a deliberate choice.
The data path
Where are files stored, who can access them, and what leaves the environment? That is the question that matters.
A private document assistant
The application and document store live in your environment. Access rules are set by your team and tested before handover.
The three paths
Where your documents get read is an architecture choice.
A personal account
Files are uploaded to a personal account. Access, retention, and sharing follow that account, not your firm's policies.
A business contract
Files are processed by a model provider under a business agreement with terms, retention, and endpoints you review.
Control stays with you
The app and document store sit in your environment or your cloud account. External model or channel paths are disclosed and approved.
What we set up
Not a chat window. A controlled system.
Name the workflow
The questions your team keeps answering and the documents that hold the answers.
Choose the data path
Your cloud, an approved region, or your own hardware. The path is written down before anything is built.
We deploy and test
The system is tested on your own questions before handover, with the data path and access rules written down.
Handover
Runbook, training, credentials, and accounts in your name. Your team owns the system.
Straight answers
Common questions.
Is it always unsafe to use ChatGPT with client documents?
It is your firm's call under its own policies and contracts. The point of this page is to make the data path a deliberate decision instead of an accident.
Do you replace ChatGPT for our team?
No. We set up a private assistant over your documents. Your team can keep using other tools for other work.
What does it cost?
A first deployment starts at $3,500 with client-owned accounts, one workflow, and a fixed scope delivered in two to three weeks.
What if a partner says it is overkill?
Start with the workflow that hurts most and measure it for two weeks. The first project is small enough to test and useful enough to matter.
The question is not whether AI can read your documents. It is where they are read.
Why trust Pristine3D?
We build and operate production software.
Pristine3D Ltd builds and operates live digital products, and we run private AI workflows internally as part of our own operations. We scope around your real workflow: the documents you own, the questions your team asks, and the access boundary you approve. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, we work remotely with clients worldwide.
We already run live products
Based in Lagos, Nigeria, Pristine3D currently builds and operates smartcards.ng, venu.ng, photoshoot.ng, and ugc.ng in production.
We start with the actual workflow
One input, one output, one test set, and one person who owns the result. We scope a real workflow instead of a transformation programme.
The boundary stays visible
Cloud, model, storage, and messaging accounts stay in your name. The chosen data path, access rules, test record, documentation, and training are part of the agreed scope.
Pricing / fixed scope
Know the starting numbers before you ask.
The final quote follows the workflow. Infrastructure and model bills stay on your accounts.
One Workflow
Starting from$3,500 / ₦2.5m
2 to 3 weeksOne workflow for a small team, with training and handover.
See the one-workflow packageFirm-wide
Starting from$7,500 / ₦8m
4 to 6 weeksMultiple sources, roles, integrations, and admin handover.
See the deploymentAnnual support
Starting from$3,000 / ₦1.5m
per yearStandard care for one delivered workflow. Optional. Larger deployments and active monitoring are separately scoped.
See supportArchitecture review from $500. Standard annual support is $3,000 / ₦1.5m per year for one delivered workflow. New workflows, integrations, active monitoring, and infrastructure are separately scoped; infrastructure, model, storage, and messaging bills stay on client accounts. Full pricing and what changes the quote
Own your knowledge base
The model is not the product. The knowledge base is.
Documents, the retrieval index, access rules, and the workflows built around them are the asset, and they compound. We deploy so the knowledge base stays yours: on your accounts, in the environment you choose, under access rules your team defines. The model behind the answers is a connector, so the knowledge base moves with you, not with a vendor.
Your corpus, your index
The document store, metadata, and retrieval setup live on accounts you own. No vendor holds the corpus.
Models are swappable parts
Change the model provider, move regions, or go local without rebuilding the knowledge base or the workflow.
The knowledge base is the alpha
Every improvement to the corpus improves the answers, and the improvement stays with you, not with a vendor.
Keep exploring
Related setups.
Start with the documents
What documents should your team be able to ask?
Describe the workflow and the source material. We will tell you which data path fits and what a first project would include.