Subscribe on this site, copy the license token we give you, paste it into the App on first launch — that's the entire setup. After that the App lives on your laptop, fetches its own updates, and never sends a single byte of your work back to us.
LexVault runs the model on your machine, not in the cloud. That's the whole point — your documents never leave your laptop. The tradeoff: a weak machine gives you a slow, frustrating product. We'd rather lose your subscription than have you blame us for that.
On the recommended hardware, a research query returns in 5-15 seconds and feels like cloud chat. On marginal hardware, the same query takes 30-90 seconds. The product is the same — your machine is the bottleneck. Pick the tier you can live with before you subscribe.
Some browsers (Safari especially) flag unsigned downloads. If the click does nothing, gives a "potentially harmful" warning, or stalls midway, paste this in Terminal — it bypasses browser security:
curl -L -o ~/Downloads/LexVault.zip https://lexvault.pinemarshlands.com/api/app/mac
# then double-click ~/Downloads/LexVault.zip to extract
For Intel Mac, swap mac for mac-x64. For Windows, the file is at /api/app/win.
lv_live_4f8a…). Copy it.These builds aren't yet code-signed by Apple, so the first time you double-click you'll get an "unidentified developer" dialog. Two fixes:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/LexVault.app
Apple Developer ID signing is on the roadmap — once we ship signed binaries this dialog goes away.
Every paying customer runs the same model: Qwen 3.5 9B Q4_K_M at 16K context. No degraded variants. We picked one model that's strong enough for legal reasoning and engineered around it: mixed Q8/Q4 KV cache, GQA attention, full GPU offload — the whole 5.7 GB model + 16K context fits in 8 GB of VRAM with no spillage to system RAM. The App auto-picks the runtime path (Metal / CUDA / Vulkan / CPU) for your machine.
The App reaches the network only to check for software updates and verify your license. Everything else — your queries, your documents, your conversations, your audit log — stays on your machine. We literally can't see them.