Is it safe to put company code into Cursor or Copilot?

Not by default. Whatever you paste or open gets sent to the AI provider's servers, including secrets and customer data. Emil sits between your tools and the model and catches API keys, credentials, customer data, and source code before they ever leave.

Can AI coding tools see my API keys and .env files?

Yes, whenever they end up in the files or prompts you send, which is the most common way secrets leak. Emil detects keys, tokens, passwords, and .env values and redacts them before the prompt reaches the model.

Does Emil slow down my AI?

No. Emil screens in the moment and hands the model a clean prompt, so you get the same responses at the same speed.

Does Emil store my prompts or my code?

No. Emil processes your text in memory and keeps only a short screening record (the decision, risk score, and a redacted preview), never the full content. Classification runs on Emil's own infrastructure, is never sent to a third-party model, and is never used for training.

Which tools does Emil work with?

Anything OpenAI-compatible: Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Lovable, v0, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama, and self-hosted models. Point your tool at Emil instead of the provider, or use the browser extension if you don't write code.

Do I need to be technical to use it?

No. Developers change one line of config (the base URL). Everyone else uses the one-click browser extension that screens prompts before they reach the AI.

Legal

AI your law firm can actually use — without waiving privilege

Attorneys paste matter facts into ChatGPT every day. Emil sits between your team and the AI, catching privileged and client-identifying content before it ever leaves the browser.

Protect your team For developers

The problem

Associates paste settlement memos and discovery into ChatGPT to summarize — sending privileged material to a third party.
One leak of attorney-client content can waive privilege and trigger a malpractice and ethics exposure.
Firm AI policies are unenforceable: nobody knows which tools are used or what was pasted.

What Emil catches for legal

Client and counterparty names tied to a matter
Case, docket, and matter numbers
Attorney-client privileged language
SSNs, account numbers, and other client PII

Regulations this maps to

ABA Model Rule 1.6 (confidentiality)
State bar AI guidance
GDPR / CCPA for client PII

A content filter reduces regulatory risk but isn't compliance on its own. Review presets with counsel.

Questions

Is it safe for attorneys to use ChatGPT with client files?

Not without a control layer. Pasting client data into ChatGPT transmits it to the provider's servers, which can waive privilege. Emil redacts privileged and client-identifying content before the prompt reaches the model, so attorneys keep the productivity without the disclosure.

Does Emil keep our client data?

No. Emil screens text in memory and stores only metadata — the finding type and severity, never the matched content. There is an audit trail for compliance reviews, but the privileged text itself is never retained.

How do we enforce this across the firm?

Deploy the Emil browser extension to every attorney; it screens prompts on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others automatically. The shadow-AI dashboard shows which tools are in use and what was caught — turning an unenforceable policy into a measurable control.

Which AI tools does it cover?

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity and DeepSeek out of the box, plus any OpenAI-compatible API your own tools use.

Other industries

Accounting Financial Services Healthcare