AI for accountants that keeps client financials on your machine

A hosted assistant answers by sending your text to a vendor's servers. A trial balance, a client's return, a payroll file or a bank export pasted into one of those is a disclosure of exactly the data your engagement letter and your written security plan promise to protect. Most practices deal with that by banning the tool, and lose the help entirely.

Local Keep AI can run the model locally. With a local model, the spreadsheet you paste and the answer it produces are computed on your hardware and are never transmitted to Local Keep AI or to any third party. Disconnect from the network and it keeps answering — the simplest possible test of the claim.

Cloud-hosted models must send your text to the provider to answer it — that is what makes them cloud models. Local Keep AI never attaches your user ID, email or session identifiers, so the provider cannot tell who asked — but the content itself is transmitted exactly as you wrote it, and we do not filter it. For anything with client financial data in it, use a local model; the picker labels every model as local or cloud so it is never an accident.

We do not claim that using Local Keep AI satisfies IRS Publication 4557, the GLBA Safeguards Rule, or your firm's written information security plan, and nothing here is professional or legal advice. What we give you is a precise answer to 'where does this data go', which is the input your own assessment needs.

Install it, pick a local model, disconnect from the internet, and ask it to explain a column of your own numbers. An answer with the network off means nothing was sent anywhere. Local models are free and no card is required to find out.