Private AI, built from everything your business already knows.
Decades of documents, decisions, and correspondence become one private system your people can ask in plain language — answered in seconds, with citations, without your knowledge leaving your control.
Private. Powerful. Instant. Secure.
What Cogneros is
Cogneros is a private AI system built for one organization: yours. It takes what your people already know — documents, policies, project histories, correspondence — and turns it into something anyone authorized can simply ask.
Think of it as the AI everyone is already used to, except it is trained on your material, runs under your rules, and answers with references to the source instead of a confident guess.
Decades of knowledge, retrievable in seconds.
We design it, deploy it, and run it as a managed service — in the cloud, inside your network, or a combination of the two.
How it works
Connect
We connect the repositories you approve — shared drives, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, a document system, or all of them. Nothing is ingested that you have not designated.
Understand
Documents are read, structured, and indexed with the context that makes them worth keeping: who wrote it, when, for which client or project, and who is allowed to see it.
Ask
Your people ask in plain language. Cogneros retrieves from your own material — filtered to what that person is already entitled to see — and answers with the sources attached.
Act
From there it drafts: a memo, a proposal, a response, a specification — grounded in the language your organization has already used and stood behind.
What it does for you
Not a chatbot bolted onto a search box. Four things, done in a way people will actually trust with real work.
Ask in plain language
People ask the way they already ask each other. No query syntax, no folder archaeology, no guessing which drive it landed on.
Answers carry their sources
Every response names the document, the date, and the page it came from, and opens the original. Nothing has to be taken on trust.
Draft from proven material
New work starts from the language your organization has already used and stood behind, with the sources attached for review.
Access follows your rules
The permissions on the source documents travel with them. Retrieval never becomes a way around access control.
Where it runs is your call
Some organizations want the fastest path to capability. Others cannot let certain material leave the building. Cogneros is delivered all three ways, and the choice can differ by the kind of work.
Cloud
Private tenancy, managed by Cogneros
The fastest way to start. Your corpus is indexed into an environment dedicated to your organization, with access controlled by your own directory.
Firms that want capability quickly without adding hardware.
Hybrid
Cloud reasoning, sensitive work kept local
Routine questions run in the cloud while defined categories of work stay on hardware inside your network. You set which is which, by matter, client, or role.
Organizations with a subset of genuinely sensitive material.
On-premise
An appliance in your own rack
A managed Cogneros appliance is installed in your office or data centre and runs approved models locally, with egress restricted to what your policy allows.
Work that cannot leave the building, for policy or contract.
Sensitive work does not have to become someone else’s training data. Which models may be used, by whom, and for which work is a policy you set — not a default we set for you.
Cogneros for your business
The platform is the same everywhere. What changes is the vocabulary, the documents, and the questions your people already ask each other.
Select your industry
Cogneros for Legal
Every argument the firm has already won.
Precedent, prior filings, and clause libraries become searchable in the firm's own language — so nobody rebuilds an argument the firm has already made and defended.
Matters contain
- Briefs, motions, and pleadings
- Contracts and clause libraries
- Research memoranda
- Engagement letters and correspondence
People actually ask
- Have we argued this issue before?
- Find our strongest termination provisions.
- What position have we taken on this clause?
What changes
- Precedent found in seconds, not afternoons
- New associates reach useful work sooner
- Drafts start from language that has survived scrutiny
Read more about Cogneros for Legal
Not on the list? The platform does not care what industry you are in — only that your people have built up knowledge worth reaching.
Talk to us about your business
Privacy is architecture, not a checkbox
Confidentiality is not satisfied by a setting. It is satisfied by where information lives, who can reach it, and whether you can show both afterwards.
- Your documents stay yours
- Originals remain in the repository you already govern. Cogneros builds the intelligence layer over them.
- Access follows existing permissions
- Results are constrained by what the person asking is already entitled to see.
- Answers cite their sources
- Every response names the document and page it came from, so anything can be checked.
- Nothing is pooled across clients
- One organization's corpus is never mixed with, or used to answer for, another.
- You choose where reasoning happens
- Cloud, hybrid, or entirely inside your network, set by policy rather than by us.
- Everything is on the record
- Access, ingestion, model changes, and administrative actions are logged and reviewable.
Plain answers, not promises
Vendors who claim everything are the ones worth checking. Here is where we are deliberately precise.
No system is unhackable.
So the questions we answer are concrete ones: where your data sits, who can reach it, and what gets written down.
Software alone does not create privilege.
Confidentiality comes from your policies and your counsel. Cogneros is built to support them, and the terms go in writing.
A certification is not a security guarantee.
What your counsel gets is specific: where data sits, who can reach it, what is logged — and the terms in writing.
Stop paying people to rediscover work you already did.
Every hour spent reconstructing something your organization has already worked out is an hour that was paid for once. The question is how much of it is recoverable.
Adjust the assumptions
Estimated recovered capacity
$350,000per year
- Hours recovered each week
- 20
- Weekly capacity
- $7,000
- Hours across 50 working weeks
- 1,000
Illustrative example only. Actual results vary by firm, practice area, matter mix, and how the platform is adopted. Cogneros makes no guarantee of savings.
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How we bring it to life
You do not need another off-the-shelf AI tool. You need a system that fits how your organization actually works — and someone who stays after launch.
Strategic kickoff
What you have, where it lives, and which questions are worth answering first.
Secure architecture
Deployment model, access mapping, and retention decided before anything is indexed.
Build and tune
Your corpus is ingested, structured, and tested against questions you already know the answer to.
Controlled rollout
A first group goes live, validates results, and shapes the workflows before everyone else follows.
Ongoing partnership
Cogneros keeps the environment ingesting, monitored, updated, and supported as a managed service.
Own your AI. Control your data.
Who would actually be running it
Cogneros is a product of The Raven Group — an independent infrastructure consultancy in Denver, Colorado, operating since 1993. The people who design your deployment are the people who keep it running afterwards.
- Operating since 1993
- 33 years running the infrastructure small and mid-sized businesses depend on, through every platform shift in that time. Still independent, still in Denver.
- Operators, not launchers
- Websites, networks, servers and Apple fleets — designed, then run, and answered for long after the install. Private AI is the newest material, handled the same way.
- Already in these rooms
- TRG's clients are professional-services firms, law and compliance teams, healthcare providers and family offices — the same rooms Cogneros is built for.
Why there are no client logos here
We do not publish client names or case studies. The firms we work for did not engage us in order to become a reference — and how a vendor treats somebody else’s confidentiality is the most honest evidence you have of how it will treat yours.
The whole record is on The Raven Group’s own site, including the work that has nothing to do with AI.
Questions firms ask first
These come up in nearly every evaluation. Answered the way Cogneros answers anything — plainly, and with the source attached.
Private session
- Corpus
- Your organization only
- Models
- The ones you approve
- Answers
- Cited, every time
Does Cogneros train public AI models on our documents?
No. Your corpus is indexed for your organization alone and is never pooled with anyone else's. If you approve an external model provider for part of a workflow, how that provider handles data is governed by your approved configuration and their terms — which is why model access is a policy you set, not a default we set for you.
SourcePrivacy is architectureWhere do our original documents live?
Wherever they live today. Your approved repository stays the canonical source and nobody has to move or re-file anything. Cogneros builds the layer that makes what is already there retrievable, and every answer points back to the document in place.
SourceHow it worksDo we have to put hardware in our office?
Only if you want to. Cogneros runs as a private cloud environment, as a hybrid where defined work stays local, or entirely on an appliance in your own rack. Many organizations start in the cloud and move sensitive categories local later.
SourceWhere it runsCan Cogneros use Claude, GPT, or other cloud models?
Yes, if you approve them. Cogneros is model-flexible and can route work to local models, approved cloud models, or a combination. Which models are available — to whom, and for which kind of work — is configured by you.
SourceWhere it runsWill it replace our document management system?
No. Cogneros is an intelligence layer over the repositories you already use. Everyone keeps the workflow they have; Cogneros makes what is already in it findable and usable.
SourceWhat it does for youWhat does an engagement cost?
Engagements typically start at $35,000. Cogneros is a scoped engagement rather than a per-seat subscription, so the figure follows the repositories you connect, the number of people using it, and where the system runs — cloud, hybrid, and on-premise are priced differently.
SourceRequest a private demoCan answers be traced back to the source?
Yes, and this is a core principle rather than a feature. Results and generated drafts preserve their references — document, date, and page — so anyone can verify a statement against the underlying material before relying on it. Professional judgment stays with the person who signs the work.
SourcePrivacy is architecture- Ask us anything else
Your business has already built the knowledge.
Cogneros makes it available to the people who need it — under your permissions, traced to your own documents.
What an engagement costs
Engagements typically start at $35,000.
Scope follows the repositories you connect and where the system runs — cloud, hybrid, and on-premise are priced differently.
- Prefer email?
- hello@theravengroup.com
- Prefer to talk?
- +1 303-351-1691
- Based in
- Denver, Colorado