Private AI · AI Search · Dallas and Fort Worth
Forte builds private AI systems that run on hardware you own, over documents that never leave your office. For firms that cannot afford to be careless with what they hold.
Serving professional practices and B2B firms across DFW.
The difference that matters
Both setups answer the same question just as well. Only one of them sends privileged material across a boundary you do not control.
Flagship engagement
A working AI system your team can use on privileged material, running on hardware you own, in six weeks.
Firms of five to fifty people who handle material they are not permitted to be casual with. Law practices, accounting firms, medical and dental groups, title and insurance agencies, financial advisors. If a confidentiality obligation or a client contract makes a third-party AI tool a problem, this is the version you can actually use.
Layer one
Hardened stack
Containerized inference running non-root with dropped privileges, resource limits and health monitoring. Locked down before it is ever switched on.
Layer two
Your document index
A private index over your own files, so answers come from your contracts and your records rather than from the open internet.
Layer three
Private remote access
Staff reach it from home or from court over an encrypted private network, with no port exposed to the public internet.
Layer four
Tested recovery
Scheduled backups that we restore and time, not just configure. Version pinning with a documented rollback path.
Layer five
People and policy
Staff training and a written acceptable use policy, which is the part that actually stops client data going into free tools.
Layer six
The runbook
Written so your office manager can follow it, not so another engineer can. It is the deliverable that outlives the engagement.
Where every engagement starts
Two weeks. A written answer to whether your firm could recover its files tomorrow, and whether it could safely put AI to work on its own client material.
Most firms cannot answer either one with confidence. Both are knowable in two weeks, and both are questions your own clients are beginning to ask you.
The original practice
Buyers now ask an AI assistant before they ask a search engine. We make sure the answer it gives includes you, and that what it says is right.
We measure the work in Share of Answer, the proportion of relevant AI responses in your category that mention you. Everything we publish meets the 4Cs standard: comprehensive, clear, current and credible.
A flat-fee thirty day program for local service businesses. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and landscaping firms who want to be the name an assistant gives when someone in their service area asks. Monthly maintenance available once the sprint completes.
Specialty offering
Most exhibitors spend twenty five thousand on a booth, collect ninety badge scans, and let them sit in a spreadsheet for two weeks. We run the booth as a lead program instead.
Before the show
Targeted outreach
A named account list built from the exhibitor and attendee rosters, with a sequence driving the ones that matter to your booth at a set time.
On the floor
A reason to stop
A branded ninety second challenge that captures every lead at check in, before they play, with a qualifying answer and a performance score attached.
Within 48 hours
Segmented follow up
Outreach written against how each person actually performed, sent while they still remember the conversation rather than two weeks later.
After
Cost per lead
Reporting against your own baseline, in the number your field marketing team is measured on.
Why one firm does all of this
There are only two AI questions a business has to get right.
Question one · outward
When a buyer asks an assistant who to call, something gets said about your category and it either includes you or it does not. That answer is now the first impression, and it is shapeable.
Question two · inward
Your team will use these tools regardless. Whether that becomes an advantage or a disclosure problem depends entirely on where the data sits while the work happens.
Most firms send those two questions to two different vendors who never speak. We treat them as the same problem, because the answer to both is the same: be deliberate about AI before it is deliberate about you.
Start a conversation
Two weeks, a flat fee, and a written answer. If your firm is in good shape we will tell you that, and you will still have the runbook.
Prefer to start smaller? A free AI visibility audit shows how assistants currently describe your business, and takes nothing but your website address.