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AI agent for notarial offices — professional secrecy preserved

Draft deeds built from your own templates, civil-status records, land registration formalities, estate files: your agent absorbs the case-preparation work that fills a clerk's day. It runs locally or on an isolated resource hosted in France — professional secrecy never leaves the office. The notary reviews and signs.

Hosted in France Professional secrecy preserved GDPR & AI Act: governed deployment The notary reviews and signs

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Notarial assistant · hosted in France
Estate file opened yesterday. Where does it stand, and what is missing to move forward?
File prepared: 14 documents expected, 9 obtained, 5 outstanding.
Obtained: death certificate and the heirs' civil-status records verified electronically with the connected municipalities, family record book, marriage contract traced in the central register of wills.
Outstanding: bank statements (2 institutions chased this morning), life-insurance certificate, property tax notice, cadastral extract, latest income tax assessment.
The chasing letters are ready on your letterhead, one per institution.
⛓ Sourced · office file, electronic civil-status verification, replies received
And the tax deadline — where are we?
As the death occurred in France, the inheritance tax return is due within six months (twelve months had the death occurred abroad). 4 months and 11 days remain.
What I have prepared: the draft return filled in for everything already evidenced, each box linked to the document that supports it; the five lines that depend on the missing documents are left open and flagged.
My suggestion: a second chase at D+8 to the two banks, historically the slowest in your files.
The draft goes to your screen, not to the tax office: the notary reviews and signs.
✎ Action · draft return ready for review — the notary reviews and signs
Local inference · no data outside the EU
Data hosted in France
Sovereign by designLocal inference or hosting in France
GDPR & AI Act: governed deploymentTraceability & human oversight
TurnkeyDesigned, installed and operated for you
The notary reviews and signsThe agent prepares, never executes the deed
✦ In brief

In a notarial office, a Blue Lemon Agent agent prepares draft deeds from your own templates, collects and checks supporting documents (civil status, planning, property records), follows formalities through to land registration and prepares estate files while holding their deadlines. It runs locally or on an isolated resource hosted in France: minutes, files and client documents are never exposed to a foreign service, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity. The agent connects to the office's drafting software, to electronic civil-status verification and to the electronic filing channel of the land registry. The notary reviews and signs: authenticity is the public officer's, never the agent's. Live in a few weeks.

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hosted in France in the target architecture
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transfer outside the EU in the target architecture
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use cases ready to deploy on this scope
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decision taken without human approval

Benchmarks describing our offer, not results measured at a client. The scale of the gain is confirmed by a pilot on your own scope.

The context

Why notarial offices look at AI — and why they hesitate

Notarial practice absorbs an ever-growing documentary load: records to request, chase, check, formalities to follow, deadlines to hold. Consumer AI answers the urgency… at an unacceptable risk to professional secrecy.

! The stakes

A notarial file turns as much on the completeness of its documents and on deadlines held as on drafting. Yet case preparation — requesting, chasing, checking, filing — consumes clerks' days while producing nothing visible to the client. Handing those files to a consumer AI tool would expose information covered by professional secrecy — parentage, estates, testamentary provisions — to a third party often hosted outside Europe and subject to the Cloud Act.

Our answer

AI is only of interest in a notarial office if it is sovereign and confidential by design. Local inference or an isolated resource hosted in France, connected to your drafting software, to electronic civil-status verification and to the land registry's electronic filing channel: the agent takes on the whole preparation and hands the notary a file ready to review. The notary reviews and signs — the authentic deed belongs to the public officer, and the agent never comes near the signature.

The decisive point

The notary's professional secrecy: sovereignty & compliance

Parentage, estates, wills, sale prices: a notarial file concentrates what a family holds most confidential. Here is how our architecture protects it, file by file — the same architecture deployed in law firms.

Local inference

The agent can run on a machine inside the office: no document, no draft deed leaves the network, nothing transits through a foreign cloud.

Hosting in France

Otherwise, a dedicated and isolated resource hosted in France under French law — your files: processing and access within the European Union targeted by the architecture.

Reduced extraterritorial exposure

Professional secrecy: architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.

Isolated resource per office

No pooling of files: an environment strictly dedicated to your office, walled off from every other.

Encryption & controlled access

Encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access (RBAC) — clerk, assistant notary, notary —, strong authentication and logging.

AI Act: governed deployment

Strictly a support agent; no deed executed or signed automatically; traceability and human oversight end to end.

What depends on the architecture chosen These points are not general guarantees: they are settled deployment by deployment, in the quotation.

  • The applicable location is that of the architecture set out in the quotation and verified before commissioning.
  • Local execution is announced only for the configuration explicitly described and accepted in the quotation.
  • The applicable isolation depends on the deployment mode set out in the quotation; no dedicated isolation is presumed.
  • The encryption mechanisms in transit and at rest, their components and key management are those documented for the architecture chosen.
  • Roles and permissions are configured and accepted for the identities and systems actually connected.
  • The events logged, their content, their retention period and who may access them are defined for the deployment chosen.
For the most sensitive files, SecNumCloud and reinforced hosting options are available depending on your requirements. A single architecture is designed to answer both the GDPR and extraterritorial exposure. Designed for deployment in line with the GDPR and the AI Act, after the processing, roles and context-specific risks have been assessed.
Demonstration

See the agent at work

4 real situations, taken from those that come up most often. Pick one: the exchange unfolds as it would in your organisation.

A scripted demonstration. These exchanges show how the agent behaves — its sources, its refusals, what it leaves to your teams. Nothing is sent from this page, no model is queried here, and the matters named are fictional. That is precisely what we promise your data.
The behaviours shown here — monitoring, automation rules, routing and reminders — are configured with you during deployment, from your tools, your rules and your thresholds.
The architecture points named in these exchanges — location, local execution, isolation, encryption, role-based access, logging — are not a guarantee attached to the demonstration: they are those of the architecture set out in your quotation, and verified before commissioning.

The company in this demonstration

Fictional company

Vergne & Delaunay notarial office — two notaries in a mid-sized town

Sector
Notarial practice — property, families and estates, a few corporate files
Headcount
11 people, including 2 notaries, 4 clerks, 1 formalities officer and 2 assistants
Clients served
Local individuals, partner estate agencies, a few landlords
Caseload
620 files opened a year, of which 180 estates; 3 to 5 months from file to signing
Tools in place
Drafting software, electronic file management, electronic civil-status verification, electronic filing of formalities
Who decides
The partner notary reviews and signs; the formalities officer sets the filing order
Room for improvement
38 % of files pushed back at least once for a missing document, and 14 formality rejections last year

The office is not short of files: it is short of the time to prepare them. Clerks spend their days requesting, chasing and checking documents, and one signing in three is pushed back because one is missing. The agent is connected to the drafting software, to electronic file management, to electronic civil-status verification and to electronic filing of formalities. It prepares continuously; the notary reviews and signs.

This company, its figures and the exchanges that follow were invented for the demonstration. They illustrate a common situation; they describe no real client.

Notarial assistant · hosted in France
I prepared the estate file opened last night. 14 documents expected, 9 already obtained, 5 outstanding — and the tax deadline has been running since 3 June.
What I obtained, with the date and origin of each:
· Death certificate and the three heirs' birth records, verified electronically with the connected municipalities — replies received in under two hours.
· Marriage contract: traced in the central register of wills, the drafting office identified, a copy requested.
· Family record book and identity documents, taken from the file opened in 2019 for the same family: no need to ask the heirs again.
What is missing, and from whom: bank statements (2 institutions), life-insurance certificate, property tax notice, cadastral extract, latest income tax assessment.
What that means for the calendar: the inheritance tax return is due within six months of a death that occurred in France — twelve months had it occurred abroad. 4 months and 11 days remain, and your two banks took 41 days on average to reply across your last twelve files.
My proposal: I send the five requests this morning rather than at the next file review. Across your last twelve, the gap between « requested the same day » and « requested at the review » was nine days on average. file-status_estate-14-documents.pdf9 obtained, 5 outstanding, every document dated
⛓ Sourced · office file, the family's 2019 file, electronic civil-status verification, response-time history
The banks — how do you chase them? That is always where we lose the weeks.
At the rhythm you set, and I have already measured which one works on your own files.
What your history establishes: across 96 queries to banks over eighteen months, a chaser at D+15 brought the average reply time down from 41 to 26 days. A chaser at D+8, tested on 14 files, gained nothing more: it is the bank's internal circuit that sets the pace, not our insistence.
The rhythm I propose: request on the day the file opens, chaser at D+15, then a call from the clerk at D+30 — because beyond that it takes a voice, not one more letter. Each chaser repeats the file reference and the date of the original request, which spares the recipient from starting over.
What I do without asking again, once the rhythm is approved: send the D+15 chaser. It is one of only two automatic actions, and it is reversible: change the rhythm in a word and it applies to every open file.
And what stays with the office: the D+30 call, because it commits the office's word.
The chasing plan for the five institutions is ready, letters on your letterhead, one per recipient. chasing-plan_five-institutions.pdf41 days brought to 26 by the D+15 chaser
⛓ Sourced · 96 institution queries over 18 months, reply times by institution
Local inference · no data outside the EU

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Use cases

What the agent takes on inside the office

Each use case is an agent we deploy. All of them work in support: the notary reviews and signs.

Included in your agent The 6 capabilities essential to this promise are included, at no extra cost.
From 930 € excl. VAT / month

Deed preparation

Draft sales, gifts, certificates of inheritance or property attestations built on the office's templates, each field linked to the document that supports it.

Civil-status records

Requesting and electronically verifying records with connected municipalities, checking parentage and matrimonial regimes.

Property and planning documents

Planning certificates, cadastral extracts, surveys and building-management statements: the agent chases until obtained and flags what expires.

Formalities and land registration

Preparing formality documents and tracking electronic filing with the land registry, including replies and rejections.

Estate files

Lists assets and liabilities, contacts the relevant institutions, prepares a draft return and tracks the filing deadline.

The office's memory

Finding a clause, a precedent or a document across your files and templates, through a knowledge agent.

Controls and safeguards These 7 controls are built into the agent: they frame what it does, whatever plan you pick. They are not chosen and are not added to your order.
Human validation, exceptions and escalation Status, safe closure and audit trail Sources, access rights and handling of questions with no answer Work from a versioned corpus with citations and the law as it stood on a given date Preserve confidentiality, compartmentalisation and access logging Manage deadlines, versions, evidence and human validation Flag uncertainties and reserve advice, decision and signature for the lawyer
The gain

How much time can an office recover?

By taking on document requests, chasing and completeness checks, the agent moves clerks' work towards review and client relations. The scale of the gain depends on your caseload and is confirmed by a pilot.

Building a file (documents, chasing, checks)
Today · done by hand
Prepared by the agent, to review
First draft of a deed from your templates
Today · done by hand
Prepared by the agent, to approve
Tracking formalities and deadlines
Today · done by hand
Tracked continuously, with alerts
Qualitative, non-contractual comparison: the proportions shown illustrate work moving towards review, they represent no measurement. Every output of the agent is read and approved by a competent person.
How it works

The stages of your AI agent project

1

Audit & scoping

15 minutes to target the use case with the best return.

2

Quote or direct sign-up

A catalogue offer is bought online; a specific need gets a costed quote.

3

Design

We design the agent and its guardrails.

4

Integration & testing

We connect your tools to the agent, which is itself hosted in France.

5

Rollout

Going live and training your team.

6

Operation

Continuous supervision and improvement.

Pricing

A notarial support agent, installed and operated for you

An agent connected to the office's drafting software, to electronic civil-status verification and to electronic filing of formalities, tailored to your templates and workflows. Prices excluding VAT — annual subscription, the time it takes for the gains to settle.

Agility

Setup + controlled subscription

11,595 € excl. VAT setup
then 930 € excl. VAT/month — you invest at installation and pay a reduced subscription. Ideal for keeping the cost under control over time.
  • Installation, configuration and training for your teams
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, a dedicated and isolated resource
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The simplest Serenity

All inclusive, no setup fee

1,570 € excl. VAT /month
all inclusive, immediate start. No upfront investment: a single subscription. Ideal for starting quickly and simply.
  • Setup included (installation, configuration, training)
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, managed end to end
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100% Sovereign

On site, you own it

15,885 € excl. VAT setup
then 1,146 € excl. VAT/month · + hardware from 2,491 € (one-off purchase, in addition) — a sovereign computer installed on your premises, maintained remotely. Models run locally, your data returned at the end of the contract. 36-month commitment.
  • Hardware installed on your premises (you own it)
  • French / European AI models run locally
  • Secure remote maintenance (Pro support included)
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Not included in the packages: AI consumption (model tokens), re-invoiced at real cost with no margin, and tracked in real time in your client area. Maintenance and supervision subscription for an initial term of 12 months for the Agility package, 24 months for the Serenity package and 36 months for the 100% Sovereign package, renewable; support levels (SLA 72 h / 24 h / 4 h) optional. Bespoke development, additional integrations or exceptional volumes are quoted separately. Support Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Prices exclude VAT.
AI model: none of the AI models offered currently carries a fixed surcharge. When the selected model carries a cost, that cost is shown when you choose it, before you order, and re-invoiced at the cost incurred, with no mark-up; usage is billed at the publisher's price. Publishers' prices are published in US dollars: the amount re-invoiced is the amount in euros actually borne by Blue Lemon Agent on the publisher's invoice, at that invoice's exchange rate, with no commission or mark-up.
Included components and additional components Components included in the base offer: the Blue Lemon Agent software foundation, the AI models listed in the order journey, the standard channels (Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp Business, email, website chat, calendars, Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace, file storage, market VoIP telephony, professional social-media pages and accounts, Google Business Profile), hosting in France for the package chosen, backups, supervision, updates and support. If adapting the AI agent to your constraints, your needs or your requests requires other paid components — a third-party publisher's software licence, paid API access to one of your applications, hosting of health data, for which French law requires an HDS-certified host (art. L. 1111-8 of the French Public Health Code), SecNumCloud-qualified hosting, a speech synthesis service, particular hardware —, they are offered to you as an option or on quotation and re-invoiced at the cost incurred; nothing is committed without your written agreement. Where the artificial intelligence model you choose entails an additional cost, that cost is shown to you before you order and re-invoiced to you at the cost incurred, with no margin.
What to expect
Go-live 2 to 3 weeks
Agent designed, channels connected, team trained.
Steady state 4 to 7 weeks
After a few weeks of real use, once the agent's behaviour matches what you expect. Indicative estimate, adjusted to the options you keep. It is not a delivery commitment.
Our commitment

Four guarantees that matter to a notarial office

Secrecy never leaves the officeLocal inference or an isolated resource hosted in France; no file, no document entrusted to a foreign third party, no content used to train a model.
Data in France, under French lawParentage, estates and provisions: minimisation and location in France, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.
The notary reviews and signsThe agent prepares files, drafts and follows formalities; the authentic deed is executed and signed by the public officer, never by the agent.
Human oversight & traceabilityEvery document obtained, every draft produced and every formality filed is logged, in line with the AI Act.
Frequently asked questions

Your questions, our answers

Does the agent respect the notary's professional secrecy?
Yes, provided the data is never exposed to a third party — that is the whole point of the architecture. The agent runs locally inside the office or on a dedicated, isolated resource hosted in France: files, documents and draft deeds never leave a controlled environment and never transit through a foreign service subject to the Cloud Act. It is the same architecture deployed in law firms.
Can the agent execute or sign a deed?
No. Executing a deed and conferring authenticity on it belongs to the public officer: the notary reviews and signs. The agent prepares the file, drafts from your templates and follows formalities; everything it produces is read and approved before use. That is also what the AI Act requires of a legal use: support, human oversight, traceability.
How does the agent obtain civil-status records?
Through the electronic channel for secure verification of civil-status data with connected municipalities, where the office is authorised to use it, and by post or online service for the others. Every record obtained is dated, traced and attached to the file; unanswered requests are chased at the rhythm you set.
Does it connect to our drafting software?
Yes. Connecting to the office's drafting software, to electronic civil-status verification and to electronic filing with the land registry is part of the scope. The integration is scoped with you, without forcing a change of software.
What happens when information is missing?
The agent flags it rather than filling the gap: the line stays open in the draft, with the document that would unlock it and the institution to chase. A draft delivered with its uncertainties named is reviewed faster than a smooth draft that has to be checked in full.
Does the agent hold file deadlines?
Yes, and that is one of its most immediate contributions. It tracks each file's deadlines and warns in advance — for instance the filing deadline for the inheritance tax return, six months where the death occurred in France, twelve months where it occurred abroad. Your office's own dates always take precedence over general benchmarks.
How are the GDPR and the AI Act taken into account?
Designed for deployment in line with the GDPR and the AI Act, after the processing, roles and context-specific risks have been assessed. Data location and minimisation (GDPR), encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, strong authentication and logging. The agent stays in support, with no automated decision, under human oversight and with traceability.
How long does deployment take?
A few weeks as a rule, depending on the connections retained, after a free 15-minute audit that identifies the most useful scope, then a design, integration and testing phase before go-live and team training.
Let's talk

Let us size the potential in your office

15 minutes to identify the most useful scope — hosted in France, supervised, no commitment.