Private AI for Mac. Windows soon
Private AI for the work you can't paste into ChatGPT.
Elephas answers questions from your own contracts, client files, and reports, and shows the source for every answer. Your documents stay stored on your computer. Use it on your own, or share a Brain with your team.
Free for 7 days. No card needed. Windows coming soon.
Coming through the Microsoft Store. Download for Mac
Elephas runs on Mac, and Windows is coming soon. We will send you the link once.
For Mac, with Windows coming soon. Free for 7 days.
macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon. Windows version coming soon.
- Your documents stay stored on your computer
- Personal details hidden before any cloud AI
- Every answer cites your files
Elephas · Client contracts
Illustration of the Elephas app. Names and details are examples.
The problem
Client work is already going into chatbots.
Someone on your team pasted a contract into a chatbot this week. It was faster than reading it.
Nobody decided that was acceptable. It just happened. Banning AI does not work, because the work still has to get done.
Elephas gives people a way to use AI on real documents without uploading the files to a chatbot.
01How it works
Ask your documents. Check the source.
Not another chatbot. Answers come from your documents, not the internet.
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Step 01
Add your documents
Drop in files or a whole folder: your PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, slide decks, and scanned pages. Elephas reads and indexes them on your computer.
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Step 02
Ask in plain language
"What notice period did we agree with Northwind?" Elephas searches your documents, reads the relevant passages, and writes an answer.
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Step 03
Check the source
Every answer cites your files. Open a source to see the quoted passage and the page, slide, or sheet it came from.
Free for 7 days. No card needed. Windows coming soon.
Coming through the Microsoft Store. Download for Mac
Elephas runs on Mac, and Windows is coming soon. We will send you the link once.
For Mac, with Windows coming soon. Free for 7 days.
02Privacy
You decide where answers are generated.
Your documents stay stored on your computer. The search index and your chats are kept in an encrypted database. When you ask a question, you choose which AI answers it.
Default
Elephas AI
Sent: your question and the selected passages, with personal details hidden.
Ready the moment you install. Your question and the passages Elephas picked from your documents go through the Elephas gateway to the AI model. They are not stored and are not used to train AI models.
Your account
Your own API key
Sent: your question and the selected passages, straight to your provider, with personal details hidden.
Use your own account with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and others. Requests go straight to the provider you chose. Elephas cannot see them.
Nothing sent
On this computer
Sent: nothing. Answers are generated on your computer.
Download a model once and answers are generated on your computer. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Personal details are hidden first.
Before a question leaves your computer, Elephas hides personal details such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers, then puts them back in the answer. Under every answer you can see what was hidden.
See exactly what leaves your computerFree for 7 days. No card needed. Windows coming soon.
Coming through the Microsoft Store. Download for Mac
Elephas runs on Mac, and Windows is coming soon. We will send you the link once.
For Mac, with Windows coming soon. Free for 7 days.
03Elephas Team
One private place for your team to ask.
Put your firm's contracts, policies, and client files in a shared Brain. Everyone you invite can ask it and get answers with sources. Sync between teammates is end-to-end encrypted, so our servers hold only data we cannot read.
- Invite by email. Choose who can manage, add to, or only read each Brain.
- Each person's chats stay private to them.
- Set one AI policy for the whole team.
- $29 per person per month. No minimum team size.
Illustration. Names are examples.
04Who it is for
Built for work that is confidential by default.
Individuals
Your research, notes, and reference files, searchable in one place, with answers you can trace.
Professionals
Lawyers, accountants, consultants, financial advisors, and researchers who answer to clients for where their files go.
Lawyers Accountants Consultants Financial advisors Researchers
Small businesses
A shared, private knowledge base for a team of 2 or 200, without an IT project.
Private AI for teams05Compared
Elephas vs ChatGPT, Claude, and NotebookLM
General chatbots are built to answer anything. Elephas is built to answer from your documents while they stay with you.
| What matters | Elephas | ChatGPT | Claude | NotebookLM now Gemini Notebook |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where your documents are stored | On your computer | Uploaded to the provider | Uploaded to the provider | Uploaded to the provider |
| Personal details hidden before the model sees them | Yes, and you can see what was hidden | Not a documented feature | Not a documented feature | Not a documented feature |
| Choose where answers are generated, including on your computer | Yes | No, cloud only | No, cloud only | No, cloud only |
| Sources that show the quoted passage and its page | Yes | Not documented for uploaded files | Not documented for uploaded files | Yes, citations open the quoted passage |
| Share with a team, end-to-end encrypted | Yes | Team sharing, not end-to-end encrypted | Team sharing, not end-to-end encrypted | Sharing, not end-to-end encrypted |
| Desktop app | Yes | Yes | Yes | Web and mobile only |
Based on each company's public documentation, checked October 2026. Products change, so check their current terms for your plan.
One job, done carefully.
Elephas does not run agents that act on your behalf. It does not send emails, browse the web, or automate your apps. It reads the documents you give it and answers with sources. That focus is why you can trust it with real work.
06From customers
What people say about asking their own documents
"The brains that you can create from information you have already created and then interact with, is one of the most brilliant features of any AI I have come across."
EdwardUnited States
"I like how easy it is to create specialized brains based on personal or professional files, documents, notes, and web pages in the application. I have personally created hundreds of reports over my career, and I can upload those and those of my colleagues to create a specialized brain."
KevinProfessional Engineer, United States
"Game changer for your productivity. You can create brains, bringing your own data, and chat with it like some sort of Yoda character. By far the best app of its kind."
David AntonioSpain
"I work across several fields (business, tech, non-profit development, start-ups, education, health, fiction writing, and a few more) and wanted a system that allowed me to quickly cross-connect without hiding things in folders and sub-folders festooned with tags."
Gil CExecutive Director
07Pricing
Simple pricing. Try it free for 7 days.
Plans start at $19 a month, for you or your whole team. See pricing
08Questions
Questions people ask before they download
Is my data sent to the cloud?
What exactly gets hidden?
Does Elephas work on Windows?
Do I need a ChatGPT or OpenAI account?
Can I use it without an internet connection?
How does team sharing work?
Which files can I add?
What happens when the trial ends?
Is there a mobile app?
I use the earlier Elephas Mac app. What changes for me?
Use AI on your real work. Keep your documents on your computer.
Free for 7 days. No card needed. Windows coming soon.
Coming through the Microsoft Store. Download for Mac
Elephas runs on Mac, and Windows is coming soon. We will send you the link once.
For Mac, with Windows coming soon. Free for 7 days.