Counsel holds the authority. The database checks it before anything is delivered.

Data boundaries

Where your data sits and who can touch it.

• Database-enforced tenant isolation. Tenant identity and row-level access policies are enforced in PostgreSQL, not inferred from a screen or a prompt.
• Purpose-limited model use. Approved model services may assist source extraction under the data terms agreed for the pilot. Model-assisted matching uses an authorized provider path. Newcomb does not use customer material to train a Newcomb model.
• Role and recency checks. Employee access is tenant-scoped. Recording a legal act — adopting, publishing, electing distribution, or recalling guidance — requires the counsel role and a recent MFA step-up.

Authority and provenance

A model can nominate a candidate. It cannot create authority.

Where the policy states the conditions, answers can go out from day one. A model may nominate guidance and identify supporting text. Its output and score are not permission to answer.

• Exact recorded response. The selected source or counsel response is copied byte-for-byte. The answering path cannot add a summary, a disclaimer, or a model-authored transition.
• Independent eligibility checks. Facts, source version, and whether the rule is on are checked before delivery.
• Visible non-answers and submissions. Missing facts are asked for. Questions the rules cannot answer go to Legal, and an employee can ask for a person instead.

Delivery and deployment requirements.

Turning a rule on lets its answer go out when the facts fit. Turning it off stops new answers from that rule. The provider and deployment requirements remain:

• An approved model provider and customer-approved data terms.
• A managed deployment, with a daily off-site database backup that is read back after upload, a completed restore drill, and a stated recovery point — point-in-time recovery is not claimed until it exists.
• Rule off switches that stop new delivery.

What we do not claim.

We do not claim that using Newcomb creates or preserves attorney-client privilege; how your communications are treated is a question for your counsel, and the product's job is to keep a faithful record of authorship and delivery, whatever treatment applies.

We do not claim complete coverage of your policies, and we do not promise the system will always have an answer. A referral to Legal is a designed outcome. We would rather show you an honest gap than a confident guess.