File-level restrictions

Confidentiality the AI respects

Lock a single file down to the people who must see it. Four access modes per user: View, Download, Edit, Delete. Restricted files are completely hidden from everyone else, including from the AI for those users.

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How to restrict

One click. The file disappears for everyone else.

From the file manager, right-click any file and choose Restrict File. The moment you confirm, the file disappears from the file manager and from AI answers for everyone in the firm, except you. Add named users next, with the four access modes you want them to have.

  • Granular: per file, not per folder
  • Effective immediately for everyone in the firm
  • Restriction events recorded permanently in the file's history
Per-file restrictions narrated demo — Juravie admin restricts a junior software developer employment agreement to a single user with read-only access. A second user without access cannot find the file via AI search or the file manager. The granted user can open it but the AI refuses to edit it because it inherits the user's view-only permission.
Four access modes

Per user. Per mode. Independently toggleable.

A junior can read but not download. A peer can edit but not delete. A reviewer can view but not change. No predefined bundles: you tick the modes you want, per user, per file.

View

Open the file in read-only mode. Cannot edit, download, or delete.

Download

Save a copy locally as DOCX/PDF. Independent of View, so you can grant download without view-in-app.

Edit

Open an editing session, make changes (manually or via AI), submit for approval.

Delete

Remove the file from the library. Typically reserved for the original restrictor and a small named group.

AI inherits user access

Same rule for humans and the AI

No grant → the AI cannot reference the file. View-only grant → the AI can read but never edit. Edit grant → the AI can act on it. Two users, the same chat, different answers, based on each user's own access.

SA

Sarah, Senior Associate

Edit grant on Acme_M&A_2026.docx

"Summarize the indemnity clauses in our Acme files."

Surfaces clauses from the M&A file with citations. Sarah can ask the AI to redline.

JD

Jamie, Paralegal

No grant on Acme_M&A_2026.docx

"Summarize the indemnity clauses in our Acme files."

Answers from files Jamie can see. The restricted M&A file is invisible, and uncited.

Same chat, same prompt, same firm. Different answers. There is no "admin override" for the AI.

Juravie file manager — right-click context menu open on a restricted employment agreement, showing Manage Access and Remove Restriction options. The selected file is EmploymentAgreement_JuniorSoftwareDeveloper_JohnSmith_Jan2026.docx with status 'Available — Restricted'. The Details pane on the right surfaces the file's metadata: document type, parties (Gallegar and John Smith), addresses, jurisdiction (New Zealand), governing law (Employment Relations Act 2000), and effective date.
Reversible at any time

Open it back up when the matter closes

Click Remove Restriction and the file returns to standard role-based access. Your role model takes over again; the file becomes visible to whoever your roles say should see it. The restriction event and its removal are both recorded permanently in the file's history.

  • One-click removal: file returns to role-based access
  • Re-restrict any time: restrictions can be applied and removed repeatedly
  • Both events recorded in the file's history

File-level restrictions are one of three access layers

Custom roles set the rule. Per-user overrides handle the edge cases. Per-file restrictions handle the sensitive matters. All three live in Manage Permissions.

See full access management → AI with guardrails →

Confidentiality the AI respects, built in

M&A files, partner-only matters, HR investigations: restrict them to the people who must see them. The AI obeys the same rules.

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