# How does a private local AI work offline, inside the office?

Quebec's private AI, locked in your office

Oria, by Agent Oria, is Quebec's private AI, locked in your office. This local AI runs on a machine installed where you work, not on an online provider's servers. To answer you, it never has to send your questions or documents outside your office.

The AI answers you without the internet. One click on the big button at the top of Oria's screen stops anything from going out to the internet.

## Plug in the machine, and it works without the internet

Oria has its own screen, keyboard and mouse, and its AI is ready to work. You plug it all in, including the network cable, then turn Oria on.

Next, you connect it to your computers and lock its master switch with your password. From then on, your machine is a vault, cut off from the internet and from all outside access. The connection stays in the office, between Oria and your computers.

Oria talks with you, transcribes your meetings and reads your documents, even scanned ones. It finds a document from what you remember of it, and it keeps your calendar the way a secretary would. It does all of this without the internet.

We spent months making Oria simple. A new employee can use it from their first day at the office.

[See: all its features](/en/specifications)

## Several people can use Oria at the same time

Install Oria on each computer, tablet or cell phone in the office. Each person signs in with their own account password. Oria shares its computing power among the people using it at the same time, and one click sets it up for one, two, four or six people.

[See: pick a mode by how many people work at once](/en/specifications#pick-a-mode-by-how-many-people-work-at-once)

## Your information stays in the office

Your conversations, your documents and their backup stay on the machine. To answer you, the AI sends nothing outside the office.

[See: why Oria stays an offline vault](/en/trust)

[See: the CLOUD Act and your files](/en/trust#can-the-cloud-act-reach-your-files)

[See: what the law and the Barreau du Québec say about professional secrecy](/en/trust#the-law-protects-professional-secrecy)

[See: what Law 25 requires, section by section](/en/ai-law-25)

## What the authorities say

The Government of Canada wrote a guide on generative AI for its federal institutions. Here is what it tells them:

> "The privacy risks will depend on how the generative AI system is used, how it processes information about individuals, and whether it is publicly accessible online or is deployed on the government’s secure network."
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> "Public servants must not input personal information into publicly available online generative AI tools. Doing so would constitute an unlawful disclosure of the information because the supplier might store a copy of the information. Public servants may, however, input personal information into generative AI systems that are controlled or configured by the government when the appropriate privacy and security controls are in place. (…)"

Source: [Guide on the use of generative artificial intelligence, Government of Canada](https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/responsible-use-ai/generative-ai/guide-use-generative-ai.html).

Together, Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy authorities presented principles for generative AI. Quebec's Commission d'accès à l'information is one of them. Here is what they write for organizations:

> - "Where possible and reasonable, use anonymized or de-identified information within prompts to a generative AI system rather than personal information."
> - "Where personal information (and, in particular, sensitive or confidential information) must be entered into a prompt, only do so where authorised."
> - "Unless otherwise required, prompts should not be retained, used for secondary purposes, or disclosed."

Source: [Principles for responsible, trustworthy and privacy-protective generative AI technologies](https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/technology/artificial-intelligence/gd_principles_ai/). The Commission announced them on [its website](https://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/actualites/devoilement-principes-developpement-et-utilisation-intelligence-artificielle-ia-generative), in French.

## Your questions about local AI

**How do you install a local AI in the office?** For Oria, plug the screen, keyboard and mouse into the machine. Plug in the network cable too. Then turn Oria on. Next, on each computer, tablet or cell phone in the office, open Oria's panel. Choose the page “Installer Oria sur un appareil” (install Oria on a device) and follow the steps.

**Is there a Quebec AI that keeps data in the office?** Yes. Agent Oria is a Quebec company. Oria keeps your conversations and documents on the machine, in your office.

**How can you tell if an AI respects privacy?** For any AI, three questions will tell you. Where does it run? What information does it send out to answer you? Who can read that information? [See: the three answers for Oria](/en/trust).

## Sources

- [Guide on the use of generative artificial intelligence, Government of Canada](https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/responsible-use-ai/generative-ai/guide-use-generative-ai.html) (read on October 30, 2026)
- [Principles for responsible, trustworthy and privacy-protective generative AI technologies, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada](https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/technology/artificial-intelligence/gd_principles_ai/) (read on October 30, 2026)
- [Dévoilement des principes de développement et d'utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle (IA) générative, Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec (in French)](https://www.cai.gouv.qc.ca/actualites/devoilement-principes-developpement-et-utilisation-intelligence-artificielle-ia-generative) (read on October 30, 2026)

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