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Nick Steiner
Founder and CEO of Confidelio, the privileged legal AI.
American, based between Prague and California.
Founder and CEO of Confidelio, the privileged legal AI.
American, based between Prague and California.
Someone will own AI legal privilege. We already built it.
A legal AI people can speak to freely, with advanced research and drafting capabilities, built to retain attorney-client privilege on a patent-pending mechanism and private infrastructure.
In February 2026 a federal court ruled that what a person typed into a consumer AI chatbot about his legal trouble was not privileged.
Every legal question typed into an ordinary chatbot is kept on someone else's servers, with no attorney-client privilege, and can be subpoenaed by the court or an adverse party.
Americans have a legal problem every year. Only 23% get help from a lawyer.
of Americans say they have turned to an AI chatbot for legal help.
general chatbots that carry privilege. Chats are business records that can be used in court.
Sources: IAALS and HiiL, 2021; Rev, December 2025; United States v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026).
with a legal problem each year
of them use AI chatbots (49%)
concerned that what they share with AI could expose them (66%)
At today's paying rate for AI that is a $331 million a year floor, rising toward $562 million by 2030, with a ceiling of $6.6 billion.
Sources: IAALS and HiiL, 2021; Pew Research Center, 2026; Aura and Talker Research, September 2026; OpenAI figures reported by Reuters, November 2025; PNC Economics Research, June 2026 ($31 a month average household AI spend). Paying users and dollar figures are company calculations.
A wide open field. Confidelio is the first to take the territory.
Background in software sales and marketing. Conceived the mechanism, filed the patent application and built the live product.
Partner, Steiner & Libo, Los Angeles. 38 years at the California bar.