X1 Brings “AI In-Place” to the Enterprise—A Major Breakthrough for Secure, Scalable AI Deployment

By John Patzakis

Our latest announcement represents a true inflection point in enterprise AI. With X1 Enterprise’s newly introduced capability for AI in-place, organizations and their service providers will, for the first time, be able to deploy and execute large language models (LLMs) directly where enterprise data lives—without moving or copying that data.

This is more than a product enhancement; it is a fundamental shift in how AI is applied across the enterprise.

The Foundation: Efficient Text Extraction Is Critical for AI
Large language models (LLMs) are the core engines that power today’s AI revolution. These models rely entirely on textual input to perform reasoning, summarization, search, and analysis. That is why text extraction is the critical first step. LLMs can only operate once another process extracts the text from emails, documents and chats. Traditionally, that meant copying or exporting data to external systems hosted by third party vendors, a process fraught with risk, cost, and compliance challenges.

Solving the “Data Movement Problem” for Enterprise AI
So, the key barrier to enterprise AI adoption has been the reluctance to move sensitive corporate data to external AI platforms. Whether for security, governance or cost reasons, most enterprises simply cannot send their data outside their environment.

X1’s innovation solves that problem head-on. Instead of shipping sensitive data out to an AI system, X1 brings the AI to the data. Enterprises can now deploy their own proprietary models or open-source LLMs within the secure perimeter of their existing infrastructure, whether on premises or in the cloud. X1’s index-in-place architecture performs the text extraction and indexing where the data resides. By extending that same principle to AI—forward-deploying LLMs directly to enterprise data sources—X1 now enables AI in-place. The result: organizations can apply the analytical power of LLMs across their data without ever moving it.

Once the LLMs are deployed into the X1 micro-indexes, X1 will then auto-apply AI-informed tags, which a user can query globally from a central console and act upon through targeted data collection or remediation. Imagine petabytes of data on file servers, laptops M365 and other sources all AI-classified and then queried and collected on a highly targeted basis.

This means enterprises can now unlock powerful new use cases no matter the scale—AI-assisted compliance, risk monitoring, GRC audits, eDiscovery, and more—while maintaining full control of their data and eliminating the need for costly, risky data transfers.

Enabling Collaboration Between Enterprises and Their Advisors
William Belt, Managing Director and Consulting Practice Leader at Complete Discovery Source, described the impact succinctly:

“Enabling AI in-place where our corporate client’s data lives is game-changing. We look forward to working with our clients to deploy AI models that are either pre-trained or customized for a specific matter or compliance requirement utilizing the X1 Enterprise platform.”

This capability creates a new bridge between corporations and their professional advisors—consulting firms, law firms, and service providers—who can now collaborate directly with their clients to develop, fine-tune, and deploy customized AI models for specific business or legal needs.

Rather than relying on generic cloud-based AI tools, organizations can now build targeted, matter-specific LLMs that are tuned to their unique data and compliance requirements, all executed securely in-place through the X1 Enterprise Platform.

A New Era for Enterprise AI
With this release, X1 is redefining the architecture of enterprise AI. Its ability to perform distributed micro-indexing and in-place AI analysis across global data sources enables secure, scalable, and cost-effective intelligence—without ever duplicating or relocating sensitive data.

For enterprises and their partners, this represents a new era of possibility: true AI at enterprise scale, in-place.

X1 will host a webinar on Wednesday, December 10, featuring a detailed overview of this new capability and a live demonstration. You can register here.