Ordalie Vault

Ordalie Vault brings your firm's own storage — SharePoint, FTP, Google Drive and more — right into Ordalie. The documents you keep in those systems become searchable and ready for the assistant to work with, side by side with public legal sources.

What Ordalie Vault is, and who it's for

Vault is for Ordalie MAX accounts and organization deployments that need centralized access to their internal storage. Once it's set up, it keeps your chosen document sources synced and ready to use right inside your workspace. For simpler personal connections, see Integrations.

Vault configuration is handled by the Ordalie team. Contact: [email protected].

Finding and using your Vault documents

Your documents in Ordalie

Your Vault documents sit alongside public legal sources, right in your workspace. Your own folder structure is reproduced, so you can browse it in a multi-column explorer.

Staying in sync

A status indicator shows where your Vault stands: how many documents are ready, when it last updated, and what was recently added. Syncing happens on its own.

Getting your documents ready

The first time you connect, or whenever you add documents, Ordalie reads through their content so they become searchable. You can follow the progress in your settings:

  • A progress bar shows the percentage of documents already prepared
  • The total number of documents to process is shown clearly
  • You can see the current state — in progress, finished, or paused
  • You're notified as soon as everything is ready

This work happens quietly in the background. Documents that are already prepared can be used while the rest continues.

Describing your sources

You can add a short description to each connected source — for example "Contract templates validated by the Corporate team" or "Litigation case archive 2020-2024". It helps the assistant understand your content when you search.

Searching and opening your documents

Vault search works in three ways, complementing legal research:

Search built in: the assistant looks through your Vault documents alongside public sources when it answers you.

Search just your own files: narrow results to your internal documents only, to find a precedent or a template.

Browse by folder: move through your folder tree directly, just as you organised it.

How Vault works with the rest of Ordalie

The @ mention: your shortcut to the Vault

Type @ anywhere you're writing — to the assistant, when generating a document, inside a workflow — to reach your Vault documents. From there you can:

  • Pin specific documents to your conversation with the assistant
  • Point to whole folders for a broader analysis
  • Bring your internal templates into the documents you generate
  • Draw on your precedents inside analysis workflows

Browsing

Moving through your folders in columns, you can:

  • Browse your folder tree with the arrow keys or the mouse
  • Follow the breadcrumb trail showing the full path from the top
  • Select several items at once for side-by-side analysis
  • Open a file directly with "Open file"

Search that understands you

Vault search is semantic: it grasps what you mean, not just the words you typed, and can point you to related documents beyond an exact keyword match.

Keeping it private

Your Vault documents stay private within your organization. Syncing runs over encrypted connections, and your data never passes through outside systems.

Vault in practice

Drafting from your own templates

When you generate a document, type @ to pick a Vault document as your starting point. The assistant follows its layout, terminology and style.

Finding and suggesting clauses

While you draft or review a contract, highlight a clause to search across your Vault documents. The assistant finds similar passages in your archives and suggests variations drawn from your own precedents.

How does it work?

graph TD
    Utilisateur[ordalie.com - Svelte] -->|HTTP Requests| Serveur_API
    subgraph Serveur_API[Ordalie API Server]
        Modeles_IA[AI Models & Processing Pipelines]
        API_Sources_Donnees[Data Source API]
    end
    Serveur_API --> Services_Ext[External Endpoints]
    Serveur_API -->|VPN Tunnel| Serveur_Vault
    subgraph Serveur_Vault[Ordalie Vault Server]
        Equilibreur_Charge[Load balancer] --> Serveur_Central[Main Server - Golang]
        Serveur_Central --> Pipeline_Ingestion_Docs[Document Ingestion Pipeline]
        Pipeline_Ingestion_Docs --> Connecteurs[Connectors]
        Serveur_Central --> BDD_Vecteur[Vector DB - Weaviate]
        Serveur_Central --> BDD_SQL[SQL DB - PostgreSQL]
        BDD_Vecteur --> Partition_Optionnelle2[Optional Sharding]
        BDD_Vecteur --> Partition_Optionnelle3[Other Sharding...]
    end
    subgraph Stockage_Externe[External Storage Sources]
        Stockage1[Sharepoint]
        Stockage2[FTP]
        Stockage3[Drive]
        Autres_Sources[...]
    end
    Connecteurs -->|Daily Update| Stockage1
    Connecteurs --> Stockage2
    Connecteurs --> Stockage3
    Connecteurs --> Autres_Sources

Here's how your information moves between the different parts:

1. You and your workspace

The user interacts with Ordalie via the usual interface at ordalie.com.

2. Ordalie's API server

Ordalie's API server is the heart of the system. It gathers all your requests and connects to the Vault — and only the Vault — securely.

3. A secure VPN tunnel to your Vault server

To reach your company's internal data, Ordalie's API server opens a secure connection over a VPN tunnel to the Ordalie Vault server. This isn't just an access point: it's a complete, self-contained on-premise module, built to run on your own premises while syncing with Ordalie for updates and new capabilities.

4. The Ordalie Vault server

The Ordalie Vault server connects deeply with your company's internal systems, on a powerful and flexible infrastructure:

  • Load balancer: spreads requests efficiently to keep things fast and responsive.
  • Main server (Golang): at the core, it handles local requests and orchestrates the stages of processing your data.
  • Document ingestion: brings your company's internal documents in automatically, retrieving files from your different storage sources through connectors.

5. Connecting to outside data sources

To bring everything in, the Vault server's ingestion relies on connectors that link to your company's external data sources, such as:

  • SharePoint
  • FTP
  • Google Drive
  • And any other source with API access or a file-transfer protocol…

Connectors refresh every day, so what you see in Ordalie always stays current.

6. Organising and optimising your data

Once your documents are in, the Vault server organises them across two databases:

  • Vector database (Weaviate): powers advanced search and arranges documents by how similar their content is. It can also be split through sharding to handle large volumes efficiently.
  • SQL database (PostgreSQL): holds structured data and metadata, for sturdy, reliable storage and access.

This modular setup lets Ordalie Vault fit straight into your company's ecosystem, while still benefiting from every Ordalie improvement so it stays up to date.

Dernière mise à jour le 15 juillet 2026