AI that honours
therapeutic confidentiality.
Your clients share their most private experiences. Ferox Nodus runs entirely on your Mac — session content and client records never reach a third-party server.
Draft session notes, analyze assessments, and research treatment approaches with full AI capability — without compromising client trust.
14-day free trial · No credit card required · Apple Silicon required
The AI problem every therapist in private practice faces
Cloud AI cannot be used with session content or client records
Professional codes of ethics for psychologists, social workers, and counsellors require strict confidentiality. Uploading session notes or client information to cloud AI tools violates that obligation — regardless of the AI company's privacy policy.
Clinical-grade AI is built for hospital systems
The tools that take mental health privacy seriously are enterprise products built for large healthcare organizations. Practitioners in private practice have no viable option.
Ferox Nodus: full AI capability, zero confidentiality risk
Session content and client records are processed entirely on your Mac. Nothing is transmitted without your explicit approval, and PII is scrubbed before any cloud escalation.
Built for therapeutic practice
Session Note Drafting
Generate structured session notes using SOAP or DAP formats — entirely on-device, with client content never leaving your Mac.
Assessment Analysis
Analyze psychometric assessment data, summarize results, and draft report sections with local AI processing.
Client File Search
Search across a client's history by clinical meaning. Find the session, assessment, or observation you need instantly.
Confidentiality by Architecture
Session content is never sent anywhere without explicit consent. Full audit logging for professional accountability.
Six layers between
your data and the cloud.
Privacy isn't a policy — it's architecture. Every query passes through six protection layers before anything reaches the network.
Your Device
Local Inference
AI runs entirely on your hardware. No network calls.
Document RAG
Your documents indexed locally. Never uploaded.
PII Scrubbing Pipeline
PII Detection
GLiNER NER model identifies sensitive entities.
PII Replacement
Names, addresses, IDs replaced with synthetic tokens.
Audit Logging
Every scrubbing action logged locally for compliance.
Cloud (Scrubbed Only)
Cloud Relay
Scrubbed query sent to frontier model via Toronto relay.
↑ Your device never shares raw data ↑
Designed around therapeutic confidentiality obligations
PIPEDA
Federal private sector privacy law compliance built into the architecture.
PIPA (Alberta)
Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act requirements addressed by local processing.
Canadian Data Sovereignty
Cloud relay hosted in Toronto. No cross-border data transfer for local queries.
Ferox Nodus is a productivity tool. It does not provide therapeutic advice and does not replace the judgment of a registered mental health professional.
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Install
Download and install on macOS or Windows.
Download Model
Gemma 3 12B downloads on first launch (~7 GB).
First Query
Start chatting — everything runs locally.