Lawyers & law firms
Client privilege without compromise – not a single word leaves the computer.
Sophist Hestia · 100% local
Speech recognition that never leaves your building.
For companies and industries that are not allowed to use cloud services. Sophist Hestia processes everything on the Mac – there is no cloud connection at all.
For professions where confidentiality is not optional
Sophist Hestia is aimed especially at critical professions: lawyers, public authorities, security services and everyone who needs a truly 100% local, secure application.
Public authorities
Usable where cloud services are ruled out legally or organizationally.
Security services
For sensitive incident reports and briefings in isolated environments.
The name
The goddess who never left her home
In Greek mythology, Hestia was the goddess of the hearth – the heart of every home. While the other Olympians went out, waged wars and quarrelled over the world, Hestia stayed home. She even gave up her seat among the Twelve to tend the fire.
Her hearth burned in every house and every city. What was spoken there stayed within the family circle. Hestia was the keeper of what is trusted: constant, dependable, never travelling.
That is exactly what Sophist Hestia is. Your voice, your texts, your meetings stay at home – on your Mac, inside your company. Nothing goes out to the cloud. Not because it is switched off, but because Hestia never leaves her home.
„What is said at home stays at home."
Hestia contains no cloud providers. Nothing to disable, nothing to switch on by accident.
Clear architecture: audio and text stay on the device, making review and approval easier.
Runs even in isolated networks without internet access.
Deliberately focused
Exactly the features that run reliably on-device – nothing more.
Dictation
Speak instead of type – in any macOS app, right at the cursor.
Local post-processing
Speech becomes clean text: a dictated email gets greeting, paragraphs and sign-off – formatted entirely on-device.
Meeting transcription
Transcribe meetings locally – the transcript stays on your computer.
Text actions
Rephrase, shorten or correct selected text – processed locally.
Made for environments with strict requirements
Healthcare
Dictate reports and letters without patient data leaving the premises.
Legal
Protect client confidentiality: briefs and notes stay local.
Public sector
Usable where cloud services are prohibited.
Finance & insurance
Confidential customer data under full control.
Industry & research
Protect trade secrets and R&D information.
Defense & critical infrastructure
For isolated networks without internet access.
Hestia or Sophist?
Sophist Hestia
100% local, cloud not possible. Dictation, post-processing, meeting transcription, text actions.
Sophist
Full feature set with cloud and local models, Command Mode, translation, Meeting Coach and more.
Hestia replaces Sophist Local and is the choice for everyone who may not use any cloud at all.