We’ve built a system that is Reliable , Affordable , and Governed . But until now, our Forensic Team has been "blind." It could only reconcile text-based metadata. In the world of rare book forensics, the text is only half the story. The typography, paper grain, and binding texture are the true "fingerprints." However, sending high-resolution, proprietary scans of a $50,000 asset to a cloud-based LLM is a Data Sovereignty nightmare. Today, we introduce The Local Eye : Edge-based Multimodal Vision that processes pixels without letting them leak into the cloud. The Sovereignty Gap in Multimodal AI Most multimodal implementations send raw images directly to frontier models (like GPT-4o). For an enterprise, this is a liability. Intellectual Property: Who owns the training data rights to the scan? Privacy: Does the image contain metadata or background information that violates NDAs? Cost: Sending 10MB 4K images for every query is an "Accountant's" nightmare.…