FreeEed ingests your email and files, lets you search and cull down to exactly what’s responsive, and exports clean PDFs — all self-hosted, so nothing ever leaves the building. Free and open source.
Personal information. Exempt material. Student and personnel data. FreeEed runs entirely on your own machine or server — no upload, no third party, no per-gigabyte cloud bill. When AI assists, it runs locally, so you can certify that nothing was ever sent out. It’s the same court-defensible, on-prem approach agencies and firms already trust for litigation, brought to public records.
Download the FreeEed appliance, spin up a fresh virtual machine for each request, load the records, and work the whole thing in one self-contained place. When you’re done, archive or delete the VM.
Each request lives in its own environment — a clean chain of custody, with no crossover between matters.
Runs on the virtualization you already have — VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V, Proxmox. No install, no dependency hunt.
Self-hosted on your hardware, free to run forever. No account to keep, no data held hostage.
Pull in email, PST and mbox exports, and loose files — including exports from Google Vault and Microsoft 365.
Full-text search across everything, then narrow to what’s actually responsive to the request.
Read and tag documents in a browser-based review view.
Export the responsive documents as individual PDFs, ready to hand off.
Google Vault → mbox → FreeEed → PDF.FreeEed is free and open source — every feature, including local AI, works whether you pay or not. Optional support is a flat rate, never billed by volume or by the gigabyte. Cancel anytime and your work keeps running.
Continuous updates, support, and hosted capabilities. Flat — no volume charge, ever.
Researchers studying FOIA keep pointing at the same gap: there are plenty of tools for litigation e-discovery, but almost nothing built for the records analyst at a smaller agency — a desktop tool they can actually run themselves. That’s exactly what FreeEed is: self-hosted, installs today, with the full processing pipeline behind it.
AI-assisted exemption review to help flag material under common FOIA exemptions — with a human making every call. Want to help shape it on your real workflow? Become a design partner →
Download FreeEed, run it on your own machine, and take a real records request through end to end. It’s free.