diff --git a/app/routes/assistant.tsx b/app/routes/assistant.tsx
index 05c6510..09f3d2f 100644
--- a/app/routes/assistant.tsx
+++ b/app/routes/assistant.tsx
@@ -1059,6 +1059,16 @@ function AssistantSurface({
         </div>
       )}
 
+      <p
+        data-slot="llm-egress-notice"
+        className="rounded-md border border-border bg-muted/50 px-3 py-2 text-xs text-muted-foreground"
+      >
+        <strong className="text-foreground">Where your data goes:</strong> your
+        messages — plus any platform data the assistant pulls in (tenant, user,
+        and billing rows) — are sent to the operator-configured LLM provider.
+        Unless that's a local model, it's a third-party service.
+      </p>
+
       <div
         ref={scrollerRef}
         className="flex-1 overflow-y-auto rounded-lg border bg-card/30 p-4"