Where the money goes
Document review is still one of the largest cost centers in litigation and diligence. Firms burn associate time, contract review teams, or both. Clients feel the bill; partners feel the staffing crunch.
- Manual first-pass review measured in weeks for large sets
- Inconsistent coding when teams rotate
- Knowledge lost when contractors leave the matter
Consumer chat is a poor review workspace
Dropping a production set into a public model is not a serious review workflow. It creates privilege and confidentiality exposure, weak auditability, and little defensibility if a process is challenged.
Private review workspaces
A private document-review system can index and analyze files on hardware you control, surface key parties and themes, and link supported answers to source pages. People still make the decisions. The system speeds up the first pass and memo draft.
- On-prem or dedicated private cloud only
- Citations back to the exact document
- Matter-scoped permissions and full query logs
Compare review workflows
Use a representative document set to define sources, permissions, review, and acceptance criteria.
Review the Document Workflow