Cloud-Based eDiscovery &
Information Governance
Software

eDiscovery software helps legal teams collect, process, review, and produce electronically stored information (ESI) during litigation, investigations, or regulatory proceedings. Modern cloud-based eDiscovery platforms like Rational Review use AI and technology-assisted review (TAR) to reduce document review costs by 40–60%, making the entire discovery process faster, cheaper, and more defensible under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

eDiscovery platforms reduce costs through early case assessment (ECA), automated data culling, email threading, near-duplicate detection, and technology-assisted review (TAR). These capabilities eliminate irrelevant documents before attorney review begins — which is typically the largest cost driver in litigation. Organizations using TAR typically see 40–60% reductions in reviewable document volume, translating directly to lower attorney billing and faster time-to-production.

Information governance software helps enterprises discover, classify, and manage unstructured data across the organization. It automates data retention policies, identifies ROT (redundant, obsolete, trivial) and dark data, ensures compliance with GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, and reduces litigation exposure by maintaining defensible data disposal practices. Rational Governance provides complete visibility into your data landscape — in place and in real time — without requiring data migration.

eDiscovery platforms are used by law firms (big law and boutique), corporate legal departments, financial services firms (banks, hedge funds, broker-dealers), government agencies (federal, state, and local), healthcare organizations, and insurance companies. Any organization facing litigation, regulatory investigations, internal HR investigations, or M&A due diligence can benefit from a cloud-based eDiscovery solution.

Rational Review is a cloud-optimized eDiscovery platform backed by 15+ years of industry experience and a dedicated litigation support team included with every engagement. Unlike Relativity's complex infrastructure overhead or DISCO's standalone toolset, Rational Review combines enterprise-grade eDiscovery technology with hands-on project management — giving your team powerful capabilities without the burden of managing the platform yourself. Our pricing is simple and predictable, with no per-seat licensing markups.

Rational Governance supports compliance with GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, SOX, and SEC 17a-4 records requirements. The platform automates retention policy enforcement, identifies sensitive PII and PHI within unstructured data repositories, and provides complete audit trails for defensible data disposition. Our team continuously monitors evolving regulations so your governance program always meets the latest standards.

A litigation hold (also called a legal hold) is a directive to preserve all potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) once litigation is reasonably anticipated. eDiscovery software automates litigation hold issuance, tracks custodian acknowledgments, preserves relevant data in place, and maintains a defensible audit trail — preventing spoliation sanctions and adverse inference rulings under FRCP Rule 37(e). Rational Review manages the entire legal hold lifecycle from issuance through release.

Predictive coding (also called technology-assisted review or TAR) is a machine learning workflow where attorneys code a sample of documents as relevant or not relevant, and the system trains itself to predict the coding of the remaining document population. TAR 2.0 (continuous active learning) continuously improves throughout review. Organizations using predictive coding typically reduce reviewable document volume by 40–60%, dramatically cutting attorney review costs. Rational Review includes built-in predictive coding with real-time prediction scores visible during review.

Yes. Rational Review supports collection and review of Microsoft Teams messages, Slack conversations, SMS text messages, and WhatsApp chats — all common evidence sources in modern litigation and regulatory investigations. The chat viewer renders conversations in their native format, preserves all metadata, supports configurable message splitting, and enables redaction and production of chat data alongside traditional documents.

Government agencies use Rational Review to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Congressional inquiries, and internal investigations. The platform helps agencies search and collect responsive records, apply AI-assisted redactions to protect privileged or exempt information, track custodian acknowledgments, and produce responsive documents in required formats with complete audit trails. Our AI-powered bulk redaction tools dramatically reduce the time and cost of FOIA processing for federal, state, and local agencies.

Bates numbering is a sequential page-identification system applied to every document page produced during litigation, used by attorneys and courts to uniquely reference specific pages throughout a case. Rational Review's Production Wizard automatically applies Bates numbers with customizable prefixes, suffixes, and zero-padding. Productions are output in TIFF, PDF, JPEG, or native formats with standard DAT/OPT load files compatible with Relativity, Nuix, DISCO, and all major platforms.

Early case assessment (ECA) is the practice of quickly analyzing data to understand case risk and scope before committing to full-scale review. Rational Review provides search term hit reports, custodian data volume analysis, concept clustering, and communication analysis at the ECA stage — helping attorneys make informed decisions about settlements, dispositive motions, and review strategy before expensive attorney document review begins. Teams using ECA effectively can reduce overall matter costs by 30–50%.