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eDiscovery is not ripe for disruption. That ship has sailed. eDiscovery has largely been solved for most corporate environments. There are tools to collect dat
by jonstewart 12y ago
eDiscovery is not ripe for disruption. That ship has sailed.
eDiscovery has largely been solved for most corporate environments. There are tools to collect data in a defensible manner, to "process" (i.e., index) it, and to review it. There are even some products that aggregate these functions together, however, it must be well-noted that each of these functions has a different user/customer and occurs at a different timeframe in the discovery process.
Many of the dominant tools do have their warts. But the money that was once in this space--the eDiscovery collection product I wrote sold for a couple million to its first customer--is no longer there. Prices have dropped dramatically and its now a commoditized market. So you'd have to work very hard for very little gain to displace any of the dominant players.
Note that TFA was written by investors in a new eDiscovery startup and TFA seems mostly like latent marketing for them. I don't know anything about them--good luck and all that--but I'm very familiar with the space and I don't envy them.