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EvidenceLedger

AI-Native Managed Document Review & Privilege Engine — AI-Native Service Blueprint Contents 1. Active buyer conversations 19. Competitive landscape 20. Competitor/budget validation 21.

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Who this is for

A precise operating owner, not a generic audience.

Responsible buyer

Target buyer Economic buyer: the person who owns litigation cost and risk and signs the engagement — a corporate Associate General Counsel / Head of Litigation / Director of Legal Operations at a mid-market company, or the litigation partner / practice-group leader at a small-to-mid law firm. Champion / day-to-day contact: the eDiscovery / litigation-support manager , senior litigation paralegal, or the associate running the matter.

Cost of the gap

Painful problem Document review is the "elephant in the eDiscovery room": it consumes 60–75% of eDiscovery cost and, on ABA estimates, roughly 80% of total litigation spend (~$42B/yr). The pain is not just cost — it's risk concentrated in privilege . A single inadvertently produced privileged email can waive privilege over an entire subject matter, hand the opponent decisive evidence, and trigger a malpractice claim against counsel.

Outcome

The outcome we sell We do not sell a review platform, an AI copilot, or seats. We sell a defensible produced set and privilege log, delivered on deadline, with the validation record counsel needs to certify it . The customer's experience is a service relationship with a named review-attorney lead, not a login.

Decision rule

Proceed only when the source record, service boundary, responsible reviewer, and release criteria can be named before work begins.

Method

The work moves through visible states.

  1. ScopeService delivery workflow Scoping/ECA: receive collection stats; sample; estimate volume, privilege rate, timeline, and a fixed per-unit quote.
  2. CollectProtocol build: attorney designs the privilege protocol with the client's counsel (criteria, custodians, counsel/firm lists, 502(d) order).
  3. NormalizeProcess & normalize: OCR, de-dup, thread, index.
  4. ValidateAI first pass: score responsiveness/privilege with rationale; draft log entries; propose redactions.
  5. ResolveAttorney review: adjudicate all privilege candidates, edge cases, and low-confidence calls; resolve rule/AI conflicts.
  6. ReviewQA & validation: statistical sampling of AI-only calls; recall/precision/elusion; second-attorney QC on withholds.
  7. ReleaseAssemble & deliver: render redactions, format log, build defensibility packet, produce set, register claw-backs.

Engagement

Buy the reviewed outcome, with boundaries written down.

Pricing evidence and proposed pricing Evidence: prevailing review & production runs ~$15–30/GB; onsite contract-attorney review commonly >$40/hr; hosting $5–15/GB/mo; processing $3–10/GB. Buyers already think in per-GB and per-document units — never our own hours.

Release package

  • The outcome we sell We do not sell a review platform, an AI copilot, or seats.
  • We sell a defensible produced set and privilege log, delivered on deadline, with the validation record counsel needs to certify it .
  • The customer's experience is a service relationship with a named review-attorney lead, not a login.
  • Concretely, per matter the client receives: A responsiveness-coded document set (relevant / not relevant, with issue/hot-doc tags).

Proof standard

Operating evidence: No verified cycle-time result is published yet. The first result will be calculated from accepted intake through qualified-human release.

Client evidence: No client identity or case narrative is published. A reference may appear only after written permission and factual review.

Volume evidence: No completed-client count is claimed. Counts will be published only after the delivery ledger and provider records reconcile.

Evidence room

Authority comes from traceable sources, not decorative claims.

Open the full canonical blueprint dossier

  • IMARCSource identified in the canonical blueprint; verify currency before client reliance.
  • Fortune BISource identified in the canonical blueprint; verify currency before client reliance.
  • eDiscovery TodaySource identified in the canonical blueprint; verify currency before client reliance.
  • RAND RB9650Source identified in the canonical blueprint; verify currency before client reliance.
  • ServientSource identified in the canonical blueprint; verify currency before client reliance.
  • Everlaw costs 2026Source identified in the canonical blueprint; verify currency before client reliance.
  • ComplexDiscovery Winter 2026Source identified in the canonical blueprint; verify currency before client reliance.
  • DecoverAI benchmarkSource identified in the canonical blueprint; verify currency before client reliance.

Service boundary

Automation prepares. A qualified human releases.

EvidenceLedger is an operational documentation and processing service operated by Your Deputy, Obuke LLC. It is not a law firm and does not provide legal, tax, medical, financial, or other licensed professional advice. Consumer and personal debt matters are not accepted. The client retains its licensed professionals and decision authority. Automation may organize and check records, but a qualified human must review and release every client deliverable.

  • Unsupported facts remain unresolved, never inferred into a client deliverable.
  • Jurisdiction-specific or licensed questions are routed to the client's professional.
  • Every correction retains the source, reviewer, version, and reason for change.

Questions

Know the limits before intake.

Is this legal or professional advice?

No. This is bounded operational documentation and processing support. Licensed judgment remains with the client and its professionals.

Does automation make the final decision?

No. It can organize records, run declared checks, and prepare an exception queue. A qualified human reviews and releases every deliverable.

Is a client portal or CRM already active?

This public site does not claim an active portal integration. Portal access is provisioned only after the relevant backend is configured and independently verified.

What happens when evidence conflicts?

The item is placed in an exception state with its sources and owner. It is not silently resolved or presented as verified.

Fit diagnostic

Send enough context to scope the next conversation—no sensitive files.

Do not submit protected health information, personal financial data, credentials, or confidential client records through this public page.