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From Review Decision to Served Production

Bates-numbered productions with a fail-closed privilege gate and a byte-for-byte verifiable manifest.

The platform carries the matter through the last stage of the EDRM - turning reviewed documents into a served, Bates-numbered production. No export to a second tool, no re-keying of decisions, no gap where mistakes creep in.

Decide Once, in Place

Review decisions are made right in the document viewer on any page: produce, withhold for privilege, or needs redaction. Every change is appended to an audit trail recording who decided, when, and what the prior value was - and decisions are instantly searchable as a filter, so "everything decided produce but not yet produced" is a query, not a spreadsheet.

Lock With Confidence

  • Draft sets are assembled explicitly or automatically from review decisions.
  • Locking a set freezes its membership and assigns Bates numbers in a deterministic order, continuing the case-wide sequence so numbers never overlap between productions.
  • The privilege gate fails closed: any privilege-flagged document is withheld with a slip sheet and a privilege-log entry unless an explicit, audited override says otherwise.
  • An unresolved redaction blocks the lock entirely. The safe outcome is the default outcome.

A Package You Can Defend

The built package contains Bates- and confidentiality-stamped PDFs (stamped on every page), native email files reproduced bit-for-bit from the collected mailbox, native copies of other formats, an extracted-text sidecar per document, a standard load file, the privilege log, and a manifest recording a SHA-256 hash of every artifact - so a served production can later be re-verified byte for byte. Delivery is by secure, expiring download links; serving remains an attorney action.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly is in a built production package?

Bates- and confidentiality-stamped PDFs (stamped on every page), native email files reproduced bit-for-bit from the collected mailbox, native copies of other formats, an extracted-text sidecar per document, a standard load file, the privilege log, and a manifest recording a SHA-256 hash of every artifact.

How are privileged documents protected from accidental production?

The privilege gate fails closed. Any privilege-flagged document is withheld with a slip sheet and a privilege-log entry unless an explicit, audited override says otherwise - and an unresolved redaction blocks the lock entirely. The safe outcome is the default outcome.

Can Bates numbers overlap between productions?

No. Locking a set assigns Bates numbers in a deterministic order and continues the case-wide sequence, so numbers never overlap between sets - including sets produced weeks apart.

Can a served production be verified after the fact?

Yes, byte for byte. The manifest records a SHA-256 hash of every artifact in the package, so anyone can later re-verify that what was served is exactly what was built.

See it on your matter

Bring us a messy collection - mailboxes, scans, phones, recordings - and watch it become one searchable, defensible record.