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eDig365 Doesn't Do E-Discovery — It Watches the People Who Do
Five Star Legal, an e-discovery and compliance consulting shop that's been operating since 1992, unveiled eDig365 this week at the CLOC Global Institute in Chicago. Built by father-and-son team Don Swanson and Hunter Swanson, the product is a read-only reporting layer that sits on top of Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, pulling data through Microsoft's Graph API into a dashboard legal and compliance teams can view without IT credentials. It's sold through the Azure Marketplace, with published pricing reportedly starting around $2,500 and scaling for larger custodian counts up to roughly 500. LawNext's Bob Ambrogi got the first demo and broke the story.
What problem is this actually solving?
It closes a visibility gap: legal directs Purview holds and searches, but only IT has the access to run them or see the results.
That split forces a workaround familiar to anyone who's sat through a litigation hold audit — IT screenshotting Purview screens and pasting them into spreadsheets for legal to sign off on. eDig365 replaces that with a dashboard showing cases, holds, custodians, searches, exports and data volumes, with drill-down to the individual custodian. It also flags a genuinely useful edge case: holds that show a "successful" status in Purview while actually sitting in an "off" state — the kind of silent failure that surfaces badly in a spoliation fight.
Does it replace or compete with an e-discovery platform?
No. It reports on what Purview did; it doesn't search, collect, review, code or produce anything itself.
That's a meaningful limitation to flag for buyers evaluating it against a full review platform. eDig365 never touches document content or substance — it's metadata about holds and custodians, not an evidentiary record with chain of custody or issue coding attached. For teams already running a defensible-review layer downstream of collection, this is complementary at best: it tells you a hold was placed, not what's actually inside the mailbox or how it relates to your claims.
Why does the 12-month audit log window matter here?
Microsoft's Microsoft 365 audit logs expire after twelve months, but discovery disputes routinely surface years after the fact.
That's the strongest part of the pitch, and worth taking seriously independent of the product: if your organization can't reconstruct how a hold was placed or a search was run once the native logs roll off, you have a real compliance gap regardless of which vendor fills it. Ask your own IT and legal teams right now whether anyone owns that retention problem, and whether it's solved by policy, by a third-party tool, or not at all.
What should a buyer press the vendor on before signing?
Ask exactly what Graph API scopes it requests, who defines "successful" versus "failed" hold status, and whether E3-only tenants get full functionality.
The founders note that detailed Purview processing reports are an E5-only feature, meaning organizations on E3 or hybrid licensing — a large share of the market — may see a thinner version of what's demonstrated. Get a written list of what's available at your specific license tier before budgeting, and ask for an independent walkthrough of how the "off but successful" hold detection actually works, since that's the feature doing the most legal-risk lifting in the pitch.
Frequently asked questions
Does eDig365 have access to email or document content?
No — the company describes it as an abstract reporting layer over metadata (folder names, volumes, hold status), not content, which it also frames as a way to gather investigative context without triggering some GDPR notification triggers.
Who can buy it?
It's listed on the Azure Marketplace, aimed at organizations already running Microsoft 365 with Purview eDiscovery, with pricing reported to start near $2,500.
When did it launch?
It debuted publicly in 2026 at the CLOC Global Institute in Chicago, per LawNext's May 14 report.
Sources: LawNext.
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