Nobody should read 500 pages to find the twelve that matter.
DataGuard reads the whole production and brings back what should not go out, each item with the rule that requires it. Your reviewer approves, edits, or overrides. The judgment stays where it belongs. The page-by-page read is what disappears.
Run the numbers on your firm
We don't know your volume or what a reviewer costs you, so both are yours to set. Only the review rate is ours, and it is an estimate.
reviewer hours a month, reading page by page
of that time, at the rate you set
Both inputs are yours. The only figure we supply is the review rate of 20 to 40 pages an hour, which is our own estimate and not a published benchmark. It is the reading pass this replaces, not the approval: someone on your side still confirms every send.
Review is where production budgets actually go. RAND studied 57 large-volume productions and found review accounted for roughly 73% of total cost, against 19% for processing and 8% for collection. They concluded technology had the potential to cut the hours attorneys spend by about three quarters.
RAND Institute for Civil Justice, Where the Money Goes, MG-1208 (2012). The proportion is what carries forward here, not the dollar figures, which predate modern review tooling.
What those hours become once the reading pass is gone
Where that reviewer time goes instead:
- Intake calls with new clients
- Following up on outstanding documentation
- Preparing attorneys for depositions
- Responding to client status inquiries
- Reviewing new case materials
Why tools that require action don't stick
There are other redaction tools. Some of them do good work. The structural problem with all of them is the same: they require the paralegal to remember to use them before every share.
A busy afternoon. A fast-moving case. An urgent email out the door. The tool that required a separate step didn't get used. That's not a failure of the paralegal. That's how human attention works at volume.
DataGuard reads every outbound document whether or not anyone remembered to ask it to. That is the difference between a process and a safeguard.
What it does not do is decide for you. Anything it proposes removing comes back with the rule behind it, and a person on your side approves, edits, or overrides before the file goes anywhere. That step is deliberate: under Rule 502(b), privilege survives an inadvertent disclosure only if you took reasonable steps and can show it, and a decision nobody made is difficult to defend.
Connects to what you already run. Nothing moves.
DataGuard connects to Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Clio, and reads files where they already sit in Outlook, Gmail, OneDrive, Google Drive and SharePoint. It never makes a second copy and never becomes the system of record. No new login, no separate application, and no migration.
Three steps. No new tool to learn.
DataGuard reads every outbound document where your team already works. The judgment stays with your reviewer. What goes away is the page-by-page read that used to come before it.
DataGuard lives inside the tools you already use
No new tools for your team to learn. DataGuard installs directly into Outlook, Gmail, OneDrive, Google Drive, SharePoint, and Clio, the tools your team already uses every day.
Every outbound document is read first
When a document is about to leave the firm (via email, a shared link, or a file attachment) DataGuard reads it against your firm's policies before it reaches anyone outside, and marks what should not go out.
You confirm. The clean version goes out.
SSNs, diagnosis codes, government IDs and other restricted content come back proposed for removal, each with the rule behind it. Your reviewer approves, edits, or overrides, and the audit log records the decision either way.
See the Hours Your Team Gets Back
20 minutes. We'll walk through your practice area, show you what DataGuard catches, and calculate the time your team recovers.