Early Case Assessment

Know your case
before you commit

Get a clear picture of your corpus, your issues, and your costs — before you spend months and millions on discovery. Our ECA delivers actionable intelligence in five business days.

Request an ECA $5,000 – $15,000 flat fee
5 business day turnaround

What's included

Our Early Case Assessment gives you everything you need to make informed litigation decisions — without the full discovery price tag.

Corpus Analysis

Complete inventory of your documents including file types, date ranges, custodian distribution, and format analysis.

  • Total document and page count
  • File type breakdown (emails, attachments, docs)
  • Date range identification
  • Custodian and department analysis

Topic Clustering

AI-powered clustering groups similar documents by subject matter, revealing the key issues in your corpus.

  • Automated topic identification
  • Key-issue mapping
  • Conceptual similarity grouping
  • Theme extraction and labeling

Hot Document Surfacing

AI identifies the documents most likely to be critical to your case — saving review time and focusing your strategy.

  • High-relevance document identification
  • Key email thread reconstruction
  • Executive and decision-maker document highlighting
  • Timeline-critical document flagging

Volume & Cost Forecast

Get realistic estimates for full discovery costs based on your actual corpus characteristics.

  • Responsive document volume estimate
  • Full review cost projection
  • Timeline estimation
  • Recommended review strategy

Written ECA Report

You receive a comprehensive written report delivered in PDF format, including executive summary, detailed findings, visualizations, and recommended next steps. Ready to share with partners, clients, or opposing counsel.

See our methodology →
Executive Summary (2-3 pages)
Visualization Dashboard
Detailed Findings Appendix
Recommended Review Strategy

The ECA process

From engagement to delivery in five business days. Here's how we work.

1

Scoping Call

30-minute call to understand matter type, custodians, date ranges, and key issues.

2

Secure Upload

You upload documents to our encrypted workspace. We handle PST, MBOX, Slack, and more.

3

AI Analysis

Our pipeline processes, clusters, and analyzes your corpus while our team validates results.

4

Delivery

Written ECA report delivered with findings, visualizations, and cost projections.

Total turnaround: 5 business days from secure document upload

Simple, flat-fee pricing

No per-user licenses. No per-gigabyte charges. Just one transparent price based on corpus size.

$5,000 – $15,000

Flat fee based on document volume

Under 50,000 docs $5,000
50,000 – 150,000 docs $8,000
150,000 – 300,000 docs $12,000
300,000 – 500,000 docs $15,000

Larger corpora? Contact us for custom pricing.

What's included

  • Complete corpus processing
  • De-duplication and normalization
  • AI topic clustering
  • Hot document identification
  • Cost projection modeling
  • Written ECA report
  • 30-minute debrief call
  • Secure document handling

Common questions

Ready to assess your case?

Request an ECA and receive a fixed-fee proposal within one business day. Five days later, you'll have clarity.

Mark your request "Urgent" and we'll prioritize your response within four business hours.