On October 22, during the annual Everlaw Summit in San Francisco, AJ Shankar, the CEO and founder of Everlaw, announced the upcoming general availability of Deep Dive, a new AI tool that promises to transform the landscape of e-discovery. Having undergone an extensive eight-month beta testing phase, Deep Dive will enable legal professionals to pose complex, natural language queries across expansive document sets, offering more efficient access to strategic insights. The platform’s ability to handle terabytes of diverse data sets it apart in the legal technology sphere.
Part of Shankar’s keynote included a notable announcement concerning a significant restructuring of Everlaw’s AI pricing model. The company will now bundle several core AI features into its standard per-gigabyte rate, eliminating additional fees for the Review Assistant, Writing Assistant, and Deposition Analyzer. This change seeks to alleviate the challenges of operationalizing AI tools within rigid budget constraints, all while maintaining competitive pricing.
Deep Dive’s potency lies in its capacity to conduct inquiries exclusively within the document corpus, thereby minimizing hallucinations that could arise from reliance on external knowledge. This ensures that responses are grounded in verifiable, within-corpus evidence and confidence-ranked, thereby maintaining the integrity of findings. This design reflects Everlaw’s commitment to responsible AI deployment—a critical consideration for legal teams that require defensible and reliable data analysis.
Beta testers, like Julie Brown from Vorys, lauded the tool for its intuitive implementation and capability to expedite early case assessment, production reviews, and trial preparation. Steve Delaney from Benesh highlighted the competitive advantage that early AI adoption provides, urging peers to consider integrating such technology before it becomes mainstream practice.
Everlaw also unveiled plans for future tools, including Workflow Builder, which aims to streamline the orchestration of complex legal workflows through automation and AI. These enhancements continue to depict Everlaw’s drive towards equipping legal teams with comprehensive solutions that are both innovative and pragmatic in the ever-evolving legal tech landscape.