the ediscovery claw

E-Discovery costs $3,000+ per GB when outsourced. edisclaw processes, deduplicates, culls, and searches ESI collections locally for a fraction of the cost—giving small firms the same firepower as Big Law's litigation support floor.

edisclaw

E-Discovery shouldn't cost more than the lawsuit.

Firms spend $3,000–$18,000 per gigabyte outsourcing e-discovery. edisclaw brings the entire processing pipeline into your terminal—collect, deduplicate, cull by keyword and date, tag for relevance, and export production-ready load files. All locally. All under your control.

You don't need a vendor. You need a command.

Who it's for: Litigators handling discovery, paralegals managing document review, solo attorneys who can't afford Relativity, and in-house teams running internal investigations.

What it replaces: $50K+ vendor invoices, Relativity seats you don't need, and the 3-week turnaround that kills your case timeline.

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Pricing

Feature	Free	Pro ($49/mo)	Litigation ($199/mo)
ESI processing	Up to 1 GB	Up to 50 GB	Unlimited
Deduplication	MD5 only	MD5 + fuzzy near-dedup	Full near-dedup + email threading
Keyword search	Basic grep	Regex + proximity + stemming	Full-text index + Boolean
Date culling	✅	✅	✅
File type filtering	✅	✅	✅
TAR (Technology Assisted Review)	—	Seed set + prioritize	Full active learning loop
Load file export	—	Concordance (.dat)	Concordance + Relativity + EDRM XML
Email threading	—	Basic	Full conversation threading
OCR for scanned docs	—	✅	✅ + batch
Matters	1 active	10 active	Unlimited
Team reviewers	—	—	Up to 15
Audit trail	Basic	Full	Full + court-ready certification

edisclaw upgrade pro — 14-day free trial.

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Core Commands

Collection & Ingestion

• edisclaw ingest ./custodian_files/ --matter "Smith v. Jones"
• edisclaw ingest mailbox.pst --matter "Smith v. Jones" --custodian "J. Smith"
• edisclaw ingest ./emails/ --format mbox --matter "Smith v. Jones"
• edisclaw ingest --source gdrive --custodian "CEO" --matter "Investigation" (Pro)
• edisclaw status --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Processing progress

Deduplication

• edisclaw dedup --matter "Smith v. Jones" — MD5 exact dedup
• edisclaw dedup --matter "Smith v. Jones" --near — Near-dedup (Pro)
• edisclaw dedup report --matter "Smith v. Jones" — How much was removed

Culling & Filtering

• edisclaw cull --matter "Smith v. Jones" --date-from 2024-01-01 --date-to 2025-12-31
• edisclaw cull --matter "Smith v. Jones" --filetype pdf,docx,xlsx,msg
• edisclaw cull --matter "Smith v. Jones" --exclude-filetype jpg,png,gif — Remove images
• edisclaw cull --matter "Smith v. Jones" --min-size 1KB — Remove empty/tiny files
• edisclaw cull report --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Culling summary

Keyword Search

• edisclaw search "merger" --matter "Smith v. Jones"
• edisclaw search "merger AND acquisition" --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Boolean
• edisclaw search "merger w/5 acquisition" --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Proximity (Pro)
• edisclaw search --terms-file keywords.txt --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Batch keyword list
• edisclaw search --report --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Keyword hit report

Review & Tagging

• edisclaw review start --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Interactive review mode
• edisclaw tag --id DOC-001234 --tags "responsive,hot" — Tag documents
• edisclaw tag --id DOC-001234 --privilege "attorney-client" — Privilege tag
• edisclaw review stats --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Review progress

Technology Assisted Review (Litigation)

• edisclaw tar seed --matter "Smith v. Jones" --count 200 — Generate seed set
• edisclaw tar train --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Train model on coded docs
• edisclaw tar prioritize --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Rank by likely relevance
• edisclaw tar validate --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Statistical validation
• edisclaw tar report --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Court-defensible TAR report

Production

• edisclaw produce --matter "Smith v. Jones" --tag "responsive" --format concordance
• edisclaw produce --matter "Smith v. Jones" --bates-prefix "SMITH" --start 000001
• edisclaw produce --matter "Smith v. Jones" --redact-pii --format pdf (Litigation)
• edisclaw produce --matter "Smith v. Jones" --format edrm-xml (Litigation)
• edisclaw produce log --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Production log

Reporting

• edisclaw stats --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Full matter statistics
• edisclaw stats --matter "Smith v. Jones" --by-custodian — Per custodian breakdown
• edisclaw stats --matter "Smith v. Jones" --by-filetype — File type distribution
• edisclaw timeline --matter "Smith v. Jones" — Document timeline visualization

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Common Workflows

Standard E-Discovery Pipeline

bash

# 1. Ingest custodian data
edisclaw ingest ./custodian_smith/ --matter "Case-2026" --custodian "Smith"
edisclaw ingest ./custodian_jones/ --matter "Case-2026" --custodian "Jones"

# 2. Deduplicate
edisclaw dedup --matter "Case-2026"

# 3. Date & file type culling
edisclaw cull --matter "Case-2026" --date-from 2023-01-01 --date-to 2025-12-31

# 4. Keyword search
edisclaw search --terms-file agreed_keywords.txt --matter "Case-2026"

# 5. Review & tag
edisclaw review start --matter "Case-2026"

# 6. Produce
edisclaw produce --matter "Case-2026" --tag "responsive" --bates-prefix "PROD" --start 000001

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Notes

• All data stored locally in ~/.edisclaw/ — ESI never leaves your machine on Free tier
• Processing speeds: ~2 GB/hour on Free, ~10 GB/hour on Pro (parallelized)
• Supports: PST, MBOX, EML, MSG, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, TXT, CSV, HTML, images
• Combine with privilegeclaw for automated privilege detection
• Combine with batesclaw for advanced Bates numbering workflows
• Court-defensible audit logs on all tiers

Security & Compliance

• No data transmitted externally on Free tier
• Pro/Litigation: encrypted API for TAR models only (no document content sent)
• EDRM framework compliant
• Chain of custody logging: edisclaw audit --matter "Smith v. Jones"
• Defensibility report: edisclaw defensibility-report --matter "Smith v. Jones" (Litigation)