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About Discovarc
Building the predictive document review platform that mid-market litigation support teams and corporate legal departments can actually use — without enterprise platform overhead.
Why Discovarc
Naomi Ashford spent seven years in e-discovery operations — first as a litigation support coordinator at a national litigation firm, then building review workflows at an e-discovery vendor. The problem she kept encountering was the same: the technology for systematic, defensible TAR existed, but it was priced, scoped, and engineered for the AmLaw 25 and the Fortune 50 legal departments that could afford dedicated e-discovery counsel.
The teams she worked with most often — litigation support directors at regional firms, in-house legal teams at mid-market companies, e-discovery managers running parallel matters in insurance defense — were still running first-pass review manually or with tools built for legal hold management, not predictive coding.
Discovarc is the product she wanted to have existed when she was building those workflows. TAR 2.0 continuous active learning, systematic privilege detection, and audit trail documentation for the court — deployed at a scale and cost that works for teams running 50K-document matters, not just 5-million-document ones.
Founded in Chicago in 2024. Seed-funded at $3.5M. Building for 2026 general availability.
Make defensible document review accessible to the legal teams that do the actual work of discovery — not just the platforms with the biggest enterprise contracts.
Chicago's Legaltech Ecosystem
Chicago is not a secondary legaltech market. kCura — the company that built Relativity, the platform that became the industry standard for enterprise document review — was founded in Chicago and remains headquartered here. The city's proximity to federal courts, Midwest Fortune 500 legal departments, and the mid-market litigation support vendors that serve them creates an innovation context that's grounded in the actual work of discovery, not just the marketing of it.
Discovarc operates from South Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop — the same block as major Chicago law firms and the regional offices of national litigation practices. The customer context isn't theoretical. The litigation support directors and e-discovery counsel Discovarc works with are in the same buildings and the same federal courts.
Chicago's underrepresentation in the legaltech narrative is a feature, not a bug. The next wave of discovery innovation is more likely to come from practitioners who've spent years building review workflows in the Dirksen Courthouse's courtrooms than from coastal observers writing about the future of legal AI.
The Team
Former Relativity implementation consultant, e-discovery attorney, ML engineer, and legal ops customer success. E-discovery operational depth throughout.
Seed-funded. Building for 2026.
Discovarc closed a $3.5M seed round in 2024. We're building toward general availability in 2026, working closely with litigation support teams and in-house legal departments during early access. We are honest about what's shipping versus what's on the roadmap — seed stage means we're not pretending to be something we're not yet.
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