CEO Mike Schubert barely mentioned their new StreemView AI search in our briefing. Instead, he hammered on how StreemView’s architecture and UI is uniquely designed for the mobile and collaborative data sources at the heart of modern investigations. Having spent the last quarter struggling with mobile and chat content in complex international investigations, his arguments resonated with me. Most lawyers think of evidence as documents. But modern ESI from mobile devices and collaboration apps are databases, not documents. Most collections arbitrarily break conversation threads into 12 or 24 hour chunks or lose the broader multi-dimensional context of collaborative content. The Downstreem team took a different approach creating their mobile-first collection and investigation platform.
So how is it different?
- StreemView’s database architecture stores mobile and collaboration content in their native object format. This supports whole conversation search and presentation rather than disparate PDF/HTML chunks.
- Visualization of chronological ‘streams’ allows investigators to see events in context.
- Patent pending deduplication across devices and apps to untangle Android vs. iOS content.
- Name normalization across sources supports custodial search.
- Direct remote collection to the cloud repository via ModeOne and other integrations.
- Predictable pricing per custodial source and monthly AI per user.
- AI auto-classification of problematic content such as PII, junk, fraud, etc.
The market seems to be fixated on an all-inclusive eDiscovery platform that normalizes every data source into a discrete document. The reality of rapidly evolving cloud, collaborative and mobile data complexity keeps specialized tools relevant and worth consideration, especially if your goal is investigative “time to truth” to steal Kelly Twigger’s fabulous catch phrase.
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