Consilio and Reveal Partner to Meet Private Deployment Need in Shifting eDiscovery Industry

Strategic alliance brings Reveal Private Deployment to Aurora platform as industry navigates major infrastructure transition

The eDiscovery industry is experiencing a fundamental shift in how organizations think about infrastructure. As AI becomes more embedded in discovery workflows, data volumes continue to grow, and regulatory requirements intensify, legal teams are increasingly demanding flexibility in how and where their technology is deployed. Today, Consilio and Reveal are announcing a strategic partnership designed to meet that need—integrating Reveal Private Deployment (RPD) directly into Consilio's Aurora platform as its premier private-cloud review solution.

The collaboration reflects a broader evolution in legal technology: deployment choice is no longer a technical preference—it's a strategic imperative.

The Case for Deployment Flexibility

While public cloud platforms have fueled much of the innovation in legal technology, offering scalability and rapid deployment, many organizations—particularly legal service providers and those in highly regulated industries like healthcare, finance, and defense—require deployment models that support data sovereignty, cost predictability, and stricter security controls.

According to a 2024 IDC survey, 58% of enterprises plan to move at least some AI workloads to private deployment environments over the next two years, driven by concerns over cost, data leakage, and intellectual property protection. This trend, data repatriation, isn't about abandoning the cloud—it's about having options.

Cloud-first can't be cloud-only—not for all. The most sophisticated legal operations are increasingly adopting hybrid models, using public cloud for agility and experimentation while leveraging private deployment for workflows that demand security, performance consistency, and regulatory alignment.

What the Partnership Delivers

Under the agreement, Reveal Private Deployment will be available as a native private-cloud review option within Aurora, Consilio's digital enterprise platform that unifies legal data, dashboards, and workflows across the EDRM. The integration streamlines the entire discovery process—from collection and processing through review and production—while giving clients deployment choice that aligns with their specific needs.

“With Relativity choosing to disallow new matters in Server starting in 2028, we saw a clear need to support clients who are looking for more control over their costs than what traditional public-cloud models offer,” said Andy Macdonald, CEO of Consilio. “While we continue to partner closely with Relativity, we’re excited to meet this moment with Reveal. By offering Reveal Private Deployment within Aurora, we're giving clients true flexibility—secure, high-performance review, integrated across the EDRM.”

For organizations managing large, ongoing matters, the economics are compelling. Research from Andreessen Horowitz found that enterprises can save 30–50% in infrastructure costs when shifting steady-state workloads from public cloud to private deployment environments—savings particularly relevant for legal teams running continuous analytics and AI inference.

The Strategic Context: AI, Security, and Cost

The partnership arrives at a moment when three forces are converging to reshape eDiscovery infrastructure decisions:

AI adoption is accelerating. Generative AI tools are moving from experimentation to mission-critical legal functions. As models become infused with proprietary legal data, concerns about data leakage and model security intensify. Private deployment offers a way to leverage AI innovation while maintaining tighter control over sensitive information. Reveal's generative AI tools, aji and ASK, can now be deployed in environments where organizations maintain direct control over their infrastructure.

Security stakes are rising. The American Bar Association's 2024 cybersecurity report found that 29% of law firms reported a breach—a statistic that likely undercounts actual incidents. While major cloud platforms have made enormous strides in security, organizations handling privileged information, regulated data, or cross-border matters increasingly want additional layers of control, including keeping encryption keys in-house and maintaining data sovereignty. For sectors where GDPR or HIPAA compliance is critical, the option to process and store data locally is essential.

Cost predictability matters more. Volume-based pricing models and à la carte processing charges can create budget unpredictability for organizations managing terabytes of data routinely. Private deployment offers more stable, predictable costs for steady-state workloads, particularly as legal operations become increasingly data-intensive.

Choice as Competitive Advantage

"Clients should not have to choose between innovation and control," said Eric Harmon, CEO of Reveal. "Our partnership with Consilio gives organizations a clear path to secure private cloud environments, integrated across the eDiscovery lifecycle and powered by our generative AI tools. Together, we are delivering choice in software and deployment, with a more unified experience."

This philosophy—that deployment flexibility is a strategic advantage rather than a compromise—is increasingly resonating across the industry. The firms navigating today's complex landscape most successfully are those that can deploy the right infrastructure for the right task: cloud when speed and flexibility are paramount, private deployment when security and sovereignty are non-negotiable, and hybrid approaches when both are required.

The key is having options that align with specific security, regulatory, and performance needs—not being locked into a single deployment model.

A Partnership Built on Shared Vision

The Consilio-Reveal collaboration represents the culmination of a long-standing relationship between the companies and includes coordinated go-to-market programs, enablement, and formal training and certification pathways for joint clients.

"This partnership is built on a strong foundation and a shared commitment to solving real challenges for legal teams," said Jeff Fehrman, SVP of Global Advisory at Reveal. "By aligning with Consilio, we are expanding opportunities for clients to modernize workflows, adopt AI, and operate with more flexibility and confidence."

What This Means for the Industry

The availability of Reveal Private Deployment through Aurora's unified platform signals that the future of eDiscovery will be defined by flexibility and integration rather than one-size-fits-all solutions. As data volumes explode, AI becomes deeply embedded in daily workflows, and regulations tighten, organizations need infrastructure that can adapt to diverse and evolving requirements.

For legal service providers, corporate legal departments, law firms, and government agencies, the message is clear: modern eDiscovery platforms should offer the agility of the cloud when needed and the control of private deployment when required. The most competitive organizations will be those that can deploy technology where it makes the most sense—based on the specific demands of each matter, client, or regulatory environment.

In an industry built on managing complexity, the ability to choose how and where technology is deployed isn't just a preference—it's power.