Why Legal Teams Are Choosing Transparent AI Over Blind Trust

Legal technology trends are keeping up with the growing needs of legal teams, prioritizing simple review processes and scalable solutions. Unlike opaque, black-box solutions that hinder defensibility and client confidence, transparent AI for eDiscovery can address key regional concerns in EMEA countries. GDPR and regional scrutiny will become problems of the past.

According to ComplexDiscovery's 2025 reports, 43% of organizations are integrating AI into their legal operations. If you want to remain efficient and stay up-to-date with legal technology trends, your corporate legal team or law firm must also deploy these platforms.

Here, we'll discuss how EMEA legal teams can optimize legal processes with transparent and explainable AI in legal technology. Read on to learn how Reveal's AI approach provides clear logic, auditability, and compliance.

What Is a Transparent AI System?

Many legal AI technologies are "black box" software. This term refers to artificial intelligence that offers up opaque, mysterious processes and unexplained functionality to users. Their internal workings and reasons for different outputs are invisible to the legal team deploying the black box technology.

Following this metaphor, transparent AI is a clear box. The user can clearly see how the AI platform works. Developers are open about:

• How the eDiscovery AI was developed and deployed
• The decision-making processes their AI uses
• How the AI processes analytics and data

This builds trust with users since seeing how AI makes decisions can make them feel more confident about using it.

It also leads to better performance since developers will know how their AI works. This enables legal technology experts to improve machine learning models and make platforms user-friendly.

How Is AI Being Used in eDiscovery?

Recent statistics report that AI can cut legal review times by up to 67%. Since review costs make up 80% of a legal team's total litigation spending, AI can cut costs by thousands.

But how does ethical AI use save this time and money on review?

Quality AI solutions can automate almost every step of the review process, including:

• Tagging data by:
  • Keyword and topic
  • Original source (Microsoft 365, Slack messages, etc)
  • Data type (email, PDF, etc)
• Integrating all information into one easy-to-search dashboard
• Offering robust search and filter features for integrated information
• Automatically highlighting the most important parts of documents
• Using Generative AI to create short, easy-to-read summaries of complex information
• Eliminating duplicates automatically
• Translating documents from other languages
• Transcribing audio and video files
• Automatic data redaction

You won't need to scroll through multiple applications and sources when you have an all-in-one dashboard.

This decreases manual labor and nips the possibility of human error in the bud. It also makes searching and looking into relevant information simple because of quick summaries and keyword-scanning technologies.

How Does Reveal's Tool Help With AI Decision-Making?

Reveal's transparent AI is specifically designed to address the key regional concerns of EMEA countries. This means complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and avoiding regulatory scrutiny.

The EU government website reports that GDPR violations can cause fines of up to 20 million euros. The most severe violations may also mean a fine of 4% of your legal team's global turnover in the previous fiscal year.

In Middle Eastern and Asian countries, fines are also an issue despite the lack of a single regional regulation framework. Not complying with Saudi Arabian AI regulations can lead to a SAR 5 million fine, according to regional governance platforms. In the UAE, fines may be up to AED 5 million.

Luckily, regardless of your location, Reveal's transparent AI prioritizes compliance by:

• Understanding local regulations of EMEA countries
• Developing AI models with compliance-ensuring security features
• Sharing the ways our AI models work so you can feel secure
• Reporting changes to the way our software works to users

Frequently Asked Questions

How Does Reveal Offer AI eDiscovery Transparency to Legal Teams?

Reveal's technology is transparent because of its end-to-end nature. You can look on our website and learn precisely how AI helps at every step of the eDiscovery lifecycle. One look at the platform lets you understand automated legal hold notifications and AI-driven searches.

You can also get comprehensive overviews of your data within Reveal's dashboard. They let you see what themes are constant in your data and what sources the AI pulled from. You'll understand what the AI tools are looking at and drawing information from, which means you can determine how to best use the technology.

In the summer of 2025, we were awarded AI-driven eDiscovery platform awards for both Best Support and Best Estimated ROI. This is because you can call our designated support team and discuss your platform whenever needed. They'll answer questions about the dashboard's functionality and how machine learning models work.

How Do Our Machine Learning Models Work?

Reveal has built machine learning models with common US methods used in the US and EMEA.

Our developers collected and prepared datasets that serve to train the AI. They ran them through the application so the AI understands trends and patterns to duplicate later.

Then, they chose an algorithm to process both that data and future sets. It's based on statistical data that finds relationships between existing data sets and future outputs.

Before deployment, our professionals also tested the model after thorough training. This let them evaluate how accurate our AI was and make refinements. Refinements were made based on the loss parameters of the model, which decreased the instances of errors.

Reap Transparent AI Benefits Today

Now that you know why transparent AI is an efficient and effective decision-making tool, it's time to streamline your eDiscovery process with the best legal analytics software available.

Reveal's technology brings all your data sources together and implements AI-assisted review processes for easy interpretation. Our designated support team is always available to answer your questions.

Since we consider ourselves your partners in eDiscovery rather than just a user-friendly platform, you'll never be left in the dust when it comes to figuring out legal document analysis software. We're excited to share our capabilities with you, so schedule a demo of Reveal's eDiscovery AI platform today!