In this post, Joe Pirrotta of ProSearch says “your discovery data doesn’t live alone any more”. Here’s what he means by that statement.

In his blog post titled (wait for it!) Your Discovery Data Doesn’t Live Alone Any More (available here), Joe discusses that a legal matter is a business problem moving across systems: scope changes, collections expand, review decisions accumulate, invoices land, deadlines shift, and strategic calls get made in emails, meetings, and project plans. The challenge is managing that business record as one connected picture, even when the information lives in many places.

Moving fact development earlier was the argument in Joe’s first blog post on Agentic AI. The next opportunity is broader: using agents to reason across the business of the matter itself. Not just what the documents say, but what the work is costing, what scope is changing, what decisions have already been made, and where burden or risk is beginning to concentrate.

That is the problem agents can help solve. The real corpus is the matter: documents, review calls, production history, collection inventories, budgets, invoices, staffing plans, deadlines, client context, and prior matter knowledge. The value is not pulling everything into one platform. The value is giving counsel and legal operations a controlled way to ask matter-level questions across all of it.

So, how does a playbook and Model Context Protocol (MCP) factor into the equation? Find out here, it’s only one click! Go visit Joe’s data! 😉

So, what do you think? How is your organization handling its data sprawl in discovery? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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