Bringing an executive perspective to AI in discovery and litigation.

Discovery and litigation place significant demands on a firm’s people, processes, and technology. Decisions about how to manage evidence and organize case information influence both the work of legal teams and the resources required to support them.

Our partnership with DISCO reflects that broader perspective. At TBP | THE BIGGER PICTURE™, we help the firms we advise connect technology decisions with their operational needs and long-term ambitions—including the thoughtful adoption of AI to support discovery and litigation.

About DISCO

DISCO (NYSE: LAW) is one of the most consequential companies in legal technology today. Founded with a clear mandate — to apply cloud computing and AI to the practice of law: DISCO has built what has become the litigation industry’s most advanced end-to-end platform.

At its core, DISCO addresses one of the most resource-intensive challenges in modern legal practice: eDiscovery. In complex litigation, investigations, and regulatory responses, the volume of data that legal teams must review, analyze, and produce is enormous. What used to require weeks of attorney time and significant external vendor spend, DISCO compresses into hours, without sacrificing accuracy or defensibility.

DISCO’s platform combines eDiscovery, Cecilia AI, deposition management, and timelines capabilities into a single solution, giving clients one-stop access to some of the most advanced litigation technology available.

What makes DISCO genuinely different from the rest of the market isn’t any single feature — it’s the architecture. DISCO is a publicly traded company that has consistently positioned itself at the forefront of litigation technology, building its platform on strict security and privacy standards designed specifically for the complexity of modern legal matters.

 

Cecilia AI: The Intelligence Layer That Changes the Equation

The centerpiece of DISCO’s platform is Cecilia AI — and it deserves a closer look, because it represents a fundamentally different approach to legal AI than what most of the market is offering.

Cecilia is designed to streamline case work with generative AI technology. In eDiscovery, it can identify documents throughout a database, summarize and interrogate those documents further, all while using conversational language. Cecilia empowers legal teams to collaborate with DISCO’s eDiscovery experts to craft plain English prompts used to perform a high-quality, first-pass review of documents in Cecilia Auto Review, at speeds of around 25,000 documents per hour. 

That last number matters. Document review is one of the highest-cost, most time-intensive elements of litigation, and it’s also one of the areas most prone to human error at scale. Cecilia doesn’t replace attorney judgment; it focuses that judgment on what actually requires it.

And in early 2026, DISCO went further. DISCO became the first to bring scaled agentic AI to legal technology — an autonomous, multi-step reasoning engine added to Cecilia Q&A that returns significantly more detailed and thorough results, even on very large data sets. As CEO Eric Friedrichsen put it: “While much of the industry is focused on narrow agentic AI applications for tasks like contract review or brief writing, DISCO is transforming the way legal work is done by applying agentic power at scale to the world’s largest and most complex legal matters.” 

That’s not incremental. That’s a structural shift in what litigation technology can do.

 

Why TBP and DISCO

TBP works with professional service firms — law firms prominently among them — at the intersection of fractional executive leadership, operational strategy, and organizational development. Our advisors embed within firms to address the structural, cultural, and operational challenges that determine whether a firm grows sustainably or struggles under its own complexity.

What we’ve consistently found is that operational excellence in a litigation-focused firm depends on two things working together: strong leadership and the right technology infrastructure. Leadership without the right systems creates bottlenecks. Technology without the right leadership creates expensive tools that no one uses to their full potential.

DISCO solves for the technology side of that equation in a way that few platforms do: with depth, specificity, and a genuine understanding of how litigation actually works. That alignment is why this partnership made sense.

Bringing Leading Technology to the Firms We Collaborate With

Litigation efficiency at a scale that changes the economics of a matter. The firms we advise are often managing the tension between client expectations of speed and cost, and the genuine complexity of the matters they handle. DISCO compresses document review timelines dramatically, which means more competitive pricing, faster turnaround, and attorneys spending their time on strategy rather than review queues.

AI that was built for legal work, not adapted to it. The legal AI market is crowded with general-purpose tools that have been repositioned for legal use. Cecilia AI’s platform is secure — confidential data is never sent to train another company’s model, and is built to keep up with the largest cases. That distinction matters deeply for firms handling sensitive matters, regulated clients, or cross-border litigation where data security is non-negotiable. 

An end-to-end platform, not a patchwork of tools. One of the most consistent operational challenges we encounter in litigation practices is tool fragmentation: multiple vendors, inconsistent workflows, and significant time spent moving data between systems. DISCO’s all-inclusive platform brings eDiscovery, Cecilia AI, deposition management, and timelines into a single environment at one transparent, per-GB price with no ingest fees. That simplicity has real operational value. 

A technology partner with the depth to support complex matters. DISCO isn’t a startup finding its footing. It’s a publicly traded company with enterprise-grade infrastructure, a team of AI and eDiscovery experts embedded alongside every client engagement, and a platform that has been tested on some of the largest and most complex litigation in the market.

Strategic advantage in a market that’s moving fast. The firms that will lead the next decade of legal practice are the ones that adopt intelligent infrastructure before it becomes the industry baseline. DISCO’s agentic AI capabilities — included at no additional cost in the platform — represent the kind of forward-looking investment that creates durable competitive advantage.

 

The Shared Direction

“Fast-evolving generative AI capabilities are demonstrating that one-off eDiscovery products are increasingly inadequate. DISCO’s platform assembles the most impactful tools for modern litigation into a seamless end-to-end solution.” — Eric Friedrichsen, CEO, DISCO 

That conviction resonates with how we think about professional service firms more broadly. The era of assembling capabilities from disconnected vendors, managed by whoever has bandwidth, is ending. What replaces it is integrated infrastructure — platforms that understand the work, and advisors who understand the firms.

TBP and DISCO together represent exactly that combination: strategic leadership on one side, litigation technology infrastructure on the other. For the firms we work with, that means entering complex matters with greater confidence, clearer economics, and a technology foundation built for the realities of modern practice.

 

TBP | THE BIGGER PICTURE™ is a fractional C-suite and strategic advisory firm working at the intersection of leadership, organizational design, and technology to shape how professional services firms operate and evolve. We bring executive insight and operational discipline to the adoption of new ideas. To explore how TBP and DISCO can support your firm’s discovery and litigation practice, visit tbp.consulting