The Future of Legal Discovery: EverlawAI Deep Dive Released for General Availability
Getting ahead in a case often comes down to who understands the evidence first.
Time-intensive processes like uncovering critical facts, identifying key players, and structuring a narrative requires sifting through millions of documents, a gargantuan task that thousands of legal professionals take up every day.
The side that can quickly understand their data could gain a strategic advantage over opposing counsel.
With the release of EverlawAI Deep Dive for general availability, that strategic advantage is now available to everyone.
Deep Dive is a generative AI tool that allows legal teams to ask natural language questions of their entire data corpus. With responses to questions grounded in the four corners of your data set, Deep Dive reduces the risk of hallucinations and cites the sources where it got its responses for easy verification.
Deep Dive has been used by everyone from partners to paralegals to gain a better understanding of their case and interact with their data in a way they’ve never been able to before.
What Is Deep Dive?
EverlawAI Deep Dive is a cutting-edge generative AI feature that enables legal teams to ask questions of their litigation data using plain, conversational language. This low barrier to entry makes the tool more accessible to users without extensive prompt engineering experience.
Leveraging a secure Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework, Deep Dive compiles accurate, strategic findings and insights drawn strictly from the evidence contained in your Everlaw repository. Its purpose is to accelerate your grasp of the case facts by rapidly converting raw data into practical evidence.
To ensure maximum reliability, all results are linked to direct citations to the original source materials. If the answer to your query can’t be found within the uploaded documents, Deep Dive will simply respond that it can’t answer. This means that there’s a reduced risk of hallucinations, so you can trust in the results.
Deep Dive Use Cases
Deep Dive is a versatile tool that can easily be leveraged at practically any point in the case life cycle.
Early Matter Exploration
Deep Dive is best at finding the obscure or hidden evidence that can help unlock your case. By asking simple, natural language questions, you can quickly understand your matter and the key characters at play.
For example, at the outset of a complex commercial case, you could ask Deep Dive a question like “Who are the key personnel involved in the acquisition of Company A?”, and receive a response rooted in your document corpus, identifying all the relevant people so you can know who to look out for as you move through the case.
“We have not had a tool like this before,” Benjamin Kennedy, Managing Director of Adio, said. “Deep Dive helps find needles in haystacks. It allows Adio and lawyers to get across large document sets faster to get to the evidence and guide the discovery and investigative effort.”
Review and Investigations
Reviewing millions of documents is a time consuming process that often requires searching through massive amounts of irrelevant and extraneous information.
Deep Dive alleviates some of this pressure on review teams by drilling into specific events, communications, or entities to pinpoint roles and timelines.
For example, instead of running broad searches and reviewing thousands of immaterial results, a team could ask Deep Dive something like, "Which communications between the former lead engineer and external parties mention 'Project X' after the termination date?", and the tool will eliminate the extraneous noise by instantly drilling into specific events and entities, pinpointing the critical roles and timelines.
By identifying only the key documents relevant to that precise query, the review team can skip thousands of irrelevant data points and begin constructing the core legal argument much faster.
Deposition Preparation
When preparing for a deposition, time is often of the essence, and it’s crucially important to remain a step ahead of the other side.
For example, a legal team preparing for the crucial deposition of a key witness needs to ensure they have their facts together before a tight deadline. They can use Deep Dive to ask their entire document corpus for specific dates and statements related to a contract breach, instantly finding and verifying evidence that would take hours with traditional methods. This efficiency enables the team to rapidly create an accurate case timeline, organize the sequence of key events, and confirm or contradict witness statements before the deposition begins.
The tool also allows for live questioning during the deposition itself. You can challenge a statement on the spot and instantly retrieve cited evidence from millions of documents to uncover contradictions or confirm facts on the fly.
“Deep Dive stands heads and shoulders above other tools in doing the heavy lifting for attorneys," Elizabeth Koenig, Senior Vice President of Consulting Services at ILS, said. "The accessibility of the tool is even leading to senior partners wanting to ask the AI questions themselves, rather than relying on more junior attorneys to get the information for them."
Quality Control
Aside from pinpointing key facts and events, Deep Dive can also function as a quality control assistant.
Julie Brown, Director of Practice Technology at Vorys, detailed this use case onstage at Everlaw Summit ‘25, regarding a case that involved 2 million documents and a one-week production deadline. To ensure defensibility, the team used traditional search and Predictive Coding to move quickly through the data set to production.
“The answers were spot on,” Brown said. “The attorneys were just in awe of the results.”
By asking the tool about information they might have missed, attorneys can feel more confident in their case and ensure they’ve covered all their bases.
End-to-End Compatibility
Deep Dive incorporates seamlessly into your existing Everlaw workflows for a fully integrated experience.
You can leverage Deep Dive to quickly understand key facts, add them to Storybuilder for collaborative case analysis, and then use Writing Assistant to create a list of key characters and organize events.
By remaining within the Everlaw platform, you can save time and keep all your data organized and secure, so your team is all working from the same set of facts.
Insights from the Beta
Deep Dive was initially released through an eight month long beta program to a select group of users.
In the beta, users asked Deep Dive thousands of questions about their case data. The average database contained 166,000 documents, and the largest matter that was successfully tested used a database of 10 million documents. This proves that Deep Dive can work as a scalable solution for large matters, providing reliable insights across massive data sets.
Based on the feedback received from beta users, the Everlaw team has been able to deliver enhancements to the product that are already making a difference in the user experience.
“Our commitment is to ensure you have access to the best technology, no matter what it may be – AI or not, big or small – and that you’re fully trained and enabled by this tech,” Everlaw CEO AJ Shankar said.
A New Way to Understand Your Case
In the high-stakes environment of litigation and investigations, gaining a faster understanding of the data can determine the outcome of a case.
Deep Dive is the tool that delivers that decisive edge. Having proven its reliability throughout the beta program, it is now ready to instill confidence across your entire team—from the partners crafting strategy to the litigation support staff managing the data.
With the ability to interrogate millions of documents and trust the verifiable, cited answers, your only limit is the next question you need to ask.
If you're interesting in learning more about Deep Dive or EverlawAI Assistant, request a demo today!
