This year we celebrate the 12th annual Relativity Innovation Awards. Over the years, we’ve seen groundbreaking applications that analyze potentially fraudulent signatures, muscle suits, and everything in between. Spotlighting our community’s creativity and genius is a favorite annual tradition around here.
To celebrate this year’s awards, we took a step back to make sure our award categories are meeting the expectations of this community. (More details on this year’s award changes are outlined here.) We knew the new award categories would create some buzz, but no one expected you all to turn out as BIG as you did.
This year, we had a record number of submissions for the Innovation categories. There were more than 30 total submissions, which showcases how this community uses RelativityOne to solve some of the biggest challenges out there. These applications have pushed the boundaries of the platform, tackled unique use cases, and changed how your teams work. Legal data intelligence is not just a buzzword (or phrase?); these applications are proving just how critical it is to reshape how we approach data.
With that, we are thrilled to announce the 2025 Innovation Award finalists across the Innovation categories. Let's take a deeper look into this year's technology finalists—and be sure to join us at Relativity Fest to see who our winners will be. Good luck to all!
Best Innovation: Beyond
In the Beyond category, finalists showcased transformative applications that go beyond litigation and e-discovery, serving an alternative use case involving legal data.
CDS’s Vision Financial Analysis tackles the complexity of massive financial data sets—millions of rows across hundreds of columns—by breaking structured Excel data into granular, metadata-rich records within RelativityOne. The platform uses proprietary parsing logic, dashboards, and generative AI-powered summarization to enable investigators to filter, visualize, and cross-reference transactions with unprecedented precision.
Kilpatrick’s AutoScheduler introduces a calendar-based interface inside RelativityOne that links project milestones to document metadata, enabling teams to visualize timelines, track dependencies, and manage deadlines with clarity. The tool’s intuitive design and deep integration with RelativityOne objects make it a powerful asset for project coordination and legal operations.
Meanwhile, JND’s Fraud Detection leverages Relativity aiR to identify AI-generated fraudulent claims in class action settlements. By combining near-duplicate detection with engineered prompts, the workflow flags suspicious submissions in hours, preserving integrity and dramatically accelerating review cycles.
Speaking on the impact of the submissions in the Beyond category, Chris Haley, VP, Practice Empowerment aiR, shared:
“The Beyond category is my favorite. It demonstrates how we as an industry can stretch and solve problems beyond the challenges we face every day. It is the true Legal Data Intelligence story: leveraging platforms like RelativityOne, and workflows we as an industry have developed together, to solve problems in areas of the legal industry beyond discovery and investigations. Looking for and seizing the opportunities that are right next to us. Now with AI, it is even easier to innovate and create solutions to solve these problems. I am always inspired by the ideas our industry comes up with to solve these related but different challenges outside our core. And this year’s submissions for the Beyond category certainly did not disappoint.”
Best Innovation: Organize
Our Organize finalists exemplified how targeted innovation can dramatically improve legal workflows.
HaystackID’s CoreFlex introduces a centralized command center that integrates with RelativityOne via bi-directional APIs. It consolidates matter creation, user management, data ingestion, and reporting into a single interface, enabling automated workflows and embedded analytics across workspaces. CoreFlex has delivered up to 35 percent efficiency gains by transforming fragmented operations into scalable, compliant systems.
MCS Group’s MCS Lynx offers a smart solution for managing linked files in RelativityOne, streamlining the review of documents with embedded or referenced content. Though small in scope, its impact is significant, improving navigation and reducing review friction.
Finally, Troutman’s eMerge Split! revolutionizes document unitization by embedding a custom-trained multimodal AI model directly into RelativityOne’s viewer. The tool detects document boundaries with over 94 percent accuracy using visual and textual cues, allowing attorneys to validate and adjust document splits in real time—reducing unitization time and cost by up to 95 percent.
Finally, Dan Wyman, a lead sales engineer here at Relativity, said:
“At its core, the Organize category is about making RelativityOne work smarter—streamlining how data is processed, managed, and moved across workspaces. The submissions this year really leaned into what makes Relativity powerful: native capabilities used in smart, scalable ways. Whether it was automating workspace management or streamlining processing, teams showed they’re not just using the platform; they’re architecting around it. It’s a shift that reflects how operational efficiency is becoming a design principle, not just a goal.”
Best Innovation: Discover
Over in the Discover category, these standout applications showcased how AI and automation are transforming legal workflows.
CDS’s Vision Search addresses the challenge of searching across incompatible documents that traditionally require manual review or workarounds. Together, these tools exemplify how intelligent design and deep integration can elevate precision, speed, and confidence in legal tech.
Forensic Risk Alliance’s False Positive Analyzer redefines keyword search by introducing “Search Hit Context,” allowing reviewers to assess relevance instantly without opening full documents—cutting false positives by up to 40 percent.
And finally, Herbert Smith Freehills’s Snap tackles the challenge of image-heavy reviews by using AI to classify and summarize identity documents within RelativityOne, streamlining what was once a manual bottleneck.
Meanwhile, Desiree Mayer, Relativity’s VP of product management, felt the excitement of these applications and shared:
“This year’s Discover Award finalists wowed us with how creatively they’ve embraced AI to solve tough problems in brand new ways. From teaching AI to read identity documents for faster breach response, to cutting through keyword noise with smart context snapshots, to providing unique search capabilities for non-traditional documents—the ingenuity is inspiring.
What made this category so enjoyable? Seeing how these customers are pushing Relativity beyond legal review, turning generative AI into a trusted partner for clarity, speed, and deeper insight. It’s a glimpse of how the platform is evolving—and how the future of fact-finding is being reshaped right before our eyes.”
Best Innovation: Act
The finalists in the Act category demonstrated how platform extensibility is reshaping their approach to traditional workflows.
Allens’ Chronology Plus integrates with RelativityOne to automate timeline creation for litigation, investigations, and internal reviews. It uses generative AI to extract events from documents based on custom lawyer prompts, supports real-time collaboration, and enables standardized exports—saving legal teams up to 20 percent of their time.
CDS’s Vision AI Empowered DSAR streamlines data subject access request workflows by combining RelativityOne with proprietary generative AI tools. It features Vision AI Entity Extraction for identifying sensitive data and Vision AI OCR for converting handwritten content into searchable text, enabling automated redaction and reducing review costs by up to 80 percent.
Milyli’s Chronicle simplifies privilege log creation by centralizing name normalization and narrative building within RelativityOne. Paired with aiR for Privilege, it automates log generation with defensible accuracy, eliminating late-stage cleanup and reducing effort across disconnected environments.
Reflecting on the finalists for the Act category, Kyra Saley, senior manager of partnerships and alliances at Relativity, shared:
“Across the legal and compliance landscape, organizations face mounting challenges with high-volume, manual workflows that are costly, error-prone, and slow. By embedding generative AI and Relativity-connected tools into core processes, solutions like our finalists' replace outdated methods with intelligent, automated workflows. The result is measurable impact: cutting costs, reducing turnaround time, and empowering legal teams with scalable, collaborative, and accurate tools that align work product with a defensible source of truth. In a word, the Act category can be summed up with ‘empowering’: empowering teams to meet challenging and regulatory needs, empowering intelligent workflow automation, and perhaps most importantly, empowering focus to prioritize high-impact, high-value work.”
Best Innovation: Workflows
Last, but certainly not least, we have our Workflow category. Jonathan Lougheed, our expert product consultant and architect, put it best when describing this category:
“This year’s Best Innovation: Workflows finalists showcased just how far creativity can go when teams push Relativity’s out-of-the-box framework to its limits. Together, these inventive solutions embody the very spirit of workflow innovation: transforming manual complexity into automated clarity, amplifying impact without code, and redefining what’s possible with Relativity alone.”
The three finalists in this year’s Workflow categories are redefining investigative workflows and AI-driven review strategies.
Control Risks’ Threat Tracer is a next-generation investigation platform built on RelativityOne, designed to combat Business Email Compromise (BEC). Seamlessly integrated with Microsoft 365 and Azure, it enables end-to-end investigations—from targeted evidence collection and forensic analysis to breach review and regulatory reporting—leveraging RelativityOne’s workflows for Collect, Review Center AI models, and Data Breach Response for full-lifecycle coverage.
Intrepid’s Hatch Waxman Pipeline Protection & Redaction workflow pairs AI-driven triage with continuous active learning (CAL). aiR first clusters documents and assigns preliminary responsiveness scores, which CAL then refines iteratively—creating a defensible, cost-efficient review pipeline that reduces human workload while preserving audit integrity.
Lastly, JND’s SPARC (Stratified Prompt Assessment using Rank Clustering) accelerates generative AI prompt development by combining relevance-based ranking with content clustering. This novel sampling method ensures diverse document coverage, sharpens edge-case discovery, and boosts prompt performance with fewer iteration cycles.
Stay Tuned to Find Out Who Wins
Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists. The bar has been set high. The stakes have been raised, and purposeful innovation is leading the charge.
To hear more from this year’s finalists and to see who is crowned the winner in each category, be sure to join us at Relativity Fest in Chicago from October 7–9.
Graphics for this article were created by Sarah Vachlon.
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