AKA ... Reflect. Remind. Run (faster).
Time flies. Right about this time last year, I decided to embark upon my first Relativity blog. It was a cathartic exercise to acknowledge the moment we were all in. That moment became momentum, and it’s accelerating at warp speed—but we’ll get to that. Let’s take a quick minute or two to reflect on where we were, remind us where we are, and lace up for the run ahead.
Early in 2025, we discussed topics such as the continuing rise of legal data challenges, advancement of generative AI in what we do, and the changes necessary for us as individuals and our legal tech community at large to thrive. Given many of us are Legal Data Intelligence (LDI) nerds, we also covered the bits and bytes of things. We openly discussed the absolute necessity for cloud-native tech architecture to tackle the data deluge ahead of us, the early adoption of large language models in our market, and related AI-powered solutions including Relativity aiR, our generative AI suite. We also shared our resulting Relativity Server policy and acceleration of our cloud-native, AI-powered platform, RelativityOne.
Given the pace of change happening all around us throughout last year, I felt compelled to blog away—again—just a few months later, proclaiming that while we’re proud of our advancements, Relativity was committed to stretch further, faster. I made super broad claims including the expansion of our R&D investments, our plans to integrate aiR-powered intelligence into our core workflows, and providing early case insights, well, earlier in the LDI journey.
And, with my “it’s not enough” snippet, we acknowledged that the sheer innovation in our space had compelled us to stand up Rel Labs, our innovation hub and investment arm for legal AI startups, to engage with as we look to further our community with innovations from us—and—yeah … from elsewhere.
Purposeful Pause. Before we move on, let’s touch on something many of you care about: how to best navigate the changes ahead for the Relativity community. To support the necessary innovation and deliver the speed and scale our customers and partners require, the Server Policy remains in full effect. Beyond some limited exceptions, all new matters and workspaces will be hosted in RelativityOne from January 1, 2028 onward. The details and updated specific policy elements can be found here. We’re now one year down, and less than two to go until this milestone. Existing customer matters will absolutely remain and be fully supported, and new matters will be properly served in RelativityOne. While most customers and partners have already made the transition, and many others have begun, we’re here to support both those on the journey and those not yet started. For more details on how to consider a frictionless trial, transition, and onboarding to RelativityOne—working with and alongside our strategically aligned partners and our customer support team—please engage with us here.
We’re (all) running fast in 2026. This is beyond momentum—this is velocity. Speed with a stated direction to not just advance what we all do together, but to transform how LDI work gets done. With this community pushing us all forward, we’re literally and positively disrupting traditional workflows with integrated, fit-for-purpose aiR capabilities powering our system of record and action in RelativityOne. One of the precious things I love about Relativity is the connectedness to our community and how we’re in it together. This connectedness reveals itself in the proof points. Let’s shout a few:
- Generative AI has rapidly shifted from simply “trending” to becoming the standard for conducting document review. The numbers thus far are staggering: Hundreds of customers have used aiR for Review to make over 190 million review decisions across over 2,000 legal data projects. To ensure our whole community can responsibly take advantage of these tools’ game-changing results, effective April 1, 2026, Relativity aiR for Review and aiR for Privilege will be included in the standard pricing and packaging for RelativityOne.
And we’re not standing still. We’ve just launched aiR for Case Strategy with over 50 customers involved in our Advance Access design and release process to ensure a purposeful offering to serve lawyers and litigation professionals. You can read more about that here.
- In no small part driven by the appetite for integrated Relativity aiR solutions, the legal industry has already moved decisively to the cloud. Today, ~79 percent of Relativity’s business is running in RelativityOne, where customers and partners are managing and actioning over 39 petabytes of data.
Beyond the total data and LDI use case surge in RelativityOne over the past year, in the second half of 2025 alone we saw massive momentum of Server to RelativityOne movement with over 600 terabytes transitioned. This is just one of many proof points where a cloud-native, AI-powered system is now the baseline for the new normal.
- LDI use cases beyond litigation now represent greater than 55 percent of the projects our community is serving in RelativityOne. From internal investigations to Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs) to data breach responses and so many others in tow, we’re finding new ways to apply AI to solve a wide spectrum of legal data challenges in RelativityOne. Our continued investment in R&D (now at approximately $180 million) fuels the work we all do.
- Rel Labs is rapidly moving beyond a concept to execution. We are building partnerships and making targeted investments that we believe can expand what our community can accomplish with our cloud-native platform. On the partnership side, we are working with ModeOne to support targeted, remote mobile collections, a growing need in modern discovery where custodians increasingly expect a more focused approach. We are also strengthening our partnership with NSerio, a long-standing Relativity partner known for building customer-ready applications and extending our platform in real-world workflows. We have also invested in two exciting innovators: Patlytics, a purpose-built IP platform designed for the needs of IP litigation teams, and Advocacy, an early-stage solution for litigators focused on case strategy, drafting, and trial preparation. With these and future investments, Rel Labs is expanding the Relativity ecosystem in practical ways, and we’re just getting started—stay tuned for much more to come.
Run faster. Here at Relativity, we have a phrase we refer to often: what we say must consistently show up in what we do. This “Say/Do” ratio matters to us, and while nothing and no one is perfect, we remain deep in our obsession and commitments to our customers and partners. As such, we will continue doing what we say we will do. Truth is, we have to run even faster.
In the coming months, we have more purposeful innovations planned: further advancements across the aiR suite for personal data and sensitive business information, making aiR Assist generally available for earlier case insights, and expanding our generative AI capabilities for additional LDI use cases like data breach response, disclosure, and contract review. We also plan to bring no-code extensibility to aiR, to enable partners and customers to define, deploy, and scale their own AI review analyses throughout their legal data projects and directly within RelativityOne. Exciting things ahead for all of us.
Thanks for “listening,” and keep feedback coming. We’re better together.
– Phil
(not AI authored, clearly.)
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