AI-integrated discovery for investigations, discovery and document insights.
One Platform From Discovery Through Trial
Litigation teams need to move from raw data to case strategy as quickly as possible. The platform you use for discovery should accelerate that path, not just manage it.
Alchemy handles the full discovery workflow from processing through productions, but it doesn’t stop there. The same platform and the same data carry forward into trial preparation, deposition analysis, and appellate work. Your team works in a single environment throughout, eliminating the handoffs and data migrations that slow teams down and introduce risk.
AI is built into every stage, surfacing what matters, flagging what’s critical, and delivering analysis your team can act on immediately. This isn’t a bolt-on AI feature or a chatbot layered on top of a legacy platform. Fourth-generation AI, built on multiple independent search methods working together, is woven throughout Alchemy’s architecture. It reads documents, understands context, identifies patterns across thousands of pages, and delivers sourced analyses with citations linked directly to the underlying material.
What sets Alchemy apart is what happens inside that workflow. Other platforms offer end-to-end discovery. Alchemy extends beyond discovery into the strategic phases of litigation where the real decisions get made — and it brings AI capabilities to those phases that other platforms simply don’t have.
Alchemy also rethinks the business model. Single-tenant security gives each client a dedicated, isolated environment rather than a shared database. Cloud utility pricing means you pay for what you use, scaling up or down with your caseload. Together, they make the platform both more secure and more cost-effective than traditional alternatives.
Three Things We Do Differently
Alchemy was designed around three core principles that set it apart from traditional discovery platforms.
Integrated AI
AI built into the platform, not added as a separate module
Find, analyze, and report in minutes, not days or weeks
Works across all file types and languages
Single Tenant
Your data lives in its own isolated cloud environment
Deploy anywhere to meet data privacy requirements
No shared infrastructure means no shared risk
Utility Savings
Pay by the minute, not by the month, 70% reduction when off
Automated scheduling and energy saver reduce costs further
Scale up or down with your caseload
Together, these three design choices deliver a discovery platform that’s smarter, more secure, and substantially less expensive than traditional “Always On” hosting alternatives.
AI That Works Alongside Your Team
From Raw Documents to Case-Ready Analysis in Minutes
Alchemy’s fourth-generation AI combines generative AI with machine learning to do more than find documents. It reads them, analyzes them, and delivers sourced reports your team can act on.
- Ask complex questions across thousands of documents and get detailed, cited analyses — not search results
- Generate timelines, investigation reports, and witness kits in seconds rather than days
- Analyze transcripts, medical records, and communications simultaneously, surfacing patterns and connections across the full collection
The result: your team focuses on strategy and client counsel while AI handles the heavy lifting — reducing both time and costs by up to 90 percent.
Single-Tenant Security
Your Data, Your Cloud, Your Control
Unlike traditional multi-tenant platforms, Alchemy provides each client with a dedicated site in a secure isolated environment, giving you full control over your data environment. This means:
- Complete data isolation: Your information is fully segregated from other clients’ data
- Enhanced security control: Deploy customized security protocols and disaster recovery plans
- Local hosting options: Meet data privacy regulations across any jurisdiction
- Zero shared infrastructure: Eliminate all potential cross-client vulnerabilities
Real-world impact: When a major provider’s ransomware attack compromised their shared repository, every client lost data access. With Alchemy’s single-tenant architecture, your data remains protected in its own secure environment, completely isolated from systemic risks.
On/Off Cloud Utility Savings
Why pay monthly when you can pay by the minute?
Most discovery platforms charge monthly hosting fees whether you’re using the site or not. Alchemy’s cloud utility model works differently:
- One low rate when your site is active, and a substantially reduced rate when it’s off
- Control costs through flexible scheduling — set operating hours or turn sites off manually
- Save automatically with Site Energy Saver, which powers down idle sites
- Reduce hosting costs by up to 60%
Real-world impact: A major FinTech client saved over $360,000 in hosting fees by turning their 5TB site off during a year-long government investigation pause.
Alchemy Multi Matter
Multiple Cases, One Platform
Instead of creating and paying for a separate site for each matter, Alchemy Multi Matter lets you host multiple cases and investigations within a single, secure repository — at a fraction of the cost.
- Substantial cost savings: Host a dozen matters for roughly the cost of three separate sites
- Simplified management: One clean, intuitive interface across all your matters
- Full functionality: Every Alchemy capability, including AI, available on every matter
- Matter-level security: Documents and work product locked to each specific matter with appropriate access controls
One Platform. Every Stage of Your Matter
Alchemy goes beyond search hits and production workflows. It delivers answers, strategy, and leverage across every phase of an investigation, litigation, or discovery matter. Explore how our AI-integrated platform adapts to the way you actually work.
Process & Load
Get up and running quickly, anywhere in the world.
Alchemy handles native files, emails, attachments, transcripts, images, and mixed file types. Processing includes de-duplication and de-NISTing built in. Users can also upload PDFs, Office files, transcripts, and text files directly and begin working immediately.
AI-powered OCR captures handwriting, annotations, and complex tables that traditional OCR misses.
Native, image, and text processing
Direct uploads up to 5 GB
AI-powered OCR for handwritten and complex documents
De-duplication and de-NISTing included
Global deployment — US, EU, UK, or your own VPC
Search
Describe what you need. Alchemy finds it.
Three search engines work together so you never have to choose between precision and recall. Advanced Boolean search gives you exact control across fields and full text. Semantic search finds documents by meaning and context. Machine learning improves results with every interaction, surfacing relevant materials you might otherwise miss.
You can also skip structured search entirely and ask a direct question. Alchemy identifies the relevant documents and presents key passages in context through snippet view.
Advanced Boolean search across fields and full text
Semantic search based on meaning and context
Machine learning that improves with use
Freeform, plain-language search
Analyze
Ask questions. Get sourced answers.
Alchemy reads your entire collection and delivers linked analysis in minutes. Generate timelines, witness analyses, investigation summaries, and case assessments with every finding linked directly to the source document.
Follow up instantly to refine or deepen your analysis. Work with the AI like a research associate who has already read the entire record. Built-in budget controls allow you to manage AI usage with alerts and monthly spending limits.
Sourced reports with direct document citations
Timelines and witness kits
Investigation summaries and case assessments
Multi-language, multi-format analysis
Built-in budget controls. Set limits and alerts. No surprises.
Review
Run AI review, human review, or both.
Whether reviewing thousands or millions of documents, Alchemy adapts to your workflow. Deploy AI-powered review for senior-attorney level judgment at scale. Or manage traditional human review using smart queues instead of manual batch control.
Use AI for first-pass triage and route complex documents to attorneys for final analysis. Alchemy supports both linear and continuous active learning workflows, with customizable review layouts and tagging macros.
AI-powered responsive and privilege review
Linear and CAL workflows
Smart queuing without batch management
Customizable review pages and macro tagging
ReviewPartner offered as an independent service
Produce
Move from review to production without switching platforms.
Alchemy’s production module operates inside the same interface where you reviewed the documents. Generate native, image, or text productions with automated Bates stamping and load file creation. Handle privilege and confidentiality logs directly within the platform.
No exporting. No tool switching. No disruption to workflow.
Native, image, and text productions
Automated Bates stamping
Load file generation
Privilege and confidentiality logs
Production tracking from the dashboard
Appeals
Master the record in minutes, not weeks.
Appellate work depends on precision. Ask for every instance where a witness discussed a topic, where an exhibit was admitted over objection, or how the court articulated a legal standard. Alchemy searches transcripts, pleadings, and exhibits simultaneously and delivers cited answers linked directly to the record.
For motions and briefs, request evidence-grounded draft arguments built from the actual documents. The AI identifies the strongest support for each point and structures the argument with citations already in place.
Transcript-level search and citation
Exhibit and objection tracking
Record-grounded brief drafting
Comprehensive record analysis
Significant time reduction in appellate preparation
Multi-Matter
Built for multi-party and multi-case matters.
Alchemy was designed for complex criminal matters, multi-defendant civil cases, and joint defense groups from the start. Each team works within the same site while maintaining fully private work product, including tags, searches, analytics, and dashboards.
Corporate legal departments can host multiple matters inside a single repository, each with its own access controls and security protocols. One site, one bill, full visibility across every matter.
Private work product within shared infrastructure
Team-specific tags and dashboards
Secure joint defense functionality
Multi-matter hosting with separate controls
Scalable for enterprise portfolios
Bring Us Your Toughest Matters
Merlin Alchemy was named “Game Changer, The Most Innovative New: Legal Technology for 2024” by ACEDS London.