01The wedge
Every Brevio production ships with a court-ready Defensibility Report.
The artifact a buyer would forward to their managing partner. A litigator would file under seal. An opposing counsel would test against. Below: a real one — anonymized.
02What's inside
Five sections, every production.
- 01
Chain-of-custody timeline
11 audit events from initiation to finalization, attributed to user, role, and timestamp.
- 02
SHA-256 hash verification
Per-document hash recorded at ingest, re-verified at production. Package-level SHA-256 binds the entire delivery.
- 03
Redaction leakage check
Text-layer scan and metadata strip on every redacted document. Verification result included.
- 04
Bates-range integrity
Atomic per-matter Bates counter. No skipped numbers, no overlapping ranges across productions.
- 05
Per-document audit trail
Reviewer, coding decisions, redaction reasons — preserved through finalization and into the export.
03Why this exists
Defensibility is the part of eDiscovery that no one talks about until it's too late. The first time I sat across from opposing counsel as they walked through every ambiguity in our chain-of-custody — and watched a perfectly valid production turn into three weeks of motion practice — I understood the hidden tax of using tools that weren't built to be tested in court.
Brevio is built the other way around. The Defensibility Report isn't an after-the-fact PDF generated for show — it's the natural shape of an audit log that's been append-only since day one, paired with verifications that are part of the production pipeline. We made it the headline feature because it's the feature that keeps the rest of your work safe.
— Founder name, Brevio