Use case
Internal investigations, without an eDiscovery vendor.
HR cases. Market abuse. Internal misconduct. M&A disclosure. Regulatory submissions. Smartbox gives compliance and legal teams a defensible record of every decision — without commissioning an outside eDiscovery firm for every matter.
What we handle
Investigation workloads on one platform.
HR investigations
Grievance, disciplinary, harassment cases involving employee communications, file shares, and meeting recordings.
Market abuse / regulatory
Pattern-search across email and chat for FCA-, PRA- or SFO-scope investigations.
M&A disclosure
Large-volume disclosure across diligence corpora with information-barriered review.
Internal misconduct
Fraud, supplier disputes, IP exfiltration cases.
Regulatory submissions
Preparing material disclosure for regulators with full audit trail and reviewer attribution.
Capabilities specific to investigations
What you get that off-the-shelf SAR tools don't have.
Forensic metadata
Sender, recipient, timestamps, custodian, file lineage preserved through the workflow.Email threading
Collapse threads so reviewers see conversations, not individual messages.Near-duplicate detection
Find files that are 80%+ similar, not just byte-identical.Information-barriered workspaces
Physically separate investigation teams from the rest of the organisation; matter-level access controls.Audio / video transcription
Interview recordings searchable as text.
Commercial framing
One platform instead of an engagement per matter.
Start now. Go live on Gen 2.
Choosing and approving a disclosure platform takes time. Start the conversation now, and plan your move around general availability in January 2027.