A $42 billion line item with no price tape.
When a company is sued, the evidence lives in inboxes, chat logs, and shared drives — terabytes of it. Collecting, processing, hosting, and reviewing that data is eDiscovery, and it consumes roughly a fifth of all American litigation spend. Yet per-gigabyte processing fees run from $29 to $135 with no published benchmark, and general counsels approve invoices they cannot decode.
EDiscoveryCosts.com names the missing dataset. It is the natural home for the industry's first eDiscovery cost index — processing rates by matter size, review costs per document, hosting benchmarks by vendor, and the true-cost multipliers every legal operations team wants and no one publishes.
Exact-match authority. “eDiscovery costs” is the phrase general counsels, legal ops directors, and litigation support managers already type into search. This domain owns the query at the root.
Built for the index business. Cost benchmarking is a proven model — legal rate surveys, ALSP pricing studies, litigation finance data. The eDiscovery equivalent has a natural home here.
Vendor-ready asset. eDiscovery platforms compete on value as AI collapses review costs. Owning the category's cost benchmark is a strategic moat no competitor can replicate.
