What Hanzo does

Hanzo is a Portland, Oregon-headquartered (with a London European HQ) enterprise software company that provides defensible archiving, preservation, and review solutions for dynamic web content and modern collaboration data. Its platform is purpose-built to capture and preserve information from sources that legacy eDiscovery and archiving tools struggle with — including JavaScript-heavy websites, social media, and enterprise collaboration systems such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Jira. The product suite centers on Chronicle for web and dynamic-content preservation and Illuminate for collaboration-data management, with a network of data connectors that integrate preservation into the customer's existing technology stack.

The company's core technical differentiator is its Dynamic Capture Technology and a defensibility-first architecture that supports WORM storage, SOC 2 Type 2 certification, and compliance with SEC, FINRA, and PCAOB requirements. More recently, Hanzo has layered AI capabilities onto this preservation foundation through Spotlight AI — an add-on that delivers relevancy scoring, signals, assist, and inspect features, deployed in-tenant to satisfy enterprise data-residency requirements. A complementary AI Roadmap consultancy service helps customers operationalize these capabilities. The business model is enterprise SaaS with quote-based, contract-driven pricing, sold to Fortune 500 customers across financial services, insurance, healthcare, technology, professional services, government, transportation, and media — including Kaiser Permanente, IBM, Oracle, Deloitte, United Airlines, Airbnb, BuzzFeed, Prudential, UnitedHealthcare, and various U.S. government agencies. The company is privately held, has raised approximately $3.3M in disclosed funding to date, and operates with 51–100 employees under CEO Sarai Schubert.

Name

Hanzo

Legal name

Hanzo Archives Limited

Website

https://hanzo.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Hanzo is a Portland- and London-based enterprise SaaS company that provides defensible archiving and AI-assisted review of dynamic web content and modern collaboration data for Fortune 500 and government customers in legal, compliance, and GRC functions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Data Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Asset Management (DAM) for Media/Creative (MPAHAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Rights, Access Control & Clearance for Archives (Permissions, Audit, Policy) (MPAHAGAL), Metadata Management & Cataloging (Taxonomy, Semantic Search, AI Tagging) (MPAHAGAG)

Keywords

• EDiscovery software
• Legal data management
• Web content preservation
• Regulatory compliance archiving
• Collaboration data analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Portland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription (Chronicle, Illuminate, Spotlight AI): Hanzo operates as a subscription-based SaaS company offering multiple products including Chronicle (website preservation), Illuminate (collaboration data management), and Spotlight AI (intelligent automation). The platform is sold to enterprise legal and compliance teams on a subscription basis with pricing based on data volume, features, and enterprise requirements. The company offers different tiers and add-ons such as Spotlight Signals, Assist, and Inspect modules.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Hanzo is a legal data intelligence company that sells enterprise SaaS software for the legally defensible capture, preservation, and analysis of dynamic web content and collaboration data. Its platform combines Chronicle (dynamic website and social media archiving in WARC/WORM format), Illuminate (in-place preservation of Slack, Teams, Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence, and Asana), and Spotlight AI (in-tenant NLP and generative AI for relevancy scoring and compliance monitoring) to serve Fortune 500 corporate legal teams, government agencies, and regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare.

Product overview

Hanzo is a legal data intelligence company offering a platform-plus-modules architecture consisting of two core products: Chronicle (dynamic website and social media preservation) and Illuminate (collaboration data management). These are enhanced by the Spotlight AI add-on module for AI-driven relevancy and analysis, Data Connectors for extended collection capabilities, and AI Roadmap consultancy services. The platform is designed for enterprise legal and compliance teams to preserve, search, analyze, and act on data from modern collaboration tools and dynamic web content with legal defensibility.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hanzo Chronicle: Platform that captures and preserves dynamic web, social, and SaaS content with forensic accuracy for regulatory compliance including SEC, FINRA, PCAOB, FTC, and FDA requirements.
• Hanzo Illuminate
• Spotlight AI

Products and services

• Hanzo Chronicle AI-powered platform that captures, preserves, and replays dynamic web, social, and SaaS content with forensic accuracy using proprietary Dynamic Capture Technology. Stores captures in WARC format (ISO 28500 compliant) with SHA-256 hashes, immutable WORM storage, and full native playback for SEC, FINRA, PCAOB, FTC, and FDA compliance. Designed for enterprise legal, compliance, and regulatory teams that must prove exactly how web content appeared on a given date.
• Hanzo Illuminate Collaboration data management platform providing in-place preservation and analysis of Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence, and Asana communications. Uses Dynamic Mapping Technology to identify users, channels, custodians, and conversations across sources, reducing overcollection. Preserves data directly within collaboration platforms or securely in the cloud, with Spotlight AI integration for filtering noise and surfacing key facts and timelines. Built for enterprise legal, compliance, and investigations teams managing Slack, Teams, and Google Workspace content for litigation hold, investigations, and regulatory response.
• Spotlight AI AI-powered intelligence layer that provides automated relevancy scoring, context, sentiment, and relationship analysis across collaboration and web data. Includes Spotlight Signals (high-risk content detection across millions of messages), Spotlight Assist (investigative companion for early case assessment and strategy), and Spotlight Inspect (continuous compliance monitoring and policy gap detection). Operates in-tenant so customer data does not leave the security perimeter, and produces explainable, audit-ready relevancy decisions for legal and compliance teams.
• AI Roadmap Consultancy Expert consultancy service providing guidance and practical roadmap development for implementing AI-driven innovation in eDiscovery and legal workflows. Targeted at enterprise legal and compliance leaders who need a strategy for deploying AI inside their legal data environment.
• Data Connectors Collection technology that extends Hanzo's preservation and collection capabilities beyond API-only integration, capturing additional views, tabs, metadata fields, versions, and links using proprietary web crawling. Supports documentation, emails, files, ticket and engineering data, and web/social media content for sources that lack native preservation APIs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduce review time by 85%+
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers27 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

AI capability7 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, infrastructure and security compliance.

• SlackcoreTechnology or IntegrationSlack is a core integration partner for Hanzo Illuminate, which connects to Slack via the Discovery API to preserve, collect, and analyze Slack communications for eDiscovery and compliance. Hanzo captures messages, files, edits, deletions, and channel activity with full context including attachments, emoji, and metadata.
• Microsoft TeamscoreTechnology or IntegrationMicrosoft Teams is integrated into Hanzo Illuminate for preserving and analyzing collaboration data. Teams conversations and shared files are preserved in-place or securely in the cloud, maintaining full conversation context for legal and compliance needs.
• Google WorkspacecoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Workspace integration allows Hanzo Illuminate to preserve and analyze data from Google collaboration tools, providing unified compliance and discovery workflows connected to Google's collaboration ecosystem.
• Atlassian (Confluence, Jira)coreTechnology or IntegrationAtlassian's Confluence and Jira platforms are integrated with Hanzo Illuminate for preserving and collecting data from these collaboration tools. Hanzo can preserve content from Jira and Confluence including for sources without PIP features or compliance capabilities.
• AsanacoreTechnology or IntegrationAsana integration allows Hanzo to collect and preserve data from this project management platform, ensuring legal holds and compliance preservation extend to task and project collaboration data.
• Amazon AWSinfrastructureTechnology or IntegrationAmazon AWS is used as a hosting provider for Hanzo's cloud infrastructure. The company uses top hosting providers including AWS and Google Cloud to ensure secure, available environments for customers.
• Google CloudinfrastructureTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Cloud serves as a hosting provider for Hanzo's applications, providing secure cloud infrastructure for data storage and processing.
• SOC 2 Type 2 Certified (AICPA)security complianceOthersHanzo achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification in October 2019, audited by an independent CPA firm adhering to AICPA's stringent standards. This certification confirms rigorous controls against unauthorized access, both digital and physical.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• DISCO: DISCO is a leading cloud-native eDiscovery platform serving law firms and corporate legal teams with AI-driven document review, processing, and production. It directly competes with Hanzo in the eDiscovery and legal review space for enterprise matters.
• Reveal: Reveal (formerly IPRO) is an eDiscovery and AI-powered legal technology platform serving enterprise legal teams. Notably, Hanzo CEO Sarai Schubert previously led two exits at IPRO-Reveal, making it a highly comparable competitor with overlapping product positioning.
• Onna: Onna is a knowledge management and eDiscovery platform purpose-built for collaboration data (Slack, Teams, Google Workspace, Asana, etc.). It is the closest direct competitor to Hanzo Illuminate for in-place preservation and AI-driven discovery of modern collaboration sources.
• Pagefreezer: Pagefreezer is a web and social media archiving platform used for compliance, eDiscovery, and regulatory recordkeeping. It directly competes with Hanzo Chronicle in dynamic website and social media capture.
• Logikcull: Logikcull (part of Reveal) is a self-service eDiscovery and DSAR/compliance platform serving mid-market and enterprise legal teams. It overlaps with Hanzo in DSAR/GDPR compliance reviews and AI-assisted document review workflows.
• Exterro: Exterro is a legal GRC platform combining eDiscovery, data privacy, and information governance workflows for enterprise legal teams. It directly competes with Hanzo across legal hold, DSAR/GDPR, and compliance management.

Broad incumbents

• Relativity: Relativity (RelativityOne) is the largest SaaS eDiscovery platform, serving Am Law 200 firms and Fortune 500 legal departments with end-to-end processing, review, and production. It is the dominant incumbent that Hanzo competes against in enterprise eDiscovery.
• Smarsh: Smarsh is a large compliance and archiving platform specializing in financial-services communications capture (email, chat, social, voice). It overlaps with Hanzo Illuminate/Chronicle for compliance archiving of regulated communications, particularly in regulated industries.
• Global Relay: Global Relay is an enterprise compliance archiving and messaging surveillance provider heavily used in financial services. It is a broad incumbent competitor for collaboration data archiving, surveillance, and eDiscovery use cases.

Emerging players

• Zapproved: Zapproved is a SaaS legal hold and eDiscovery automation platform focused on corporate legal departments. It overlaps with Hanzo in legal hold workflows and is a comparably sized specialist in the same buyer persona.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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