FRA nominated for the 2026 Relativity Innovation Awards for proprietary AIDE application

We are excited to share that our Forensic Technology team has been nominated for the 2026 Relativity Innovation Awards in the Best Innovation: Organize category, in recognition of AIDE (AI-Driven Data Extractor by FRA), a proprietary application developed in-house to address a critical challenge in eDiscovery.

In eDiscovery, organizations work with vast volumes of documents containing valuable information. While traditional OCR remains a foundational technology, it often extracts only raw text, leaving legal teams to manually identify, organize, and code the information needed for review. This process can be time-consuming, costly, and limits how quickly meaningful insights can be uncovered.

AIDE was designed to close this gap. Developed by FRA's Forensic Technology experts as a custom-built Relativity application, the tool uses AI to transform unstructured documents into structured, usable data directly within Relativity.

Rather than relying on manual extraction and objective coding to prepare documents for review, AIDE automatically extracts key information and organizes it into searchable, usable data. This allows reviewers to spend less time preparing data and more time analyzing it.

Since its introduction, AIDE has already demonstrated measurable impact in client engagements. In one large-scale document review, the application reduced processing and review costs by up to 98%, while other deployments achieved more than 90% faster processing and review timelines. As the product continues to evolve, we are honored to see our team's innovation recognized by Relativity and the broader legal technology community.

Congratulations to our Forensic Technology colleagues, and to all this year's nominees!

Key FRA contacts

Jon Fowler, Partner and Head of Forensic Technology

Alejandro Gomez-Igbo, Director

Anurag Spatzenegger, Director