Discovery Risk Starts Long Before Discovery Begins
ESI Flow was built to help litigation teams operationalize court rules, procedural judgment, and negotiation strategy before discovery cost, burden, and risk become locked in.
ESI Flow was created to solve a specific problem in modern litigation: discovery decisions often lock in cost long before anyone sees it.
ESI protocols, protective orders, local rules, standing orders, proportionality arguments, client constraints, and negotiation strategy all interact. But most teams still manage those inputs through manual review, scattered precedent, and informal judgment.
ESI Flow helps legal teams operationalize those inputs inside Microsoft Word, where drafting and negotiation already happen.
The ESI Flow Story
ESI Flow began as a focused effort to make ESI protocol negotiation more structured, defensible, and practical.
The problem was not that lawyers lacked judgment. Too much legal judgment was trapped in memory, precedent files, local practices, and individual negotiations.
This creates friction and inconsistency, making it harder for in-house and outside counsel to align across jurisdictions.
ESI Flow provides a structured Word-based workflow that combines court rules, clause analysis, drafting support, and negotiation guidance in one process.
Its goal is not to replace lawyers, but to make legal judgment easier to apply, explain, and repeat.
Built by Legal and E-Discovery Practitioners
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ESI Flow is being developed by legal professionals with hands-on experience in:
• litigation
• e-discovery
• legal operations
• product development
• enterprise legal workflows
Olga V. Mack
CEO, legal technology builder, former general counsel, and product lawyer focused on turning complex legal judgment into scalable workflows and practical software.
Kassi Burns
E-discovery attorney and legal technologist focused on litigation workflows, ESI protocols, discovery operations, and translating litigation expertise into practical technology.
What We Believe
Attorney Judgment Remains in Control
ESI Flow supports legal decision-making. It does not replace it.
Court Rules Should Guide Decisions
Federal rules, local rules, standing orders, and judicial preferences should guide drafting when decisions are being made.
Discovery risk starts early.
Protocols and protective orders shape cost, burden, leverage, and disputes long before production begins.
Adoption Follows Workflow
Legal teams are more likely to adopt tools that meet them where they already work. That is why ESI Flow is built around Microsoft Word.
Built for Real Litigation Workflows
ESI Flow supports the decisions litigation teams make every day:
Protocol drafting
Rule analysis
Checking rules
Clause review
Negotiation preparation
Meet-and-confer strategy
Cross-team coordination
Who is this for?
For In-House Litigation Teams
Bring consistency, visibility, and defensible decision-making across matters, outside counsel, and jurisdictions.
For Law Firms
Create more repeatable protocol drafting and negotiation workflows while reducing rework and inconsistency.
For E-Discovery Professionals
Connect technical discovery realities to proportionality, cost, and litigation strategy.
Why This Matters Now
Discovery Is Becoming More Operational
Litigation is becoming more data-intensive, more jurisdiction-specific, and more operational. Discovery decisions are no longer isolated drafting exercises. They shape cost, leverage, timing, and risk across the litigation lifecycle.
Legal teams need more than precedent documents. They need structured systems for applying rules, documenting judgment, and aligning strategy earlier.
Designed Around Attorney Control
The product structures analysis and support while leaving legal judgment with the attorney.
Grounded in Rules and Practice
ESI Flow is built around federal, local, and judge-level discovery practices, not generic drafting prompts.
Built Inside Word
The workflow lives where protocol drafting and negotiation already happen.
Our Commitment
We are building ESI Flow with practicing legal teams, not around them.
Our commitment is to build tools that are practical, explainable, and useful inside real discovery workflows.
Early access users will help shape how ESI Flow supports:
• Protocol negotiation
• Clause analysis
• Drafting support
• Risk visibility
• Meet-and-confer preparation
Our Mission
To help legal teams operationalize court rules, procedural judgment, and negotiation strategy directly inside the workflows they already use.
Our Principles
• Attorney control
• Rule-based guidance
• Structured judgment
• Practical workflows
• Early risk visibility
• Human accountability
Help Build the Future
of Discovery Workflows
Join a select group of litigators, e-discovery professionals, and in-house teams helping define how structured procedural
Intelligence fits into modern litigation practice.