DISCO Launches Gen AI Platform Cecilia in EU, UK

On Tuesday, e-discovery company DISCO announced the official launch of its generative AI platform Cecilia in the European Union and the U.K.

A press release announcing the expansion specifically noted that Cecilia Q&A, Cecilia doc summaries and a single-document version of Cecilia Q&A, where users can query a single document via a chatbot, will be available in the EU and U.K. regions. The release added that DISCO plans to bring additional Cecilia AI tools and capabilities to the European market next year.

In an email, DISCO Senior Director of Product Management Liad Levinson said that Cecilia “Q&A and Doc Summaries have been very popular in the U.S. and are good fits for the EU/U.K. litigation environment, so we prioritized releasing them first.”

Levinson added, “Cecilia Auto Review has a pricing structure we’re still testing in the U.S., so it would be premature for us to rush to another region.”

DISCO first announced Cecilia in March 2023 as a generative AI chatbot which allowed users to ask questions of their documents and receive answers with citations—a functionality that would eventually be known as Cecilia Q&A, becoming one feature of many in the platform.

The generative AI platform itself was released in private access to a select group of customers in the summer of 2023, and released for general access at the end of that year.

In August 2023, DISCO updated Cecilia with AI timelines, which enables users to create timelines of uploaded legal documents such as complaints. In December 2023, the company also launched Cecilia Auto Review, which automatically performs first-pass reviews of documents, in private access. Auto Review was released for general availability in August 2024.

Cecilia was further expanded in 2024. In February, DISCO unveiled Cecilia Deposition Summaries, which summarizes uploaded deposition transcripts with corresponding citations. Two months later in May 2024, the e-discovery company also launched Cecilia doc summaries with similar functionality and the ability to translate foreign language documents.

DISCO is at least the second e-discovery provider to offer new products in Europe this autumn. In mid-September, Reveal announced that it was bringing its Logikcull platform—which it acquired alongside IPRO in 2023—to Europe and the U.K.

DISCO also joins a growing number of legal tech companies, including LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, to release a generative AI platform in the U.K.