Hanzo review
A focused eDiscovery platform for preserving, assessing, and exporting collaboration data.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Hanzo provides legal data management software for in-house legal, compliance, and investigations teams. Its Illuminate product covers preservation, legal holds, collection, processing, search, analysis, and export for enterprise data. The platform is suited to eDiscovery, internal investigations, early case assessment, regulatory inquiries, and DSAR workflows, with Chronicle for website and social-media preservation and Spotlight AI for relevance analysis and review assistance.
Its ecosystem fit is a central strength. Hanzo supports Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence, Asana, GitHub, email, web, social media, and internal SaaS tools. Dynamic mapping connects users, channels, custodians, and conversations, helping teams identify relevant collaboration data before collection. Native-format collection, metadata, audit trails, review-ready exports, and automated redaction extend the workflow beyond preservation into downstream review and DSAR handling.
The platform is most compelling for organizations whose legal work depends on fast-changing collaboration data and multiple enterprise sources. AI-assisted relevance assessment can support analysis, while in-place preservation addresses data that may change over time. Teams seeking a web-based system for collaboration-data preservation, legal holds, collection, and export should consider Hanzo. Buyers looking for a narrower tool focused only on traditional document review may find its broader data-management scope unnecessary, and pricing is handled through sales rather than published plans.
Hanzo pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Preserves collaboration data in place with legal hold management.
- Maps users, channels, custodians, and conversations dynamically.
- Supports AI assessment, native-format exports, audit trails, and redaction.
- Where it doesn't
- Pricing requires a conversation with the sales team.
- The listed platform is web-based.
- Its strongest focus is collaboration and enterprise data workflows.
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