Industry’s Only Patented Distributed Micro-Indexing Architecture Enables AI to Execute Directly Where Enterprise Data Resides Across Data Sources—Without Moving or Copying Sensitive Data

X1®, the global leader in index-in-place data discovery software for legal, compliance, governance, and investigation use cases, today announced the general availability of AI In-Place™ for X1 Enterprise. The new capability enables organizations and their service provider partners to deploy and execute AI models directly across distributed enterprise data environments—allowing AI-powered analysis to run directly where enterprise data lives, at the speed and scale the modern enterprise demands.

“Enabling AI directly where the clients’ data resides fundamentally changes the economics, speed, and risk profile of enterprise data discovery, investigations and compliance workflows,” said Mandi Ross, CEO at Insight Optix. “With X1 Enterprise AI In-Place, we can deploy AI models, pre-trained or customized for specific matters, data queries, or compliance requirements—securely within client environments, dramatically accelerating time to insight without sensitive information being collected, duplicated, or centralized outside their control.”

Bringing AI to the Data—Not the Other Way Around

Every major eDiscovery and GRC platform on the market is built around the same collection-first assumption: move the data, then analyze it. That means copying, ingesting, and centralizing sensitive enterprise information into vendor-controlled repositories before a single AI query can run—generating significant operational overhead, larger review populations, higher infrastructure costs, and the security and compliance exposure that comes with moving sensitive data at scale. And for larger scale projects involving terabytes of data, this framework is simply unworkable.

X1 is built on a fundamentally different architecture. X1's patented distributed micro-indexing technology forward-deploys AI models directly into lightweight micro-indexes at the data source—across Microsoft 365, file shares, cloud repositories, and endpoints—enabling AI-powered analysis, classification, and workflow automation at petabyte scale, that would otherwise be effectively impossible. Enterprise data stays where it lives, behind the firewall, without being moved or copied. The result is faster investigations, materially lower infrastructure and review costs, stronger security posture, and a far more agile enterprise data intelligence platform.

Enterprise AI Designed for Secure Deployment

X1 Enterprise AI In-Place is designed for secure enterprise deployment across regulated and distributed environments. Organizations can centrally govern AI usage while keeping processing local under existing enterprise security policies and endpoint controls. AI capabilities remain fully optional and configurable by data source, and customer data is never used to train, fine-tune, or enrich underlying AI models.

How AI In-Place Works

AI In-Place is a native capability within the X1 Enterprise Platform, not a bolt-on service. The workflow is simple:

• Deploy: AI models are deployed directly into X1’s distributed micro-indexes, behind the firewall and close to enterprise data sources.
• Run: Models execute against enterprise data in-place, auto-applying AI-informed tags and classifications at massive scale.
• Query & Act: AI-enriched insights are queried globally from a central console, supporting targeted collection, remediation, investigations, and review workflows.

Enterprise Workflows Enabled by AI In-Place

• Legal & eDiscovery: In-place TAR, pre-collection analytics, and early case assessment—dramatically accelerating review and reducing collection volumes before a single document is exported.
• Information Governance & Compliance: AI-driven classification, policy enforcement, defensible remediation, and data separation workflows across enterprise repositories, including M&A, regulatory inquiries, divestitures, and departing employee investigations.
• Security & Investigations: Real-time insider risk detection and audit analytics at petabyte scale, across endpoint and cloud data environments.
• Enterprise Insight: Accelerated analysis across emails, documents, chats, and unstructured enterprise content without costly migration or centralized processing.

“AI In-Place represents a fundamental shift in how enterprises operationalize AI across distributed data environments,” said Larry Gill, CEO of X1. “By enabling AI execution directly where enterprise data resides, organizations can achieve scalable insight, faster workflows, improved operational efficiency, and stronger security while maintaining control of sensitive information.”

Availability

AI In-Place for X1 Enterprise is generally available today through X1 and its global channel network, with deployment options supporting cloud, on-premises, and hybrid enterprise environments.

See AI In-Place In Action

X1 will host a live product tour on Wednesday, June 24 featuring a demonstration of AI In-Place operating directly across distributed enterprise data sources.

About X1

X1 is the pioneer of micro-indexing software and global leader in index-in-place data discovery solutions. With more than 600,000 users in 20,000 different organizations globally, X1 solutions empower enterprises to meet mission-critical needs in legal, compliance, governance, and investigation data discovery. Please contact X1 at info@x1.com or visit www.x1.com for more information.

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