Lightning IQ and Altorney Announce Partnership to Power AI‑Enabled, Data‑in‑Place Document Review & Investigations
Lightning IQ
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February 25, 2026 - Lightning IQ and Altorney today announced a strategic partnership designed to fundamentally improve how legal teams approach early-stage document review, investigations, and compliance workflows.
The partnership brings together Lightning IQ’s real-time, petabyte scale data intelligence platform with Altorney’s MARC, a behind-the-firewall, GenAI powered system that automates first pass document review and investigations. Together, the two solutions enable legal teams to assess, filter, and refine data where it already lives, dramatically expediting the story in the data, and reducing the volume, cost, and risk associated with traditional review workflows.
Lightning IQ rapidly scans, maps, and indexes unstructured data in place, delivering immediate insight into what data should - and should not - be included in the matter. Once the data is refined, Altorney’s MARC platform automates first pass review and investigation inside the corporate environment, applying GenAI to tag, cull, and explain relevance, responsiveness, privilege, PII, PHI, and sensitive content decisions at scale.
“AI only performs as well as the data you feed it,” said Shimmy Messing, CEO of Altorney. “By pairing Lightning IQ’s extreme velocity data-in-place processing with Altorney’s behind-the-firewall GenAI automation, teams can eliminate the noise early, preserve security, and dramatically reduce downstream hosting and review costs. This partnership gives legal teams unprecedented speed, accuracy, and control over their data.”
Eric Rodriguez, President of Lightning IQ, added: “Altorney’s MARC is one of the most impressive first pass automation engines we’ve seen - transparent, defensible, and adaptable to modern data volumes. Combined with our ability to surface and structure data in record time, the result is a workflow that finally compresses the most expensive stages of document review. This is what modern eDiscovery should look like.”
Together, Lightning IQ and Altorney allow organizations to:
• Reduce review volumes before data enters costly cloud review platforms
• Keep sensitive data securely inside corporate environments
• Automate first pass review & investigations without complex prompting or manual workflows
• Deliver faster turnaround times with greater transparency and control
The combined solution supports eDiscovery, internal investigations, and compliance reviews - giving legal teams a modern, scalable alternative to legacy “collect everything and then review” models.
About Lightning IQ:
Lightning IQ™ is a leader in data intelligence, delivering a revolutionary platform that scans, maps and indexes unstructured data in real time. With powerful data pipelines built for petabyte-scale at lightning speed, Lightning IQ accelerates AI, cybersecurity, and data management initiatives.
About Altorney
Altorney builds elegant, unconventional tech that redefines how legal teams source talent and manage document review and investigations. MARC is an unhosted, AI-powered review and investigation engine designed for tasks that usually need human review. It surpasses the quality of a human review team and does so at a fraction of the cost.
