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    Lightning IQ™ is a leader in data intelligence software helping organizations better understand, manage and control the costs and processes associated with risk, compliance and regulatory matters.
     
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    The Lightning IQ platform makes the impossible, possible, with its revolutionary design and performance - capable of mapping and indexing petabytes of metadata and full-text in hours.

    Blistering speed

    Scan and index petabytes of metadata and full-text in hours. Transform your data driven initiatives and go from data chaos to data quality across your entire enterprise.
     

    Innovative architecture

    Distributed, event-driven, asynchronous and stateless micro-services deliver best-in-class performance and provide a platform for rapid innovation.
     

     

    High-risk data identification

    Quickly identify ROT, find PII, and/or the location of confidential or critical intellectual property.
     

    Effortless deployment

    Fully automated deployment both on-prem or in the cloud eliminates the time-consuming, error-prone "configuration" typically associated with data scanning.
     

     

    AI-Readiness 

    Lightning IQ scans petabytes of enterprise data to uncover hidden risks - across file shares, cloud drives, and legacy systems - before they become AI liabilities.
     

    Terabytes in minutes; petabytes in hours

    Scale up and down - horizontally and vertically - as needed. No drive too small, no network cluster too big for Lightning IQ.      
     

     

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    Our Vision
    To transform how enterprises understand and manage their unstructured data, delivering total visibility, control, and confidence. We empower organizations to operate securely, reduce risk, and maximize the value of their enterprise data.
     

     

    Our Mission
    1. To illuminate and classify enterprise data at petabyte scale
    2. To reduce data risk through actionable insights and intelligent control
    3. To enable confident, compliant decisions across every corner of the business
     

     

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From Data Chaos to Clarity - at Petabyte Scale.

Government agencies are responsible for vast, growing volumes of unstructured data - while operating under strict compliance, security, and public accountability requirements.  Lightning IQ brings speed, visibility and control to mission-critical agency data.
 
Scan petabytes.  Identify risk.  Respond faster.
All without moving your data.
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Compliance starts with visibility.

You can’t secure - or produce - what you can’t see.  Lightning IQ gives agencies 100% visibility into unstructured data across legacy systems, on-prem storage, and cloud environments - in hours, not months:
  • Meet FOIA, litigation, and audit deadlines with confidence.
  • Identify PII, PHI, CJIS, and sensitive records instantly.
  • Create defensible, repeatable compliance workflows.
  • Maintain full chain of custody with in-place scanning.
From first scan to defensible insight - fast.

Search archives - lightning fast. 

Agencies are spending millions to retain searchable data for inactive users and legacy systems.  Lightning IQ changes that.
  • Reduce archive costs by 50–75%: Move offboarded user data out of expensive SaaS licenses into cloud object storage
  • Preserve full search capability: Vault-like search, preview, and export—without paying high per-user license fees
  • Keep data in your environment: Stored directly in your own cloud buckets for full control and compliance
  • Built for high-speed retrieval: Petabyte-scale indexing and search optimized for modern cloud infrastructure
Rapid search and retrieval across your local and cloud-based archives.
 
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Reduce risk by the petabyte.

The fastest way to improve security isn’t just better defenses - it’s minimizing the confidential data inside your agency.  Lightning IQ helps agencies rapidly reduce their attack surface by identifying:
  • Dark data (files untouched for years).
  • Redundant and duplicate records (ROT).
  • Ownerless or orphaned data.
  • Sensitive data exposure across environments.
Eliminate blind spots. Strengthen your compliance posture.

AI readiness for the mission ahead.

AI initiatives in government depend on one thing: data quality.  Lightning IQ transforms unstructured data into clean, structured, AI-ready datasets by:
  • Identifying sensitive data before ingestion.
  • Removing duplicates and low-value content.
  • Structuring data pipelines for downstream system.
Better data. Better models. Better outcome.


 
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Accelerating public sector data intelligence.

Lightning IQ, in partnership with Carahsoft, delivers the industry’s fastest data discovery and assessment platform to government agencies.
  • Streamlined Procurement: Available through Carahsoft contract vehicles including GSA Schedule (MAS), SEWP V, and NASPO ValuePoint.
  • Blistering Speed: Index and assess billions of records in hours - not weeks.
  • Risk Mitigation: Identify and secure sensitive data before it becomes a liability.

A faster path from procurement to impact. 

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