Industry’s Leading Index-In-Place Data Discovery Platform Now Empowers Organizations and AI Providers to Deploy and Execute AI Models Securely Across Enterprise Data Sources–Without Moving or Copying Data
LOS ANGELES, CA – November 12, 2025 – X1®, the global leader in index-in-place data discovery software for legal, compliance, governance, and investigation use cases, today announced a groundbreaking new capability within its X1 Enterprise Platform: the ability to forward-deploy AI models directly to enterprise data sources for true AI in-place analysis—without the need to move or copy sensitive corporate data.
Revolutionizing Enterprise AI Workflows
To date, enterprise AI workflows have been largely confined to centralized, structured data repositories or very small subsets of unstructured data, even though unstructured data represents the vast majority of data assets in the enterprise. Consequently, critical corporate data has remained beyond the reach of modern AI systems. X1’s breakthrough changes that paradigm.
X1’s latest innovation marks a major leap forward in enterprise AI enablement, introducing transformative in-place AI workflows that allow organizations or their service provider partners to deploy both open source or their own proprietary large language models (LLMs) directly to X1’s distributed micro-indexes for real-time data analysis on emails, documents, chats and other critical enterprise data assets.
Kelly Twigger, CEO of Minerva26, said, “X1’s new implementation is AI that serves the client, not data monetization. By attacking the cost driver—data movement—it can lower discovery spend, tighten compliance, and help companies leverage their information for internal value and tell their story more effectively in court. It’s exactly the kind of vision that helps clients address their challenges while meeting their legal obligations.”
Unlike traditional workflows that require enterprises to copy and transfer their most sensitive unstructured data to a third party AI provider, a non-starter for most organizations due to severe security, scalability and cost challenges—X1 brings the AI to the data, eliminating risk, latency, and unnecessary duplication. This is not another AI add-on—it’s a fundamental redefinition of how enterprise AI is deployed: scalable, secure, and truly in-place.
“Enabling AI in-place where our corporate client’s data lives is game-changing,” said William Belt, Managing Director and Consulting Practice Leader at Complete Discovery Source. “We look forward to working with our clients to deploy AI models that are either pre-trained or customized for a specific matter or compliance requirement utilizing the X1 Enterprise platform.”
“The unique ability of our distributed micro-indexing technology is redefining how corporate enterprises think about deploying AI,” said Larry Gill, CEO of X1. “By enabling the forward deployment of advanced AI models across a global organization, companies can achieve unprecedented operational efficiency, cost savings, and analytical insight. X1 is truly enabling the impossible—AI at enterprise scale, in-place.”
AI In-Place at Enterprise Scale
Powered by X1’s proprietary distributed micro-indexing technology, this new capability enables organizations to integrate 3rd-party AI models and effectively perform true “AI in-place” across the enterprise – bringing intelligence directly to the data, rather than moving data to the AI. X1 allows organizations to securely execute AI-driven analytics across both on-premises and cloud data sources at massive scale, eliminating the risk, cost, and delays associated with large-scale data movement.
Once the LLMs are deployed into the X1 micro-indexes, X1 will then auto apply AI-informed tags that can be queried globally from a central console and acted upon through targeted collection or remediation.
The result is a new era of pre-collection enterprise-wide AI, unlocking applications such as:
- In-place TAR (Technology Assisted Review) for legal and eDiscovery
- AI data classification workflows for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
- Real-Time information security and audit analytics at petabyte scale
…all performed without duplicating or relocating sensitive corporate data.
X1 will host a webinar on Wednesday, December 10 featuring a detailed overview of this new capability and a live demonstration. The X1 Enterprise Platform is available now through X1 and its global channel network, in the cloud, on-premises, and with on-demand professional services.