Bots, Briefs & Billions of Bytes ...
Bots, Briefs & Billions of Bytes with Mattias Aggeler
Robots and Red Tape by Nick Schutt
S3 · E13
May 12, 2026
44:04
Episode notes

Join host Nick Schutt on Robots and Red Tape as he sits down with Mattias Aggeler, eDiscovery expert and co-founder of Farsight.

Mattias shares his accidental entry into IT forensics in 2008 and the journey that led him to build a modern, container-based eDiscovery platform. The conversation explores the real-world complexities of processing billions of documents for major investigations, the critical importance of scoping and reproducibility, and the practical — and currently limited — role of AI in legal tech.

Key topics:

  • What eDiscovery really is and why it can make or break major legal cases
  • The massive challenges of scoping custodians, processing messy data, and ensuring defensibility
  • AI’s current practical uses versus its limitations around repeatability in court
  • The shi ... 
Keywords
artificial intelligence
AI
trust
data
entrepreneurship
intellectual property
law
legal