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RELATIVITY ACQUIRES CONTRACT REVIEW COMPANY HERETIK

Relativity, a global legal and compliance technology company, today announced that it has acquired Heretik, a contract review company that combines machine learning technology and advanced analysis to help organizations gain immediate insight into contract data.

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DEAR HERETIKS, THANK YOU.

With the announcement of Relativity's acquisition of Heretik, an open letter from Heretik's co-founders Charlie Connor, Andy Abbott, and David Barnes to our community.

Zuva Integration Tutorial [VIDEO]

A step-by-step tutorial on how to use the Zuva integration in Heretik

Quetelet Release Overview [VIDEO]

Here's a quick rundown of what's in our latest software release!

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Release notes

CURRENT RELEASE: QUETELET

Que… the mic drop! Our Quetelet release is full of some exciting functionality, including a new Zuva machine learning model integration and powerful enhancements to Heretik Compare, Heretik Analysis, and the Heretik Viewer!

PREVIOUS RELEASE: PYTHAGORAS

a² + b² = Pythagoras Release! We’re introducing some exciting new functionality, including the ability to leverage external AI sources in Heretik, train your own extraction models, review and code custom Relativity objects, and so much more!

Technically speaking

TIPS & CLICKS: HERETIK VIEWER

When building Heretik, we wanted our users to speed up the amount of time it took to review a contract or document with more versatile mouse clicks. But what you might not realize is just how much you can do with a right-click in Heretik.

A TOOL BELT APPROACH FOR AUTO-POPULATING FIELDS

Congratulations, you’ve won a contract review project. Sure, there are 5,000 documents and 100 fields that need to be extracted per document, but you can worry about that after you take a moment to celebrate! … OK – now it’s time to worry about that.

FIVE REGULAR EXPRESSION RESOURCES WE CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT

We often get asked about what technical resources we recommend referencing when using or writing regular expressions. In this post, we’re sharing five great resources to help get you started with regular expressions, as well as showcasing some of the ways they can be used.

10 Smart Ways to Review Contracts with Heretik

Built on the leading document review platform Relativity, Heretik’s flexible workflows and machine learning models make it the most comprehensive contract review toolkit for any size team or project.

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Dear Heretiks, Thank You.

Over the years, we have been honored to work closely with so many of you who have helped us shape and build our solution into what is has become today. On behalf of the entire Heretik team, we’d like to thank each and every one of you for joining us on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure in building a revolutionary contract review solution.

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Quetelet Release Notes

Que… the mic drop! Our Quetelet release is full of some exciting functionality, including a new Zuva machine learning model integration and powerful enhancements to Heretik Compare, Heretik Analysis, and the Heretik Viewer!

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Pythagoras Release Notes

a² + b² = Pythagoras Release! We’re introducing some exciting new functionality, including the ability to leverage external AI sources in Heretik, train your own extraction models, review and code custom Relativity objects, and so much more!

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A tool belt approach for auto-populating fields

Congratulations, you’ve won a contract review project. Sure, there are 5,000 documents and 100 fields that need to be extracted per document, but you can worry about that after you take a moment to celebrate! … OK – now it’s time to worry about that.

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Ogawa Release Notes

Ogawa will blow your mind! We’ve done a complete performance overhaul to some of your favorite features, including Segmentation, our Image Viewer, layouts, OCR, and more. Check it out!

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Tips and Clicks: Heretik Viewer

When building Heretik, we wanted our users to speed up the amount of time it took to review a contract or document with more versatile mouse clicks. But what you might not realize is just how much you can do with a right-click in Heretik.

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Nightingale Release Notes

The Lady with the Lamp has arrived! Our first release of 2021 – Nightingale – is packed with some exciting new features and updates. Check out our new definitions extraction model & workflow, coding at the section level, previewing & running segmentation on the fly, and so much more!

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Mendel Release Notes

Our latest release is seed-sational! We’ve introduced some exciting brand new functionalities including the ability to send-to-field from our image viewer, regular expression building blocks, unitization contract analysis, and so much more!

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Innovation Rewind: Gravity Stack’s head start on LIBOR

For those that have been following along, you’ll remember back in January 2019, Gravity Stack was one of the first to bring their LIBOR solution to market and really hit the ground running. We recently caught up with Sharri Wilner to hear about how their end-to-end LIBOR solution has become not only the standard, but the most sought-after on the market.

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Lovelace Release Notes

You’re going to love our new release – Lovelace! This one is full of some highly-anticipated updates, as well as some brand new features, including our new Document Assembly tool, the ability to auto-populate choice fields, rotating image orientations during Heretik OCR, new additions to supported OCR file types, and so much more!

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10 Smart Ways to Review Contracts with Heretik

Built on the leading document review platform Relativity, Heretik’s flexible workflows and machine learning models make it the most comprehensive contract review toolkit for any size team or project. In this post, we’ve rounded up ten ways our clients are working smarter with Heretik’s contract review solution!

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Feature Focus: Filtering Regular Expressions with Saved Search

Heretik is shipped with tons of customizable features. We’ve talked about many of them before and highlighted them in use cases and other series. What we want to do is start showcasing some of the features that we haven’t talked about as much, or that just deserve a little more time in the spotlight! In this post, we’re focusing in on filtering regular expressions with saved searches.

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Responding to COVID-19: How Gravity Stack helped a multi-national electronics corporation look beyond their Force Majeure provisions in less than a day

Having an existing data intelligence partner like Gravity Stack readily available (and already structuring this clients’ contracts) allowed them to instantly and intelligently pivot their project. In less than a day, they provided their client actionable data that will ultimately save them millions of dollars while also minimizing impacts to their business and team, now and for the remainder of this unforeseeable event. So, how’d they do it? Keep reading to find out!

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Coming Soon: Heretik Certifications

Legal technology requires a level of technical aptitude and attention to detail that can make or break entire projects. The Relativity community has grown and achieved so much with their eDiscovery platform. We are excited to help that same community take the next step in expanding that platform with Heretik by soon offering a certification program of our own!

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Kobe Release Notes

We are excited to bring you the first release of the year – Kobe! This one is full of some highly-anticipated updates, as well as some brand new features, including performance updates to Heretik OCR, brand new regex segmentation abilities, searching capabilities in our Image Viewer, and more!

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Data Privacy in Real Estate

Data privacy regulations like CCPA have forced businesses across the world to re-evaluate how they capture, store, share, and sell data from their customers. While these new data privacy regulations will inevitably change every businesses’ relationship with consumers, there is one industry that will be particularly interesting to watch through this transformation – real estate.

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Introducing Heretik’s Image Viewer

In our Joule release, we were excited to introduce our new Heretik Image Viewer. We built our Image Viewer with the reviewer’s workflow in mind, taking into account workflow pain points, specifically around coding discrepancies between native and extracted text views. Our product and engineering teams worked closely with Heretik power users to create a best-in-class review experience that allows for streamlined interaction on both the extracted text and the familiar native.

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Seven Regulation Trends to Follow in 2020

In 2019, we saw several regulations and laws passed with major implications to consumers and businesses across the world. In this post, we’ll provide you a quick update on the status of these regulations, as well as seven new regulation trends to keep your eye on in the new year!

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The Biggest Deals of the Decade

This past decade had a historic number of acquisitions, and we’ve witnessed some of the biggest players across all industries shake up their respective spaces. With the new year right around the corner, and no sign of the market slowing down, we wanted to reflect on the last decade’s largest and most influential M&As!

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Joule Release Notes

We are excited to close out the year strong with our Joule Release! This one is full of some highly-anticipated updates, as well as some brand new features. Check it out in this latest post!

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The Basics: Scoping

Your team just nailed their pitch for an awesome contract review project, and just like eDiscovery, you’re now asked to submit a project bid. Unlike eDiscovery, scoping a contract review project is much more complex (and also more easily derailed by inaccurate scoping). Understanding a project’s nuances, such as document types, foreign languages involved, interpretation preferences, fields required, etc., is critical to creating an accurate and competitive bid.

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The Basics: Pitching

Contract review is exploding with new regulatory response, corporate transaction, and contract data management projects and your Relativity rocket ship, with some fuel from Heretik, is ready to take you there. So how do you land one of the contract review opportunities? Find out our top five tips in this blog post!

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Relativity Fest 2019 Highlights

Another Relativity Fest has come and gone! While last year was hard to top (feels like it was only yesterday we were ‘diving into our data’), this year was certainly one for the books. From launching our new website to our Client appreciation party, and everything in between, check out some of our favorite highlights from Fest 2019!

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Happy Heretik Birthday

Big number three! Another year under our belts and we have to say, although a lot has happened, there is so much more to come! We’re proud wanted to highlight some statistics that showcase just how much Heretik has grown!

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Boomin’ or Bust

To say former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown has had an eventful 2019 might be the understatement of the year. Brown is seeking to reclaim more than $40 million that he believes he is owed from both the Patriots and the Raiders. Grievances were officially filed on his behalf by the NFLPA on October 4th. Does he actually have a case?

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AB5. Heard of it?

AB5 is a California bill that will be focused mainly on making sure that employees of ride-share companies are compensated accurately for their position. It forces these companies to reassess if drivers are employers or independent contractors.

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How To Eat An Elephant

The only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Same with contract review projects. Building a foundation by solving the smaller contract review projects then allows you to put together scalable workflow to tackle the bigger ones.

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The Basics: Regular Expressions

In our new series, ‘The Basics,’ we’ll be unpacking some of the industry’s buzzwords and concepts from both technical and non-technical perspectives. We’re kicking off the series with one you’ve definitely heard while using Heretik: ‘regular expressions’ (also known as ‘regex’).

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2019 Heretik Innovators’ Summit Highlights

We’re excited to share some highlights from our annual Heretik Innovators’ Summit! This year, we hosted six of our strongest partners from all over the world to collaborate with us here at the office for two days of in-depth focus, conversations, feedback, and fun.

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Brexit. Heard of it?

Of course you’ve heard of Brexit. It’s been a global headline since the United Kingdom (UK) announced their decision to leave the European Union back in 2016. In this post, we’re going to highlight how the implications of Brexit span far beyond the UK and the EU, and how organizations can be prepared for these immediate changes.

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eDiscovery and Contract Review

Often times, we see contract review and eDiscovery discussed and evaluated on opposite ends of the legal review spectrum. While there are significant differences between the two, innovative legal firms have already found a very profitable intersection point. In this post, we’ll go into detail on how tackling your first contract review project is easier than you might think.

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Ito Release Notes

We are excited to present you our Ito Release! This one is full of some highly-anticipated updates, as well as some brand new features.

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LIBOR. Heard of it?

Of course you have. In this post, we summarize the implications of LIBOR across the $350 trillion worth of effected contracts and how your firm can get started tackling these projects with Heretik today!

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Tech-Enabled Due Diligence: Heretik & TransPerfect

We love sharing our clients’ wins with the world! We partnered with our friends at TransPerfect to create an infographic on a recent tech-enabled due diligence project. By using Heretik, they successfully cut the review time down by nearly one fourth of the time, reallocating strategic resources to more meaningful work. Check it out!

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May 2019 Release

We are excited to present you our May 2019 release! This one is full of some highly-anticipated updates, as well as some brand new features.

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Changes in Consumer Data Privacy

California is the first state to further a growing commitment to protect the rights of individuals to privacy of information. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was passed with the intention that it would help provide citizens with more protection from larger entities that may want their information or data.

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January Release

We are excited to present you our January release! This one is full of some highly-anticipated updates, as well as some brand new features.

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Data Storytelling with PowerBI

PowerBI is a data storytelling platform to process, organize, and understand your dataset. With its ability to connect to nearly any data source and to generate interactive reports , the platform provides ways to build step by step narratives starting with high level concepts and end with specific, actionable insights.

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Machine Learning in Legal Tech

Machine learning has become one of the most controversial and polarizing concepts, not only in the legal industry, but the broader enterprise software space. Instead of summarizing opinions and boiling it down to a ‘marketing’ blog post, we sat down with three Heretiks, who spend their time passionately working to empower their users through their technology, to talk to each other about the state of machine learning in legal tech.

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November Release

We are excited to present you our November release! This one is full of some highly-anticipated updates, as well as some brand new features.

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Paranormal Properties

While re-watching some of our favorite Halloween classics this week, we started to hypothetically wonder how enforceable a ghost’s property agreement could actually be. So we talked to an anonymous broker and associate attorney to find out!

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Happy Heretik Birthday

As we look ahead to the future, we reflect on our hard work of the past that got us to where we are now. In this post, our three founders Charlie Connor (CEO), David Barnes (Chief Architect) and Andy Abbott (CTO) will be giving their take on Heretik’s beginnings, where we are at now, and the bright future ahead.

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Relativity Fest Favorites

This year, there was an abundance of firsts and new opportunities for Heretik at Relativity Fest. We’ve set the bar high for next year, but are confident that we will continue to grow and exceed the previous Fest. Here are some of our team’s most proud moments from Relativity Fest 2018.

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Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Halftime Retirement

A few weeks ago, former Buffalo Bill Vontae Davis shocked the league with his abrupt decision to ‘retire’ in the middle of a game. We ran the NFL Player Contract through a Heretik Analysis to determine how much of his $5M the Bills could re-coup, as well as what other media or sponsorship agreements might be compromised.

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World Economic Forum Takeaways

1871 recently gained global attention after being ranked first in the world, among university-affiliated business incubators, for their impact among local startups and dedication to diversity. This year, they graciously nominated Heretik with a handful of other start-ups to join them for the first time ever at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Tianjin, China.

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A Day in the Life of a Heretik Engineer

Every day, Heretik software engineers are busy at work creating the most efficient and flexible system for contract data analysis and review. In this article, Heretik software engineer Sam Miles let us tag along for what a typical day for him looks like.

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Heretik Law Firm Advisory Board Highlights

We invited our advisors, media, investors, start-ups, and developer partners to come together for two days of collaborative sessions about legal technology at our Heretik Law Firm Advisory Board event! Check out some of our favorite photos and key takeaways!

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June Release

This month, we’re launching some exciting new features, as well as a few lovely enhancements. Let’s get to it!

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