X1 Expands Enterprise AI for In-Place Data Analysis

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22, 2026 /CourierPR/ -- X1, the global leader in index-in-place data discovery, has announced a significant expansion of its enterprise AI capabilities. The new features enable legal, compliance, and investigation teams to understand, classify, and act on live, distributed unstructured data in place, before any collection, processing, or review begins. This marks a pivotal shift in the traditional data discovery process, moving analysis far upstream and enabling organizations to identify what matters and make more targeted decisions before moving a single file.

Built on X1’s AI In-Place™ architecture, the enhanced X1 Enterprise AI capabilities apply prompt-driven AI classification and analysis directly to live enterprise data, across hundreds of terabytes and thousands of distributed data sources. This approach reverses the traditional sequence of data discovery, enabling organizations to run AI classification and custom, analyst-defined prompts directly against data where it resides. The new features support a broad range of enterprise data challenges, including eDiscovery and early case assessment, internal investigations, regulatory and compliance matters, information governance, data privacy, sensitive-data identification, and defensible disposition.

The X1 Enterprise AI workbench applies AI classification and configurable, analyst-defined prompts to live enterprise data, providing visibility into what the data contains while it remains in place. This turns what has traditionally been a downstream analysis step into intelligence that can guide decisions from the start. The new capabilities support the continuous-analysis direction reflected in EDRM 2.0, bringing AI-assisted insight into the earliest stages of the discovery lifecycle.

The expanded X1 Enterprise AI capabilities are now generally available through X1 and its global channel network, supporting cloud, on-premises, and hybrid enterprise environments. Enterprise AI operates with customers' existing X1 Enterprise indexes, enabling organizations to add AI-assisted analysis without migrating the underlying data. With more than 600,000 users in 20,000 different organizations globally, X1 solutions empower enterprises to meet mission-critical needs in legal, compliance, governance, and investigation data discovery.

The new features support a broad range of enterprise data challenges, including eDiscovery and early case assessment, internal investigations, regulatory and compliance matters, information governance, data privacy, sensitive-data identification, and defensible disposition. The expanded capabilities are designed to help organizations reduce unnecessary data movement, processing, hosting, and review, thereby saving time and costs associated with traditional data discovery processes.