Advances in computing like machine learning and blockchain have stirred excitement in the legal technology community over their potential to reshape legal work. But while those technologies are quickly making their way into the legal ecosystem, that technology today still revolves around human operators.

This is the bet that e-discovery support platform Esquify is taking. The company’s recent win of the U.S. arm of the Global Legaltech Venture Days contest hosted across three continents, hosted by Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law in Chicago on June 15, shows that the legal tech today is still concerned with supporting, not supplanting, legal staff.