First, modern organizations generate data at a speed and scale that outpaces traditional e-discovery workflows. Second, data is now so decentralized, think cloud platforms, collaboration tools like Slack or Teams, mobile messaging, shared drives, versioned documents, and shadow IT apps, that even well-mapped IT environments contain blind spots. Third, legal teams often lack real-time visibility into how information flows within the business; by the time litigation hits, the knowledge needed to identify relevant sources has already dissipated.One way to rethink this challenge is to borrow from continuous compliance models used in cybersecurity and regulatory tech. These fields assume that organizations can't wait until an incident to figure out where their data is. Instead, they rely on always-on tools that automatically inventory systems, track data movement, and flag anomalies. Add this to the response