Custom & API collections for eDiscovery
When relevant data lives behind a specialized API, authenticated application, or proprietary system, Acerion engineers a focused collection workflow that preserves source data, context, and provenance.
Custom & API collections cannot be reduced to a universal download button. Authentication, endpoint behavior, data models, pagination, embedded relationships, attachments, and platform limits must all be understood before the first production request is made.
Documentation, endpoint coverage, versioning, and export behavior vary widely between systems.
Pagination, throttling, token lifetimes, and transient failures can silently create incomplete results.
Native JSON and linked assets often need careful organization before legal teams can use them.
Designed around the evidence
Translate the legal request into endpoints, objects, filters, permissions, related content, and measurable completion criteria.
Build source-aware scripts that handle the mechanics needed to collect complete populations reliably.
Retain source identifiers, relationships, timestamps, and raw responses while producing organized data for downstream use.
Measure the collection against known totals, API responses, and execution records, then document gaps and exceptions clearly.
Controlled from scope to delivery
Review the platform, available access, documentation, data model, and the matter-specific request.
Test authentication, representative endpoints, pagination, content retrieval, and expected outputs.
Run the controlled workflow with checkpoints, rate-limit handling, raw preservation, and progress monitoring.
Compare expected and collected populations, review exceptions, and package the results with supporting documentation.
Delivery
The final package is organized for downstream review and supported by documentation that explains what was collected, how it was collected, and how completeness was assessed.
Practical details
A Custom & API collection is useful when relevant data lives in a specialized SaaS platform, proprietary system, authenticated application, or API that is not adequately supported by a standard connector.
The workflow is designed around the source, with pagination handling, bounded retries, rate-limit awareness, checkpoints, and safe restart where the platform permits it.
They can be preserved alongside normalized records, linked files, source identifiers, collection logs, and field mappings for downstream processing.
Collected populations are reconciled against available totals, endpoint responses, manifests, file counts, and documented exceptions or platform limitations.
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We will help translate the request into a focused, defensible collection plan.
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