When a litigation team or compliance department needs text messages, call logs, or app data from a custodian’s smartphone, the traditional approach means shipping the phone to a forensic lab, leaving the custodian without their device for days, and paying thousands per collection. ModeOne is a SaaS platform that lets legal teams remotely collect targeted mobile data — specific date ranges, specific participants, specific data types — from iOS and Android devices without physical access. Founded 2018 in Irvine, CA by CEO Matt Rasmussen (20+ years litigation support). $1M seed round (2022). Relativity Developer Partner (Jan 2026) with API integration for direct data transfer into RelativityOne. Also integrates with Reveal via the ModeOne Connect program. Partnerships with Purpose Legal, Cimplifi, Kuro Group, and CloudNine. Won LegalTech Startup of the Year (2024 LegalTech Breakthrough Awards). Featured in ABA Journal (Oct 2025), LawNext, eDiscovery Today, and Law Journal Newsletters. Strong organic practitioner recommendations on Reddit (r/ediscovery, r/digitalforensics). Primary use cases: litigation discovery of mobile evidence, corporate compliance investigations (especially multi-office BYOD scenarios), and legal hold mobile collections. This is a point-solution for mobile collection — not a full eDiscovery suite. It sits upstream of document review platforms and requires pairing with Relativity, Reveal, or similar for the review-and-production workflow. The Cellebrite-Relativity integration (Nov 2024) represents the main competitive threat from the incumbent side. No public pricing, no documented SOC 2, no SSO information found — significant gaps for enterprise evaluation.
Company Info
- Founded: 2018
- Team size: 11-50 employees
- Funding: $1M
- HQ: United States
- Sector: Case Management
What We Haven’t Verified
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Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Modeone is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Modeone addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Legal hold notices go out by email, half the custodians ignore them, nobody tracks acknowledgment — six months later a key custodian deleted relevant Slack messages and now there's a spoliation fight
Mid-size law firm has used the same desktop billing software for 15 years and it works, but remote attorneys can't access it from home, new hires expect a browser-based interface, and the managing partner is worried about the vendor sunsetting the product — the switching cost feels enormous because 15 years of billing history and custom templates live in that local database
When my firm's 20-year-old desktop billing system finally can't run on the newest Windows, I need to migrate decades of billing history to a cloud tool without losing client records, archived invoices, or trust account balances — and the attorneys refuse to learn anything that looks different
Class action settlement awarded $42M to 500,000 claimants but distributing the money takes 6 months of paper checks, returned mail, and manual identity verification — by the time half the checks arrive, a third have been lost, returned, or never cashed, and the remaining funds sit in escrow while the court demands status reports on why distribution isn't complete
Litigation team needs text messages from a custodian's phone for discovery but the custodian is in another city — shipping the phone takes a week, the custodian can't work without it, and the deadline is in 5 days
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Modeone
Legal hold trigger (filing-compliance) → decision that mobile data is relevant → scope definition (custodians, date ranges, data types) → ModeOne collection initiated
After Modeone
Collected mobile data → transferred via API into Relativity/Reveal/CloudNine for document review → privilege review → production
Integrations & hand-offs
ModeOne outputs collected data in review-ready format. Relativity integration (Developer Partner since Jan 2026) enables direct API transfer into RelativityOne. ModeOne Connect program provides integrations with Reveal and other platforms. Data flow: ModeOne collection → API transfer → review platform → production set. The handoff is the critical workflow seam — ModeOne's value is entirely upstream of document review.
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