Estimate your in-house discovery workload
Enter the volume of records your team would review. Use the estimated staff hours to plan capacity and see where investigation support could help.
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Use your best counts for the records in scope. Enter hours, minutes, or both for each recording type. Count the sound in a video under video only.
Telemetry text, tabulated documents, etc. Each file is estimated as five document pages.
Estimated in-house investigation time
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- Document review
- 0 hrs
- Audio review
- 0 hrs
- Video review
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- Photo review
- 0 hrs
- Other file review
- 0 hrs
- Additional investigation work
- 0 hrs
Estimated internal staff cost
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This estimates your firm’s staff effort. Actual effort varies. Pandexis scope, fixed fee, and timeline are agreed separately.
Pandexis can take on the investigation so your team can focus on pressing casework.
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Add other investigation hours or model your firm’s internal staff cost.
Add staff time for organizing records, follow-up, chronology, and report preparation.
The $30.24/hr default uses the May 2025 U.S. median hourly wage for paralegals and legal assistants. Use it as a benchmark or enter your firm’s staff cost. Enter 0 to hide the cost estimate. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (opens in a new tab)
How this estimate is calculated
Document count × average pages gives estimated document pages. Each other file adds the review time of 5 document pages.
- Document pages take about 0.67 review minutes per page. For a 357-word page, that’s about 1.87 review minutes per 1,000 words.
- Standalone audio uses 1.25 review minutes per minute of audio.
- Video uses 1.5 review minutes per minute of video.
- Standalone photos use 0.5 review minutes per photo.
Estimate adjustments
- Other investigation work
- 0 hours
- Blended staff cost
- 30.24 USD per hour
How this estimate is calculated
Document count × average pages gives estimated document pages. Each other file adds the review time of 5 document pages.
- Document pages take about 0.67 review minutes per page. For a 357-word page, that’s about 1.87 review minutes per 1,000 words.
- Standalone audio uses 1.25 review minutes per minute of audio.
- Video uses 1.5 review minutes per minute of video.
- Standalone photos use 0.5 review minutes per photo.
Would investigation support help on this matter?
Review the quantities and assumptions with the staff doing the work. If the matter would stretch your team’s capacity, Pandexis can investigate the agreed records and prepare source-linked findings. Your team provides context and reviews the findings.
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