Data is often not information, but noise. It’s multiplying and it’s all discoverable. So Logikcull, from Reveal, is designed to automatically organize and cull the noise. This is to help legal & IT teams quickly find and preserve the signal, and meet their deadlines. Logikcull boasts users among than 1500 in-house legal teams, law firms and government organizations. Since the August 2023 acquisition, Logikcull is a Reveal technology.
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XaitPorter
Score 9.0 out of 10
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XaitPorter is a co-authoring software solution for teams to collaboratively create, manage and produce documents. With it, users can streamline and optimize document production to maximize revenue from bids and proposals and other business-critical documents. XaitPorter is designed to enable co-authors to focus on creating bid-winning content so that teams can become more efficient while production time and costs are reduced.
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Pricing
Logikcull
XaitPorter
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Logikcull
XaitPorter
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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Additional Details
Logikcull's pay-as-you-go GB pricing is month-to-month. All plans come with unlimited 24/7/365 support and unlimited users. Storage- and matter-based subscriptions with bulk discounts are available.
Logikcull is a fabulous tool for the firms that do not have a dedicated Litigation Support department. They offer a tool that is very simple and easy to use. You do not need to be highly tech-savvy to use it. And their support team is absolutely fabulous.
XaitPorter is ideal when a large document, containing many (preferably independent) sections is being created by more than five writers across different office locations and is subject to review by multiple reviewers and requires formal approval. It is particularly suited for external documents which are to be delivered as a non-editable PDF file.
It ingests data robustly, allowing the user to set a variety of ingestion rules.
It provides an interface for attorney review that significantly reduces user training.
It has robust user features to enhance the review and tag function of an attorney review team.
There are too many wonderful export features to list, but suffice it to say very robust.
Support is at the platinum level with real-time chat interface with REAL tech types who can solve issues, without going through a script
The company obviously invests heavily in development and seems to always be on the industry edge of simply making things better, faster, more efficient, and cost-effective.
This tool gives us the opportunity to work together. We always work in the last revision.
We can write comments as we go along and all involved will see it straight away.
We can structure it the way we want/our the way customer wants it and print the whole book in one go. We are sure that pictures/text/tables are where they are supposed to be (they have not moved around the document as it does when using Microsoft Word).
I would like to have an easier way to identify the last email in a string that includes all the attachments in the string
Other areas I have contacted Logikcull about I have been pleasantly surprised to find out that either there had been an update that solved my issue or one was on the way.
It would be helpful to improve functions used to organize and reorganize sections. They work fine, but could be retooled for ease of use. Simple drag-drop over the tree-view from the primary navigator (not only in the dedicated dialog for reordering sections) would be very good. It would be good to support simple flagging or tagging of sections to indicate whatever is meaningful to the user (e.g., to flag a section as imported text that needs formatting, or a section that is high priority for review). The icons do change to indicate predefined workflow states (e.g. approved), but there isn't support for a user-defined tag, perhaps with the ability to filter by tag as many newer applications can do. That would be handy. These aren't criticisms so much as product enhancement suggestions.
The editor is ok but could be tuned up a bit. For example, styles in the toolbar dropdown apply only to the whole paragraph. It's hard to indent text. The button tool doesn't consistently remove the button attribute on an existing button; works sometimes, sometimes not. Little stuff. Overall it's adequate for text creation.
The process of defining templates and styles appears to be a black art. While it's something you don't do often, it should be simplified and better exposed to ordinary admins.
The ability to have more than one section open at a time in the editor would be fantastic. Great productivity tool.
Word import/export could be cleaner.
The ability to export to html with user-defined style sheets would open new markets for Xait. If the product had that, we'd use Xait to maintain our online help site too.
The ability to link to externally stored images rather than lock them inside the Xait library would be huge, as we've expressed to the support team. We manage hundreds of images (diagrams, screen shots etc.) that are used throughout the company, not just for Xait documents. We would like to store them on a file system (e.g. Dropbox) and have them update into Xait automatically when the master copy is modified. This is a very important capability, though in fairness we didn't find it in other products either. Explicit support for Dropbox/Google Drive/Box would be one way, but dynamic linking a la Microsoft Word would be fine, maybe even better.
The platform and user interface are very intuitive and easy to use. Built-in features obviously come from a team that knows the industry, and it is customizable for all the odd uses, and individual issues we have with each project. I’ve been able to manage things incredibly easily without the use of third-party vendors, and when I hit a snag, the support team is easy to contact and quick to resolve issues.
The Support Team is very responsive. They offer lots of convenient training sessions in either a group or individual setting. If you have a problem or can't figure out how to do something in Logikcull, they are easy to reach and will easily walk you through every step of the process.
He was really good. He came from Xait and trained us for several days. He got all involved and answered the questions asked. He was a professional trainee
Again, specifically for Slack JSON parsing, I think Logikcull's handling of the data is the best. It handles Thread messages very nicely and things like "code snippets" display much like they do in Slack itself. I have not found a Slack JSON parser that is better.
The standard product for many years has been Microsoft Word. Some have tried to use SharePoint as a collaborative tool, but it is not suited for the purpose and is generally very user un-friendly. It is not intuitive and we have very few persons with any competency in it. Porter is easy to pick up and the new interface is very intuitive, and the way that Porter works removes many of the typical layout and formatting choices that made Microsoft Word so difficult for the average employee. It also greatly simplifies and reduces the amount of corrective work that tender support staff used to have to do. We are not aware of any product in the market that comes close to Porter. It is an ideal product that was purpose built for collaborative writing.
One of the issues we had with using Logikcull was the expense. It was difficult for our attorneys to pass along the hard copy expense of paying for the service based on the types of clients we have. Logikcull was very good at trying to help us with this challenge, but in the end, we found that our attorneys were hesitant to use the product because of the fear that there would be a high hard-cost expense that the client would not pay. This was one of the primary reasons we stopped using it. Our firm has the technical personnel and equipment to maintain an eDiscovery platform in-house, so the investment to bring in another product was, for our firm, a better solution for the long run.
As we were developing our litigation support department, Logikcull was the perfect product for us. It allowed us to provide for our attorneys a review platform when they had the cases that could not be managed without one but also gave us the simplicity we needed as we learned how to provide litigation support services to our legal teams.
Too soon to tell. Right now we're still at the near end of the value chain - it still seems expensive given the outputs to date. But we have a lower proposal volume than some companies, so you need to factor that in.
Also, the named user licensing is restrictive and problematic in a small company where people perform multiple roles and may dip in and out of the proposal development process over a period of weeks or months. A concurrent user model would be much, much better for us, though I understand you'd need to figure out a way to handle email notifications.
