FreeEed

Mission: Make professional-grade eDiscovery and AI over sensitive documents affordable, private, and self-hosted — open-source software so any lawyer, investigator, or small firm can process, search, review, and question their own data on their own machine, without sending it to anyone.

Quickest Start

• Buy support and request a ready-to-run VM
• Download the latest release
• Daily build (unstable)
• Daily build of Windows Installer (unstable)
• Daily build of Linux Installer (unstable)

Quick Start

1. Follow the installation instructions
2. Request an unzip key by writing to mark@scaia.ai. Tell us a little about yourself — we’d love to hear from you.

Capabilities

• Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, VirtualBox, and Amazon AWS cloud
• Ability to process 1,400+ file types, including MS Office and PST files (see Apache Tika formats)
• OCR
• AI (talk to your eDiscovery documents)
• AI analysis (responsive, privileged, smoking gun — under development)
• Video and audio transcription
• Document review
• “Imaging” (conversion of documents to PDF)

Documentation

Extensive documentation is available on the wiki.

How it works

FreeEed is built with AI/ChatGPT, Tika, Lucene, and Solr and embodies best practices in Big Data.

To build the project

If you are a developer, you can build the project from source.

Check out the documentation on the For Developers page.

For assistance

• Phone: 713-568-9753
• Email: mark@scaia.ai

Git Workflow

1. git checkout dev && git pull
2. git checkout -b feature/<short-description>
3. Work, commit, push → git push -u origin feature/<name>
4. Open PR: feature/* → dev
5. When dev is stable, PR: dev → main
6. Tag from main: git tag vX.Y.Z && git push origin vX.Y.Z