Relativity CEO Says 2028 Server Deadline Stands; Will Prioritize Partnering with Frontier Labs Over Legal AI Companies
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Relativity is holding firm on its plan to require that all new matters be hosted in the cloud beginning Jan.
Relativity is holding firm on its plan to require that all new matters be hosted in the cloud beginning Jan. 1, 2028, CEO Phil Saunders said Thursday, and he had a blunt message for partners who are not on board: “Know we’re going to run through you.”
Saunders made the comments during a media briefing on the last day of Relativity Fest in Chicago, where he and Chris Brown, who was named president in July, took questions from reporters.
Asked by me whether the company is sticking to the deadline it announced in January 2025 to require that all new matters be hosted on its cloud platform rather than its legacy Relativity Server, Saunders quickly answered, “Yes.”
“The policy is not to end the life of Server,” he said. “The policy is to make sure that no net new matter is going to Server effective Jan. 1.”
Saunders said he delivered the same message earlier in the week at a briefing for several hundred of the company’s partners – the companies and consultants who are central to distributing and implementing Relativity for legal, investigative and compliance teams.
He described partners as falling into three buckets. The first are “super duper aligned,” already sending new workspaces and data to the cloud, adopting the company’s AI capabilities, and collaborating with Relativity on the end customer.…
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