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Find issues early and prove what was said
Argus Archive flags issues during or right after the call, under rules written for your business. When a dispute or investigation starts, find the calls, hold them in a case and export what you need.
Voice data is the hardest evidence to preserve and review
Recorded calls and meetings are now relevant to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations, yet they remain among the hardest data types to handle. Recordings are often spread across several locations and formats, each needing its own collection process, and audio cannot be culled or reviewed efficiently without accurate transcription. Legal and compliance teams need a single, defensible source that preserves voice data under hold and supports early case assessment.
Support for each stage of an investigation
Each capability below is covered in detail on its own product page.
Be ready for litigation
Locate the calls relevant to a matter quickly, searching by meaning, participant, date or tag, and go straight to the passage that matters.
Preserve evidence with confidence
Place a matter on legal hold and its recordings are protected from deletion until the hold is released.
Show how every matter was handled
Each case brings its calls and alerts together, and its audit trail records every step, from the calls added to the hold placed and released.
Reduce review time
Reviewers read speaker-labelled transcripts from frontier AI models hosted in the EU, instead of listening to hours of audio.
Assess cases earlier
Argus AI answers questions about a matter across many calls, each answer linked to its source, so counsel can gauge scope and risk at the outset.
Respond to requests on time
Export the calls within scope when counsel, a regulator or opposing parties request them.
Identify risk before it becomes a matter
Argus Archive analyses each call during or immediately after it, so potential issues reach the right reviewer the same day rather than at the next periodic review.
Same-day detection
Alerts are raised while the call is in progress or as soon as it ends, and routed to the appropriate reviewer.
- Every call analysed
- In Microsoft Teams during the call, or after it
Policies defined by your organisation
Define what to detect in plain language, such as unauthorised commitments or advice outside a mandate, and apply each policy to the teams it concerns.
- Aligned with your own risk framework
- Different policies for different teams
Escalation into a case
Add an alert and its recording to a case, so an investigation begins with the evidence already assembled.
- Recordings, alerts and legal hold in one place
Evidence of review
Each alert carries an owner, a status and a full history, showing what was reviewed and the action taken.
- Every action recorded in the audit trail
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How is legal hold applied?
Calls are added to a case and the case is placed on legal hold. Its recordings are then protected from deletion until the hold is released.
Can recordings be produced for a matter?
Yes. The calls within a case can be exported when counsel, a regulator or opposing parties request them.
How quickly are potential issues identified?
During the call or immediately after it, depending on the policy. Each alert is routed to the designated reviewer.
Can detection policies reflect our own risk framework?
Yes. Each policy is defined in plain language and applied to the teams it concerns.
Who can access a case?
Only authorised users. Roles determine who can see each call and case, and the audit trail records every view and change.
How much does it cost?
Argus Archive is priced per user, per month, with usage included, and you're warned before you go over.
See how a case comes together in Argus Archive
Built by the people who created market-leading compliance recording and archiving products. Talk to us to see search, cases and alerts for your legal and compliance teams.