What is Hanzo used for?

Hanzo is used to preserve and review collaboration data and web content for legal holds, eDiscovery, investigations, DSARs, and compliance archiving.

Who should use Hanzo?

Hanzo suits enterprise legal, compliance, and eDiscovery teams that must preserve Slack, Teams, or website content as evidence.

Does Hanzo archive dynamic websites?

Yes. Hanzo Chronicle captures dynamic web, social, and SaaS content, including JavaScript-heavy pages, and plays it back natively.

Yes. Hanzo Spotlight AI surfaces relevant facts, people, and timelines, shows its reasoning, and supports auto-redaction for DSARs.

What are the best alternatives to Hanzo?

Notable alternatives to Hanzo include Smarsh, Pagefreezer, Relativity, and Microsoft Purview, depending on archiving or eDiscovery needs.

Hanzo Reviews, Features & Alternatives

Overview

What is Hanzo?

Hanzo is a legal data management platform for preserving and reviewing collaboration data and dynamic web content. Chronicle captures websites, social, and SaaS content with native playback, while Illuminate preserves and reviews conversations and files from tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. Spotlight AI surfaces key facts, people, and timelines. Enterprise legal, compliance, and eDiscovery teams use Hanzo for legal holds, investigations, DSAR responses, audit evidence, and website preservation.

Best for

Legal TeamsCompliance TeamseDiscovery ManagersInternal InvestigatorsRecords Managers

Product snapshot

Category: Data Discovery & Exploration
Best for: Legal data preservation
Deployment: Cloud / On-premise
Free trial: Contact vendor
Integrations: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace
AI features: Yes

Key features

Key features of Hanzo

Web archiving

Captures dynamic websites, social, and SaaS content with native playback.

Collaboration data review

Preserves and reviews Slack, Teams, and workspace conversations and files.

Legal hold

Preserves relevant data in place or in the cloud for litigation.

Spotlight AI

Surfaces key facts, people, conversations, and timelines with reasoning shown.

DSAR auto-redaction

Redacts personal data automatically when responding to subject access requests.

Advanced search

Searches archived content with flexible filters and export options.

Reviews

Hanzo reviews

6 reviews

Overall

4.7/5

Ease of use4.6/5
Customer support4.9/5

What users like

Reliable dynamic and static archiving
Responsive and helpful support team
Advanced search and flexible export
Simple setup and easy dashboard

What users dislike

Complex interface with learning curve
Some searches need database skills
Pricing is hard to estimate
Dashboard and job status limited

Marek T.

CEO

“Liked the strong web archiving, advanced search, and flexible export options. Found the interface complex with a steep learning curve and pricing hard to estimate.”

Matt H.

Release Manager

“Liked the easy dashboard, simple setup, and responsive support. Found that some searches need database knowledge, making archives hard for basic users to find.”

Lee K.

IT Manager

“Liked that dynamic and static archiving are both reliable, that no sitemap is required, and the strong support. Noted no major drawbacks.”

Alexander S.

Sr. Manager, eDiscovery

“Liked that the tool is powerful, easy to use, and customizable, backed by excellent support. Found it would benefit from a job status dashboard or progress bar.”

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Alternatives

Top Hanzo alternatives

Smarsh
Best for
Communications archiving
Why choose it
Broad archiving for regulated communications
Pagefreezer
Best for
Website and social archiving
Why choose it
Focused web and social media capture
Relativity
Best for
Large-scale eDiscovery
Why choose it
Mature review and analytics platform
Microsoft Purview
Best for
Microsoft 365 organizations
Why choose it
Native eDiscovery and retention for Microsoft

Integrations

Hanzo integrations

Hanzo connects to the collaboration tools where much of today's workplace communication happens. Illuminate preserves and reviews data from Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, Confluence, and Asana, keeping conversations, threads, and files in context rather than flattening them. Chronicle captures public and internal websites, social media pages, and SaaS application content, including JavaScript-heavy pages, and replays them natively. Reviewers also mention connections to Box. Archived material can be searched and exported in flexible formats for downstream eDiscovery review platforms. Hanzo runs inside the customer's own environment, so preserved data stays within the organization's infrastructure, and additional connectors are listed on its data connectors page.

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