Cataphora is both the pioneer and industry leader in the burgeoning field of evidence analytics, or the management and analysis of electronic data from an evidentiary perspective.

The company offers unique software and services for internal and external investigations, malicious insider detection, anti-corruption efforts, human resources decisions, and many related areas. In addition, Cataphora operates a top tier electronic discovery group and the legal industry's oldest and largest practice focused on technology enhanced review.

The company's core patent is for Discussions(TM), a technology to group related but not necessarily similar items into a new unit of search. An example: determining the meaning of the electronic message whose sole content is "yes, let's do it" - which first appeared on Cataphora's website in 2002 (see the Wayback Machine Internet Archive) - has been widely copied by others. In 2006, Cataphora was awarded a broad patent for fundamental technology to reconstruct causally related items and events into searchable units that we call discussions. Cataphora has been making its technology available since 2002.