• 2004 Start the company with credit cards, savings, computers, and 1 dining room. No outside capital.
  • 2005 Increase customer pool, move out of dining room, vow never to eat Ramen noodles again
  • 2006 Hire some great people and double the business
  • 2007 Breakthrough year, increase customer pool by 10x and triple revenue
  • 2008 Achieve 1,100% growth from when we started!
  • 2009 No. 181 on the 2009 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in the US.  Expand office from Dupont to Chinatown.
  • 2010 Stay tuned for more good news…

Our Story

Many entrepreneurs start companies because they want to be their own boss. Others start a company because they are frustrated by the way things are in their industry and know things can be done better. In 2004, Andy Wilson and Sheng Yang started Logik for both reasons.

The idea was simple: create a niche business focused on eDiscovery processing and grow from there while keeping it lucid, smart and fun. Funny how the simple ideas are always the best ones.

Since our humble beginnings in the dining room of a Washington, DC apartment to our fab new location in Chinatown (still in DC), we have been fortunate enough to work with many different AM Law 250 law firms and Fortune 1,000 corporations. Our dedication to the right tools, the right people and the right attitude means that despite one of the worst economic downturns in history, Logik is growing – and is hiring other smart people.  It’s not luck; it’s great clients, amazing software, open communication, a get-it-done work ethic and weekly ping-pong tournaments..

The Founders

  • Andy Wilson, Co-Founder & CEO

    After a stint as a software developer for EDS, Andy fell into the world of eDiscovery working at a small legal-services company in Virginia.  It was a time when the eDiscovery Industry was in a primitive state image (paper print-outs of email and attachments were still in vogue). Building on his degree in Decision Support Systems from Virginia Tech, Andy decided there just had to be a better system for doing eDiscovery.  So, he and Sheng took their big idea and set out to create Logik.  Andy lives in Washington DC with his wife and two children.

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  • Sheng Yang, Co-Founder and CTOimage

    While earning his degree in computer engineering at Virginia Tech, Sheng spent a lot of time feeding his curiousity by tinkering around with all kinds of new technologies, from bluetooth applications to advanced FTP transmission (at least..it was advanced back then). It was this “constantly thinking of a better way” that got Sheng thinking about a new way to process large and unstructured sets of data. Gridlogik™, Sheng’s baby, is the direct result of recognizing this complex problem and building an elegant software solution around it.

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About Us

Did you know?

  • That just asking for a native production in a meet-and-confer is the equivalent of opening up a can of digital worms?

  • That Bloomberg email systems can also contain instant messages and that all of the data is in simple text format?

  • That Microsoft Outlook MSG files retain their attachments after processing, thus increasing the size of data you need to store on disk?

  • That Microsoft Word 97-2002 documents can contain deleted data hidden within the binary of the file if “allow fast saves” are enabled?

  • That it will take a team of 10 reviewers ~500 days to review 10,000,000 documents, assuming 2,000 documents/reviewer/day?

  • That Microsoft PPT files can contain hidden information behind text objects or layered pictures?

  • That you can use a mapped drive letter (e.g. X:\) to gain access to a Windows file that has accidentally gone over the 256 character limit?

  • That copying evidence to DVD or CD without first zipping up the evidence will alter the file-level dates/times of the copied files?

  • That corporate blog entries/twitters are already entering the eDiscovery landscape as discoverable?

  • That lots of useful and searchable content is missed by search engines because they do NOT perform OCR on the documents?

  • That Google Gmail emails can be downloaded to Microsoft Outlook using a POP3 or IMAP connection?

  • That Microsoft PPT files can contain a hidden master slide that may have many more slides than the actual PPT itself?

  • That there is no realistic way to redact native files without first converting the file to an image?

  • That copying 5GB of tiny files is much slower than copying 1 large 5GB file?

  • That the Microsoft Windows operating system has a 254 character limit on the length of a filepath and name, but Linux operating systems do not?

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