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NEW WAY NOW: Augmetec’s revolutionizing investigation legal tech with Google Cloud and Gemini

Google for Startups Cloud Program: https://goo.gle/4dsV6Gr Cloud Startup team: https://goo.gle/49bDdL3 Featuring: Kritin Sundaram, Co-founder and CEO at Augmetec. Executive Summary: Kritin Sundaram, Co-founder and CEO of Augmetec, explains how the London-based legal tech company is transforming investigations for in-house ethics teams and external law firms. By utilizing Gemini and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Augmetec provides an end-to-end platform to manage the entire investigation lifecycle. The platform allows users to perform instant data analysis on millions of documents using natural language queries. Augmetec is built entirely on GCP, leveraging services like Cloud Run and Cloud Compute to create a unified, efficient environment. Challenge: Having spent multiple years as a white-collar crime investigations lawyer, Kritin Sundaram realized that traditional investigation methods were fundamentally flawed—they were slow, expensive, and inconsistent. Historically, practitioners had to manually click through hundreds of thousands of documents one by one to determine relevance after applying basic filters. Sundaram sought a technology platform to solve these inefficiencies, but found none existed, leading to the creation of Augmetec. Solution: Augmetec’s platform is built entirely on Google Cloud to ensure a fully integrated and unified environment where all tools work together seamlessly. They use Gemini as their foundation model, enabling users to plug in up to a million documents and ask natural language questions—such as tracking improper payments or sales volumes—to get instant responses. The company also utilizes Cloud Run, Cloud Compute, and Google Cloud security to power its infrastructure. Result: By adopting Google Cloud and Gemini, Augmetec has created a "game-changing" tool that allows practitioners to handle large datasets while saving an incredible amount of time. The platform optimizes efficiencies across the board and creates a network effect through its end-to-end process. Furthermore, the ease of use of Google products has allowed non-technical users to adopt and leverage the tool effectively. Interview highlights and key takeaways from our interview with Kritin Sundaram, CEO at Augmetec: - Augmetec’s platform addresses the "fundamentally flawed" nature of traditional investigations by replacing slow, manual document reviews with instant, AI-driven data analysis. - The company is "all in on Google", choosing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for its single unified interface and the ease of adoption of its products compared to competitors. - Using Gemini as a foundation model allows users to ask complex questions of up to a million documents and receive immediate answers, which Sundaram describes as a "real game-changing tool". Google Cloud products used: Gemini, Google Cloud Run, Cloud Compute, Cloud SQL, Google Cloud security.