50k document e discovery under budget
At corpus scale, compress or hand off, full dump is off the table.
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Context and Memory Strategy Evaluator
Context
Reviewing a 50,000 document e discovery corpus under a fixed budget. Full dump is impossible; the real choice is between semantic compression and handing slices to subagents that each carry only their brief.
The decision
At corpus scale the dial is compress vs subagent handoff, both stay in budget; the choice is whether cross document reasoning (compress) or parallel throughput (handoff) matters more.
What most miss
People debate summarize vs full dump; at 50k docs that's not the axis. The scale question is compression fidelity vs handoff coordination cost.
Stakes
The wrong strategy at corpus scale either blows the review budget or drops the document that mattered.
Studied · Agent Architecture and Protocol Strategy Artifacts · verified 2026-07-03
Sources: E-discovery review at corpus scale (compression, sub-agent partitioning); Context budgeting for large-corpus tasks