About Pinpoint Labs
Our History
At Pinpoint Labs, we specialize in developing secure, scalable eDiscovery and digital forensics collection software for both on-premise and cloud environments. With over 19 years of experience, our tools are trusted by legal and IT professionals to collect data from local machines, network shares, cloud storage, and mobile devices.
Clients rely on Pinpoint Labs to streamline complex workflows—whether creating portable self-collection kits, deploying stealth agents across enterprise networks, or filtering data for fast upload into popular review platforms. From defensible collections to targeted mobile extractions, we help organizations reduce risk and confidently move faster.
Important Events
All About Our History
CrossCopy Enterprise Mobile Launched
CrossCopy Mobile integrates seamlessly with CrossCopy Enterprise, extending collection capabilities to iOS and Android. It helps legal and forensic teams capture critical mobile data with a first-of-its-kind private preview and admin-controlled automated collections.
CrossCopy Enterprise Launched
A unified, cloud-based SaaS platform designed for secure file collections from local computers, network shares, mobile devices, and cloud storage providers—including OneDrive, Box, Google Drive, and Dropbox. Collected data is uploaded directly to the client’s cloud environment, such as AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, or SFTP servers. Users can generate a detailed chain of custody and audit reports for defensibility and compliance.
CrossCopy Desktop 1.0 Release
Cross-platform eDiscovery and digital forensics collection tool for macOS, Windows, and Linux. CrossCopy supports targeted collections from local and network file sources and can run directly from the host system or an external drive—no installation required. Users can save and reuse job settings, enabling automated and repeatable workflows.
Pinpoint Cloud 1.5 Release
Dramatically reduce overall size and turnaround time on cloud source collections. Perform targeted cloud collections, providing clients the free offline file list viewer. The new data assessment option creates a complete file list catalog for selected sources.
Harvester Server Enterprise
Additional support for on-prem and cloud-based SQL Server databases, new user management, and customizable Relativity direct connect profiles. Remotely deploy and monitor collection agents across your network or enterprise.
Harvester 6.0 Release includes new Enterprise-Wide Agent, and Integrated eDiscovery
The Harvester 6.0 release includes a new Enterprise-wide Smart Agent, native macOS agent, integrated 64bit multi-threaded eDiscovery processing, 1st pass review, flexible production set exports, cloud file explorer, and more.
Pinpoint Cloud 1.0 Released - Explore and Collect from Cloud Repositories
New application that allows users to visually browse, and defensibly collect eDiscovery from Google Drive, Google Team Drives, box, DropBox, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business and Amazon S3.
Harvester 5.5 Fast Enumeration Option Provides 500%+ Speed improvement
New enumeration improvements dramatically reduce the amount of time required to inventory files on local and network drives. These improvements result in the ability to produce a quick snapshot for large datasets and allows Harvester to begin copying files much sooner.
Support Harvester 5.1 Release adds Cloud Files and Veracrypt
Harvester 5.1 release includes support for Google Docs, Box, Dropbox, and OneDrive. This new version allows users to keyword search and apply many other common filters to several popular online document repositories. Additionally, seamless Veracrypt support allows users to collect data into encrypted containers.
Surveyor 1.0 Launch - 64-bit, Multi-threaded eDiscovery Engine
Surveyor allows users to perform eDiscovery processing on Harvester and SafeCopy collected data. Processes include metadata and full-text extraction, email processing, OCR, and builds a DAT load file.
Pivotal Guidance Inc. (parent company of Pinpoint Labs) Celebrated 10-Year Anniversary with Harvester 5.0 Release
Pivotal Guidance, Inc. celebrated 10- Years of success with anniversary on May 31, 2016. In addition, Harvester 5.0 was released on July 5, 2016, signifying a milestone for Pinpoint Labs. It is the first software program with capabilities of collecting information from the regular and cloud environments using a multi-threaded processing engine to increase copy speed.
Harvester 4.1 Release adds seamless Virtual Hard Drive Support
With Harvester 4.1, users can specify a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) container and Harvester will collect all files to the VHD. A VHD help protect collected files and simplifies collection backups.
SharePoint Collector adds Office 365 Support
SharePoint Collector adds Office 365 support and becomes the first defensible eDiscovery collection application that can successfully login to Office 365 accounts and collect SharePoint sites, documents, and 21 other content sources.
Harvester 4.0 Server Release Includes Enterprise-Wide eDiscovery Collection Management
Harvester 4 release includes redesigned interface, keyword hit preview, EDA reports, ESI Vault and Legal Hold integration. Harvester Server 4 redesign allows the Harvester platform to provides many enterprise-level features and greatly simplifies corporate e-Discovery collections.
Harvester 3.0 Release Includes Microsoft Exchange and Viper Engine
Harvester 3 with multi-threaded Viper copy engine and Microsoft Exchange support is released. Users are able to search and collect from corporate Microsoft Exchange accounts and save to PST files.
Multi-threaded SafeCopy and Viper Engine Released
Dramatically reduce copy times by enumerating and collecting data simultaneously. Job completion times are often reduced by 50% or less.
SharePoint Collector 1.0 Launch | Fast, Defensible SharePoint Site Collections
SharePoint Collector 1, released. It allows users to collect documents and list items from SharePoint sites without installation on the custodian’s computer and with the ability to collect remotely.
Harvester Server 1.0 Launch | Use Harvester from Network
Harvester Server was released, allowing users to remotely launch Harvester jobs across a network and monitor custodians from a central location.
Harvester Portable 1.0 Launch | Rapidly cull data during collections
Harvester 1.0 is an eDiscovery collection and culling tool. Initial features include targeted culling, deduplication, deNISTing, PST regeneration, and other popular filters. Pinpoint Labs is the first to release ‘eDiscovery on a stick,’ all the power of an eDiscovery application that can run from a flash drive and without any installation on the host computer.
PG Pinpoint 1.0 Launch | Rapid deNISTing
PG Pinpoint, a high-speed deNISTing application that allows users to filter common system and application files from their eDiscovery collections. PG Pinpoint performs 10,000 lookups per second, and a highly optimized NSRL hash set created by Pinpoint Labs.
SafeCopy 1.0 Launched | Defensible eDiscovery Collections
SafeCopy 1.0 was released to provide users with a high-speed defensible eDiscovery collection program. All files are hash verified, preserve metadata and timestamps, and can be easily resumed after interruption.
Pivotal Guidance Inc., creates software division, Pinpoint Labs
Pivotal Guidance Inc. creates subdivision, Pinpoint Labs, a software company that provides free computer forensic software utilities that are used worldwide for investigations.
Pivotal Guidance Inc., provides computer forensic collections and investigations
Software architect Jon Rowe founded pivotal Guidance Inc. James Beasley, a veteran software developer, joined Jon shortly after. Jon and James, Certified Computer Examiners, worked together on numerous computer forensic collections and investigations. While working in the field they recognized a need for user-friendly, defensible, and affordable eDiscovery collection and investigative tools.
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