Consilio this week announced the UK and European launch of Aurora, marking a notable step in the ongoing effort to tame the ever-growing complexity (and cost) of legal technology estates.
For those of you who hate reading press releases that seem to try and obfuscate the subject; in plain English, Aurora is a platform from Consilio that helps legal teams get better control over their data, technology tools, and costs when managing legal matters like lawsuits, investigations, or compliance reviews. Aurora is like a control panel for legal teams — helping them manage their documents, costs, tools, and decisions in one place, without being locked into a single vendor or blowing the budget.
In a market increasingly squeezed between spiralling data volumes, fragmented tooling, and opaque pricing, the pitch is clear: Aurora promises to offer legal teams’ visibility, flexibility, and budgetary control — without asking them to trade freedom for convenience.
Aurora’s European rollout adds the necessary regional flourishes: UK data residency to satisfy regulatory sensitivities, integration with existing industry stalwarts like Relativity, and early case intelligence designed to stop discovery bloat before it begins. It’s a platform clearly designed with both the GC and the CFO in mind.
One of Aurora’s key strengths is what it doesn’t do. It avoids locking clients into a single software stack. Instead, it acts as a coordinating layer — a kind of control tower — providing real-time dashboards, spend alerts, and the ability to connect best-in-class tools under a single operational lens. The inclusion of in-house AI features, running on private infrastructure, is a savvy nod to both cost-consciousness and compliance-first architecture.
As I have ben banging on about for years, there is a real problem with case-related costs that start to match and exceed the expectation that has been set with the client by over-optimistic lawyers. These tools should assist in controlling such budget over-runs, or at least give an early warning that can be passed on to the client, as otherwise some of them usually end up being written off.
That said, this is not a revolution so much as a smart, modular consolidation. Many of Aurora’s components — from budget dashboards to early case assessment — have been seen before in other guises. The difference lies in the integration: a platform that aspires to unify disparate tools and workflows without demanding wholesale system replacement.
The real test will be in how consistently Aurora delivers that promise in the field. For law departments looking to regain control over their legal operations — without surrendering agility or inflating risk — Aurora may represent a timely and well-constructed offer.
And with live demonstrations and moderated panels scheduled for LegalTech Talk London, Consilio is clearly confident it has something worth showing off.