Time To Pool Your Resources

There’s no shortage of caseload in digital forensics. So when a major new case lands on your desk — 20TB of evidence and direct ties to a live investigation — the pressure is instant.

One investigator knew they couldn’t do it alone. The volume was staggering. The risk of delay? Unacceptable.

So they turned to a feature designed for exactly this kind of scenario.

They clicked “Create Pool” in S21 VisionX — and built a grading team in minutes.

Using “Pool Mode” in S21 VisionX, the investigator quickly brought in a local satellite team. Each team member logged into the case remotely, immediately able to start reviewing without overlapping efforts.

S21 VisionX handled the media distribution automatically: no file seen twice, no time wasted on duplication. The grading was now a coordinated, live effort — fast, accurate and massively scalable.

To push further, the team used S21 Find Victims and the S21 Auto-Categoriser. These AI-driven tools filtered out irrelevant content, flagged high-risk files and accelerated victim identification across the board.

With Pool Mode and built-in AI, 20TB of media became manageable — and actionable — in just six days.

The results were exceptional: 15 victims were identified and rescued, multiple investigations were linked together and the case — one that might’ve taken months — was completed in less than a week.

It wasn’t just teamwork, it was a smarter system enabling that teamwork to happen — securely, efficiently and in real time.

Without Pool Mode, this case would have fallen into backlog. Manual distribution. Redundant grading. Endless hours.

Instead, one click turned a solo workload into a coordinated operation. The speed of AI, the clarity of structure and the ability to act quickly made all the difference.

Lives were changed because action wasn’t delayed.