Smarsh Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for DCGA
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Govern the record.
Use the context.
Communications hold more than a record of what was said. Smarsh brings communications and context together so authorized people, applications, and AI agents can find answers, investigate potential risks, and take action within established controls.
Communications intelligence built for the AI era
Use Smarsh capabilities, connect the tools you choose, and bring supported AI communications into established oversight workflows.
Production AI grounded in experience
More than a decade of production AI, developed alongside major financial institutions, helps teams prioritize reviews, uncover potential risk, and investigate faster.
Open architecture built for choice
Connect governed communications data to your chosen models, analytics, and workflows with 18+ open, bidirectional APIs, Bring-Your-Own-Model, and Bring-Your-Own-Signal.
Enterprise scale with built-in control
Unify communications and context on a secure platform. Layered security, Zero Trust controls, and audit trails protect data as people, applications, and agents use it.
Governance for emerging AI workflows
Smarsh Capture brings available Claude Enterprise and other supported AI interactions into oversight. The Agentic Access Layer gives authorized agents governed access via Model Context Protocol (MCP).
See what governed communications data can do
Smarsh agents help teams focus reviews, find answers, investigate relationships, and give employees access to their own communications within established controls.
Intelligent Agent
Focus communications reviews on potential risk, reducing false positives by up to 60% and identifying five times more risks than legacy tools.
AskSmarsh AI
Find answers across archived communications in natural language, generate reports, and export results for investigations without specialized query syntax.
Discovery Agent
Find relevant communications, trace relationships across people and channels, and advance investigations with traceable findings.
MySearch Agent
Give authorized employees self-service access to their own messages and attachments across channels, without routing requests through IT.
Choose the solution and AI approach that fit your firm
Start with focused solutions or build on a complete platform. Use Smarsh agents, connect your own through the Agentic Access Layer, or combine both. Policies, access controls, and chain of custody remain at the data layer across your workflows.
Small and midsize firms
Simplify capture, archiving, and supervision with solutions suited to your team’s resources.
Global enterprises
Connect communications across your organization with the scale, security, and integrations your teams need.
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Frequently asked questions
A Magic Quadrant provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers, in markets where growth is high, and provider differentiation is distinct: Leaders, Visionaries, Niche Players and Challengers.
Gartner defines digital communications governance and archiving (DCGA) solutions as designed to enforce corporate governance and regulatory compliance and derive insights from an evolving number of digital communications tools utilized by organizations.
Most DCGA platforms can capture communications across 100+ channels (like email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp, and voice), and provide compliant archiving, monitoring (often AI-assisted), and eDiscovery support for regulatory exams and litigation.
Smarsh delivers a unified, AI-powered DCGA platform that captures and preserves communications across modern and legacy channels in a single, compliant system. Beyond archiving, Smarsh applies AI and advanced analytics to help teams proactively find risk, streamline investigations, and respond efficiently to regulatory, audit, and legal requests, turning large volumes of communications data into clear, actionable insights for compliance, legal, and risk teams.
DCGA helps organizations meet record-retention rules (like SEC/FINRA) and reduce the risk of fines. It also keeps a defensible archive that makes eDiscovery faster and less costly when legal or regulatory requests come in. Finally, it supports risk mitigation by monitoring communications to spot conduct issues and protect sensitive information before problems escalate.
Gartner®, Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Communications Governance and Archiving Solutions, Michael Hoeck, Jeffrey Hewitt, Rizvan Hussain, Apurva Singh, 29 October 2026
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