Thought Leadership
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August 20, 2025
Guide to Managing Legal Holds: for IT Professionals
You're in IT, and you got a legal hold notice for Slack data, outlining what you need to retain and preserve and why. What do you do now?
The Slack Export Viewer Built for Security and Speed
ViewExport makes your unreadable JSON Slack export archives easy to review. Get the answers you need fast, whether you're aiding an internal investigation or getting answers to HR or Legal to support eDiscovery.
Trusted by global leaders in EU, UK, US
What We're Solving For
Slack JSON exports weren’t built for easy review.
Legal and IT teams hit walls fast: native date range filtering is faulty, no way to search across DMs or private channels without triggering "joined channel" alerts, and trawling through raw JSON files takes hours of manual effort.
Native Slack tools don’t support scoped date searches well
Filtering Slack messages by date range isn’t easy natively—making legal holds, audit prep, and early case assessment slow and error-prone.
Accessing private channels in Slack notifies users — not ideal for audits
Joining private channels triggers alerts and raises red flags in sensitive HR, compliance, or internal investigations.
Slack exports come in raw JSON, unreadable without technical help
Parsing Slack’s JSON exports eats up billable hours and internal IT time before legal review even begins.
Legal & IT
Designed for IT. Critical for Legal & HR.
ViewExport turns Slack export files into a human-readable, searchable interface: no setup, no engineering time. Help your team respond faster to DSARs, investigations, and ESI production requests, while preserving metadata and privacy.
Preserve metadata & chain of custody
Review-ready for FRCP, GDPR, and internal policy
Instant Search
Find Exactly What You Need From Slack.
Uncover every Slack message tied to sensitive topics or personnel—fully scoped, time-bound, and defensible. No digging through JSON file folders, no risk of missing key evidence, no delay.
Search by keyword, user, channel, or date
Complete audits without lengthy technical help
Fast & Secure
Start Reviewing Data in Minutes. No Learning Curve.
The implementation timeframe is "as soon as your upload finishes". And there's no complex software your team has to learn. It's simple, secure, and powerful.
Just drag in your export .zip file and everything processes securely in the cloud
Choose from EU or US servers that hold your data to ensure compliance
Security
Enterprise-Grade Security, Built for Legal Workflows
ViewExport is designed with strict security, access controls, and audit trails to meet your legal, IT, and compliance standards.
Security Controls
Full documentation of our security architecture, access policies, and compliance practices.
Audit-Ready Logging
Every action is logged in detail for audit trails, legal defensibility, and compliance reporting.
Infrastructure
Hosted on secure, encrypted infrastructure with authentication, access control, and uptime protections.
Archive Snapshot Integrity
Static copy of your Slack archive at time of upload, so future edits or deletions don’t obscure what was originally said.
Recent Audit Results
An overview of our recent security audit and recommendations, focused on both best practices and technology.
Privacy Practices
GDPR-aligned policies for how we handle, store, and protect sensitive user and message data.
Plans
Pricing
We focus on serving the Legal, HR, and IT teams at large organizations with conservative security needs. Smaller teams can choose lighter weight plans and upgrade later. We're available
Popular
Professional
For growing companies with advanced archive and internal audit needs.
$149
/month
- 1 user included +$12/mo/user extra
- 100 GB monthly data included
- Advanced search & filtering
- Save, export searches to JSON/CSV
- Priority support
- Can enforce 2FA account wide
- Data retention: 3 years
- Advanced user permissions
- SSO Integration
Enterprise
For compliance-focused organizations with bulk data needs.
$499
/month
- Unlimited users & workspaces
- 100GB/mo data included; $2/GB after
- 99.9% SLA guarantee
- Legal hold audit trails
- Full RBAC & access logging
- Regional data storage (US/EU)
- Can enforce 2FA account wide
- SSO Integration
- Auto-delete option (coming soon)
Popular
Professional
For growing companies with advanced archive and internal audit needs.
$1490
/year
- 1 user included +$120/yr/user extra
- 100 GB storage included
- Advanced search & filtering
- Save, export searches to JSON/CSV
- Priority support
- Can enforce 2FA account wide
- Data retention: 3 years
- Advanced user permissions
- SSO Integration
Enterprise
For compliance-focused organizations with bulk data needs.
$4990
/year
- Unlimited users & workspaces
- 100GB/mo data included; $2/GB after
- Auto-delete after review option
- Legal hold & audit trails
- Full RBAC & access logging
- Regional data storage (US/EU)
- Can enforce 2FA account wide
- Okta SSO Integration
- 99.9% SLA guarantee
Testimonials
Trusted by operational executives around the world.
We listen closely to our customers, thrive on feedback, and build with you in mind.
"Glad for ViewExport - in Slack you can't filter by date range. Annoying and not usable for Legal/eDiscovery. And Onna is way too expensive."
Chief Information Officer
NYSE-Listed Adtech Co.
"Handling DSARs is a massive pain point for me with GDPR compliance. We've been working around this problem for 6+ years, across multiple companies."
Head of IT & Security
Midmarket Automotive Marketplace Co.
"I'm the Slack admin of my company and I'm tired of searching through the json files for messages for HR investigations. Now I can share the relevant export with them in a few clicks."
IT Director
Travel & Recreation Co.
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