See how much ROT is hiding in your content, and what it’s costing you.
Most content environments are heavy with ROT
Redundant copies, obsolete files no one has opened in years, and trivial content that adds noise and cost. Cleaning your estate immediately lowers storage spend and improves the quality of everything downstream, from search to security to the answers an AI assistant can provide.
Rationalization is where the return starts. Before you classify, label, or feed content to AI, remove the noise that inflates costs and degrades results. DryvIQ surfaces redundant, obsolete, and trivial (ROT) content, so you can defensibly reduce what you store and focus attention on what holds business value.
How it works
Step 1 | Surface the ROT
DryvIQ scans your full content estate and flags redundant, obsolete, and trivial content using age, activity, duplication, and ownership signals at petabyte scale across 40+ different content repositories.
Step 2 | Defensibly Reduce
Apply business rules to archive or delete what no longer holds value with an immutable audit trail, so every reduction is defensible to compliance and legal.
Step 3 | Elevate the Rest
What remains is active, relevant, and trusted, ready to be classified, secured, and grounded by search and AI.
Lower storage spend, immediately
Every redundant and obsolete file you carry is a line item. Rationalization removes it defensibly, shrinking the active footprint and the bill that comes with it, often within the first year.
- Cut active storage costs by 40%+ on average within 12 months
- Stop paying to store, back up, and secure content no one uses
- Year-one ROI that typically funds the rest of the initiative
Surface content precisely, not by blanket rules
Blanket age policies can delete the wrong content and miss the rest. DryvIQ evaluates each file on multiple signals so reduction is accurage, defensible, and safe.
- Age, last access, and activity history
- Duplicate and near-duplicate detection
- Ownership, including orphaned content
- Business value, sensitivity, and retention schedule
Better content lifts everything downstream
Rationalization isn’t only about cost. Removing ROT raises the quality of every downstream outcome; the cleaner the estate, the better the result.
- Search returns the right document, not six versions of it
- Security has less dark data to protect and less exposure to manage
- AI assistants ground on trusted content and provide better answers
Why rationalization is the cheapest AI investment you'll make
Before you spend on classification, labeling, or new AI tooling, the highest-return move is removing what shouldn’t be there. Cleaner inputs lower cost today and raise the ceiling on everything you build next.
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