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In a civil action for damages arising from a software deployment project, the plaintiff seeks to admit into evidence ephemeral electronic communications—Slack messages between the defendant's project lead and the plaintiff's account manager—captured from the Slack workspace exports and printed as a PDF. The messages discuss acceptance criteria and a revised milestone payment. The defendant objects, arguing that ephemeral electronic communications are unreliable and inadequately authenticated, and that the printout is not the original record. Under A.M. No. 01-7-01-SC, Rule 11, Sec. 2, answer: (a) whether ephemeral electronic communications may be admitted as documentary evidence and the controlling standard for admissibility; (b) what authentication steps are required to admit the chat messages, including who should testify and what showing is needed to establish authenticity; (c) if the original chat data on the Slack platform is not available, what form of secondary evidence is permissible and under what conditions.