Covalynt vs Pattern Data: how they compare in 2026
Covalynt and Pattern Data both apply AI to large claimant populations. Covalynt scores class action settlement claims for fraud, and Pattern Data evaluates mass tort claimants against settlement criteria. Covalynt is stronger on evidence and security. It lists matters by docket number, including cases against Apple and Oracle, states SOC 2 Type II with reports under a mutual NDA, and explains every score with deduction codes. Pattern Data is stronger on oversight: eligible claims are decided automatically and complex or outlier cases go to a person. Covalynt rejects claims below a fixed score. Its privacy policy, which covers its settlement services, allows personal information to be sold or shared with advertising partners.
Which one fits
Choose Covalynt if
- Your problem is fraudulent claims in a class settlement. Covalynt's ClaimScore starts each claim at 1,000 points, deducts on more than 65 weighted criteria covering bots, synthetic identities, duplicates and solicitation schemes, and tags each deduction with a code explaining it.
- You need class member data for certification and notice. Covalynt's ClassResolution reconciles defendant records into audit ready class data, and DeepValidation validates and enriches contact data for notice.
- Your security review needs a report. Covalynt states SOC 2 Type II covering security, availability and confidentiality, available under a mutual NDA, and its API uses per case keys that keep each case's claim data separate.
Choose Pattern Data if
- Your problem is evaluating a mass tort docket against settlement criteria. Pattern Data screens exposure and injury, develops valuation from full records, calculates settlement points and builds submission packets in the formats claims administrators require, recalculating as criteria change.
- You want outliers kept for a person. Pattern Data states that eligible claims are auto adjudicated while complex or outlier cases are flagged for human review, and that case reviewers validate AI findings.
- Your firm runs Litify or needs an open API. Pattern Data lists a Litify integration and an open API with scripts for automated actions, and prices transactionally by case volume and service.
At a glance
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AI Centrality
How much of the product is actually AI. Whether the machine learning is the mechanism the buyer is paying for or a feature layered onto conventional software, and whether the vendor is specific about which is which.
The models drive the flagship product within a wider data engineering suite. ClaimScore's scoring runs on what the vendor calls a proprietary expert system AI whose criteria are weighted by neural network machine learning trained on cohorts of known valid and invalid claims, and every claim's score and rejection turns on it. The rest of the suite is described as data science and identity resolution rather than model work: ClassResolution's record reconciliation for certification, DeepValidation's contact enrichment for notice, and bespoke data engineering. It would function without the scoring models.
The product reads records, extracts exposure, injury and treatment data, scores every claimant against litigation criteria and decides eligible claims automatically. Pattern Data has sold nothing else since its founding, and it names the models it tailors to each litigation as the product.
Citation Accuracy and Hallucination Disclosure
Whether the vendor publishes measured accuracy on citations and assertions, grounds output to primary sources, and says plainly what its system does when it does not know. Legal has a documented public record of fabricated citations reaching filed briefs, so an untested claim of accuracy is not evidence.
The scoring system page explains that each claim starts at 1,000 points, loses points on more than 65 weighted criteria, is tagged with deduction codes naming each failed criterion, and is rejected below 700. Accuracy is measured through regular control studies, with data split into learning and testing sets. The ROI page shows 99.5 percent identification of valid claims and 98 percent fraud identification accuracy, but inside a worked example case rather than as a labeled result with a sample, period and method. The site also has an Accuracy Explained section.
Retrieval augmented generation over language models underpins the platform, Pattern Data's FAQ states, with case reviewers validating the findings the AI aggregates. The platform page states clear sourcing and human validation at every step and that every result can stand up to review, audit or settlement. A third party review gives a figure of 98 percent accuracy, which is not the vendor's own. No figure, test set or evaluation from the vendor is published. The product reads records and cites no primary law.
Autonomy and Oversight Model
What the system decides on its own, what a lawyer must approve, and whether the vendor documents where the review point sits. A tool that drafts under review and a tool that files without one are different products and different risks.
Automated eligibility decisions are described with a threshold and reasons, but no human review position is published. The scoring system marks any claim that falls below 700 points as rejected. The product page describes automated claims processing producing eligibility decisions, delivered in real time to claims systems through the API. Deduction codes give an administrator the reasons for each score, which is a real review point. Nothing published says whether a person reviews rejected claims, whether rejection is final or a recommendation to the administrator, or whether a claimant flagged in error can cure. These decisions determine who in a class is paid.
Eligible claims are decided automatically by the proprietary AI while complex or outlier cases are flagged for human review, the FAQ states, and case reviewers validate the findings the AI aggregates. On its home page, Pattern Data states that every extraction, classification and score is built to support the team's review rather than bypass it. The threshold is the eligibility and allocation logic set by the settlement criteria, recalculated when criteria change. The review surface shows validated data, record status and what each case needs next, with sourcing on every result. Flagged outliers go to a person. Nothing states a confidence level below which automatic decisions are withheld, beyond the criteria themselves.
Operational and Outcome Evidence
Named, dated evidence that the product works in production at real firms or legal departments. Case studies with figures and identified customers count. Unattributed testimonials and launch announcements do not.
Named deployments are published without measured outcomes from them. The case experience page lists about twenty matters with docket numbers and courts, including Lopez v. Apple, Katz-Lacabe v. Oracle, Brooks v. Thomson Reuters, In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation and Kessler v. Quaker Oats. It names some thirty federal, state and Canadian courts where the vendor has served, and describes its work as court appointed neutral and consultant. The home and product pages add further matters, including mass torts. None of these is paired with a result, and the ROI page's savings figures come from an illustrative example case, so no outcome is tied to a named matter with a method.
More than thirty litigations and 1.4 million cases sit on the platform, Pattern Data's FAQ states, alongside roles appointed by courts in major settlement programs, settlement submissions in one day rather than fifteen and review costs cut by up to five times. None is attributed to a named firm or program, and the testimonials on the home page are unnamed. The chief executive's conference biography names the 3M Combat Arms Earplug and Philips CPAP litigations as deployments, without figures.
Privilege and Confidentiality Posture
How client confidences are handled: attorney client privilege and work product treatment, segregation of one client matter from another, whether client data trains any model, and what the vendor commits to in writing rather than in marketing.
Confidentiality rests on an audited control set, while the only published policy covering the Services permits selling or sharing personal information. The security page says the SOC 2 Type II examination covers the Confidentiality trust services criterion and describes role based access controls. The privacy policy states that it applies to the vendor's class action settlement services. It says that identifiers such as name, postal address and email, along with commercial and online activity information and inferences, will be sold or shared with advertising and analytics partners, and it permits deidentified use to improve the Services. No customer agreement setting confidentiality terms for class member data is published, and privilege and work product are not addressed.
Confidentiality measures in Pattern Data's FAQ are TLS encryption, environments that comply with HIPAA for protected health data, multifactor authentication, stringent access controls and staff training. No customer agreement is published, so nothing binds a training position. No statement is published on training use, retention, deletion, segregation by matter or docket, third party model providers, or privilege and work product.
UPL and Professional Responsibility Posture
Whether the vendor is clear that it supplies a tool rather than legal advice, who its audience is, and how it addresses unauthorized practice of law, competence and supervision duties, and jurisdiction limits. ABA Formal Opinion 512 is the reference point. Where the advice line is not the duty a product raises, the axis is read through the nearest professional duty it does raise: judicial conduct rules and the reviewing duty for products sold only to courts, and the duty to bill for time actually spent for products that draft time entries.
Nothing published on the product's role relative to legal judgment. The product produces claim eligibility decisions presented as able to withstand court scrutiny, but no statement addresses who is responsible for those determinations, whether they constitute advice to counsel or the court, or what counsel and administrators must verify. The published terms govern the website only.
No advice line or supervision statement is published. The product is sold to law firms and to administrators appointed by courts. Pattern Data's home page states the AI amplifies rather than replaces human judgment. No page states that outputs are not legal advice or how the product supports a supervising lawyer's duties, and no customer agreement is published to carry such a statement.
AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
Published governance over model behavior: who owns it inside the vendor, what is tested before release, and what is disclosed about disparate output across matter types, parties, or populations.
A testing practice is described, without a governance framework or any disclosure on uneven impact. The scoring system page says accuracy is measured through regular control studies, with criteria weighted by machine learning on known valid and invalid claims and separate learning and testing sets. Nothing names an accountable owner or governance process. Nothing addresses whether fraud criteria such as shared contact attributes or name variations flag some groups of legitimate claimants more than others, which is the bias question a court or class counsel would ask.
The AI does not replace human judgment and every output supports review, Pattern Data's home page states, and the FAQ describes validation by people in the loop. No responsible AI framework, ISO 42001 or equivalent, accountable owner, results of testing before release, or statement about uneven output across litigations or record types is published.
AI Safety and Data Stewardship
Retention, deletion, access control, and what happens to prompts and documents after they are processed. Whether the vendor states its subprocessors and its incident practice, or leaves the buyer to assume.
Security practices are listed while the data terms are generic and permissive. The security page describes encryption in transit and at rest, role based access, WAF and DDoS protection, backups, disaster recovery, penetration testing, vendor risk management and an incident response framework. The privacy policy keeps personal information as long as reasonably necessary, names no subprocessors beyond categories, sets no incident notification timeline, and permits sale or sharing of personal information with advertising and analytics partners. No retention or deletion commitment for customer claim files is published.
TLS in transit, storage that complies with HIPAA for protected health data, multifactor authentication, stringent access controls and continuous staff training make up the safeguards in Pattern Data's FAQ, with adherence to SOC 2 and regular audits. No retention period, deletion commitment, subprocessor list or practice for notifying incidents is published. No customer agreement is published.
AI Liability and Recourse
What the vendor stands behind contractually when its output is wrong. Indemnities, caps, carve outs, insurance, and whether any of it is published or only reachable through a negotiated agreement.
Nothing published on liability for the product. The Terms of Use govern the website and refer product use to a separate license agreement and ordering documents, which are not published; no warranty, indemnity, cap or insurance position for the scoring services is published.
No liability position is published. The site's navigation and footer carry Privacy, Security, Careers and an AI search page, and no terms of service or customer agreement. The FAQ describes pricing as tailored per firm, so the agreement is a negotiated document that is not published.
Practice Systems Integration Depth
How deeply the product reaches into the systems legal work already lives in: document management such as iManage and NetDocuments, Word and Outlook, contract lifecycle management, matter management, e-billing, and court filing systems.
ClaimScore connects in real time through an API key to an administrator's digital claim form and sends results directly to claims or client management systems. A retro review path takes bulk claim files by secure transfer and returns result files with match and validation fields. The developer page describes API keys per case that keep each case's claim data separate, webhooks returning a score, determination and deduction codes for each claim, usage alerts, validation status updates, a mock server, and sandbox, staging and production environments. The API reference itself sits behind a login at docs.claimscore.ai. No specific claims administration or case management system is named.
The navigation carries an Integrations page and a dedicated Litify page. Pattern Data's FAQ states an open API with customizable scripts for automated actions, bulk imports from cloud storage systems and drag and drop upload, and describes integration with existing case management systems. The platform page states that settlement packets are generated in the formats claims administrators require. What syncs with Litify, and in which direction, is not described in the FAQ or on the platform page.
Deployment Model and Data Residency
Where the software runs and where the data sits. Multi tenant cloud, single tenant, private deployment, on premises, and whether region of residence is a published option or an enterprise conversation.
Cloud delivery is described without a named host, tenancy or region. The security page refers to trusted cloud partners for redundancy, and the privacy policy says the company and its sites are based in the United States for U.S. users. No hosting provider, data location or tenancy model for claim data is stated.
The platform is delivered as a cloud service. Pattern Data's FAQ states that protected health data is stored in secure environments that comply with HIPAA and that bulk import from cloud storage is supported. No hosting provider, region, residency option or tenancy model is named.
Security Certifications and Trust Center
Independent attestation a buyer can pull without a sales call: SOC 2, ISO 27001, penetration test summaries, a trust center with current reports and named scope rather than a badge image.
A named attestation is published with scope and a request route, without auditor or period. The security page states SOC 2 Type II examination by an independent AICPA accredited firm covering the Security, Availability and Confidentiality trust services criteria, with current reports available on request under a mutual NDA. It also lists penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. The auditor and report period are not named.
Pattern Data's FAQ states adherence to SOC 2 compliance, regular comprehensive security audits and full HIPAA compliance. It does not state that a SOC 2 report has been issued. No report type, auditor, coverage period or route to a report is stated. The footer links a Security page.
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
Which models sit underneath, whose they are, where they run, and whether the vendor commits to telling customers when that changes. A legal buyer inherits every dependency it cannot see.
The model architecture is described as built in house, without versions or change notification. The vendor says it owns its own data and builds its own models, and describes ClaimScore as a proprietary expert system of more than 65 criteria with weights learned by neural network machine learning on cohorts of known valid and invalid claims. No third party model provider is indicated, and no model version or update cadence is published. Nothing commits to telling customers when scoring criteria or weights change during a case.
Pattern Data's FAQ states a retrieval augmented generation approach and large language models, and the litigation pages describe models tailored to specific litigations. No provider, model, inference location or commitment to notify customers of changes is named.
Commercial Transparency
Whether a buyer can learn what this costs without entering a sales process: published rates, the unit being charged, what sits behind an enterprise tier, and what implementation adds.
Cost is described only relative to value, without a rate or unit. The ROI page says the cost of ClaimScore averages under five percent of the amount saved from fraudulent claims regardless of case type, and walks through an example case, but no price, unit or pricing model is published and buying runs through a demo request.
Pattern Data's FAQ describes a transactional pricing model, with fees based on case volume and the specific services used. It names case analysis, settlement award allocation and settlement packet generation as priced services, tailored per firm to caseload and budget, and claims review fees cut by up to five times against manual review. No figure, rate card or pricing page is published.
Firm and Practice Coverage
Who the product is actually built for. AmLaw, midlaw, small firm and solo, in house departments, government and courts, and which practice areas are supported rather than merely claimed.
The vendor serves settlement administrators, class counsel, defense counsel and courts across class actions, mass torts and mass arbitrations. It covers class certification data, notice, claims processing and payment, and lists consumer, privacy, antitrust, securities and pharmaceutical matters. It does not state case sizes, claim types or jurisdictions it handles less well.
Buyers are plaintiff firms, defense firms, settlement administrators and special masters. The litigation pages name Roundup, AFFF and PFAS, Camp Lejeune, Depo-Provera, hair relaxer, GLP-1, Paraquat, social media, talc and Zantac, with more than thirty litigations supported. Pattern Data states the platform is built for mass tort and multidistrict litigation. No jurisdiction outside the United States is addressed.
The 12 legal signals, side by side
Recorded rather than graded. These are the questions a practitioner has to answer before a tool touches a client matter, and the answers are taken from public material only.
Client Data in Training
Can material a lawyer puts into this product be used to train a model?
No customer agreement is published; the privacy policy covering the Services permits use bounded to improving them and never names training. It allows personal information in de-identified or aggregate form to be used to improve the Services, and the scoring system page says criterion weights are learned by machine learning on cohorts of known valid and invalid claims without saying whose claims. Nothing states whether a customer's claim files are used to train or reweight the models.
No customer agreement is published, and no training statement is published. The site's navigation and footer carry Privacy, Security, Careers and an AI search page and no terms of service. The FAQ addresses encryption, HIPAA environments, access control and audits without stating whether customer records train any model. The litigation pages describe models tailored to each litigation without saying what they are trained on.
Prompt and Output Retention
How long does the product keep what a lawyer typed, and can that be set to zero?
Retention is acknowledged without a stated period. The privacy policy keeps personal information as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes collected, including legal, accounting and dispute purposes. No retention or deletion terms for customer claim files are published.
Nothing published addresses how long records, extractions or settlement data are kept. The FAQ addresses storage security without a period, and no customer agreement is published.
Ethical Walls and Matter Segregation
Does retrieval respect the firm’s ethical walls, or can the model read across them?
Role-based access is asserted without detail on how case data is separated. The security page says role-based access controls limit users to the data and systems their roles require. Nothing documents separation between matters, administrators or opposing parties sharing the platform.
Pattern Data's FAQ states multifactor authentication and stringent access controls, and the platform holds each firm's docket as one live inventory. Nothing describes how one firm's docket is walled off from another's, how an administrator's view is separated from the firms whose claimants it adjudicates, or how the models respect those boundaries.
Third Party Request and Subpoena Notice
If someone subpoenas the vendor for a firm’s data, does the firm hear about it first?
Disclosure in response to legal process is addressed and customer notice is not. The privacy policy permits sharing personal information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, law enforcement or government requests, with no commitment to notify the customer.
Nothing published addresses whether the customer is told when a third party demands its data. No customer agreement is published.
Primary Law Corpus Provenance
Where does the law in this product come from, and does the vendor have the right to use it?
Claim enrichment rests on proprietary data from an unnamed source, with no legal research corpus behind it. The vendor refers to its own proprietary data used to enrich and validate claims but names no data source or license; no legal research corpus is involved.
The product is not built on a body of legal content, and none is identified behind its output. It extracts facts from the records of the customer's claimants and scores them against litigation and settlement criteria the firm or administrator supplies, citing no law.
Good Law Verification
Does the product tell you when the authority it just cited has been overruled?
Claim scores, not legal citations, are the output. The product does not cite legal authority, so no subsequent-history check arises and none is described.
Nothing published addresses whether authority is checked for subsequent history. The product does not retrieve or cite primary law. Its output is case scores, valuations and settlement packets, and it has no citator function.
Refusal and Uncertainty Behavior
What does the product do when the answer is not in the corpus?
Every output carries a score and reasons, with a fixed threshold rather than an abstention path. Claims start at 1,000 points, lose points on failed criteria tagged with deduction codes, and are marked rejected below 700. Nothing describes a middle band referred for human review or how the system handles claims it cannot assess.
Pattern Data's FAQ states that eligible claims are decided automatically while complex or outlier cases are flagged for human review, and that the platform flags missing documentation rather than filling gaps. The criteria that make a case an outlier are not stated.
Fabricated Citation Record
Does a public court record exist addressing fabricated or hallucinated legal citations in output from this product?
The AI Hallucination Cases database kept by Damien Charlotin holds no entry naming Covalynt or ClaimScore as the tool used. ClaimScore scores claims for eligibility and fraud in class action, mass tort and mass arbitration settlements.
The AI Hallucination Cases database maintained by Damien Charlotin records no case naming Pattern Data, and no court finding on mass tort settlement administration names it. No court order, opinion or disciplinary record naming Pattern Data is on the public record. The product's outputs feed settlement adjudication supervised by courts, and they are facts drawn from records rather than citations.
Bar Guidance Alignment
Has the vendor engaged in public with the ethics opinions its buyers are bound by?
Settlement procedure under Rule 23 is engaged, but no ethics opinion or court rule on AI is named. The vendor references Rule 23 duties and judicial scrutiny of settlements, which are procedural law, but names no bar ethics opinion or court rule on AI.
No published material names an ethics opinion, bar rule or professional responsibility framework. Pattern Data's material addresses adjudication appointed by courts and settlement compliance. No guidance from any bar or regulator on lawyers' use of AI is named.
Billing and Fee Posture
Does the vendor address what happens to the bill when the work takes an hour instead of six?
Savings are claimed for settlement funds and class members, without billing or disclosure guidance. The ROI page says the product's cost averages under five percent of the amount saved and increases payouts in common fund cases, and the home page pitches protection of class counsel's fee award. Nothing addresses how the cost is borne or disclosed to the court or class.
Law firms are the primary buyer. Pattern Data claims case review fees cut by up to five times, and settlement submissions in one day rather than fifteen. Nothing addresses how review assisted by AI is recorded or disclosed on a client's bill or in a contingency settlement. Nothing addresses how the cost of AI adjudication by an administrator appointed by a court is allocated.
Outside Counsel Guideline Readiness
Can a firm get this vendor through a client’s AI clause without a bespoke negotiation?
A client asking which vendors handle its data would get no names from the product's materials. No subprocessor list, hosting provider or data processing agreement is published; the security page refers only to trusted cloud partners and vendor risk management.
No subprocessor list, model provider list or forwardable disclosure material is published. The FAQ describes retrieval augmented generation over language models without naming a provider, and no customer agreement or DPA is published.
Court Disclosure Support
If a judge’s standing order requires an AI disclosure, can the product produce one?
A per-claim record of the automated decision is described, short of model identification or a human verification step. The product page offers case-ready explanations documenting every flag, scoring input and eligibility decision, deduction codes explain each score, and DeepValidation documents each step in a reproducible process. Nothing records the model or criteria version applied to a claim or who reviewed the decision.
The platform page states clear sourcing and human validation at every step and that every result can stand up to review, audit or settlement. The product generates settlement packets in the formats administrators require from validated data, a record for each claimant of what was extracted and checked. Nothing states that a record of the model used and the reviewer's verification can be exported for a court. Adjudication under a court's program is performed by the vendor rather than certified by the firm.
The questions both sides leave open
Derived from the records above rather than written, so it cannot favor either vendor. Take these into both conversations and ask each side the same question.
- AI Liability and Recourse
- Primary Law Corpus Provenance
- Good Law Verification
- Bar Guidance Alignment
- Outside Counsel Guideline Readiness
Product updates
The latest logged changes from each vendor, newest first, each linked to its source.
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Product / capability
The new version of Pattern Data's mass tort platform is live in select litigations.
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In summary
Covalynt
Covalynt, formerly ClaimScore and operated by ClaimScore LLC of St. Petersburg, Florida, is a data science platform for class actions, mass torts and mass arbitrations. ClaimScore scores each settlement claim for fraud on more than 65 weighted criteria with explained deductions. ClassResolution reconciles class member data for certification, and DeepValidation validates contact data for notice. According to the AI Legal Index, Covalynt lists matters by docket number, states SOC 2 Type II and builds its own models.
Pattern Data
Pattern Data, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, is an AI case evaluation platform for mass tort litigation, sold to plaintiff and defense firms, settlement administrators and special masters. It screens, develops and settles whole dockets against litigation criteria, with tailored models for litigations including Roundup, AFFF, Camp Lejeune and Depo-Provera. According to the AI Legal Index, Pattern Data auto adjudicates eligible claims and flags complex or outlier cases for human review. It states more than 1.4 million cases on the platform and integrates with Litify. It prices transactionally by case volume and by service.
Questions buyers ask
Covalynt vs Pattern Data: which is better for mass claims work?
They address different problems: Covalynt scores class action settlement claims for fraud and prepares class data, while Pattern Data evaluates mass tort claimants against settlement criteria. Covalynt publishes more evidence, with matters listed by docket number, and a route to its SOC 2 Type II report. Pattern Data publishes a clearer oversight model, stating which claims are decided automatically and which go to a person. From the AI Legal Index, based on each vendor's own published materials as of September 27, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Does a person review claims these tools reject?
Pattern Data states that eligible claims are auto adjudicated and complex or outlier cases are flagged for human review. Covalynt marks any claim scoring below 700 as rejected and explains each deduction with a code. From the AI Legal Index, based on each vendor's own published materials as of September 27, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How do Covalynt and Pattern Data handle claimant data?
Covalynt states SOC 2 Type II and role based access, but its privacy policy, which applies to its settlement services, permits selling or sharing personal information with advertising and analytics partners. Pattern Data states HIPAA compliant storage, encryption and multi factor authentication. From the AI Legal Index, based on each vendor's own published materials as of September 27, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
How are Covalynt and Pattern Data priced?
Pattern Data prices transactionally by case volume and by service, naming case analysis, settlement allocation and packet generation. Covalynt says its cost averages under five percent of the amount saved from fraudulent claims, with buying through a demo request. From the AI Legal Index, based on each vendor's own published materials as of September 27, 2026. No vendor pays for placement.
Neither vendor paid for inclusion, placement or a grade, and neither reviewed this page before it published. Everything on it comes from public material on the dates shown. How the index grades.
Three things to weigh. Covalynt's published accuracy figures appear only inside an illustrative example, its terms cover only its website, and nothing states whether a person reviews claims it rejects. Pattern Data publishes no terms of service or customer agreement, and it describes SOC 2 as adherence rather than as an issued report. It keeps security and privacy detail on separate pages. Neither vendor reviewed this page.