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Colibri Legal
Colibri Legal is the deposition and court reporting product of Colibri.ai (Alterra.ai Inc.), a company that also sells AI meeting notes and sales coaching software. Attorneys and paralegals can record any remote proceeding with a click, including one conducted by the other side, and follow a real-time transcript produced by Colibri's own speech recognition, in Zoom or the web app, with highlights, notes and pre-loaded deposition questions checked off as they are asked.
Rough drafts are available immediately; certified legal transcriptionists produce final transcripts within 24 hours when ordered, and a certified deposition reporter can be booked through a partner court reporting firm. Transcripts sit in a searchable library synchronised with the audio and video. It is sold by monthly subscription, with finals charged per page and reporter appearances extra; prices for the legal product are quoted.
Capability grades
All 15 axes, graded from public sources on the date shown. Hover a grade to see what the letter means on that axis.
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 are the product. Colibri's own speech recognition produces the real-time transcript and rough draft that Colibri Legal is bought for; the recording library and search sit around it, and human-certified final transcripts are an optional service on top. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
Accuracy is claimed, not measured. The site says Colibri's speech recognition delivers best-in-class machine transcription accuracy and consistently outperforms alternatives, and offers certified human final transcripts where accuracy matters, but publishes no error rate, benchmark or method. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
A clear line between AI drafts and certified finals, short of stated limits. The product separates AI rough drafts, for review during depositions and breaks, from final transcripts prepared by certified legal transcriptionists, and lets attorneys highlight, annotate and search as they go. It does not state that rough drafts may not be relied on or filed. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
Testimonials without measured results. The site quotes Peter Hellman of DepoCall, a court reporting firm, and other business users of the meeting-notes product. No law firm customer, case study or measured result for Colibri Legal was located. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
Checked the Colibri Legal page, the Terms of Service (2020) and the Privacy Policy on 22 September 2026. Nothing addresses the confidentiality or privilege of recorded proceedings and transcripts, whether recordings train any model, or how long they are kept; the Privacy Policy lists third-party processors, including OpenAI, and reserves use of data to improve the services. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
Checked the Colibri Legal page and the Terms of Service on 22 September 2026. Nothing addresses attorneys' duties when relying on AI rough drafts, recording consent or the use of recordings of proceedings conducted by the other side. Verified 22 September 2026.
AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
Published governance over model behaviour: who owns it inside the vendor, what is tested before release, and what is disclosed about disparate output across matter types, parties, or populations.
Checked the home, Colibri Legal, About and pricing pages, the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy on 22 September 2026. No AI governance position, accountable owner, testing before release, or finding on transcription accuracy across accents or audio conditions was located. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
A processor list and a generic privacy policy. The Privacy Policy names its processors, including OpenAI and hosting and analytics providers, with places of processing in the United States, Estonia and Spain, and says personal data is deleted on request and kept only as long as required. Nothing addresses security controls, retention periods for recordings or incident notification. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
Addressed only through a standard limitation clause. The Terms of Service, last updated in 2020 and governed by California law, disclaim warranties, limit Colibri's liability and send disputes to arbitration. Nothing stands behind a transcript that proves wrong. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
A documented Zoom integration, short of legal systems. Colibri was a Zoom Apps launch partner and shows live transcription with identified speakers in a Zoom side panel, records from other platforms and the telephone, and connects to Slack and Salesforce for its business products. No connection to a litigation, case or document management system was located. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
Processing locations are listed per processor; the service's own hosting is not described. The Privacy Policy gives the United States as the place of processing for hosting and most processors, with some in Estonia and Spain. No region choice, tenancy or deployment option is published. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
Checked the home, Colibri Legal, pricing and About pages and the Privacy Policy on 22 September 2026. No certification, audit or trust centre is published. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
An in-house model and a named provider, short of change notice. The site says Colibri's speech-to-text engine is its own, built with machine learning models, and the home page pairs Colibri AI with ChatGPT; the Privacy Policy lists OpenAI among its processors with the United States as the place of processing. No model versions or notice of provider changes are published. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
The legal product's price structure is described without figures. The Colibri Legal page describes a low monthly subscription for real-time and rough drafts, optional certified final transcripts charged by the page, and optional court reporter appearance fees, with a quote on request. The per-user prices on the pricing page are for the meeting-notes product. Verified 22 September 2026.
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.
Uses are named, short of limits. The page addresses attorneys, paralegals and court reporting, and names depositions, court hearings, meet-and-confer sessions, mock trials and internal meetings on remote platforms and the telephone. What proceedings, languages or recording conditions it does not handle is not stated. Verified 22 September 2026.
3 public documents
The public pages on file for Colibri Legal, with the recorded signals each one supports and the date it was last read. Open any of them and check the reading against the record.
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colibri.ai/privacy-policy4 signals
Client Data in Training, Prompt and Output Retention, Third Party Request and Subpoena Notice and 1 more
Read Sep 22, 2026
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colibri.ai/colibri-for-legal1 signal
Billing and Fee Posture
Read Sep 22, 2026
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Fabricated Citation Record
Read Sep 22, 2026
Legal Signals
What each signal meansA signal records what public sources say on the date shown. It is not a grade and it is not a recommendation. Where a signal reads Not addressed, it means the index did not locate the material in public sources on that date, which is a statement about disclosure rather than about the product.
Client Data in Training
Can material a lawyer puts into this product be used to train a model?
A published agreement or policy exists and none of it addresses the question either way, or the document that would answer it could not be read and the summary names the retrieval limit. The summary states which shape the silence takes: an improvement right granted that never names training, or no improvement right granted at all.
The Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are published and neither addresses whether recordings or transcripts train any model. The Privacy Policy reserves use of collected information to personalise and improve the services; that improvement right never names training.
Prompt and Output Retention
How long does the product keep what a lawyer typed, and can that be set to zero?
Retention is acknowledged in public materials with no stated period.
The Privacy Policy says personal information is kept as long as required by law or regulation and is irrecoverably deleted when an account is deleted. No retention period for recordings or transcripts is stated.
Ethical Walls and Matter Segregation
Does retrieval respect the firm’s ethical walls, or can the model read across them?
No located public material addresses walls or matter level segregation.
Checked the Colibri Legal and pricing pages on 22 September 2026. A team library with search and viewer accounts is described; nothing addresses separating matters or users.
Third Party Request and Subpoena Notice
If someone subpoenas the vendor for a firm’s data, does the firm hear about it first?
Published terms or policy address disclosure to authorities or in response to legal process, and no commitment or reservation regarding customer notice is located anywhere. The vendor has told the customer that data can leave and has said nothing about whether the customer hears of it.
The Privacy Policy says Colibri may disclose information it believes necessary to satisfy applicable law, legal process or a governmental request. Nothing addresses notifying the customer.
Primary Law Corpus Provenance
Where does the law in this product come from, and does the vendor have the right to use it?
No located public material identifies the corpus behind the product’s answers.
Checked the Colibri Legal page on 22 September 2026. The product transcribes the customer's own recordings; no legal corpus is involved.
Good Law Verification
Does the product tell you when the authority it just cited has been overruled?
No located public material addresses whether authority is checked for subsequent history.
Checked the Colibri Legal page on 22 September 2026. The product does not cite legal authority, and nothing addresses checking authority for later treatment.
Refusal and Uncertainty Behaviour
What does the product do when the answer is not in the corpus?
No located public material addresses what the product does when it cannot ground an answer.
Checked the Colibri Legal and home pages on 22 September 2026. Nothing describes how uncertain or inaudible passages are marked in AI rough drafts.
Fabricated Citation Record
Does a public court record exist addressing fabricated or hallucinated legal citations in output from this product?
No court order, opinion or disciplinary record addressing fabricated or hallucinated legal citations produced by this product has been located as of the date shown. This is a statement about the public record on that one subject, not a finding about the product, and this signal is not a litigation history.
Searched the AI Hallucination Cases database maintained by Damien Charlotin on 22 September 2026 for Colibri, and no recorded case was returned. No court order, opinion or disciplinary record naming the product was located. This is a statement about the public record rather than a finding about the product.
Bar Guidance Alignment
Has the vendor engaged in public with the ethics opinions its buyers are bound by?
No located public material engages with bar or ethics guidance.
Checked the Colibri Legal page, the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy on 22 September 2026. No material engages with lawyers' professional obligations or names any ethics opinion.
Billing and Fee Posture
Does the vendor address what happens to the bill when the work takes an hour instead of six?
Public materials claim time savings without addressing billing or disclosure, and the product sits inside a fee relationship between a lawyer and a client where those savings would change the bill.
The page pitches savings: pay for final transcripts only if needed, and record and transcribe proceedings without buying transcripts from the other side's court reporter. Nothing addresses how transcript costs are passed to clients.
Outside Counsel Guideline Readiness
Can a firm get this vendor through a client’s AI clause without a bespoke negotiation?
A current subprocessor or model provider list is published.
The Privacy Policy lists the processors that handle data, including OpenAI, Google services and customer relationship tools, with each one's place of processing. No client-facing disclosure material was located.
Court Disclosure Support
If a judge’s standing order requires an AI disclosure, can the product produce one?
No located public material addresses court disclosure or verification certification.
Checked the Colibri Legal page on 22 September 2026. Rough drafts are distinguished from certified finals, but nothing addresses recording or disclosing AI use in material put before a court.