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Dodonai
Dodonai is an AI document processing platform for litigation teams, built around two jobs. It summarizes deposition transcripts with page and line citations, and it turns medical records of any length into structured chronologies of diagnoses, treatments, providers and dates on a timeline. Around those sit transcript management with full text lookup, a chat assistant over the whole transcript, automated Bluebook citations, and OCR for scanned PDFs including tables and handwriting.
Extraction agents fill reusable report templates, and semantic ediscovery finds evidence by meaning. Practice material is aimed at personal injury, medical malpractice, mass tort, product liability, workers' compensation and disability benefits work, and the company also sells to court reporters, IME companies and medical record retrieval businesses. Pricing is published and based on usage, starting at $25 a month with no seat fees or feature gates, and a free trial opens with a sign up form.
Dodonai states SOC 2 coverage and HIPAA compliance, with isolated workspaces for each client. Its terms treat both submitted documents and output as attorney work product, and its LLM partners, OpenAI among them, may not use customer content to improve their own services. Dodonai, LLC is governed by Florida law, and a separate AI Managed Services arm builds custom agents for firms.
Dodonai, head to head
Side by side on the same 15 capability axes and 12 legal signals: where the two part company, and what neither one publishes.
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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.
Every function a customer pays for is model output. Deposition summarization, medical chronology construction, OCR of scanned records including handwriting and tables, extract and draft agents, and semantic ediscovery that finds evidence by meaning rather than keyword make up the platform. Pricing charges by pages processed, with multipliers by process type, so the bill tracks inference directly.
Without the models, what remains is a document store with a lookup box. Dodonai's FAQ calls it an AI document processing platform built for legal professionals.
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.
Deposition summaries carry page and line citations, so each point leads back to the transcript location it came from, and the transcript product adds automated Bluebook citations and an assistant that works over the full text. Chronologies and extracts carry page citations against the source document as well.
Section 3(d) of the terms says that, given the probabilistic nature of machine learning, the services may produce incorrect output that does not reflect real people, places or facts. It tells customers to evaluate accuracy, including by human review. Dodonai claims its output is on par with a skilled human reviewer. No accuracy figure, test set or method is published.
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.
Dodonai treats AI output as draft work product. Its Safety and Trust page says the customer's team verifies source citations, facts, dates and current legal authority before any use or release. Automated source links, the page adds, do not replace citator checks or the firm's own research and supervision. Page and line citations give the reviewer the path back to the source, and every action is logged.
The custom agents sold through AI Managed Services go further. They draft and never send, attorneys authorize every action that leaves the firm, and an agent that is not confident asks instead of guessing. Inside the App, no threshold at which processing stops for review and no route after a wrong summary is described.
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.
One quotation is published, from a commercial litigator identified only as Ben, saying that on the first day Dodonai summarized every deposition transcript in a case in seconds, saving hours of work and client costs in the hundreds. No organization is named, and there is no logo strip, case study or customer count.
The litigation cost page claims a 300 page deposition summary that costs $1,500 to $7,500 from a service vendor costs under $10 in Dodonai, with no customer or method behind the figure. Comparison pages for deposition and chronology software are Dodonai's own category content.
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.
Section 3(e) of the terms says both parties acknowledge that content may include confidential and privileged information and that Dodonai will use all reasonable efforts to keep it confidential. It goes on to state that both input and output are attorney work product and that Dodonai shares a common interest with its users. Workspaces are isolated for each client, case data is siloed, access is role based and every action is logged.
Under section 3(c), Dodonai works only with LLM partners that disclaim using the content to improve their own services and delete customer data after a reasonable time, 30 days for OpenAI. Dodonai may use customer data to improve its own services only where the customer opts in. No retention period applies to Dodonai's own storage, and OpenAI is the only partner named.
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.
Dodonai's Safety and Trust page calls AI output draft work product and puts verification of citations, facts, dates and current authority on the customer's team before use or release. The same page walks through ABA Formal Opinion 512, mapping the duties of competence, supervision and confidentiality onto AI use, and offers the agent audit trail as support for supervision.
The terms do not say the services are not legal advice, and they name no jurisdiction limit. Section 3(e) calls input and output attorney work product and asserts a common interest with users. The audience reaches beyond lawyers, with material for paralegals, court reporters, IME companies and IME doctors, and section 1 sets the minimum user age at 13, with parental permission under 18.
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.
Section 3(d) of the terms acknowledges the probabilistic nature of machine learning and the chance of incorrect output, and section 3(b) explains that output may not be unique across users. The Safety and Trust page sets out a safety layer for the custom agents. Citations are verified against Westlaw, Lexis or the primary source, the opinion text sits beside each summary, attorneys authorize every outbound action, and an audit trail records what each agent saw, produced and changed.
No one inside Dodonai is named as accountable for model behavior, no evaluation before release is described for the App, and no testing results are published. Nothing addresses bias or uneven output across injury types, record types or patient populations.
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.
Data is encrypted with AES 256 at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, from the moment documents leave the browser. Workspaces are isolated for each client, access is role based and every action is logged. Section 5(a) of the data processing addendum lists the required security measures across personnel, facilities, hardware and software, storage and networks, access control, monitoring and logging, breach detection, incident response and encryption.
Section 5(c) requires notice of any personal data breach by Dodonai, its LLM partners or anyone acting for it without undue delay, and section 8 returns or deletes customer data on termination or reasonable request. No retention period for Dodonai's own storage during the term is published, and no subprocessor list names more than OpenAI.
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.
Section 7(b) of the terms provides the services as is and disclaims every warranty, including that the services will be accurate or error free or that content will stay secure and unaltered. Section 7(a) runs one way: the customer indemnifies Dodonai, and no indemnity is given to the customer, intellectual property claims included.
Section 7(c) caps aggregate liability at the greater of twelve months of fees or $100 and excludes indirect and consequential damages, loss of data included. No insurance is stated, and the customer carries the loss when output is wrong.
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.
Uploaded files are the working material, and Dodonai's case management and document management pages present it as a processing layer beside the systems a firm already runs rather than a connected one. No document management, case management, email, word processing or signature product is named, and there is no integrations page or developer documentation.
Section 2(c)(iv) of the terms refers to extracting data through the API as permitted, so an API exists, and the enterprise tier lists custom integrations without detail.
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.
Each client gets an isolated workspace, with case data siloed, role based access limiting what team members see, and every action logged. That separates customers from each other. No region, country, hosting provider or processing location is published for the App, and the terms say only that the services may be used in geographies Dodonai currently supports.
Custom deployments from AI Managed Services can run in the customer's own cloud account or Dodonai's, with hosting location, model processors and retention set in a blueprint for each build.
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.
Dodonai states SOC 2 coverage and HIPAA compliance in its hero, its security section and its platform description, with a business associate agreement on request. The Safety and Trust page invites customers to request report information confirming the covered system, reporting period and access conditions. Section 1(i) of the data processing addendum commits Dodonai to cooperate with audits where the law requires, or else to share a summary of third party audit results.
The claim does not say Type I or Type II. No auditor, scope, observation period or report date is published, there is no trust portal, and penetration testing is not mentioned.
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.
Section 2(c) of the terms requires customers to follow the terms and policies of any LLM partner used for processing, OpenAI included, and links OpenAI's policy pages. Section 3(c) limits Dodonai to LLM partners that disclaim using content to improve their own services and delete customer data after a reasonable time, 30 days for OpenAI.
Section 1(g) of the data processing addendum commits to notice of any additional LLM partner and gives fifteen days to object on reasonable data protection grounds. Dodonai can then decline the partner or offer an alternative, among four cure options, and the customer may terminate with a refund of prepaid fees if the objection is not resolved within thirty days. No model is named, OpenAI is the only partner identified, and where inference runs is not stated.
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.
Four tiers are published. Billed annually, $300 buys 4,800 credits a year ($25 a month), $600 buys 24,000 ($50 a month) and $1,000 buys 120,000 ($83 a month), with a custom enterprise tier above them. A page is defined as about 400 tokens of text, and a table sets the cost per page at each volume by process type, with standard summaries running from 6.3 cents down to 0.8 cents.
Custom summaries use credits at twice the standard rate and advanced analysis at three times, while OCR and transcription cost nothing on any tier. All nine capabilities come with every plan, without seat fees or feature gates, and enterprise adds custom integrations, service level guarantees and dedicated onboarding. A free trial of seven days and 100 pages opens from a sign up form, and section 4(c) of the terms promises fourteen days' notice before a price rise.
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.
Six practice areas each have their own page: personal injury, medical malpractice, mass tort, product liability, workers' compensation and disability benefits. Eight use cases have pages too, including medical record review, IME reports, demand letters, expert witness preparation, contract review extraction and litigation cost management. Six industries are addressed separately, reaching past law firms to court reporters, IME companies, IME doctors and medical record retrieval businesses.
The practice areas sit almost entirely on the plaintiff side. No firm size or segment is stated, in house and government use are not addressed, and nothing says which matter or document types the product does not handle.
4 public documents
The public pages on file for Dodonai, 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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dodon.ai/terms-and-conditions3 signals
Client Data in Training, Prompt and Output Retention, Third Party Request and Subpoena Notice
Read Sep 4, 2026
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Fabricated Citation Record
Read Oct 13, 2026
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dodon.ai1 signal
Ethical Walls and Matter Segregation
Read Sep 4, 2026
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Bar Guidance Alignment
Read Oct 13, 2026
From $25 per month
- Dodonai charges by how many pages you process, not by how many people use it.
- The cheapest paid plan is $25 a month, billed as $300 for the year, and covers 4,800 credits.
- The more you buy, the cheaper each page gets: about 6 cents a page on the smallest plan, under 1 cent on the biggest.
- Scanning and transcribing documents is free on every plan, and every feature is included on every plan.
- You can try it free for 7 days and 100 pages before paying anything.
Usage pricing is published in full across four tiers and can be bought without a sales call. Billed annually, 4,800 credits a year cost $300 ($25 a month), 24,000 credits $600 ($50 a month) and 120,000 credits $1,000 ($83 a month), and an enterprise tier is quoted to volume. Annual billing is said to save 17 percent against monthly, with savings of up to 58 percent across the range. One page is about 400 tokens of text, and the cost of a standard summary page falls from 6.3 cents to 2.5 and then 0.8 cents across the three tiers.
Custom summaries draw credits at double the standard rate and advanced analysis at triple, while OCR and transcription are free on every tier. Each plan includes all nine capabilities with no seat fees or feature gates, and enterprise adds custom integrations, service level guarantees and dedicated onboarding. A free trial covers seven days and 100 pages. Section 4(c) of the terms gives 14 days' notice before a price increase, and section 4(e) limits free tier use to one account per customer.
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?
Training occurs only where the customer has affirmatively enabled it.
Dodonai takes two positions. For third party models, section 3(c) of the terms limits Dodonai to LLM partners that disclaim using content sent through its API to improve their own services. Those partners delete customer data after a reasonable time, 30 days for OpenAI. For its own use, section 1(a)(ii) of the data processing addendum allows processing to improve Dodonai's services only if and to the extent the customer expressly opts in.
The home page puts it more absolutely, saying documents are never stored or used to train AI models, and its Zero Data Retention heading describes the LLM partner terms.
Prompt and Output Retention
How long does the product keep what a lawyer typed, and can that be set to zero?
The customer controls the retention window, by product configuration or by contractual instruction, but zero retention is not stated as available.
Section 8 of the data processing addendum has Dodonai return or delete customer data when the processing services end or when the customer reasonably asks, unless data protection law prevents it. Section 3(c) of the terms has LLM partners delete customer data after a reasonable time, 30 days for OpenAI. No default retention period applies to Dodonai's own storage, and zero retention is not offered as a setting; the Zero Data Retention heading on the home page refers to the LLM partners.
Ethical Walls and Matter Segregation
Does retrieval respect the firm’s ethical walls, or can the model read across them?
The product maintains its own permission model, documented, requiring the firm to keep it aligned.
The permission model is Dodonai's own. Each client has an isolated workspace with case data siloed, team members see only what their role allows, and every action is logged, while section 5(a) of the data processing addendum requires access controls, monitoring and logging. The customer administers its own users. How isolation is enforced technically is not described, and separation between matters inside one customer workspace rests on the role model alone.
Third Party Request and Subpoena Notice
If someone subpoenas the vendor for a firm’s data, does the firm hear about it first?
Terms commit to notice where lawfully permitted. No transparency report located.
Section 2(a) of the data processing addendum has Dodonai tell the customer about any legally binding request by a law enforcement authority for customer data, unless the law forbids it, for example to keep an investigation confidential. Section 2(b) extends that to any notice, inquiry or investigation by a supervisory authority under Article 51 of the GDPR. Section 4 requires advance notice if data protection law makes Dodonai process customer data for a reason outside the agreement. No transparency report 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?
No located public material identifies the corpus behind the product’s answers.
Dodonai summarizes and indexes a customer's own deposition transcripts, medical records and document collections rather than retrieving outside legal content. Its automated Bluebook citations format references inside those materials. No database, publisher, jurisdiction or license is named behind the answers.
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.
The App works on transcripts, medical records and documents the customer supplies, and its citation feature formats references within them. The Safety and Trust page says automated source links do not replace Shepardizing, KeyCiting or the firm's own research, and the custom agents check citations against Westlaw, Lexis or the primary source. No later history check runs inside the App.
Refusal and Uncertainty Behavior
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.
Section 3(d) of the terms acknowledges that output may sometimes be incorrect and tells the customer to evaluate it, including by human review. The custom agents sold through AI Managed Services ask instead of guessing when they are not confident. No abstention path, no answer outcome or confidence value is described for the App's summaries, chronologies or extracts.
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.
The AI Hallucination Cases database maintained by Damien Charlotin, which records court decisions worldwide that address hallucinated AI content and the tool involved where known, has no entry naming Dodonai or Dodon.ai. Dodonai summarizes depositions and builds medical chronologies from a firm's own records, with page and line citations back to the source.
Bar Guidance Alignment
Has the vendor engaged in public with the ethics opinions its buyers are bound by?
Public materials engage with at least one named ethics opinion.
Dodonai's Safety and Trust page sets out ABA Formal Opinion 512 of 2024 and maps it onto AI use: competence under Rule 1.1, supervision under Rules 5.1 and 5.3, and confidentiality under Rule 1.6. It presents the agent audit trail as support for the supervision duty and calls AI output draft work product that the firm's team verifies. The terms cite no rule or opinion, and section 3(e) calls input and output attorney work product.
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 single testimonial says summarizing a case's deposition transcripts saved hours of work and client costs in the hundreds. The litigation cost page puts a 300 page deposition summary at under $10 against $1,500 to $7,500 from a service vendor, and pitches lower overhead and better margins on every case. Dodonai charges by the page rather than the hour, and no record of AI assisted work for fee or client disclosure purposes is offered.
Outside Counsel Guideline Readiness
Can a firm get this vendor through a client’s AI clause without a bespoke negotiation?
The material exists behind a sales conversation or an executed agreement.
The data processing addendum is published in full at the foot of the terms and covers processor status, security measures, breach notice, audit cooperation and deletion, a document a firm can forward to a client. LLM partners are identified only as including OpenAI, no subprocessor list or locations are published, and section 1(h) offers Dodonai's privacy and security policies and other compliance information on request.
Court Disclosure Support
If a judge’s standing order requires an AI disclosure, can the product produce one?
Some elements of the record are available, short of a document level export.
Deposition summaries carry page and line citations back to the transcript, the transcript product generates Bluebook citations, and every action is logged, which covers the sources behind an output and who did what. The model behind a given summary is not recorded for the customer, no verification record exports, and no court disclosure template is offered. The custom agents keep an audit trail of what each agent saw, produced and changed before work leaves the firm.