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Skribe
Skribe is a deposition platform from Skribe, Inc. of Austin, Texas that records legal testimony without a stenographer and turns it into searchable, analysable material. Litigators host depositions, examinations under oath and other sworn proceedings on Zoom or in person with a Skribe digital reporter, a notary who swears in the witness and monitors the recording; the audio and video recording is the official record.
Automatic speech recognition produces a rough transcript synced to the video the same day, and a human-proofread final transcript with a sworn declaration of accuracy follows in five to seven days. Inside the platform, AI finds key moments, summarises testimony, answers questions with links to the exact point in the video, and lets users clip and share video. A separate Library product processes existing audio and video files.
Skribe publishes its prices: $99 per hour for Library and $379 per record hour for hosted depositions, with a surcharge for in-person sessions. Its digital reporters are not certified shorthand reporters, and the method depends on court and state rules permitting non-stenographic depositions.
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 engine of the working layer, on a record-capture product whose official output is human-verified, which is the B band. Automatic speech recognition produces the same-day rough transcript synced to video and powers the Library product, and generative AI finds key moments, summarises testimony and answers questions across a deposition with links back to the video. But the official record is the audio and video recording, the final transcript is proofread by a person and sworn to, and the hosted tier includes a digital reporter and recording management that work without the models. Remove the AI and a customer still has a recorded, human-transcribed deposition. Verified 18 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.
AI answers are grounded in the record with a direct link to source, and one accuracy figure is published without a method, which is the B band. The AI page says every AI answer is supported by links to the exact point in the video, so a user can check any answer against the testimony itself. The home page states that human-proofread final transcripts are 99 per cent accurate and compares that with the 95 per cent threshold for stenographer certification.
That figure applies to the human-verified final transcript, not to the rough AI transcript or to AI summaries and answers, and no method, sample or test is described. Nothing states the accuracy of the rough transcript or what the AI does when the testimony does not answer a question, and the terms disclaim any warranty of accuracy. Verified 18 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 human verification step is built into the official deliverable, while the AI analysis layer has no stated review, which is the B band. The vendor separates the same-day rough transcript, produced by speech recognition, from the final transcript, which it says is human-proofread every time and accompanied by a sworn Declaration of Verbatim Transcript, and it states that the audio and video recording is the official record.
A trained staff member attends hosted depositions and monitors the recording. The AI summaries, key moments and answers carry no equivalent control, and nothing states what the rough transcript should not be used for. Verified 18 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.
Named customers are published without figures, which is the B band. The home page carries attributed testimonials from Charles Peckham of Peckham Martin, Steven Sachs of Espinoza & Brock and Randy Sorrels, managing partner of Sorrels Law, and shows firm logos. The testimonials describe faster transcripts, same-day video and lower overhead, but give no measured result. The vendor's price comparison, roughly half the cost of traditional court reporting, is a pricing claim rather than a customer outcome. Verified 18 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.
The published terms disclaim confidentiality for uploaded material and grant broad use rights over it, which meets the D band in substance. Section 13 of the Terms & Conditions, revised 27 July 2026, grants Skribe a non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual licence to use uploaded content for the service's customary and intended purposes and any related purpose, including to research, improve the service and sell, and states that Skribe does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to submissions.
The confidentiality clause in section 12 excludes information from testimony used for the service's intended purposes. Section 4.c, added in July 2026, keeps a backup recording running while the meeting room is open, including recesses and breaks, stores it under unstated retention practices, and allows release on a subpoena or court order, edited to exclude off-the-record segments unless a court orders otherwise; attendees are advised to mute or leave the room.
Nothing addresses privilege or work product, and the privacy policy authorises use of information to improve algorithms. Verified 18 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.
A real position is published on what the service is and where it lawfully operates, short of the supervision dimension, which is the B band. The terms state that Skribe is not a law firm and gives no guarantee that recorded testimony is admissible; the site states that Skribe digital reporters are not certified shorthand reporters and do not perform stenography, that depositions are conducted under rules permitting non-stenographic recording, and publishes an admissibility page listing the states that allow it.
Subscribers are defined as attorneys and law firms. Nothing addresses an attorney's duties when relying on AI summaries or answers, and the rough AI transcript is not distinguished in professional-responsibility terms from the sworn final. Verified 18 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.
No governance position published. Searched the home page, the terms and privacy policy, and the AI, product, FAQ and about pages on 18 September 2026. No responsible AI policy, testing regime, accountable owner or disclosure about speech recognition performance across accents, speakers or audio conditions was located, which matters for a product whose transcripts become evidence. Verified 18 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.
Retention and security are addressed only in general terms, which places this at C. The privacy policy says personal information is stored indefinitely unless the user asks for removal, that copies may persist with third-party providers after deletion, and describes security as SSL encryption at 128-bit strength. The terms let subscribers delete material from their account but say Skribe has no obligation to preserve data after cancellation, and backup recordings are kept under standard retention practices that are not stated, with internal access restricted to staff with an operational need.
No encryption at rest, subprocessor list for recordings or AI processing, or incident notification commitment is published. Verified 18 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.
Liability is addressed only through limitations that disclaim the exposure the product creates, which is the C band. The terms provide the software as is with no warranty of accuracy or completeness, cap Skribe's liability at the amount paid and never more than $1,000, limit a non-paying user to injunctive relief, and require users to indemnify Skribe, including for reliance on advice provided through the software. No vendor indemnity or insurance position is published. Verified 18 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.
No integration into practice systems located. Searched the home, product and pricing pages and the terms on 18 September 2026. Skribe is built on Zoom and its Skribe Link feature records Zoom depositions a firm does not host, which are capture channels rather than practice systems. No connection to document management, case management, e-discovery or trial presentation software is named; clips are shared by link. Verified 18 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.
Location is stated without a hosting or tenancy model, which places this at C. The terms say the software is operated in the United States and the privacy policy says personal information is stored and processed on servers in the United States. No hosting provider, tenancy model or deployment option is named, and processing of recordings by speech recognition and AI providers is not located. Verified 18 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.
No independent security attestation located. Searched the home page, terms, privacy policy and FAQ, which has no security page linked from navigation, and ran a targeted search for a Skribe SOC 2 or other attestation, on 18 September 2026. The only security detail published is SSL encryption at 128-bit strength in the privacy policy. Verified 18 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.
Nothing published about the models underneath. Searched the home, AI and product pages, the terms and the privacy policy on 18 September 2026. The vendor refers to its automated speech recognition system and generative AI tools but names no speech recognition provider, language model or provider, and the privacy policy names only Google and Stripe as third parties. Verified 18 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.
A buyer can price a deposition before speaking to anyone, which is the A band. The home and pricing pages publish Library at $99 per hour of audio or video, the hosted Live tier at $379 per record hour including the digital reporter, same-day rough transcript, human-verified final transcript in five to seven days, exhibits, clips, RealTime transcript and AI tools, and an in-person surcharge of $100 per hour with a three-hour minimum.
Cancellation is free with 24 hours' notice. The terms add monthly automatic billing through Stripe. What volume or firm-wide terms look like is not stated. A pricing row is written. Verified 18 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.
The product's working boundary is published jurisdiction by jurisdiction with its conditions, which is the A band. The admissibility page tables forty-two U.S. states plus the District of Columbia and the federal rules, marking each as allowed, allowed with stipulations, or allowed with stipulations to remote proceedings, citing the governing rule (for example FRCP 30(b)(3), Cal. Code Civ. Proc. section 2025.330, Tex.
R. Civ. P. 203) and offering a sample non-stenographic notice for each; the eight states not listed, among them New Jersey, Connecticut and Washington, fall outside the published boundary. The vendor serves litigation teams at firms of every size and covers depositions, examinations under oath and other sworn proceedings, remote or in person. Nothing states which proceeding types, languages or accents the speech recognition and AI handle less well. Flagged for sampling. Verified 18 September 2026.
5 public documents
The public pages on file for Skribe, 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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skribe.ai/privacy-policy2 signals
Prompt and Output Retention, Third Party Request and Subpoena Notice
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skribe.ai1 signal
Court Disclosure Support
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skribe.ai/product1 signal
Billing and Fee Posture
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skribe.ai/terms-conditions1 signal
Client Data in Training
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Fabricated Citation Record
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$99 / hour of audio or videoUSD, as published, never converted
- Library, the software-only product, costs $99 for each hour of audio or video you upload.
- Hosting a deposition with a Skribe digital reporter costs $379 for each hour on the record.
- In-person depositions add $100 an hour, with a three-hour minimum.
- The hosted price includes transcripts, video, clips and the AI tools.
- You can cancel a booking for free with 24 hours' notice.
Library (software): $99 per hour of uploaded audio or video; rough transcript in minutes, synced video, clips. Live (professional services plus software): $379 per record hour; digital reporter, same-day rough transcript, human-verified final transcript in 5 to 7 days, exhibits, clips, RealTime transcript and AI tools. In-person depositions: additional $100 per hour, 3-hour minimum. Free cancellation with 24 hours' notice. Terms provide monthly automatic billing through Stripe.
Note: Figures from the vendor's home and pricing content, read 18 September 2026. Library is the lowest-priced paid product; Live bundles a digital reporter service with the software.
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?
The customer agreement or data processing addendum contractually limits use of Customer Data to providing the contracted service, and no surface names training either way. The limit is bound, which a policy page is not, but it is not an express training prohibition. If any surface names training in either direction, one of the other values is true and this one is not.
The agreement grants a use right over uploaded content bounded to the service's purposes, including improvement, and never names training. Section 13 of the terms grants Skribe a perpetual, irrevocable licence to use uploaded content for the service's customary and intended purposes and any related purpose, listing research, sale and improving the service among them, and the privacy policy authorises use of personal information to improve algorithms and develop features.
The bound is loose, and no statement anywhere says customer recordings or transcripts are not used to train speech recognition or language models.
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.
Retention is indefinite by default and the customer controls removal. The privacy policy stores personal information indefinitely unless the user asks for removal and warns that copies may remain with third-party providers; the terms let subscribers delete material from their account. Backup recordings made under section 4.c are kept under standard retention practices that are not published.
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.
Searched the home page, terms, privacy policy and product pages on 18 September 2026. Nothing addresses separation between matters, users or firms. Everyone who attends a hosted deposition receives the video and exhibits, and shared clips posted to public areas are visible to all visitors under section 13 of the terms.
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.
Disclosure in response to legal process is addressed and customer notice is not. The privacy policy permits sharing on a court order, subpoena or government request, and section 4.c of the terms allows backup recordings to be released under a lawful subpoena or court order. The terms' confidentiality clause requires notice before compelled disclosure where permitted, but it binds users to one another and excludes testimony used for the service's purposes, so it does not give the customer a notice commitment from Skribe.
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.
Searched the home, AI and product pages on 18 September 2026. The AI works over the customer's own recordings and transcripts rather than a legal research corpus, and no external legal source is described. Nothing to name.
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.
Searched the same surfaces on 18 September 2026. The product does not cite legal authority, so no subsequent-history check arises and none is described.
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.
Searched the same surfaces on 18 September 2026. Nothing describes what the AI does when a deposition does not answer a question, and no confidence indicator is described for the rough speech recognition transcript.
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 and trade press reporting on 18 September 2026 for court records addressing fabricated or hallucinated content in output from Skribe. None located. This signal does not record litigation history of any other kind, including rulings on whether non-stenographic depositions may be used.
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.
Searched the home, FAQ and product pages and a vendor blog post on 18 September 2026. No bar ethics opinion on AI is named. The vendor engages procedural rules on non-stenographic recording, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(b)(3) and Texas rules among them, and lists permitting states on an admissibility page; those are court procedure rather than professional-responsibility guidance and are credited on the UPL and coverage axes.
Billing and Fee Posture
Does the vendor address what happens to the bill when the work takes an hour instead of six?
The vendor’s charge reaches the client as a disbursement or case expense, typically advanced by a contingency firm and recovered from a settlement, so the fee question is disclosure of a pass through cost rather than compressed hours. The summary records whether the vendor addresses that disclosure.
The vendor's charge is a deposition cost that reaches the client as a case expense, and client disclosure is not addressed. The product page says that at roughly half the price of traditional court reporting, clients will save money. Nothing addresses how firms should bill or disclose AI-produced rough transcripts or analysis as costs.
Outside Counsel Guideline Readiness
Can a firm get this vendor through a client’s AI clause without a bespoke negotiation?
No located public material supports a client side disclosure obligation.
Searched the terms, privacy policy and product pages on 18 September 2026. The privacy policy names only Google and Stripe as third parties receiving information; no speech recognition or AI provider is named and no data processing agreement is published.
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.
The record separates AI output from human-verified output and carries a sworn declaration, short of a full AI disclosure record. Final transcripts are human-proofread and accompanied by a Declaration of Verbatim Transcript attesting accuracy under penalty of perjury, the rough speech recognition transcript is labelled as such, and the audio and video recording is the official record. Nothing records which model produced AI summaries or answers.