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Threadeo
Threadeo sells cloud software to court reporting and litigation support firms and to the lawyers they serve. Threadeo Sync aligns deposition video with certified transcripts, links exhibits and generates the load files that trial software such as TrialDirector and OnCue reads, running many jobs at once in the browser. Threadeo Summaries turns deposition, arbitration and trial transcripts into structured analysis, with chronologies, admissions, contradictions, impeachment points and cross examination questions, each cited to page and line.
A cross deposition report compares witnesses, and a chat answers questions about a transcript with linked citations. The offline Depo Viewer opens synced jobs without an internet connection, and UltraSync is a rush sync service for law firms. CloudReview lets a law firm's lawyers and paralegals annotate transcripts with objections and issue codes and export captioned clips. Sync and Summaries are bought per job with no subscription, and CloudReview Teams starts at $199 a month for up to 10 users plus processing fees.
The terms bar training on customer data, and the service runs on AWS in the United States. Threadeo Inc. is a Delaware corporation based in San Francisco, led by CEO Aniket Sawant.
Threadeo, head to head
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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.
The Summaries product reads a deposition transcript and returns an event timeline, key topics, major admissions, contradictions, impeachment points and suggested cross examination questions. Arbitration and trial versions cover openings and closings, evidence, witnesses, objections, rulings and grounds for appeal, and multiday proceedings get consolidated summaries. A trial day's summary typically arrives in under 30 minutes. Deposition summaries launched in mid 2024, and arbitration, trial and consolidated summaries followed in January 2025.
Across witnesses, a cross deposition analysis builds one combined chronology with separate inconsistency and corroboration reports. A four layer chat answers questions about a transcript with a direct answer, an analysis, a strategic note and page and line links.
Alongside the summaries, Threadeo Sync aligns video to certified transcripts and links exhibits automatically, and the Depo Viewer shows exhibit summaries offline. CloudReview gives law firms annotation, issue codes and clip export on synced transcripts.
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.
Each insight in a Threadeo summary cites a page and line of the source transcript. Reports come as DOCX and PDF files and as a web view that shows transcript and summary side by side, so a reader can jump from a statement to the testimony behind it. Chat answers end with clickable page and line links.
Summaries are said to draw only on the uploaded transcript and to be engineered for zero hallucinations. Arbitration summaries are described as neutral and objective, and trial summaries track objections and evidentiary rulings as they appear in the record.
No accuracy measure for the summaries 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.
In Sync, the platform aligns video and links exhibits, and the court reporting firm reviews the finished job in its own account before it requests load files or delivers to clients. Customer dashboards put the median review at 22 seconds a job. UltraSync, the rush service for law firms, adds a manual check of the uploaded files by Threadeo's team.
Summaries come with a side by side view in which a lawyer can check each insight against the transcript and add annotations.
A summary returns to the customer as soon as the model finishes. No review step before delivery is described for it, and no limit on how its strategic recommendations may be used.
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.
On customer dashboards that Threadeo publishes, one Sync client runs more than 1,300 jobs a month. A set of 26 video hours needed 14 QC points against 150 on legacy software, and six minutes of work instead of 50. Every job in that set was delivered within 60 minutes, with a median near 10 minutes. Across jobs, median QC time is 22 seconds and 75 percent of jobs need no QC point.
Summaries carry quotes from an unnamed injury firm owner, a litigation partner, a senior attorney at an employment firm and a senior public defender. A production manager at a court reporting firm describes Sync work falling from two hours for one job to five minutes across several.
No customer is named.
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 3.6 of the terms says Threadeo does not use customer data to train AI models, including large language models. It uses only third party services that do not train on the data it passes them. Section 3.1 treats uploads, and the output generated from them, as the customer's confidential information. Section 3.3 gives the customer ownership of that data.
The privacy policy names Threadeo as processor of service data under a master service agreement and a data processing addendum, neither of which is published. It states that service data is used only to produce that client's summaries and syncs.
Privilege and work product are not addressed, and nothing says how long an outside AI service may hold the data it receives.
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.
The terms state that nothing in the service is legal, financial or medical advice and that a customer who needs advice should consult a professional. Users must be 18 or older. Threadeo describes its summaries as clearing the path to legal judgment rather than replacing it.
The product pages sell strategic recommendations, impeachment points, cross examination strategy and analysis of how laws and precedents apply to the facts. The arbitration page lists witnesses and experts among its readers, and CloudReview Teams is offered to HR teams as well as legal ones.
No jurisdiction limit or supervision guidance is stated.
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.
The CEO's November 2025 announcement sets out four commitments on trust, namely the SOC 2 Type 2 examination, HIPAA compliance, the trust center and a public status page. Risk assessment and treatment and vendor risk management appear among the trust center's controls.
The CEO's posts set out a six part test for summary quality, covering length, clarity, accuracy, coherence, objectivity and focus. A summary passes when a reader grasps the deposition and the next step in under three minutes. A February 2025 post describes AI as strong at some tasks and weak at many others, and says Threadeo will add capabilities in measured steps aligned with how attorneys work.
No testing method or result for the summaries 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.
Under the terms, Threadeo keeps customer data as long as the service needs it and deletes it on request. After termination, data stays available for retrieval for 30 days and is then deleted. Sync includes indefinite cloud hosting of every job. Breach notice reaches the customer within 72 hours, with the nature of the breach, the data affected and the steps taken.
Access is role based with multifactor authentication and user access reviews. Data is encrypted with TLS in transit and 256 bit AES at rest, and platform activity is logged and monitored. Threadeo tests its disaster recovery and incident response plans and runs penetration tests and vulnerability scans.
The privacy policy describes its subprocessors, such as the cloud host, as vetted and contractually bound, without listing them.
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.
The terms of December 2024 cap Threadeo's total liability at the fees paid in the 12 months before the claim, with a carve out for bodily injury or death caused by its negligence. Indirect and consequential damages, lost data and business losses are excluded. The terms also exclude liability for the accuracy or reliability of AI generated summaries or output.
Against third party claims that the software infringes a United States patent or copyright or misappropriates a trade secret, Threadeo indemnifies customers. Six exclusions apply, and Threadeo may modify the software, license it or refund prepaid fees. A service level agreement guarantees 99 percent uptime with service credits, outside a Sunday maintenance window. Disputes go to the California courts under California law.
A separate subscription agreement for monthly plans disclaims all warranties and releases Threadeo from claims arising from use of the platform.
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.
Sync produces the load files that trial presentation and case review tools read, including DVT, CMS, MDB, PTF, PTS and XML, with LEF and PTZ on request. Named targets are TrialDirector 360 and older TrialDirector versions, OnCue, CaseNotebook, LexisNexis TextMap, LiveNote, Sanction, Summation, Timaro and TrialPro. Video and transcripts can be pulled in from Box or Dropbox, and Concierge Video stitches multiple files and encodes them inside the Sync account.
The offline Depo Viewer, at version 1.1.0 since 10 September 2026, opens synced jobs with clips and exhibit links on Windows 10 and 11 and macOS 12 or later.
A court reporting firm on Sync can deliver jobs straight into a law firm's CloudReview account, which supports single sign on and two factor authentication. CloudReview also takes a list of designations and counter designations and applies them to a transcript. An API with key and token management is open to account holders, and Enterprise customers can commission custom integrations at discounted development rates.
No connector to a case management or document management system is described.
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.
Section 3.5 of the terms names a single AWS region in the United States as the host for Threadeo's services and customer data. The platform runs in the browser with no desktop install, and the Depo Viewer is a separate offline application for Windows and macOS. Enterprise customers can white label the platform on their own domain with their own SSL certificate and email. A public status page reports uptime and performance for every Threadeo system.
The security page cites ISO 27001, ISO 9001, SOC 2 and PCI DSS compliant data centers. Where the third party AI services behind the summaries process data is not stated.
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 SOC 2 Type 2 examination by Prescient Assurance is complete. The trust center, run on Scytale, lists the report dated 30 October 2025 and a letter of attestation dated 31 October 2025, alongside a 2025 HIPAA completion letter from Scytale. It also shows 40 controls across data, product, access, continuity, organizational and endpoint security. The CEO's announcement of November 2025 names Scytale as the compliance partner.
The report and letters sit behind the trust center's request access flow.
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 summaries are described as AI combined with proprietary analysis, and older transcription pages describe leading speech to text engines combined with proprietary algorithms. The terms say Threadeo uses only third party AI services that do not train on customer data passed to them. Sync's alignment and clip tools are described as proprietary technology, and UltraSync runs on the same engine.
No model or provider 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.
CloudReview Teams costs $199 a month for up to 10 users, plus processing at $0.10 per certified transcript page, $0.25 per minute of synced deposition video and $0.25 per minute of exported clips. It includes a custom subdomain, unlimited collaborators and annotations, caption files in SRT, VTT and SMI, usage reports and priority email support. Enterprise, typically for 50 or more users, is quoted and adds white labeling, phone support, two hours of consulting a month and custom integrations.
Sync and Summaries are sold per job and per transcript with no subscription, seats or contracts. Their rates are given on request, and the Depo Viewer is included with every synced deposition at no charge.
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.
Sync is built for court reporting firms, court reporters and videographers, from solo practitioners to high volume production teams. Summaries serve the same firms, which can offer them to their own clients, and the lawyers who read them. Pages address plaintiff and defense attorneys, public defenders, district attorneys, arbitrators and in house counsel, and CloudReview Teams is offered to court reporting, legal and HR teams.
Summaries cover depositions, arbitrations and trials. Sync handles video and audio only proceedings in MP4, MOV, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, WMV, MP3, AAC, FLAC and WAV, including interpreter jobs.
No jurisdiction or practice area limit is stated.
5 public documents
The public pages on file for Threadeo, 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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threadeo.com/deposition-summaries2 signals
Billing and Fee Posture, Court Disclosure Support
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threadeo.com/terms2 signals
Client Data in Training, Prompt and Output Retention
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threadeo.com/legal-teams1 signal
Ethical Walls and Matter Segregation
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trust.threadeo.com1 signal
Outside Counsel Guideline Readiness
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Fabricated Citation Record
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From $199 per month
- A team of up to 10 people pays $199 a month for CloudReview, plus fees for each page and minute processed.
- Syncing video and making summaries are paid per job, with no subscription.
- The price for a sync job or a summary is only given if you ask.
- Big companies with 50 or more users get a custom price.
Threadeo sells two ways. CloudReview Teams is a monthly plan at $199 for up to 10 users. Processing adds $0.10 per certified transcript page, $0.25 per minute of deposition video synced to its transcript and $0.25 per minute of clips exported for trial presentation. It includes a custom subdomain, unlimited annotations, collaborators and pleadings, caption files and usage reports. Enterprise, typically for 50 or more users, is quoted and adds white labeling, phone and video support, two hours of consulting a month and custom integrations at discounted rates.
Sync is priced per job and Summaries per transcript, with no subscription, seats or contracts, and their rates are given on request. Indefinite hosting of synced jobs and the offline Depo Viewer come with Sync.
The monthly plan renews each month until either side gives notice. The terms offer a 99 percent uptime guarantee with service credits.
Implementation: Not stated. Threadeo's team sets up each Sync customer's branding and environment, and Enterprise includes two hours of consulting a month.
Confidentiality and data terms: HIPAA compliance is stated, and the terms refer to a master service agreement and a data processing addendum, neither of which is published. No business associate agreement is mentioned.
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 published terms prohibit training on customer content. Not a policy page, the agreement.
Section 3.6 of Threadeo's terms, last updated December 2024, states that it does not use customer data to train AI models, including large language models. It adds that Threadeo uses only third party services that do not train their models on customer data it passes to them. The privacy policy of September 2025 repeats that service data trains no AI model and is used only for that client's work. The trust page adds that transcripts are not used to train public models.
The policy defines service data as the video, audio, transcripts and documents a client uploads, and says that data belongs to the client. A separate subscription agreement for monthly plans lets Threadeo keep and share usage information in anonymous or aggregate form for business purposes.
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.
The terms keep customer data for as long as the service requires and guarantee deletion when the customer asks. After termination, data stays available for retrieval for 30 days, export options are offered on request, and the data is then deleted. Sync hosts every job indefinitely by default, as part of the service, with each job viewable at any time from any device. Load file packages and the Depo Viewer package are downloaded to the customer's own systems.
When a monthly plan ends, the subscription agreement requires users to erase anything they downloaded from the platform. Threadeo tests its data backups and restoration. The privacy policy refers to a record retention policy that is not published.
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.
CloudReview keeps its own sharing model. A firm invites partners, associates and paralegals to a transcript, grants edit rights, shares single clips by email and sets who can see each page and line annotation. Each Teams customer works on its own subdomain, and Enterprise customers get a white labeled platform. Role based access control and user access reviews appear among the trust center's controls. Collaborators are notified when an annotation is added and can discuss it in a thread.
Jobs move from a court reporting firm's Sync account to a law firm's CloudReview account rather than by emailed links. Law firms receiving those jobs get free CloudReview accounts with single sign on and two factor authentication.
Third Party Request and Subpoena Notice
If someone subpoenas the vendor for a firm’s data, does the firm hear about it first?
No located term or policy addresses third party requests for customer data.
Neither the terms, the monthly subscription agreement nor the privacy policy addresses requests from courts, law enforcement or other third parties for customer data. Section 3.1 of the terms treats customer data and the output generated from it as confidential information that Threadeo may disclose to no third party except in providing the service. The privacy policy says service data is shared only with vetted subprocessors bound by contract to protect it, and is never sold or used for marketing.
Requests from people named in a deposition go to the client that controls the data. The monthly subscription agreement lets Threadeo suspend access for legal or regulatory reasons or action by authorities, without saying whether the customer is told.
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.
Summaries draw on the transcript the customer uploads. Trial and arbitration summaries include analysis of how laws and precedents apply to the facts, and the source of that law is not named. Arbitration summaries identify the governing law and how it may apply. Sync works only from the certified transcript, video and exhibits the firm supplies. The cross deposition analysis compares the transcripts uploaded for one case. Exhibit summaries in Sync and the Depo Viewer draw on the exhibits a firm links to the transcript.
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.
Citations in Threadeo's output point to a page and line of the uploaded transcript. Where trial and arbitration summaries discuss laws and precedents, they show no check of how later courts treated those authorities. Trial summaries flag the objections and evidentiary rulings that appear in the transcript. Arbitration summaries set out grounds for enforcement, appeal or setting aside, and consolidated trial summaries support appeal preparation across several days.
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.
Summaries are said to be engineered for zero hallucinations, with every statement tied to the uploaded transcript and every chat answer ending in page and line links. No behavior is described for a question that the transcript cannot answer. In Sync, the platform flags QC points for the reporter to review, and UltraSync's team contacts the customer at once if uploaded files have problems.
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 Threadeo. Threadeo's products sync deposition video and summarize deposition, arbitration and trial transcripts for court reporting firms and lawyers.
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.
No bar rule or ethics opinion appears in the terms, product material or blog. The Litigator's Edge podcast interviews trial lawyers about practice and technology, with guests such as Steven Molo and Bob Christie. Threadeo sponsors the podcast, and its CEO hosts it. The CEO's posts discuss the profession's caution about new technology and how AI should fit the way attorneys already work.
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.
Summaries are claimed to cut the time to analysis of a deposition by 80 percent or more, free partner hours for strategy and let a firm take on more cases. Court reporting firms are told they can offer summaries to their clients as a new service. Sync is pitched to those firms as protecting revenue, at direct cost parity with legacy desktop software, and is priced per job so a firm's cost follows its volume. Summaries carry no subscription, so a firm pays only for the transcripts it analyzes. No guidance on billing or client disclosure is published.
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.
Policies on availability, privacy, confidentiality and disaster recovery are offered to customers on demand. The SOC 2 Type 2 report, letter of attestation and HIPAA completion letter come through the trust center's request access flow. Subprocessors are described as vetted and bound by contract, without a list. Anyone can view the trust center's 40 controls and their status, vendor risk management among them. Threadeo's team shares documentation and answers security questions in a consultation.
A designated privacy officer handles data questions, and Threadeo helps clients answer access and deletion requests under its DPA.
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.
Each summary insight cites a page and line, and the side by side view links summary and transcript. Platform activity is logged, and Sync records the QC points on each job. CloudReview exports page and line reports filtered by deponent or issue code to PDF, and any annotation on a synced transcript can become a captioned clip. Summaries come in several styles as DOCX and PDF files. The chat labels each answer's direct reply, analysis, strategic note and citations as separate parts. No per summary record of how it was produced is exported.