Founded by Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove, JusticeText automates transcription and review of body cam footage, interrogation videos and other recorded discovery for public defenders. The platform provides time-stamped notes, video clipping and sharing, several-sentence summaries for transcripts above a confidence threshold, and a ChatGPT-powered tool called MirandaAI for free-form Q&A about discovery. JusticeText also offers redaction tools and stores data on secure cloud servers with encryption in transit and at rest; it does not use uploaded data for model training without explicit permission. The company reports relationships with over 100 public defender agencies, nonprofit service providers and private criminal defense firms, including statewide public defender systems in Massachusetts and Kentucky, and $1 million in annual recurring revenue. Management cites concerns about transcription accuracy across accents and languages and is prioritizing privacy safeguards and confidence thresholds to mitigate those risks. Near-term product plans include adding Spanish-to-English translation and support for multi-language recordings, and the team plans to grow from seven employees to around ten in the coming year. JusticeText’s core product automatically transcribes criminal evidence video, making footage searchable by keywords and attributes such as weapons, drugs and crimes so attorneys can quickly assemble clips for hearings and trials. The platform stores, catalogs and analyzes video evidence and is specifically geared toward public defenders and criminal defense attorneys. The company reports working with 50 public defender offices and roughly 60 private criminal defense attorneys. Launched in 2019 by Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones‑Dove, JusticeText aims to surface critical insights from video evidence in minutes to improve judicial outcomes for low‑income defendants. The startup plans to continue building advanced natural language processing capabilities and to expand its sales, marketing and communications teams. It recently closed a seed fundraise to support those initiatives.

Total raised

$5M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Sep 2023