A Clinical-Grade QC Assistant for
Court Reporters

Stop choosing between formatting perfection and verbatim accuracy. Thetical is engineered to audit rigid layout statutes while preserving the sanctity of the spoken legal record.

Our Commitment to Ethics and the Record

"AI may be used only to support the stenographic reporter’s work and not to generate the record. Permissible uses could include technical research and/or clarification of spelling and vocabulary. AI may not be used to create transcripts or captions in place of stenographic capture." — NCRA COPE Guidance

We unequivocally support the NCRA's vision and their ethical guidelines on the use of AI in court reporting.

Supported Jurisdictions & Standards

Thetical Cortex™ is designed to dynamically adapt to the specific formatting and semantic rules of each jurisdiction.

Currently enforcing Michigan (SCAO) only. Beta and roadmap jurisdictions can be pre-selected in your account settings, but uploaded transcripts are processed under the Michigan rule set until each jurisdiction is officially released. Read the full jurisdiction disclosure →

Currently Supported

  • Michigan (SCAO)

In Beta

  • Federal / NCRA
  • California (CRB)
  • Texas (JBCC)

Future Support

  • Illinois
  • New York
  • Florida
  • New Jersey

Active QC Capabilities

1. Dynamic Multi-Jurisdictional Gating

Standard AI proofreaders operate on a single set of generic assumptions. Thetical features Just-In-Time (JIT) State-Node Injection that dynamically customizes its audit rules based on your transcript's home jurisdiction.

  • Dynamic Rule Layering: The engine successfully targets the layout structures of 8 major states, dynamically applying Prioritized State Rules over the Universal NCRA Baseline.

2. Downstream "Verbatim Shield"

In court reporting, altering spoken testimony is legal malpractice. Thetical is engineered with a downstream Verbatim Shield designed to prevent styling modifications on spoken dialogue.

  • The Multi-Agent "Critic-Verifier" Loop: Our proofreading pass is bifurcated. Agent 1 identifies potential layout and spelling errors, but Agent 2 operates as a defensive filter.
  • Zero-Alteration Dialect Gating: If a witness uses spoken grammatical slips ("I seen"), regional slang, or natural stutters, the Verbatim Critic vetoes the edit, helping preserve the literal record.

3. Deterministic Spatial & Format Auditing

Thetical performs a deterministic, space-by-space structural audit against local statutory guidelines to flag potential formatting anomalies.

  • Line-Level Isolation Buffering: Utilizes isolated line-level buffering to restrict suggestions to individual lines, significantly mitigating visual cascading.
  • Rogue Suffix Spacing: Identifies mechanical CAT-software spacing glitches (e.g., "dba' d") and flag-tests compound adjective hyphenation before nouns (e.g., "break-even operation").

4. Contextual Steno & Keyboard Auditing

The semantic pass identifies correctly spelled dictionary words that represent steno key-slips.

  • Fractional Translation: Catching "30 a third percent" and suggesting "33 1/3 percent".
  • Phonetic Abbreviation Drift: Flagging "VIP of finance" instead of "VP of finance" in corporate contexts.

5. Speaker-Gated Interrogative Transitions

The attorney-syntax scanner correctly identifies framing clauses followed by embedded questions and suggests necessary, standard legal punctuation, strictly bypassing witness testimony.