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Changes to the engine and the app, newest first.

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    Word and RTF copies, and errata sheets

    • Transcripts rendered from today can be downloaded as a Word (DOCX) and a Rich Text (RTF) file once unlocked, with the transcript's page and line numbers, its page breaks, the word index and the exhibit index. Each file is read back and compared with your transcript before it is offered. For a transcript rendered earlier, re-render it (free) to get them.
    • The order form adds an errata sheet when the transcript states that the witness reserved reading and signing and has no errata page of its own. You can add or remove it, and pick the wording: generic or a draft state template (California, Texas, New York, Florida) that you review before use.
    • The errata sheet, the witness declaration and a short reporter's note are added after the transcript (after the certificate and any pages that follow it). The testimony and the certificate are never changed.
    • On a re-render you can attach the witness's signed errata as a scan; it is added after the transcript. Re-renders stay free.
    • Repository publications can include the Word and RTF files. They are never password-protected, so they cannot go in a read-only publication, or in any publication when your organization delivers protected copies only.
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    Teams, branding and Agency plans

    • Invite teammates by email. Agency plans add the producer, reporter and viewer roles to owner and admin; ownership can be transferred.
    • Brand profiles: your firm block, cover name, logo and layout, with a preview on a sample transcript.
    • Order templates save your usual options, and each member can pick a default.
    • Upload a batch of ASCII files at once, and group your transcripts by case number.
    • Agency 250 and Agency 1,000 can be bought in the app, monthly or annually, with introductory prices.
    • On Agency plans, owners and admins see 30 days of team and branding changes in an audit log.
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    Ordering, sharing and review in the app

    • Upload the ASCII export, exhibits and signatures in one order. Uploads resume if your connection drops.
    • Browse and search your transcripts, and preview each edition in the browser.
    • Share the finished PDFs with an attorney through a link that expires (at most 30 days) and can be revoked.
    • If a transcript is held for review, you see why, and you can send it to our team to look at.
    • Delete a transcript at any time; its files are purged at once.
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    Plans, free previews and founding prices

    • Every transcript starts with a free preview of both editions, stamped PREVIEW. Unlock it to download the clean PDFs; that is when it counts against your plan, once.
    • The Free plan includes 2 transcripts with clean PDFs and no card. Starter, Unlimited and Agency plans are available monthly or annually, with two months free on annual plans.
    • A transcript that needs review, is rejected or fails is never charged.
    • Early subscribers get founding prices, 40% off list for as long as they stay subscribed.
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    Rendering in the background, with live progress

    Transcripts now build in the background on Google Cloud, so a large set of exhibits never ties up your browser.

    • You see each stage as it runs: reading the transcript, building each edition, merging exhibits and checking the result.
    • We email you when the PDFs are ready, or when a transcript needs a look.
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    A new transcript engine

    We rebuilt how a transcript is read and laid out.

    • The reader takes the ASCII (page image) export as your CAT software writes it: pages, line numbers, timestamps, speakers, exhibit markings, the certificate and errata pages.
    • Both editions come from one engine: the full-size transcript and the familiar four-pages-per-sheet condensed layout, each with a cover and a word index.
    • Exhibits are appended to the PDF and every mention links to them, so the links work in Acrobat, Preview, Chrome and Firefox, and the exhibits print.
    • Every PDF is read back and compared with your transcript before it is released. A damaged export is held as Needs review instead of becoming a PDF with missing lines.