Axon Draft One alternative, for law enforcement agencies
The Axon Draft One alternative that does not need the rest of the stack
Draft One is an add-on that needs three more Axon licenses. CLIPr drafts from the recordings you already have.
15-minute fit call. Free 30 to 90 day pilot for up to 50 officers, subject to approval. No credit card required.- CJIS Security Policy-aligned
- SOC 2 compliant architecture
- 6 U.S. patents, CLIPr-stated
- Reads Axon Body 3 and Body 4 footage
What you are actually buying
What has to be on the invoice before Draft One writes a line
This is the list from Axon's own Draft One help documentation, transcribed with its access date. It is not our reading of their pricing, and there is no inference in it.
| The product itself | The Draft One add-on. |
| Plus a transcription plan | An Unlimited Auto-Transcribe plan. This is the same Auto Transcribe that agencies search for on its own. |
| Plus a response product | Axon Respond+. |
| Plus an evidence tier, per user | Axon Evidence Pro licenses for individual users. |
| Language coverage | Axon's FAQ states Draft One is currently supported in English only, with mixed English and Spanish beta testing underway. |
| Getting the narrative out | Transfer to a records management system (RMS) that is not Axon's is documented as a copy to clipboard operation from Axon Evidence, not a direct integration. |
What CLIPr needs on day one
A recording and a browser. There is no prerequisite license to buy first, no transcription plan to hold separately, and no dock to install before the first report.
Confirm your exact camera, export format and evidence platform during evaluation. CLIPr works across mixed fleets, and that is a compatibility question worth settling on real files rather than on a compatibility page.
Prerequisites, English-only support and the clipboard transfer path all come from Axon's published Draft One help pages, last modified 17 July 2026 and re-verified 2026-08-09. Axon's pages are cited by name rather than linked.
How it works
What happens between the end of shift and the filed report
Four steps. The first one needs nothing you do not already own, and the last one is the officer.
Drag and drop what you already recorded
Upload audio or video from the body-worn camera platform you already run. CLIPr reads Axon Body 3 and Axon Body 4 footage the agency already records, and it works across mixed fleets.
Departments choose which video types get processed automatically, so you can start with the report types you care about and widen from there.
What it takes to start
A recording and a browser. No new camera, no dock on day one, and no evidence tier to upgrade before the first draft exists.
Confirm your exact camera, export format and evidence platform during evaluation.
Questions and answers are indexed as you go
Footage arrives pre-indexed into timestamped Question and Answer cards down the right rail, each carrying its own time range and its own download control.
A supervisor checking one exchange pulls that exchange. Nobody has to sit through the recording again to find it.
The call is broken into named segments
A Topics Index breaks the recording into named topic and subtopic segments, each with its own time range, and the timeline carries color-coded moment markers alongside an Add a Moment control.
Reviewers jump by marked moment instead of scrubbing through the recording.
CLIPr drafts. The officer reviews, edits and owns it.
CLIPr drafts the report and emails the officer when it is ready for review. The officer reads it against the footage, corrects it, and copies the finished report into the agency's RMS.
A department admin can train CLIPr on the agency's own report format, and a CLIPr dictionary corrects repeated errors so they do not recur on later reports.
The draft is a starting point, not a filing
Output is an AI-assisted first draft, never a finished or filed report. Nothing leaves CLIPr as a completed document, and nothing is submitted without an officer reading it.
Auto Transcribe, folded in
Transcription is a separate line item on one side and step one on the other
Axon Auto Transcribe is a plan agencies have to hold before Draft One will run at all. In CLIPr the transcript is not a purchase. It is the first thing the recording turns into.
What the transcript gives you before anything is drafted
Every clip comes back with a timestamped, searchable transcript synced to the video. There is a search field inside the transcript, a jump to current control, and a download control on the panel.
That transcript feeds the Question and Answer index and the Topics Index, and then it feeds the draft. One upload, one pass, one place to check the wording against the audio.
Two honest limits before you compare transcription
CLIPr does not produce a certified transcript. If a certified transcript is what the case needs, a court transcription vendor is the right purchase, not this one.
CLIPr does not publish a transcription accuracy figure, and this page will not invent one. Run your own accents, your own radio traffic and your own scene noise through it during the pilot.
Draft One's Unlimited Auto-Transcribe requirement and its English-only support are stated on Axon's Draft One help pages, last modified 17 July 2026, re-verified 2026-08-09. Axon's comparison asset separately states that transcription is ready within five minutes of recording completion (accessed 2026-08-09). CLIPr transcript features are described from the product interface, verified 2026-08-09.
Author of record
The question those offices asked first is who wrote it
The pauses that have actually happened in this category came from prosecutors and chief state's attorneys. Authorship and the draft record are what those offices asked about.
How authorship works in CLIPr
The officer reviews, edits and owns the final report.
- The officer is the author of record. CLIPr produces a draft. The officer reads it against the recording, corrects it, and is the person who signs and submits.
- The output is an AI-assisted first draft. It is never a finished or filed report, and it is never described as one on this page.
- The tool assists, it does not decide. AI does not supply observations, sensory detail, training-based inference, legal judgment, probable cause or credibility findings. Those stay with the officer.
- The agency sets the policy. Departments choose which video types are processed automatically, and a department admin trains CLIPr on the agency's own report format.
Several states now require agencies to disclose when AI assisted in drafting a record. California SB 524 and Utah SB 180 are the two worth reading before you write your policy. Bring your prosecutor into the pilot rather than after it.
The draft-retention question, with the record as it stands
In July 2025 the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported that original and edited drafts were not retained in the Draft One workflow it reviewed, and raised authorship and audit concerns. That finding has since been partly overtaken: Axon's current help documentation describes configurable retention of original drafts, off by default. Both halves belong in the same sentence or neither is accurate.
Earlier, in September 2024, the King County prosecuting attorney's office told police chiefs it would not accept AI-assisted narratives, citing retention and authorship. On 20 April 2026 Connecticut's chief state's attorney paused statewide use of AI programs to draft, author or narrate criminal reports.
CLIPr has not published a draft-retention or audit-export specification, so this page does not claim one. Ask us for the answer in writing, and ask every vendor on your shortlist the same question in the same words.
What the independent record shows about time saved
Reporting by Forbes on 22 July 2026, drawn from public records, found that Manchester NH PD discontinued Draft One in 2024 and Anchorage AK stopped citing zero time savings. About half of Manchester officers surveyed for that reporting believed it helped.
Axon's response is part of the record too. A spokesperson told Forbes that the 2024 Manchester study reflected an older version and that AI capabilities and Draft One have evolved significantly. A comparison page that leaves out the vendor's answer is not an honest one.
"This is a game changer. We can finally Protect more and Document less using CLIPr's Generative AI."
Police Officer, Bentonville, ARMeasure it on your own reports before you sign anything
CLIPr publishes a reduction in report writing time of up to 50%. Given how inconsistent the independent findings above are, treat every vendor number as a hypothesis and test it on your own reports during the pilot.
Side by side
What is actually different between CLIPr and Axon Draft One
Every Draft One fact below comes from Axon's own published documentation or from named third-party reporting, with the access date attached. Nothing here is inferred, and nothing is characterized.
| What you are comparing |  The drafting layer, on the fleet you already run |  Draft One, by Axon Enterprise, Inc. |
|---|---|---|
| What you have to license | One product.
| Four licenses before a first draft exists:
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| Ecosystem and term | Drag and drop from the camera platform you already run.
| Any playable audio or video already in Axon Evidence, not only Axon-camera footage.
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| Transcription | Included in the same pass.
| An Unlimited Auto-Transcribe plan is a prerequisite, not an included feature.
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| Authorship and the draft record | The officer reviews, edits and owns the final report.
| Mandatory officer review and sign-off, per Axon's comparison asset.
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| How you try it, and what it costs | Free 30 to 90 day pilot for up to 50 officers.
| No public price.
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| Where each fits | If you want the report-writing job solved on the cameras and RMS you already have, without adding three licenses to get there, that is the job CLIPr does. | Already all-in on Axon Evidence? If you also license Unlimited Auto-Transcribe, Respond+ and Evidence Pro, Draft One is the lower-lift path and we would say so.Axon also runs a trust center and documented usage reporting. |
Axon's Draft One product page, help documentation and comparison asset, all accessed 2026-08-09, are cited by name rather than linked. Third-party sources: Forbes, 22 July 2026; EFF, 10 July 2025; Police1 on the Connecticut pause, 20 April 2026; College Station TX council agenda packet, 25 June 2026.
Before you book anything
Who this is for, and who should stay where they are
Read this first and skip the call if it is not a fit.
CLIPr fits when
- You want the report-writing job priced on its own, not as an add-on that pulls three other licenses with it.
- You run a mixed fleet, or you run Axon cameras but do not hold the full evidence and response stack.
- You want the officer to stay the author of record on every report that gets filed.
- You are being quoted a multi-year term and would rather measure the value inside one fiscal year first.
Probably not your tool when
- Your agency is already all-in on Axon Evidence and already licenses Unlimited Auto-Transcribe, Respond+ and Evidence Pro. Inside that stack, the native tool is the lower-lift path.
- You are shopping for an RMS, computer-aided dispatch (CAD), a digital evidence management system (DEMS) or body-camera hardware. CLIPr is none of those.
- You need a certified transcript. CLIPr does not produce one.
- You want something that files the report without an officer reading it. That is not what this is.
CLIPr states it is actively used by law enforcement agencies across the U.S. Agency size sets the size of the pilot cadre, not whether CLIPr fits.
How a department this size actually buys
Most agencies here do not run an RFP, and they should not have to
Nine in ten US police departments have fewer than 100 sworn officers. The buying motion that fits them is a signature and a pilot, not the 74-month term that appears on the one public negotiated quote in evidence.
The math
Usage, not headcount
There is no per-officer license. Pricing adapts to actual utilization, and CLIPr's published position is that underutilized capacity carries forward to the next budget year. Ask for the annual total, not a seat price.
The term
Ask what you are signing for
The only public Draft One quote in evidence runs 74 months. Whatever you buy, put the term, the renewal and the exit next to the price before the number gets approved.
The timing
A pilot fits inside the current fiscal year
Thirty to ninety days is enough to produce your own measurement before the budget conversation, instead of asking for money against a vendor's number.
| Duration | 30 to 90 days. |
| Officers included | Up to 50 officers. The pilot cadre is usually smaller and scaled to the agency. |
| Cost | Free. No credit card required. |
| What you need | Recordings from the cameras you already run, and officers who will use the review step. |
| How it starts | A 15-minute fit call, then pilot setup, subject to approval. |
Agency-size figure: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Local Police Departments Personnel, 2020 (NCJ 305187). Pilot terms as published by CLIPr, verified 2026-08-09. The 74-month term is from the College Station TX agenda packet linked above.
Questions agencies ask on the call
The five that come up every time
No. Keep the cameras. CLIPr reads Axon Body 3 and Axon Body 4 footage the agency already records, and it works across mixed fleets, so a department running two or three brands does not have to pick one first.
Confirm your exact camera, export format and evidence platform during evaluation rather than assuming it from a compatibility list.
Axon's own Draft One documentation lists an Unlimited Auto-Transcribe plan as a requirement, alongside Axon Respond+ and Axon Evidence Pro licenses for individual users. That page was last modified 17 July 2026 and re-verified on 2026-08-09.
In CLIPr the transcript is not a separate plan. It is what the recording becomes on the way to the draft, in the same pass.
CLIPr has not published a draft-retention or audit-export specification, so this page will not claim one. Ask for the answer in writing before the pilot, and ask every vendor on your list the same question in the same words.
It is a reasonable thing to insist on. Retention and authorship are exactly what the King County prosecuting attorney's office raised in 2024 and what Connecticut's chief state's attorney cited in April 2026.
CLIPr does not publish subscription pricing for police report automation. The model is usage-based rather than per-officer, and CLIPr's published position is that underutilized capacity carries forward to the next budget year.
Run the pilot, then price the annual total against your own recorded volume rather than against a sworn headcount.
Based on the offices that have already weighed in, three things: who is the author of record, whether the officer reviewed the source recording, and what the agency's disclosure policy says.
California SB 524 and Utah SB 180 both address disclosure when AI assists in drafting a record. Bring your prosecutor into the pilot rather than after it.
Price the report-writing job on its own
Fifteen minutes is enough to tell whether a pilot makes sense for your agency. Bring your camera platform, your RMS and your sworn count.
15-minute fit call. Free 30 to 90 day pilot for up to 50 officers, subject to approval. No credit card required.There is a separate self-serve route. If your department has fewer than 50 sworn officers and recently upgraded, or is about to upgrade, its mobile data terminals (MDTs) through a reseller partner, you qualify for a self-serve 30-day trial at app.clipr.ai/agencysignup. Every other agency should use the fit call above.