Axon Draft One alternative for police departments
Turn Axon body-camera footage into police reports faster with CLIPr.
CLIPr turns body-worn camera audio into a searchable evidence workspace and an AI-assisted first draft. The officer reviews, edits and owns the report.
15-minute fit call. Fully subsidized 30-day pilot. No credit card required.
- Start with drag and drop
- Axon Body 3, Body 4 and mixed fleets
- The officer stays the author
- No separate transcription plan
Controlled adoption
Set the Role AI Plays in Every Police Report
CLIPr supports three officer-controlled workflows, giving agencies a practical way to adopt AI within existing policy, review and accountability requirements.
Start with a structured first draft
CLIPr can generate approximately 90% of a structured first draft for the officer to review, edit and approve.
Write manually and fact-check the report
Search the underlying audio or video, jump to the exact moment and confirm details against the source.
Ask for explained AI suggestions
CLIPr identifies and explains possible improvements while preserving the officer's original writing and final decision.
Personalized to the agency and the officer
CLIPr adapts to your agency's preferred report format and learns from each officer's edits and feedback, helping future drafts better match departmental requirements and individual writing style.
What you are actually buying
Compare the complete report-writing workflow, not just the drafting feature
Axon Draft One is part of a broader Axon workflow. CLIPr works as a flexible intelligence and documentation layer across the camera and evidence environment already in use.
| 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.
How it works
CLIPr helps officers write faster,clearer, source-grounded reports
Four focused steps move officers from recorded footage to a report they can review, correct and own.
Start with the cameras already in the field
Drag and drop body-worn or in-car footage from the evidence platform the agency already runs. No dock or camera replacement is required on day one.
- Mixed fleets stay mixed. CLIPr reads Axon Body 3 and Body 4 footage alongside other supported camera platforms.
- The agency sets the rules. Choose which report and video types are processed.
Open the exact exchange the narrative needs
CLIPr breaks the recording into timestamped Question and Answer cards. A reviewer can open one exchange without replaying the whole incident.
- Each card carries its own time range and a route back to the source.
- One exchange comes out cleanly without exporting the whole transcript.
Search the transcript instead of scrubbing the video
Every clip returns with a timestamped transcript synced to the recording. Search a phrase and jump back to the moment it came from.
- Topics and subtopics make longer calls easier to scan.
- Moment markers take reviewers directly to the part they need.
CLIPr drafts. The officer decides what gets filed.
CLIPr sends the officer an AI-assisted first draft. The officer checks it against the recording, corrects it and moves the final report into the agency's RMS.
- Confidence transparency flags words that need the closest review.
- Agency format and dictionary controls reduce repeated corrections.
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.
Author of record
Every CLIPr report stays grounded in the recording and owned by the officer
The tool can shorten the writing. It cannot supply the officer's observations, legal judgment or responsibility for the final narrative.
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.
CLIPr assists with the first draft. The officer remains responsible for reviewing the source, correcting the narrative and submitting the final report under agency policy.
"This is a game changer. We can finally Protect more and Document less using CLIPr's Generative AI."
Police Officer, Bentonville, ARCLIPr reduces report writing time by up to 50%
Searchable transcripts, indexed exchanges and confidence flags reduce the time spent finding and rechecking details. Measure the claim on your own incidents during the pilot.
Side by side
Compare CLIPr and Axon Draft One by the workflow officers will actually use
Focus on source review, camera compatibility, licensing, officer ownership and how each product gets evaluated.
| Ask this |  The drafting layer, on the fleet you already run |  Draft One, by Axon Enterprise, Inc. |
|---|---|---|
| What are we licensing, and what will it cost? | Choose annual per-officer pricing based on observed use or a shared prepaid-minute pool across the agency.
| Draft One is an add-on within the Axon software ecosystem. Agencies evaluate it alongside the Axon Evidence, transcription and response products already in their stack. |
| What fleet and workflow does each require? | Start with drag and drop from the evidence platform already in use.
| Draft One runs through Axon Evidence. It is designed for agencies that manage their playable audio and video inside the Axon workflow. |
| Can the officer verify the draft against the source? | The recording stays beside the work.
| Draft One creates a narrative from media in Axon Evidence. The officer reviews the generated narrative before moving it into the reporting workflow. |
| Who is responsible for the final report? | The officer is the author of record.
| Axon also keeps the officer in the review process. The officer completes the required review before the narrative is approved for use. |
| How can we test the workflow before committing? | Fully subsidized 30-day pilot.
| Axon offers a sales-led evaluation process. Agencies can discuss fit, licensing, implementation and rollout with the Axon team. |
Before you book anything
Choose CLIPr when you want report writing to work beyond a single vendor stack
The native Axon path can be the lower-lift choice for an agency that already licenses the full prerequisite stack. CLIPr is built for agencies that want the report-writing job solved across the fleet.
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.
How a department this size actually buys
Use a Fully Subsidized 30-Day Pilot to Find the Right Fit
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
Two pricing options
Choose annual per-officer pricing based on observed pilot usage or a shared prepaid-minute pool across the agency.
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 days. |
| Officers included | A focused group selected with the agency to produce representative usage data. |
| 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. |
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.
After the fully subsidized 30-day pilot, choose predictable annual per-officer pricing based on observed usage or a shared prepaid-minute pool across the agency.
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.
Turn the footage your officers already capture into faster, source-grounded reports.
Bring your camera platform, RMS and sworn count. In 15 minutes, the team can tell you whether a 30-day pilot fits.
15-minute fit call. Fully subsidized 30-day pilot. No credit card required.