Truleo alternative, for law enforcement agencies
If you came to Truleo for the report drafting, that is the whole of CLIPr's job
Truleo now leads with case intelligence. CLIPr does one thing: camera audio turned into a report narrative.
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
- Usage-based, no per-officer license
Said plainly, first
Four things Truleo does well that this page is not arguing with
A comparison page that pretends the other product is bad is not worth reading. Here is what they publish, transcribed with its access date, before anything else on this page.
Published pricing
Numbers on the page
Patrol at $50, Investigations at $200 and Command at $250 per user per month, plus $100 per month per connected application. CLIPr does not publish subscription pricing for police report automation.
A documented trial
Generous, and written down
Their FAQ describes a 60-day trial with full access, extendable by another 60 days once a connector is installed. That is a real offer, not a demo request.
A detailed security page
Named state approvals
It cites a Texas RAMP certificate and an Arizona DPS approval letter, and states a 60-day automatic data deletion default. Named approvals beat badges.
Funding content
The best answer to "no budget line"
They publish a walkthrough of how an agency funds a purchase like this. CLIPr has no equivalent page.
Truleo's pricing page, FAQ, security page and funding page, all accessed 2026-08-09, are cited by name rather than linked. Their review and sign-off workflow has also been written up by the DOJ COPS Office. The rest of this page is about one narrow question: what happens if report drafting is the only job you are buying for.
How it works
What happens between the end of shift and the filed report
Four steps. Nothing gets installed on your network to run the first one, and the last one is the officer.
Drag and drop the footage
Upload audio or video from the body-worn camera platform you already run. There is no on-premise agent to install, no dock on day one and no camera to swap out.
Departments choose which video types get processed automatically, so you can start with the report types you care about and widen later.
What it takes to start
A recording and a browser. CLIPr works across mixed fleets, so a department running two or three camera brands does not have to standardize first.
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, each carrying its own time range and its own download control.
Pull the exchange you need without watching the whole recording again, and search inside the transcript for the wording you half remember.
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.
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.
The unit you pay by
Per-user pricing scales with headcount. Usage-based pricing scales with volume.
The argument here is about the unit, not about the number. Below is arithmetic on Truleo's own published list tiers for a 60-officer agency, so you can put the same shape of math against your own roster.
| 60 sworn on Patrol, where report writing sits | $50 per user per month. $3,000 a month, $36,000 a year. |
| 4 detectives on Investigations | $200 per user per month. $800 a month, $9,600 a year. |
| 2 connected applications | $100 per month each. $200 a month, $2,400 a year. |
| Annual total at list | $48,000, billed against the badge count rather than against what got processed. |
| Body-worn camera analysis and redaction | Sits in the Command tier at $250 per user per month, a separate decision from report writing. |
What changes when the unit changes
CLIPr has no per-officer license. Pricing adapts to actual utilization, and CLIPr's published position is that if you underutilize, it carries forward to the next budget year.
Before your next renewal, count how many of your sworn actually file the bulk of the narratives. If that number is well under your badge count, the unit you are paying by is the thing to renegotiate, whoever you buy from.
Tier prices, connector pricing and the placement of report writing in Patrol and of camera analysis in Command are transcribed from Truleo's published pricing page, accessed 2026-08-09, and cited by name rather than linked. The totals above are our arithmetic on those list prices, not a quote, and they assume every sworn officer is licensed. Truleo states there are no license minimums, so a smaller cadre costs less. CLIPr does not publish subscription pricing for police report automation.
Author of record
A drafting tool and a behavior-analysis tool are different objects politically
One helps an officer write the thing they were going to write anyway. The other reads what the officer said and scores it. Your association will treat those two purchases very differently, and so will your officers.
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 from the recording. The officer reads it against the footage, corrects it, and is the person who signs and submits.
- Nothing here scores an officer. CLIPr indexes what was said so it can be found and drafted from. It does not rate conduct, rank performance or produce a professionalism metric.
- 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 2023 record, dated and left as it stands
The two contract terminations found in this research both followed union campaigns, and both were about analysis of officer behavior rather than about report drafting. Seattle ended its agreement on 7 February 2023, weeks after renewing a two-year, $400,000 contract, with the police union's president publicly describing the program as spying on officers. Vallejo's chief ended the city's body-camera analysis contract under union pressure that July.
That is 2023, and it is about the analysis product, not the drafting one. It is on this page because it is the reason to be precise about which of the two you are actually putting in front of your association.
"This is a game changer. We can finally Protect more and Document less using CLIPr's Generative AI."
Police Officer, Bentonville, ARRun it on your own incidents before you decide anything
CLIPr publishes a reduction in report writing time of up to 50%. Independent research on AI report drafting has not consistently found time savings, so measure it on your own reports during the pilot rather than taking any vendor's number on faith.
Side by side
What is actually different between CLIPr and Truleo
Every Truleo fact below comes from their own published pages or from named news 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 |  TRULEO, Inc. |
|---|---|---|
| The core job | Body-worn camera audio becomes a transcript, an index and a first draft the officer owns.
| Positioned as case intelligence and AI agents for departments.
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| Report drafting | One upload produces all four outputs in the same pass:
| Their Patrol page markets a talk-or-type input with tailored prompts and attached media.
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| Authorship and review | The officer reviews, edits and owns the final report.
| Their review and sign-off workflow has been written up by the DOJ COPS Office.
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| Pricing model | Usage-based, no per-officer license.
| Published per-user tiers (verified Aug 2026):
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| How you start, and how you try it | Drag and drop in a browser.
| An on-premise agent installed by department IT, typically within one day per their FAQ.
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| Where each fits | If the thing eating your shift is the narrative box, and you want the officer to stay its author, that is the job CLIPr does. | A broader intelligence platform. If you want search across databases, jail calls, phones and plates, or body-worn camera analysis and redaction, that is what they market.CLIPr does not do any of it. |
How to read any CJIS claim on this page, including ours
There is no vendor certification program for the CJIS Security Policy. Alignment is specific to an agency and to a deployment, which is why careful vendors word it carefully and why a confident badge is not evidence of anything.
Ask every vendor on your list for the same four things in writing: any state CJIS systems agency approval letter and the deployment scope it covers, the subprocessor list, the signed data processing agreement, and the retention and deletion defaults. Then compare the paper, not the page.
Truleo's homepage, pricing page, Patrol page, security page and FAQ, all accessed 2026-08-09, are cited by name rather than linked, as is their live search ad from the Google Ads Transparency Center on the same date. News sources: Axios Seattle, 14 February 2023; Open Vallejo, 9 July 2023.
Before you book anything
Who this is for, and who should stay where they are
There are two different people searching for a Truleo alternative and only one of them should be on this page. Read this before you spend fifteen minutes on a call.
CLIPr fits when
- Report drafting is the job you are buying for, and the rest of the intelligence surface is not on your list.
- You are paying per seat for officers who barely file narratives, and you want the annual total priced against volume instead.
- You want the officer to stay the author of record on every report that gets filed.
- You would rather not install another agent on the department network to get started.
Probably not your tool when
- You want body-worn camera behavior analysis or professionalism review. CLIPr does not do those, and the vendors that do are the right call.
- You want OSINT search, jail-call intelligence, phone or license plate analysis, or automated interviews across your databases.
- 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, or you want something that files the report without an officer reading it.
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 a twelve-month procurement.
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 path
No RFP needed in most cases
At this size the purchase usually sits under a chief's or sheriff's signing authority. Run the pilot first, then price the annual total against a number you have already measured yourself.
The paperwork
Bring the requirements to the call
If the money is coming from a grant or a cooperative vehicle, bring what that program needs from a vendor to the fit call, and we will tell you straight away what we can and cannot supply.
| 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.
Questions agencies ask on the call
The five that come up every time
No. Report writing is still listed in their Patrol tier, and their live search ad on 2026-08-09 still led with reducing police report time. What changed is the top of the funnel: their homepage now leads with case intelligence for investigators.
Both things are true at once, which is why a lot of people arriving at this page are surprised by the site they just left.
No. CLIPr does not analyze or score officer behavior, does not run professionalism review and does not redact video as part of the report workflow on this page. If that is the capability you are replacing, this is the wrong vendor and we will say so on the call.
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 badge count.
Nobody can promise you how your association will react. What we can tell you is that the disputes on the public record in this category, in Seattle and Vallejo in 2023, were about software that analyzed officer behavior, not about software that drafts a narrative the officer then rewrites and signs.
Put the distinction in front of them early, in writing, and let them see the review step before the pilot starts rather than after.
Retention and deletion defaults first, against your own statutory retention and any legal hold. Truleo publishes a 60-day automatic deletion default, for example, which is a fine default and a real thing to reconcile with your schedule.
Then the subprocessor list, the signed data processing agreement, any state approval letter and the scope it covers, and the term and exit on the contract. Ask us for the same four and hold us to the same standard.
Buy the job you actually have
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.