Ethos provides an AI-powered platform that automatically transcribes and analyzes large volumes of audio evidence for law‑enforcement and prosecutorial agencies. It detects threats, code‑words, confessions and inconsistencies, then extracts and tags relevant clips to speed up investigations and case preparation while maintaining evidentiary integrity.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Criminal justice agencies must manually review large volumes of audio recordings such as jail calls, interviews, and body‑worn camera footage, a process that is time‑consuming, prone to human error, and often delays investigations of sensitive crimes.
Solution
Ethos offers an AI‑driven platform that automatically analyzes digital audio evidence to surface relevant content within minutes. The system scans case‑wide recordings to detect criminal activity, threats, code‑word patterns, and inconsistencies, providing investigators with pinpointed incriminating or exculpatory clips. By delivering actionable insights at scale, Ethos accelerates case preparation, supports plea negotiations, and enables real‑time monitoring of ongoing investigations without sacrificing thoroughness. The platform is purpose‑built for law‑enforcement and prosecutorial workflows, integrating seamlessly into existing investigative processes.
Target Audience
Primary customers are prosecutors’ offices, district attorney teams, and law‑enforcement agencies that handle high‑volume audio evidence in investigations of violent and trafficking crimes.
Features
- Advanced natural‑language processing and speech‑to‑text models that identify confessions, threats, coordination cues, and deceptive statements across diverse audio sources
- Automated detection of code‑word patterns and thematic clusters to highlight hidden connections in large case datasets
- Pinpoint extraction and tagging of incriminating versus exculpatory audio segments for rapid review
- Real‑time monitoring capability that alerts analysts to emerging threats during active investigations
- Scalable analysis across case portfolios, supporting domestic violence, human trafficking, homicide, drug trafficking, assault, and other sensitive crime categories
- Secure, encrypted data handling with compliance‑ready storage and audit trails for evidentiary integrity