Discovery keeps arriving as video, and video is reviewed in real time. That math is brutal for a defense firm. Here is what it actually costs, and what happens when the first pass is done by AI in about a minute.
Careful manual review runs about 1.5x the runtime: watching, pausing, scrubbing back, and taking timestamped notes. A routine felony case with six officers on scene can carry 14 hours of body camera footage. That is a paralegal’s half a week, spent mostly watching nothing happen.
Take that six officer case at a fully loaded paralegal cost of $50 per hour.
| Manual review | With BodyCamAI | |
|---|---|---|
| First pass through 14 hrs of footage | 21.0 hrs of paralegal time | About 1 minute of AI time per video, run in the background |
| Finding the moments that matter | Included above, plus rewatching to relocate them | 0.8 hrs verifying flagged events against the source |
| Memo, clips, and transcript for the attorney | 2.0 hrs assembling notes | 0.3 hrs: one click report export, mark and cut clips |
| Paralegal time | 23.0 hrs | 1.1 hrs |
| Cost at $50/hr | $1,150 | $55 + the $80 monthly plan |
Net result: about $1,000 saved on the first case of the month. The subscription pays for itself before the first coffee refill, and every additional case that month is pure margin. The paralegal did not get faster at watching video; they stopped watching video that contains nothing.
Two sliders: how much footage you receive, and what a paralegal hour costs you.
That is roughly 8.6 paralegal work weeks freed per year for witness prep, records requests, and the motions calendar.
Create the case, attach the charging documents, and add the videos from desktop or Dropbox. AI processing runs in the background while they work on something else.
The AI returns a timestamped timeline: visual events, on-screen text, and defense flags tied to the allegations in the charging documents. Click a flag, watch that moment, confirm or discard.
Export the review report (summary, issues, timeline, transcript) as a Word file, cut the supporting clips, and move to the next case.
Every AI finding links to its source second, so the paralegal’s job shifts from searching to verifying. The attorney still reviews what matters; they just receive it as a memo with timestamps instead of a stack of unwatched video.
No sales call, no card. Process a real case this afternoon and time it yourself.
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