AiWitness was built on a simple premise: when something happens to you, there should be a record. That record should be tamper-proof. And nobody should be able to make it disappear. That applies in every situation — regardless of who is involved.
AI adoption among legal professionals jumped from 19% in 2023 to 79% in 2025, confirming institutional readiness for AI-powered legal tools. Legal AI specifically is growing at a 31% CAGR. Venture capital in legaltech reached historic highs — $2.34 billion deployed in Q1 2026 alone across 103 deals. The market appetite for legal AI infrastructure is confirmed and accelerating.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics' Police-Public Contact Survey, approximately 49.2 million U.S. residents age 16 or older report face-to-face contact with law enforcement annually. 8% of the population experiences police-initiated contact. Traffic stops are the single most common catalyst. When these encounters go wrong — when rights are violated, when force is excessive, when procedure is not followed — the outcome of any accountability process depends almost entirely on whether there is a record.
A well-documented encounter protects everyone. It protects the civilian who was treated unfairly. It protects the officer who acted correctly. It creates the factual record that accountability requires — and that currently, in most encounters, does not exist.
Racial disparities in police encounters are substantial and documented. Black and Hispanic residents are disproportionately subjected to police-initiated contact, use of force, and search and arrest — disparities that have persisted for decades precisely because most encounters produce no independent record.
The combined adult population of Black Americans (32.8 million) and Hispanic Americans (48.4 million) — the demographics facing the highest documented rates of police-initiated encounters — totals 81.2 million adults. This is the primary addressable population for Rights Mode.
Hispanic Americans represent 18% of those killed by police annually and face a 4% search/arrest rate in traffic stops versus 3% for White drivers. Both Black and Hispanic communities are underserved by existing documentation tools, which are either English-only, non-automated, or post-incident only. AiWitness operates in English and Spanish.
Road rage. Domestic violence. Stalking. Sexual assault. Hate crimes. Trafficking. These are situations where people are harmed, where accountability is demanded, and where the case falls apart because there is no evidence. The FBI reported an estimated 1,221,345 violent crime offenses in 2024 — and acknowledges that most crimes are never reported. Even among reported crimes, prosecution success depends almost entirely on evidence quality. Civil Mode was built for these moments — to create the record that accountability requires, automatically, without asking the person in danger to manage their device while managing their safety.
The CDC estimates 10 million people experience domestic violence annually — 20 people every single minute. The Bureau of Justice Statistics documented more than 1.8 million domestic violence victimizations in 2024 alone. The FBI's 2020–2024 special report documented more than 11,000 domestic violence murder victims and 1.1 million additional victims over that five-year period. Domestic homicides more than doubled from 1,065 in 2019 to 2,339 in 2024. Intimate partners are responsible for nearly 50% of all female homicides. Only about 50% of incidents are ever reported to police. In 2025, an estimated 70% of domestic violence survivors report being monitored through phones, GPS, or social media by their abuser.
How AiWitness helps: When a domestic situation escalates to active threat, Civil Mode automatically documents the encounter, contacts emergency dispatch, alerts witnesses, and builds a tamper-proof evidence record that supports protective orders, criminal charges, and civil proceedings — without the survivor having to manage their phone in a dangerous moment.
RAINN reports over 433,000 cases of sexual assault or rape annually among people ages 12 and older. Every 68 seconds, another American is sexually assaulted. Only 310 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to police — 69% of victims never report. 1 in 5 women have experienced completed or attempted rape during their lifetime. The rape clearance rate — cases that result in arrest — is only 26.7%, according to FBI 2024 data. The estimated lifetime cost of rape is $122,461 per victim when accounting for medical expenses, lost productivity, and criminal justice costs.
How AiWitness helps: When a situation begins to feel threatening — before an assault occurs — Civil Mode activation documents the encounter, the perpetrator, the location, and everything that happens in real time. For escalating threatening encounters in public or semi-public settings, AiWitness creates the automatic real-time record that law enforcement and prosecutors need and that survivors currently have no automatic way to create.
The CDC reports at least 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 20 boys in the US will experience sexual abuse during childhood. Every 9 minutes, the person being sexually assaulted in the US is a child. An estimated 532,228 children were victims of abuse and neglect in 2024. Children's Advocacy Centers investigated 224,520 cases involving sexual abuse allegations in 2025. In 2024, 1,773 children died from abuse and neglect. 90% of child sexual abuse is committed by someone the child knows and trusts. Only 1 in 3 cases are reported. Black and Hispanic children face the highest rates of sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse offenses in federal court increased 33% from FY2021 to FY2025.
How AiWitness helps: When a child is in a public or semi-public situation that is escalating — being followed, approached, threatened — Civil Mode creates a documented record automatically. The platform also equips parents and guardians with evidence-preservation tools for custody disputes and threatening encounters where documentation is critical to a child's safety.
An estimated 7.5 million Americans experience stalking or cyberstalking annually. The CDC 2023/2024 NISVS found 28.8 million women and 11.9 million men have experienced stalking in their lifetimes. Nearly all female stalking victims — 98.7% — felt afraid or threatened. Only 29% report to police. 80% are tracked using technology. 46% of attempted homicide victims and 54% of completed homicide victims had previously reported stalking. 40% are targeted by current or former intimate partners.
How AiWitness helps: Civil Mode creates timestamped documentation of stalking encounters as they happen — building the pattern record courts require for restraining orders and criminal prosecution. The tamper-proof evidence chain is exactly what stalking cases need and what victims currently cannot produce automatically.
82% of US drivers admit to road rage or aggressive driving at least once in the past year. Road rage shooting incidents increased by more than 400% over the past decade. Between 2014 and 2023, 3,095 people were shot in road rage incidents — 777 fatally. In 2023, someone was shot in a road rage incident every 18 hours. 66% of traffic fatalities are caused by aggressive driving (NHTSA). 37% of aggressive driving incidents involve a firearm.
How AiWitness helps: Road rage is the defining Civil Mode scenario — a rapidly escalating threat where the person cannot safely call 911 or operate their device. One voice trigger activates automatic documentation, dispatch contact, and evidence preservation without taking hands off the wheel.
The FBI documented 11,679 hate crime incidents involving 14,243 victims in 2024 — the second highest since tracking began in 1991. 2,413 anti-LGBTQ incidents were tracked. 81% of the 18,800 law enforcement agencies reported zero hate crimes — meaning the true scope is dramatically higher. Anti-Black hate crimes are consistently the most common form of racial hate crime. Hate crimes disproportionately impact the same communities facing the highest rates of police encounter disparities.
How AiWitness helps: Hate crime prosecution requires documentation of bias motivation — the words used, the context, the pattern. Civil Mode creates an automatic real-time record of bias-motivated confrontations essential for both criminal prosecution and civil rights claims. The community witness network means a single hate incident can be corroborated by multiple independent witnesses simultaneously.
More than 68 million US adults — 1 in 4 — experienced sexual harassment or assault in the past year (2024 #MeToo Report, 3,300+ respondents). 73% of women report harassment in public locations — streets, parks, stores, transit. 87% of women and 89% of men never disclosed their experience to anyone. 82% of women and 43% of men report experiencing sexual harassment or assault in their lifetime.
How AiWitness helps: The reason most public harassment goes undisclosed is not that it did not happen — it is that there is no documentation and no accessible reporting structure. Civil Mode creates that structure automatically, preserving a real-time record that supports both reporting and legal proceedings.
The FBI reported 1,221,345 violent crime offenses in 2024 at a rate of 359.1 per 100,000 — the lowest in approximately 20 years, but still representing millions of victims annually. Robbery rate was 60.6 per 100,000. Aggravated assault accounts for over 71% of all violent crime and remained stubbornly elevated even as other categories declined. Carjacking peaked in 2023 at 68% above 2019 levels before declining. The robbery clearance rate — cases that result in arrest — is only 23.2%, according to FBI 2024 data.
How AiWitness helps: Robbery and carjacking are rapid-onset confrontations where the victim cannot safely operate their device. Civil Mode voice activation means documentation begins automatically — capturing the perpetrator, vehicle, GPS location, and everything said — before the victim has any opportunity to act manually.
An estimated 24,000 individuals fell victim to human trafficking within the United States in 2024. DHS agencies made more than 2,500 trafficking-related arrests in FY2024 and supported 914 indictments and 405 convictions. 75% of identified victims were female. Approximately 40% of victims were minors. Prosecutions for human trafficking increased 73% between 2013 and 2023. Every US state reported instances of human trafficking in 2024.
How AiWitness helps: Trafficking situations often involve someone being transported or held against their will. Silent Mode activation contacts dispatch and sends GPS location automatically without any visible action by the victim. The evidence package creates the documentation that law enforcement and prosecutors need to build trafficking cases.
The dominant form of child abduction in the US is parental — the DOJ reported 200,000 cases annually, comprising both domestic and international abductions. Non-family abductions number approximately 58,200 annually under the broad definition. True stranger kidnappings number approximately 100–150 per year and are statistically rare. The more common and legally relevant scenario is custody disputes that turn dangerous — a parent attempting unauthorized removal, threatening confrontations at exchanges, or situations where one parent fears for the child's safety.
How AiWitness helps: In dangerous custody situations, Civil Mode provides automatic documentation and dispatch contact. The evidence package it creates — with GPS, timestamps, audio, and video — is what family court judges, custody evaluators, and law enforcement need to assess and respond to these situations.
These numbers overlap — the same person may face domestic violence, stalking, and hate crimes simultaneously. But combined, they represent a civilian threat market that dwarfs the law enforcement encounter market in raw volume. The personal safety app market is growing at 15.6% CAGR precisely because this demand is real, documented, and growing. What it has lacked is a platform sophisticated enough to address the full scope automatically.
These two scenarios overlap in practice — the same person may face an unjust traffic stop in the morning and a road rage incident in the afternoon. The platform serves both without requiring the user to understand which mode applies. One tool. One mission. Every dangerous situation deserves a record.
| Layer | Model | Pricing Direction | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer (B2C) | Freemium subscription | Free / Mid / Family tiers | Free tier drives network effect and witness base. Paid tiers unlock full AI monitoring, auto-dispatch, and complete evidence packaging. Pricing TBD based on user feedback. |
| Attorney Network (B2B) | Subscription + per-case flat fees | Monthly subscription or per-case flat fee | Attorneys subscribe for access to structured evidence alerts. Per-case fees structured as flat-rate lead generation — designed for compliance with ABA rules in all jurisdictions. California's minority rule permits pure referral arrangements. |
| Institutional (B2B/B2B2G) | Data licensing + API access | Custom pricing | Civil rights organizations license anonymized heat map data. Academic institutions access research APIs. Oversight bodies receive compliance reporting integration. |
These projections are illustrative — not guaranteed outcomes. They are based on comparable platform benchmarks: personal safety apps with real utility report 12–18% free-to-paid conversion rates, significantly above the 2–5% average for general consumer apps. Life360 reached 10 million users by year 3. Citizen reached 4 million users by year 2. At 5 million users by year 5, AiWitness would represent approximately 6% penetration of its 81.2 million primary addressable demographic — a number that requires execution, not just a product.
What getting there actually requires: real API keys active and the platform genuinely protecting people in the field; geographic rollout prioritizing high-density urban markets where both user need and witness network density are highest; attorney network partnerships in place in California, New York, Texas, Illinois, and Georgia before year 2; and a marketing strategy focused on organic community adoption — the same communities that spread Life360 and Citizen through word of mouth. Paid acquisition is secondary to demonstrated utility.
Pricing is not yet finalized. The consumer ARR figures assume a mid-tier subscription in the $9.99/month range. If pricing is set higher or lower based on user feedback, these figures adjust proportionally. The B2B attorney and institutional revenue layer is additive and grows independently of consumer subscription pricing.
| Year | Total Users | Paid Users | Consumer ARR | Total ARR (incl. B2B) | What This Requires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | 100,000 | 10,000 | ~$1.2M | ~$3M | Platform live with real API keys. Organic adoption in 3–5 urban markets. Initial attorney network in CA and NY. |
| Year 2 | 500,000 | 75,000 | ~$9M | ~$15M | Word-of-mouth growth in Black and Hispanic communities. Attorney network active in 5 states. First documented legal wins driving adoption. |
| Year 3 | 1,500,000 | 300,000 | ~$36M | ~$60M | National coverage. Heat map data drives media and advocacy coverage. Institutional data licensing active. Family tier launched. |
| Year 5 | 5,000,000 | 1,000,000 | ~$120M | ~$300M | 6% penetration of primary 81.2M demographic. Attorney network in all 50 states. Phase 2 hardware launched. SDK licensing generating institutional revenue. |
Civil litigation in the US generates over $100 billion annually in the legal services market. Average civil rights settlements where victims had legal representation were $48,800 — versus $19,200 without representation, according to California Civil Rights Department data. Legal representation more than doubled the probability of any payment. The attorney network layer grows in value as the platform's evidence database grows — every documented encounter is a potential qualified legal matter.
Records video and uploads to ACLU servers automatically. Effective for its purpose. No real-time analysis, no witness coordination, no dispatch integration, no structured evidence package. Non-commercial — not a market competitor but a comparison point for what exists.
Several platforms have attempted to build complaint submission and data collection tools. These operate exclusively after an encounter ends. They do not provide real-time protection, documentation, or dispatch integration during an encounter. The most prominent example raised $5M+ but was unable to scale and ceased meaningful operations by 2024.
The dominant body camera and evidence management platform for law enforcement agencies. Revenue $2.8B in 2025, growing 33% annually. This validates the massive market for evidence infrastructure. Axon serves officers and departments — it does not serve the civilian in the encounter. Different customer, same space.
Apps like bSafe, Noonlight, and Citizen Protect offer emergency dispatch connections and location sharing. They serve the civilian threat market well. They do not offer real-time legal information delivery, structured evidence packaging, officer identification, or a community witness network. AiWitness extends into territory none of these platforms cover.
Every new user in an area increases witness network coverage for existing users. Markets that reach critical mass become self-reinforcing — more witnesses means better evidence for everyone.
The anonymized incident map grows more accurate and more valuable as encounters accumulate. Historical location data feeds into dispatch intelligence. The platform gets more useful with every activation.
More documented cases → more attorney partnerships → more legal outcomes → more demonstrated platform value → more subscriptions → more cases. The B2B and B2C layers reinforce each other.
Witnesses become users. Users become advocates. Every encounter where the witness network activates introduces new people to the platform through the act of helping someone else.
Active investors in adjacent spaces in the 2024–2026 cycle include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator — all of whom have led major rounds in legal AI platforms. Impact-first investors including Echoing Green, Village Capital, and Fast Forward specifically target civic accountability and civil rights technology.
ESG frameworks increasingly recognize civil rights violations and use-of-force litigation as material liabilities for institutions. Technologies that establish audit-proof chains of custody and automate civil rights documentation are positioned as compliance infrastructure — a category that institutional capital is actively seeking.
AiWitness does not take sides. It does not position any group as the enemy. It builds the infrastructure that accountability requires — a tamper-proof, automatically preserved, cryptographically verified record of what actually happened.
A well-documented encounter is in everyone's interest. It protects the person who was wronged. It protects the person who acted correctly. It gives oversight bodies the factual foundation they need to make accurate decisions. It gives attorneys the evidence they need to pursue or defend claims. It gives communities the data they need to understand patterns over time.
The economics follow from the mission because the mission serves a real need. The more encounters are documented, the more accountability becomes possible. The more accountability becomes possible, the more valuable the platform becomes — to users, to attorneys, to researchers, to institutions, and to society.
AiWitness generates revenue by building the infrastructure that accountability requires. The mission and the economics are the same force pointing in the same direction.