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forenzo.io is live: from the interview room to the prosecutor without a disc

The interview ends at 3:40 in the afternoon. Then somebody burns a disc. Somebody fills out a chain of custody form by hand. The detective needs a copy, the prosecutor needs one in September, and by then nobody is certain which copy is the original.

forenzo.io is live. It is a new Network Ninja product, and it connects to Collaborate, the case management system already running in hundreds of Children’s Advocacy Centers. $29 per interview, $19 with your Collaborate code, and the first three are free.

How it works

Upload the recording. A 90 minute interview is usually back in about fifteen.

  1. Upload. The whole file is fingerprinted on the way in.
  2. Transcribe. Speakers separated, up to five: an interviewer, a child, an interpreter, an advocate.
  3. Index. Key disclosures, topics and follow-up flags, each with a timestamp.
  4. Share. One PIN-protected link per recipient. Nothing to install.

The four stages of the forenzo.io pipeline: upload, hashed with SHA-256 on the server and compared against the browser's own hash; transcribe, with speaker separation for up to five speakers; index, an AI review index returning timestamped key disclosures, topics and follow-up flags; and share, a link with an expiry, opens recorded, no account for the recipient, and a required PIN.

It opens in about a second

Click the recording and it plays. No progress bar, no waiting for a multi-gigabyte file to come down. It streams, so the first frame is there in about a second whether the interview runs twenty minutes or two hours.

Seeking works the same way. Click any line of the transcript and the video is at that second. Not loading toward it. At it. A reviewer who needs the four minutes that matter watches four minutes, and court prep stops being an afternoon of scrubbing with a legal pad.

The Transcript tab of a recording in forenzo.io, showing timestamped lines from 0:00 onward, each labeled with a color-coded speaker, alongside a Search transcript box and tabs for Review, Chain of Custody, AI Review Index, Tags and Documents.

Your detective never creates a login

Neither does your prosecutor, and neither does a reviewer at another center. Every link carries a PIN and an expiry. Set the PIN or let forenzo.io generate one, and send it separately from the link so the two never travel together. Opens are recorded in the access log, which you can read and they cannot. Revoke it and it stops working. What they watch is their own copy, with their name and email, the case number and CONFIDENTIAL burned into the frame rather than drawn over the player. A copy that walks out says who it was made for.

That covers peer review and case review too. Instead of mailing a DVD to a reviewer at another center, you send a link that expires.

The Create Share Link form in forenzo.io, with fields for recipient name, optional email, a 6 to 8 digit PIN, and an expiry of 30 days, plus separate choices to include the AI review index, transcription corrections, video download and case documents.

You start in the case, not in forenzo.io

If your center is on Collaborate, one action from the case hands you off, and the recording comes back attached to that case. You sign in through Collaborate. No second login, no retyped case number.

An API anyone can build against

That handoff is not the only way in. forenzo.io has a documented machine-ingest API, and any recorder or case management system can build against it. It is how a center running something other than Collaborate connects what it already has. Nobody carries a file anywhere.

  • Your system authenticates with a key issued to your center and hands the recording over tagged with your own case number, so it lands in the right case with the child already attached
  • Store your own identifier on it and the record is findable from either side
  • It uploads in parallel parts, each hashed on the way, so a part that drops on a bad connection retries itself instead of restarting the file
  • The server rehashes the whole stored file, not the parts, and a mismatch cancels processing rather than quietly moving a bad file downstream
  • Machine uploads land in the same audit log your team’s clicks do

Ask us for the guide and we will turn the API on for your organization.

Catching what the machine mishears

Transcription runs on AWS Transcribe. On a child speaking at the edge of audible, any engine writes down a guess. What separates platforms is what happens next.

Click a segment and you get every reading the engine considered, with its confidence. Below, it offers four and every one is wrong. That is what Write-in is for, and why a person who knows the vocabulary does the review. Your correction is stored beside the original, never over it.

The alternatives menu open on a transcript segment in forenzo.io, headed "Choose or write the correct text." Four readings of the same sentence are listed, differing in one word: Nisa marked original at 95 percent, then Nissa, NSA and NEA at 94 percent each, with a Write-in option below them.

What it leaves behind

A SHA-256 hash at upload, and an access log that records views, tags, corrections and speaker renames, with the person and the timestamp to the second on every row. Nothing in it can be changed afterward, including by us: the database rejects any attempt to update or delete a row. Ask it to re-verify years later, before you rely on that file in a proceeding, and it re-reads the stored file and re-attests.

An animated scroll through the Access Log of a recording in forenzo.io, headed "Showing 50 of 145 total entries," with each view, acknowledgment, correction, speaker rename and tag creation on its own row with a timestamp to the second.

If you ever leave, you take all of it: every case, recording, transcript, correction and audit entry in one export, each file hashed, with a root hash over the bundle so whoever receives it can confirm nothing was altered without contacting us.

CJIS Security Policy v6.0, mapped control by control, and we send the whole matrix rather than a summary. The HIPAA Business Associate Agreement is signable in the product. Network Ninja is SOC 2 certified at the company level and Collaborate at the product level, both by third-party audit.

The first three interviews are free at forenzo.io. Contact us for a demo if your center pays by check, or your state chapter is buying for its members.

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