StenoDesk started with a simple frustration: the business of court reporting was scattered across a spreadsheet, a billing calculator, an email inbox, and a stack of file folders. None of it talked to each other.
Court reporters and scopists are some of the most organized professionals around, because they have to be. A single job touches an agency rate sheet, a deadline, a cast of parties and counsel, a glossary of names and terms, a proofing pass, and an invoice. Most reporters run all of that by hand, across tools that were never meant to work together.
StenoDesk brings it into one place. Create a job once, and the workflow, the calendar, the files, the proofing, and the billing line up behind it. The cast of characters you capture for the appearance page is the same cast that feeds your glossary and your dictionary. The rate sheet you set up once turns every finished job into an invoice. Nothing gets entered twice.
Independent court reporters and scopists who run their own book of business, plus the agencies and firms that coordinate many of them. If you have ever lost an evening to billing math, re-typed a witness name into three different documents, or chased a payment you forgot to send, this was built for you.
We build in close partnership with working reporters. Features come from real jobs and real frustrations, and the proofing methodology is grounded in how careful reporters actually proof, not in a generic editing tool. We would rather ship one thing that fits the work than ten things that almost do.
StenoDesk is in private beta. It is free to use while we build it with the reporters who join early, and beta members keep a founding-member rate when pricing turns on. If that sounds like your kind of tool, we would love to have you in.