Brief One

Overview

Brief One is a Gen AI-powered evidence summary, review, and analysis tool that helps attorneys and law enforcement save time.

Brief One provides concise evidence summaries with ethical safeguards backed by the source evidence. If more details are required, Brief One helps you quickly see a timeline of key transcript moments. You can select a key transcript moment and supporting details to instantlygo to the corresponding point in the evidence for fast review.

Access to Brief One depends on your organization's plan:

  • Brief One is included with Justice Premier Plus for Axon Justice Users.
  • Reach out to your Axon representative to access this AI product feature.
Note

If the audio is too short, an AI generated summary may not show as a result.

AI evidence summaries

AI evidence summaries automatically generate a concise narrative summary (less than 150 words), capturing key details from the evidence for supported evidence types. You can generate an AI summary for evidence that has already been uploaded by selecting Generate Summary.

  • Audio and video: A summary is generated from the transcript.
  • Images and documents: A summary is generated from the content of the file.

View AI evidence summaries in the Justice review mode

In the Justice reviewer, you can view AI summaries from either of these two locations:

  • Overview tab
  • Transcript tab

Before you begin

Open the evidence in Review mode. The Justice reviewer opens to the Overview tab.

Overview tab

Under Transcript, in the Transcript Summary card, select Show more to expand the summary, or Show less to collapse it.

Overview tab showing the transcript summary card highlighted.

Transcript tab

Select the Transcript tab. In the Transcript summary card, select Show more or Show less.

Transcript tab showing the transcript summary expanded.

Note

Transcript summaries are available only for evidence with a transcript.

Provide feedback on a transcript summary

  1. In the Transcript summary card, select Provide feedback (ellipsis).
  2. Select Useful or Not useful.

After you submit feedback, Provide feedback is no longer available for that transcript moment.

Transcript card with the feedback button highlighted.

Enable AI evidence summaries in the evidence table

  1. Select Cases.
  2. Select the Evidence tab.
  3. Select Table Settings (gear).
  4. Check Transcript Summary, then select Save.

custom column settings with a focus on transcript summary

View AI evidence summaries in the evidence table

The transcript summary displays in the Summary column in the evidence table. Hover your mouse over a summary to view the entire summary.
hovered mouse showing full summary message

View AI evidence summaries in Gallery view

Select Gallery to access the AI evidence summary in Gallery view. The summaries display next to the evidence media thumbnail.

An AI Brief One view displays the AI evidence summary and the moments.

Generate summaries

You can select more than 1 piece of evidence in the folder view, evidence table, or gallery view to generate AI summaries on evidence that was in Axon Justice prior to Brief One and may be missing an AI summary.

  1. Select the checkbox next to each piece of evidence you want to work with.
  2. On the action bar, select Actions, then select Generate AI summaries.
    Action bar with the actions menu expanded.

Transcript moments

Transcript moments highlight key events in an evidence transcript and add timestamps so you can review important sections faster (for example, Miranda Rights).

Transcript moments appear as:

  • Markers (a single timestamp)
  • Clips (a start and end timestamp)

Moments are sorted by their start time. You can view moments in several places in Justice, including the Justice reviewer, the Brief One gallery view, and as a filter from the evidence details page.

Moment categories

The following transcript moment categories are generally available to all Brief One users:

  • Miranda rights
  • Field sobriety test
  • Request for identification
  • Person search
  • Legal representation
  • Vehicle mentioned
  • Person mentioned

View moments in the Justice reviewer

You can view transcript moments in two places:

  • Markers and Clips: Select the Markers and Clips tab to view a list of moments.
    Markers and Clips tab showing a list of suggeted moments.
  • Suggested moments track: On the video timeline, moments appear in the Suggested moments track.
    Suggested moments track on the video timeline.

In the suggested moments track

  • Hover over a moment to view its transcript summary.
  • Select a moment to jump to that timestamp in the evidence.

Suggested moments track on the video timeline showing its hover text.

View moments in gallery view

Select the number of moments, to open all the moments associated with that piece of evidence in a side panel.

Gallery view showing the number of associated moments for a selected piece of evidence.

Select a moment to open the exact timestamp in the video when the moment begins.

Access transcript moments by using the moments filter from the folder view, case detail page, or gallery view.Gallery view with the Moments button highlighted.

Filter moments

You can filter by moment category to narrow the moments shown for a case.

  1. On the Evidence tab of the case details page, select the Moments quick filter.
  2. Select one or more moment categories (for example, Miranda Rights). To clear the filter, deselect the category (or categories).

Moment categories are dynamic. Only categories that apply to the evidence in the case are shown.Moments filter selected and showing a list of moment categories.

 

Axon's AI-powered features use artificial intelligence to provide insights, recommendations, or analysis based on available data and user inputs. These outputs may include inaccuracies, limitations, or outdated information. These tools are designed to support—not replace—professional judgment, legal interpretation, and human oversight. Users are responsible for carefully reviewing and verifying AI-powered content before acting on it. Axon continually works to enhance AI accuracy, mitigate bias, and uphold ethical standards. Learn more at Axon AI.