Why We Built Deposely for Agencies

Why We Built Deposely for Agencies

When Donnie and I started Deposely in 2024, we had a thesis: depositions are one of the most consequential and time-intensive parts of litigation, and the technology supporting them hasn't kept up. Attorneys spend hours preparing, navigating manual sets of documents and data during the proceeding, and then more hours reviewing transcripts afterward. Court reporting agencies — the companies that actually coordinate and staff depositions — have been largely left out of the technology conversation.

We set out to build a platform that serves both sides. Technology that makes depositions better for attorneys and that integrates directly into how agencies operate. Not a tool that sits on top. An infrastructure layer.

Today, we're launching Deposely for Agencies.

What Deposely for Agencies Is

Deposely for Agencies is a technology partnership program built specifically for court reporting agencies. Participating agencies get access to Deposely's full deposition platform, including AI-generated summaries, remote deposition infrastructure, and our flagship AI deposition suite, integrated directly into their existing workflows and delivered to their attorney clients under the agency's own brand.

The idea is simple: court reporting agencies coordinate millions of depositions every year. They are a natural delivery layer for deposition technology. But the technology available to them has historically been assembled piecemeal. An agency might use one vendor for video, another for scheduling, and leave transcript review entirely to the attorney. The result is a fragmented experience where no single tool understands the full deposition workflow, and attorneys are left stitching things together on their own.

Deposely for Agencies replaces that patchwork with an integrated platform. Agencies get deep product integration, co-branded technology, dedicated onboarding, and an AI-powered product layer that creates new revenue opportunities for their business. Their attorney clients get a modern deposition experience from preparation through post-deposition review, without changing how they work with their agency.

Who's Already Live

The program's flagship deployment is with U.S. Legal Support, one of the largest court reporting companies in the United States, handling more than 245,000 remote events a year. Since December 2025, USLS has been offering Deposely's AI-generated deposition summaries to its attorney clients. These summaries are delivered alongside the final transcript, giving attorneys detailed, structured analysis in page-and-line format without any additional steps or tools.

The response from attorneys has been strong enough to accelerate the partnership's expansion into additional product areas.

Why Agencies Are the Key

A year and a half ago, Deposely didn't have a single customer. We were two co-founders, both from AWS, building a product we believed the market needed but hadn't asked for yet.

Our approach from the beginning was to build for both sides of the deposition. Attorneys are the end users, but court reporting agencies are the connective hubs of the industry. They schedule the depositions, coordinate the court reporters, and deliver the transcripts. If you want to fundamentally improve the deposition experience for attorneys, you have to build technology that agencies can actually deploy at scale within their existing operations.

That's the logic behind Deposely for Agencies. We partner with the agencies that already serve thousands of attorneys and integrate our technology directly into their workflows. Every attorney who takes a deposition through a D4A partner gets access to Deposely's tools automatically.

When we started conversations with USLS in mid-2025, the alignment was immediate. They weren't looking for a point solution. They were looking for a technology partner that understood the full workflow and could build across it. By end of 2025, we were live with our AI summaries and working closely together on what comes next.

The speed reflected something we've seen consistently in this market: when you build the right thing, adoption isn't the hard part.

What This Signals for the Industry

Depositions are a multi-billion dollar segment of the legal services market, and they've been largely untouched by the wave of technology that has transformed document review, e-discovery, and case management over the past decade.

That's changing. The agencies that coordinate millions of depositions a year are now actively seeking integrated technology platforms. The attorneys who take those depositions are expecting AI-powered tools as part of the experience, not as an afterthought bolted on later.

What's Next

Over the next year, we'll be announcing new product capabilities that expand what attorneys can do before, during, and after depositions, along with new agency partners working with us through this program.

If you're a court reporting agency interested in exploring what Deposely for Agencies looks like for your business, we'd love to hear from you. And if you're an attorney who's tired of the way depositions work today, we work directly with law firms, too.

More soon.

Mitchell Kossoris is the Co-Founder and CEO of Deposely.

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