These tools work from the audio track of a body-worn camera recording, not the visual footage, transcribing what was said during an incident and using a generative language model to produce a structured first draft of the resulting report. Axon's Draft One is built on OpenAI's GPT models; Truleo's Field Notes is built on Amazon's Bedrock platform. In both cases the officer is expected to review, correct and sign the draft, and remains responsible for the final submitted document.

This is a narrower, more specific tool than a general-purpose assistant like Microsoft Copilot applied to policing tasks, which the site tracks separately. Report-writing tools are purpose-built for one task with a fixed input (recorded audio) and a fixed output (a structured report), rather than a general chat interface an officer might use for anything from correspondence to summarising an incident from memory, which is closer to how Copilot has actually been used and misused in policing so far.