What Recidiviz does

Recidiviz is a 501(c)(3) non-profit technology organization founded in 2017 and headquartered in Oakland, California. Its stated mission is to reduce mass incarceration safely, equitably, and at scale through direct partnership with state criminal justice agencies. Rather than commercial software sales, the organization engages state Departments of Corrections, parole boards, and probation departments as a partner, integrating fragmented agency data and deploying purpose-built digital tools to frontline staff and to incarcerated residents themselves.

The product portfolio centers on a unified corrections data platform with several specialized 'assistant' products: the Supervision Assistant (parole and probation teams), the Facilities Assistant (intake-to-release custody planning), the Case Planning Assistant (fine-tuned large language models producing personalized reentry plans), the Sentencing Assistant (pre-sentence investigators), and the Opportunities tablet application giving residents self-service access to sentence dates, programs, and reentry pathways. Underlying technology combines large language models, conversational AI (the Wanda chatbot), speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities, an automated sentence time calculator that encodes state-specific statutes, and a route optimization tool. The platform also includes a Reentry Resource Network with direct integrations to Center for Employment Opportunities, FreeWorld, mRelief, and SkillUp Coalition for employment, documentation, benefits, and career support following release. Earlier open-source work includes a public SEIR compartmental model for COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons and jails.

Recidiviz does not publish pricing; revenue derives from government partnerships, foundation grants, and donations, with grant-making relationships referenced at Y Combinator, Breyer Labs, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, and GitLab Foundation. Distribution is exclusively direct-to-government through field engagement with agency leadership. The firm claims to have helped accelerate over 250,000 people out of the criminal justice system since 2019 and to have saved partner agencies an estimated $1.5 billion. Named partner states include Michigan, Tennessee, North Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Maine, Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, and the organization states it is scaling to jurisdictions covering 46% of the U.S. incarcerated population. Headcount is reported at 51–100, up from approximately 20 in August 2020.

Name

Recidiviz

Legal name

Recidiviz Inc.

Website

https://recidiviz.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Recidiviz is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 2017 that partners with state Departments of Corrections to deliver an AI-powered corrections data platform spanning supervision, facilities, sentencing, and reentry, serving agencies across dozens of U.S. states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Criminal Justice Data Platform

NAICS

Correctional Institutions (922140), Parole Offices and Probation Offices (92215), Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (922)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Adult Corrections (Prisons & Jails) (BPAIAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Corrections (Probation, Parole & Reentry) (BPAIAFAE), Reentry, Rehabilitation & Reintegration Programs (Education, Vocational, Case Management) (BPAKANAH)

Keywords

• Criminal justice data
• Corrections technology platform
• Reentry planning software
• AI case management
• Corrections analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Oakland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Government/Agency Partnerships: Recidiviz operates as a nonprofit and partners with state criminal justice agencies. Revenue appears to come from government grants, foundation funding, and potentially service agreements with state agencies. The company has received federal and restricted foundation grants. No direct pricing is publicly disclosed.
2. Donations and Grants: As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Recidiviz accepts donations and receives grants from foundations to support its mission of reducing incarceration safely, equitably, and at scale.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Recidiviz is a non-profit technology organization that builds a unified corrections data platform integrating fragmented state criminal justice systems. It delivers a portfolio of purpose-built assistants (Supervision, Facilities, Case Planning, and Sentencing) plus a resident-facing tablet app, all powered by AI and large language models, to help corrections agencies reduce incarceration safely and equitably.

Product overview

Recidiviz is a non-profit criminal justice data platform that provides a unified Corrections Platform with multiple specialized assistants for different user types. The core portfolio includes Supervision Assistant for parole and probation officers, Facilities Assistant for corrections staff managing incarcerated individuals, Case Planning Assistant with AI-powered personalized reentry planning, Opportunities Tablet App for resident self-service, Sentencing Assistant for pre-sentence investigators, and Policy Forecasting for tracking policy impact. The platform stitches together fragmented government databases to provide transparency and help decision-makers improve outcomes. Since 2019, the platform has helped safely accelerate over 250,000 people out of the criminal justice system and saved partner agencies an estimated $1.5 billion.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Recidiviz Corrections Platform Unified criminal justice data platform that integrates state corrections agency systems, provides decision-makers with actionable dashboards and drill-downs, and supports a suite of specialized assistants for corrections staff and residents.
• Supervision Assistant Tool for parole and probation officers that automates administrative tasks, records and summarizes officer-client meetings, and surfaces opportunities to change supervision levels for clients under community supervision.
• Facilities Assistant Tool for facility-based corrections staff that recalculates custody levels in real time, surfaces key resident milestones, and auto-generates meeting notes and transition paperwork to keep residents on track for reentry.
• Case Planning Assistant AI-powered tool using fine-tuned large language models that helps case managers build comprehensive, personalized reentry plans by capturing individual needs and matching them to vetted community resources with real-time availability.
• Opportunities Tablet App Resident-facing tablet application that displays key sentence dates, good-time credit progress, available programs, and plain-language policy explanations to improve transparency and reduce staff busywork answering date questions.
• Sentencing Assistant Supports pre-sentence investigators to make consistent and data-driven sentencing recommendations using integrated corrections data.
• Policy Forecasting Analytics and forecasting module that stitches together fragmented corrections data to enable criminal justice leaders to measure what is working and track the impact of policy and practice changes over time.

Quantifiable outcome

• Saved partner agencies an estimated $1.5 billion in spending since 2019
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability11 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026Provides immediate and comprehensive employment services exclusively to people recently released from incarceration. Through their transitional employment program, CEO gives participants a pathway to full-time work and long-term financial stability. Currently operates in 30 cities in 12 states. Integration within Case Planning Assistant enables officers to directly connect clients to employment resources.
• FreeWorldcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026Tech-enabled nonprofit dedicated to ending generational poverty and recidivism. Through their Document Assistant, people can secure birth certificates and Social Security cards - foundational documents required for employment, housing, and benefits enrollment. Integration helps address critical documentation barriers to reentry.
• mReliefcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026Technology nonprofit that provides SNAP (food stamp) enrollment support. Has helped more than 5.6 million people unlock more than $2.3 billion in SNAP benefits across all 50 states, DC, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Integration provides benefits access support for people in early reentry.
• SkillUp CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 March 2026Nonprofit that connects workers with quality, living-wage jobs and career growth opportunities - no college degree required. Platform has connected more than 4.3 million workers to career, training, and job support nationwide. Integration enables officers to connect clients to meaningful career progress opportunities.
• CovidPrisonData.comminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in aggregating COVID-19 data for prisons and jails. Built web scraping infrastructure for daily data collection from state prison systems.
• UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner aggregating COVID-19 case and death data from facilities around the country. Collaboration for the publicly available dataset on prison and jail outbreaks.
• Council of State Governments Justice CenterminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in providing assistance to state and county leaders looking to implement COVID-19 modeling tools. Collaboration for helping criminal justice agencies respond to the pandemic.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Tyler Technologies: Large public-sector software vendor with corrections, courts, and ERP suites (including the former Syscon Justice Systems offender management product). Competitor and potential partner at the state procurement level - same buyer, broader portfolio.
• Securus Technologies (now ViaPath Technologies): Dominant corrections communications and technology provider, owns the tablet hardware on which Recidiviz's Opportunities app runs. Serves many of the same state DOC buyers and could expand upstream into Recidiviz's analytics layer.
• Motorola Solutions: Public safety technology giant spanning command-and-control, body cameras, and jail management. Indirectly competes with Recidiviz's supervisors' daily-work tools at large agencies with consolidated public-safety vendors.
• id5 (Idemia) / Northpointe Compass: Risk and recidivism-assessment provider whose Compass assessment is embedded in many state DOC workflows. Competes with the analytical and decision-support layer Recidiviz is building into Case Planning and Policy Forecasting.
• Versaterm: Public safety and corrections software vendor serving law enforcement, courts, and correctional agencies across North America. Same buyer segment (state/jurisdiction agencies) with broader CAD/RMS/jail management products.

Emerging players

• Measures for Justice: Non-profit that benchmarks county-level criminal justice outcomes. Adjacent - both stitch together fragmented criminal-justice data for stakeholders; overlap is in the policy/analytics layer rather than the daily-work tools Recidiviz sells.

Direct peers

• Code for America: Tech-focused 501(c)(3) that builds digital services for government agencies, with prominent criminal-justice programs (Clear My Record, fine/fee navigation). Closest comparable to Recidiviz in non-profit tech-nonprofit model, mission orientation, and government agency buyers.
• Imai Group: AI-driven corrections case-management and rehabilitation analytics platform. Competes head-on with Recidiviz's Case Planning and Facilities Assistants on AI case-note generation and resource matching for justice-involved populations.

Others

• Pretrial Justice Institute: Mission-aligned criminal-justice reform non-profit focused on pretrial practices. Adjacent to Recidiviz in mission and government stakeholder network, with a policy/training rather than technology product offering.
• Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center: Policy and technical-assistance arm working with state leaders on reentry and supervision reform. Recidiviz is a listed partner on COVID-19 response and addresses overlapping stakeholders but operates as a consulting/policy body rather than a product vendor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses6 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors4 records

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M&A

Investments

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