LocalScribe

About the startup

LocalScribe provides secure, privacy-first clinical documentation software designed for modern healthcare providers who want AI-assisted documentation without giving up control of sensitive client information. Built for therapists, psychologists, school psychologists, and allied health clinicians including occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, and creative arts therapists, LocalScribe supports the real-world documentation needs of clinicians working across private practice, evaluation, and interdisciplinary care settings. Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all note tool, LocalScribe is designed to adapt to the language, structure, and workflow demands of different disciplines, making it a practical fit for providers whose documentation needs extend beyond generic progress notes. LocalScribe helps clinicians draft and refine progress notes, intake documentation, letters, and longer-form reports using structured workflows built around common clinical use cases. It supports standard documentation formats such as SOAP, DAP, and BIRP notes, while also accommodating more specialized report-writing and assessment-related workflows. Clinicians can use customizable templates, tailored writing profiles, model selection, and stable section scaffolding to generate documentation that is better aligned with their own practice style and professional needs. This makes the platform especially useful for providers who need flexibility across different note types, populations, and service settings rather than a rigid single-template system. A key part of LocalScribe’s design is support for custom terminology and discipline-specific language. Clinicians are not forced to work around generic vocabulary or rewrite outputs to match the language they actually use in practice. Instead, LocalScribe includes a customizable terminology and language library so users can incorporate preferred clinical phrasing, specialty-specific terms, test names, and other common wording that reflects their field and workflow. This is particularly valuable for clinicians in areas like school psychology, rehabilitation, speech and language services, and creative arts therapies, where documentation often relies on language and concepts that are not well served by broad consumer AI tools. LocalScribe is also designed with testing-informed and assessment-related documentation in mind. In addition to supporting general note writing, the platform is intended to help clinicians who need to incorporate structured testing language, parsed measures, and modular report sections into their workflow. That makes it more relevant for psychologists, school psychologists, and other clinicians whose work may include evaluations, score interpretation, referral letters, or other documentation shaped by formal assessment data. Rather than treating testing as an afterthought, LocalScribe is being built to better support the documentation realities of clinicians who work with measures, structured findings, and discipline-specific reporting requirements. Privacy is central to the product’s design. LocalScribe follows a local-first model intended to keep drafting activity and sensitive client information on the clinician’s own device instead of sending note content to external servers. Its broader security posture emphasizes offline-first drafting after activation, guarded local processing, careful control of network activity while drafts are open, and attention to export handling, logging, and residual data. For clinicians who are interested in AI tools but uncomfortable with cloud-based documentation platforms, LocalScribe is positioned as a more private and controlled alternative that still offers meaningful workflow benefits. In practice, LocalScribe is meant to reduce documentation burden while preserving clinician oversight, authorship, and judgment. It is not a replacement for clinical thinking or professional responsibility. Instead, it is a flexible local documentation assistant that helps clinicians organize the information they provide into clearer, faster, and more usable documentation. For therapists, psychologists, school psychologists, OT, PT, SLP, and creative arts therapists who want documentation software that better reflects their language, specialties, and privacy concerns, LocalScribe offers a more tailored and discipline-aware approach to AI-assisted clinical writing.