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FAQ
Straight answers about me and what I build — DepoStack, DepoAudio, CasePrompts, and the court reporting world they live in.
Who is Andrew Mayes?
Andrew Mayes is an AI engineer and full-stack developer based in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is Director of Technology at Executive Reporting Service, a court reporting firm founded in 1981, and the founder of DepoStack, an independent legal-technology software company. He builds AI systems and tools for the court reporting and legal industry.
What is DepoStack?
DepoStack (depostack.com) is Andrew Mayes's independent software company building vendor-neutral, on-device tools for the people who produce the legal record. It is the umbrella behind DepoAudio and CasePrompts, combining free, open-source tools with commercial products built to the same standard. Early access is open.
What is DepoAudio?
DepoAudio (depoaudio.com) is a free, open-source desktop app that converts proprietary court-recording audio formats — including SGMCA, FTR, and BWF — into standard formats like WAV, MP3, FLAC, and Opus. It runs entirely on your own machine with no cloud uploads and no subscriptions, on Windows 10+ and macOS 12+.
What is CasePrompts?
CasePrompts (caseprompts.com) is a free library of copy-ready AI prompts for litigation work, built on the CITE method. Every output cites the record by page:line, and if something is not in the record the AI says so instead of inferring. It is vendor-neutral, so the same prompt works across different AI models, and is currently in preview.
What is the CITE method?
CITE is the prompting framework behind CasePrompts. It stands for Context, Instructions, Template, and Evidence. It forces AI outputs to ground every claim in the record with page:line citations and to admit when a claim is not supported — built for reliability in litigation and portable across AI models.
How can I open SGMCA, FTR, or BWF court recordings?
Those are proprietary court-recording containers that normally require a specific vendor's software to open. DepoAudio converts them to standard, channel-separated audio (WAV, MP3, FLAC, Opus) on your own computer, for free and open source — no vendor software or cloud upload required.
What does Andrew Mayes do at Executive Reporting Service?
As Director of Technology since October 2020, Andrew Mayes leads technology, innovation, and digital delivery at Executive Reporting Service — one of Florida's longest-running court reporting firms (founded 1981). He owns transcript security, e-transcript and digital delivery, client-facing platforms, and statewide network infrastructure.
How can I contact Andrew Mayes?
Andrew Mayes is on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/mayesandrew and GitHub at github.com/mayes, and is based in St. Petersburg, Florida. His writing is at andrewmayes.com/blog.