A court reporter
starts a business.
J & K Bradley Reporting was established in Brisbane in 2004 as a stenographic court reporting practice. From the outset, the focus was on quality over volume — working with Queensland courts, tribunals and legal firms who needed a reporter they could rely on absolutely.
The legal transcript business grew steadily through referrals. Solicitors and barristers across Southeast Queensland came to trust Bradley Reporting for verbatim accuracy, professional conduct and rapid turnaround on urgent matters.
Expanding into
accessibility services.
The growing demand for real-time captioning services — particularly in the disability sector and at large events — prompted the creation of Captify.live. The same stenographic skills that made Bradley Reporting trusted in courtrooms translated directly into high-accuracy live captioning.
Captify.live quickly developed two distinct service lines: legal services for courts and litigation support, and accessibility services for NDIS participants, events and education providers. Both carry the same commitment to accuracy that the original court reporting practice was built on.
Taking our expertise
to the world's parliaments.
An invitation to assist with parliamentary transcription services in the Asia-Pacific region opened a new chapter. The Hansard Consultancy was established to formalise and expand this work — bringing Australian Hansard expertise to legislative bodies across the Commonwealth and beyond.
Remote delivery capabilities, developed out of necessity during this period, proved to be a significant advantage. The Hansard Consultancy now serves parliamentary clients across more than twelve jurisdictions without a physical presence in any of them.
Building tools
the market would not.
After years of evaluating every available transcription tool and finding all of them inadequate for professional legal work, the decision was made to build one. CalGen.AI was established as the technology division of Bradley Reporting, with a single initial mission: create a desktop transcription tool that a court reporter would actually use.
Shearwater Transcriber was the result — an Electron/React desktop application running local Whisper AI, with professional AudioMixer, court recording format compatibility, waveform display and SmartExport to Word. Built by a practitioner. For practitioners.
Shearwater v1.3.0
ships to the world.
Shearwater Transcriber v1.3.0 represents the culmination of intensive development — a professional-grade AI transcription tool for legal professionals that runs entirely locally, with no cloud dependency, no privacy risk and no compromise on the accuracy standards that legal work demands.
Bradley Reporting today is four divisions, one legal entity, and the same commitment that started in a Brisbane courtroom in 2004. Bradley Reporting is practitioners first. Everything else — the software, the technology, the global reach — is built on that foundation.