Steno has been recognized with three Bronze Stevie Awards at the 24th Annual American Business Awards, earning honors in the categories of Achievement in Product Innovation, Achievement in Technology Innovation, and Legal Solution.

The American Business Awards are among the most widely recognized business awards programs in the United States. Entries are evaluated by panels of independent judges, and recognition reflects merit assessments across a broad field of competitors.

All three of Steno's wins center on the same core argument that building technology specifically for litigation—not adapting generic tools for legal use—produces meaningfully different outcomes for attorneys and legal teams.

Account Executive Gayle Damiano celebrates Steno's Stevie wins.

The judges in the Achievement in Product Innovation category recognized Steno's pivot to remote depositions during COVID as a defining moment, one that created category leadership rather than just a temporary workaround. Their commentary pointed specifically to Steno Connect as workflow-first engineering that’s purpose-built for how depositions actually run, not a video conferencing add-on with a new label. Transcript Genius drew recognition as a credible AI differentiator because it's built for litigation workflows, enabling multi-transcript analysis and case insights that go beyond surface-level summarization.

The Achievement in Technology Innovation panel echoed that assessment, with judges describing Transcript Genius as accelerating transcript interrogation and insight extraction at scale, while calling out Steno's combination of proprietary product development and service operations designed to make technology reliably usable in high-stakes moments. One judge wrote that Steno's tech roadmap is "redefining what 'modern' looks like in court reporting."

In the Legal Solution category, judges highlighted Transcript Genius's multi-deposition analysis, semantic search, and page-line citations as features that meaningfully reduce manual review time. The panel's commentary framed the tool as transforming static transcripts into interactive, intelligence-driven assets, and as setting a benchmark for what AI-assisted legal analysis should look like.

The full list of 2026 American Business Awards winners is available here.

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