Can I start a matter before I know what accounts are in the file?

Yes, and it is the main difference between the two. Valid8 asks you to define the account buckets before you upload, which means knowing the account picture before discovery has handed it to you. Give CounselPro the production as it arrived and it splits the file into statement periods, names every account in it and who holds each one, and hands back which account-months you hold and which are still to ask for.

How much does Valid8 Financial cost?

Buyer data puts the average contract near $42,000 a year. A large engagement can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Valid8 charges per bank and credit card transaction, per brokerage transaction and per check image, so the bill follows the size of the case, and it is sold on an annual contract. There is no published rate card; the price comes out of a sales conversation. CounselPro is $499 for one matter, or a plan from $100 a month that you can cancel anytime.

How long does Valid8 take to process bank statements?

Valid8 takes days, and its own marketing puts “less than 24 hours” forward as the win. CounselPro measures every cycle against the totals the bank printed and reads the months that come up short again against the page image inside the same pass, so the analysis comes back in minutes, in the background. Reconciliation runs on the Premier plan and on every Single Project.

Is CounselPro accurate enough for a forensic engagement?

Every statement cycle is balanced to its own printed beginning and ending totals, and a cycle that comes up short is read again against the page image until every figure matches what the bank printed. A figure the records cannot support is left open and flagged for you, with the page beside it. Full reconciliation runs on the Premier plan and on every Single Project.

When is Valid8 the better choice?

Valid8 is the better choice when procurement decides it. Some agencies and enterprises can only buy from a vendor that formally owns the accuracy layer under contract, and Valid8 is built to sell into that. Valid8 also reads investment and brokerage statements today, where CounselPro’s support for them arrives in Q4 2026. On everything else, the comparison above is the whole of it.

CounselPro vs Valid8 Financial

A Valid8 alternative that finds the accounts

Valid8 asks you to define the account buckets before you upload, so the work waits on an account picture discovery has not handed you yet. Give CounselPro the production as it arrived and it names every account in the file, and who holds each one, before you have read a page.

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Bank, card and check statements · Every figure keeps its page

Accounts foundWhitmore · one PDF, 812 pages

The accounts found in an 812-page production, and who is named on each
Account	Named on it	Type
Operating ····8830	Whitmore Industrial LLC	Checking
Payroll ····4021	Whitmore Industrial LLC	Checking
Corporate card ····9106	Four cardholders named on it	Card
Personal checking ····0127	R. Whitmore	Checking
Personal savings ····7719	R. Whitmore, M. Whitmore	Savings
Vendor account ····5512	Alder Ridge Holdings LLC	Checking

Alder Ridge Holdings LLC holds an account in the production and appears on no schedule in the case. Flagged for review.

Coverage

Which months you actually have

The production arrives as one PDF of a few thousand pages, in whatever order the other side sent it. What comes back is every account it holds, split into statement periods, month by month.

Account-months in one productionJanuary 2024 to June 2025

Month in the production
Still to ask for
Before the account opened

Four months across two accounts are still to ask for, and the vendor account opens in June 2024. That is the letter you write before you read a single transaction.

Statements split on arrival

One PDF of a few thousand pages becomes statement periods, account by account, whatever order they arrived in and whether or not a page prints a date label.

Whose account is whose

Every account is resolved to the people and entities named on it, read across every statement that mentions it. A card statement also names the cardholders, and a card the other side never mentioned is a finding on its own.

The months to ask for

The account-months the production holds, and the ones still to request, before anybody reads a transaction.

How the numbers get checked

Every cycle, against the totals the bank printed

Every statement cycle is balanced to its own printed beginning and ending totals. A month that comes up short is read again against the page image until every figure matches what the bank printed, and a figure the records cannot support is left open and flagged for you.

Valid8 returns a production in days. CounselPro returns it in minutes, in the background.

How reconciliation works

Statement checkOperating ····8830 · March 2025

Opening total, as the bank printed it$128,410.22

Money in68 lines$412,908.55

Money out211 lines−$455,102.90

Closing total, as the bank printed it$87,455.87

March comes up short$1,240.00

Page 4 read again against the page image

A deposited check of $1,240.00 printed on the line, now in the money-in total (····8830, p. 4)

Every figure matches what the bank printedMarch balances

The second read runs inside the same pass as the reading, so a month that comes up short holds nothing up. Full reconciliation and self-healing run on the Premier plan and on every Single Project; Core and Plus read every row out of the statement.

Ask the record a question

Plain English in, a chart, a table and a file back

Valid8 stops at extraction and basic analysis, and the forensic work is still yours. Ask CounselPro where the money went and it draws the answer, prints the arithmetic beside every figure, and links each row to the statement page it came from. Export it as a spreadsheet, an image or a PDF.

Written up in the forensic report

04Spending pattern analysisTiming and mechanical patterns, including amounts that sit just under a reporting line.

05Related party transactionsMoney moving to and from connected people and entities, each one named.

07Asset tracingWhat was bought, what was moved, and the paths money took out of the business.

08Transfer pattern analysisSystematic movement of funds, including income routed to a second account.

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Daystrom AIWhitmore · 14 accounts · 5 years

You

Trace the $2,400,000 from the sale of the Coast Ridge property.

The sale proceeds landed in the operating account on 14 May 2024 and left it in three transfers over the following nine days. Each figure below is computed from the statements and linked to the page it was read from.

Landed$2,400,000Operating ····883014 May 2024 · p. 6

Left in three transfers$2,145,000To two accounts and one entity15 to 23 May 2024

Left in place$255,000Of the proceeds, through 31 May 2024no further transfer traced

Where the sale proceeds went, with the statement page each row was read from
Date	Recipient	Amount	Read from
15 May 2024	Alder Ridge Holdings LLC ····5512	$1,150,000.00	····8830, p. 7
19 May 2024	Personal savings ····7719	$620,000.00	····8830, p. 7
23 May 2024	Marisol Whitmore · wire	$375,000.00	····8830, p. 8
Total	Three transfers, nine days	$2,145,000.00	3 pages cited

Alder Ridge Holdings LLC receives money nowhere else in the case. Flagged for review.

What a bigger case costs

Three matters, on the meter and on a flat price

Valid8 charges per bank and credit card transaction, per brokerage transaction and per check image, and sells it on an annual contract priced through a sales conversation. On CounselPro the case is $499, whatever is in it.

What goes on Valid8’s meter as a matter grows, beside CounselPro’s flat price
The matter	What goes on the meter	On CounselPro
A contract dispute2 accounts · 12 months	3,180 transactions · 22 check images	$499
An embezzlement matter6 accounts · 18 months	9,240 transactions · 138 check images	$499
A white-collar defense file14 accounts · 5 years	51,600 transactions · 902 check images	$499

Illustrative matters, sized from ordinary discovery productions. Valid8 publishes no rate card; buyer data puts the average contract near $42,000 a year. A large engagement can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars. CounselPro is $499 for a single matter, or a plan from $100 a month, cancel anytime.

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Feature by feature

The same job, side by side

Valid8 pricing, turnaround and setup from published buyer data and Valid8's own marketing. Valid8 Financial is a product of Valid8 Financial, Inc.

CounselPro and Valid8 Financial, capability by capability
Capability	CounselPro$499 a matter, or from $100 a month	Valid8 FinancialAbout $42,000 a year, average contract
Reading the records
Bank and credit card statements, scans included	Included	Included
Check images read as their own record	Included	Included
Investment and retirement statements	Q4 2026	Included
Starting a matter
Upload before the accounts are known	Included	Not included
Where the account list and the names on it come from	Read out of the production	Defined by you, before the upload
How you buy it	Sign up online	Through a sales conversation
Checking and turnaround
How accuracy is reached	Every cycle balanced to its printed totals	A verified accuracy layer
Turnaround on a production	Minutes	Days
Every row linked to its statement page	Included	Included
The analysis
Plain-English questions about the case	Included	Not included
Hidden assets, structuring and income diversion	Included	Not included
Lifestyle spending against reported income	Included	Not included
A long-form forensic report, section by section	Included	Extraction and basic analysis
What it costs
One matter, all in	$499	Priced per transaction and per check image
The commitment	Per matter, or month to month	An annual contract
What a year runs to	From $1,200	About $42,000
Built for	Legal teams of any size	Large firms and government

CounselPro vs Valid8 questions, answered

What attorneys weighing the two ask first

Can I start a matter before I know what accounts are in the file?: Yes, and it is the main difference between the two. Valid8 asks you to define the account buckets before you upload, which means knowing the account picture before discovery has handed it to you. Give CounselPro the production as it arrived and it splits the file into statement periods, names every account in it and who holds each one, and hands back which account-months you hold and which are still to ask for.
How much does Valid8 Financial cost?: Buyer data puts the average contract near $42,000 a year. A large engagement can run to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Valid8 charges per bank and credit card transaction, per brokerage transaction and per check image, so the bill follows the size of the case, and it is sold on an annual contract. There is no published rate card; the price comes out of a sales conversation. CounselPro is $499 for one matter, or a plan from $100 a month that you can cancel anytime.
How long does Valid8 take to process bank statements?: Valid8 takes days, and its own marketing puts “less than 24 hours” forward as the win. CounselPro measures every cycle against the totals the bank printed and reads the months that come up short again against the page image inside the same pass, so the analysis comes back in minutes, in the background. Reconciliation runs on the Premier plan and on every Single Project.
Is CounselPro accurate enough for a forensic engagement?: Every statement cycle is balanced to its own printed beginning and ending totals, and a cycle that comes up short is read again against the page image until every figure matches what the bank printed. A figure the records cannot support is left open and flagged for you, with the page beside it. Full reconciliation runs on the Premier plan and on every Single Project.
When is Valid8 the better choice?: Valid8 is the better choice when procurement decides it. Some agencies and enterprises can only buy from a vendor that formally owns the accuracy layer under contract, and Valid8 is built to sell into that. Valid8 also reads investment and brokerage statements today, where CounselPro’s support for them arrives in Q4 2026. On everything else, the comparison above is the whole of it.

Run a finished case through CounselPro

Take a case you have already worked, where you know what the money did, and see whether the reading matches yours. That is the fairest test there is.

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