PI Core
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PI Core, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PI Core's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $99 a month | 1 user · Full PI Core software subscription · $99/user/mo; annual per-user pricing; one user |
| Small Team | $149 a month | 2–10 users · Full PI Core software subscription · $149/user/mo; annual per-user pricing |
| Firm | $199 a month | 11–25 users · Full PI Core software subscription · $199/user/mo; annual per-user pricing |
| Large Firm | Priced on request | 26+ users · Larger teams, multi-office deployments, or unusual implementation needs · Custom pricing |
The facts
Each one read from PI Core's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Money
- Additional costs
- Background checks, third-party data, paid phone AI agents, and usage overages are separate from the software subscription.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Trial
- The three-month free trial includes full feature access, requires a credit card at signup, and converts to paid service at trial end unless canceled.checked 12 Oct 2026
What it does
- AI assistance
- PI Core includes optional assistance for organizing intake details, summarizing records, and supporting draft report workflows, with customer review and approval.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Attorney portal
- Attorney-client communication, deliverables, case status, and document access can be tied to a matter without exposing unrelated internal investigation notes.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Audit trail
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Availability
- Butler says product access starts with a product-fit conversation and advises confirming current availability, supported workflows, and pilot limits with its team.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Case management
- Case records connect client instructions, subjects, locations, assignments, deadlines, notes, documents, invoices, and reporting status.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Evidence custody
- The product organizes evidence items, collection notes, transfers, storage references, review status, and report references.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations and handoffs
- PI Core is designed for handoffs with Butler's Legal Core and Bail Core; the page does not name third-party product integrations.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Intended customers
- PI Core is built for private investigation firms and is intended for firms nationally, not only Michigan firms.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Limits and add-ons
- Background checks, paid phone AI agents, third-party data, and usage overages are separate from the software subscription.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Migration
- Founding customers receive hands-on migration support, and founding migration is free; standard cloud-to-cloud migration is listed at $499 for known scope up to 5,000 records.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Paid from
- 99checked 22 Sep 2026
- Processing allowances
- Monthly included allowances vary by tier: OCR from 500 to 15,000 pages, transcription from 120 to 5,000 minutes, and video processing from 2 to 100 hours; overages are priced separately.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- PI Core is investigation software for private investigation firms, with case management, evidence handling, surveillance documentation, attorney portals, skip-tracing context, and court-ready reporting.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security documentation
- Butler directs security, privacy, and compliance questions to its team, which says it will share the current state and any documentation ready to provide.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security review
- Butler routes security, privacy, and compliance questions through a dedicated security-review contact intent and says it will provide current-state information and available documentation.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- Founding PI Core customers receive hands-on migration support for case records, contacts, evidence indexes, documents, reports, and structured data.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Surveillance
- Surveillance documentation can include field notes, timestamps, photos, video references, locations, and narrative observations.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Michigan, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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