CastingWords

𝐏𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬: not verified

CastingWords is a Los Alamos, New Mexico transcription company founded in November 2005 by Rachel Pearson and Nathan McFarland. It is a crowdsourced human transcription firm that routes work through an online freelancer platform (historically including Amazon Mechanical Turk–style workflows).

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐝:
Human crowdsourced transcription
Captions and subtitles
General business, media, academic, and research audio

𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞: https://castingwords.com/

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞:
𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬: CastingWords, LLC, 2144 41st Street, Los Alamos, NM 87544 (business mailing address on company contact page).
𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞: Not verified
Company About/Contact pages publish the Los Alamos mailing address and EIN 20-3855596. Directory research did not independently confirm a staffed commercial office campus at that street in this pass, so Physical Address remains not verified.

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
not found — no single official business-entity record confidently matched to this brand in this pass

𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: Co-founders Rachel Pearson and Nathan McFarland (Los Alamos). Public About page also names community management staff roles.

𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞:
CastingWords explicitly uses a large crowd of freelance transcribers and editors. Third-party LinkedIn-style summaries commonly show people associated across many countries (including Kenya, Philippines, South Africa, and India); those percentages were not independently re-counted in this pass, so exact country tallies are omitted.
Foreign freelance production ⇒ not CJIS; court-certifiable transcripts typically no.

𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬:
No primary-source government CJIS listing, SOC auditor report, or ISO certificate PDF was located for CastingWords in this research pass.
Company About page states Federal Tax ID EIN 20-3855596 and describes the crowdsourced model — https://castingwords.com/support/about-us.html
𝐂𝐁𝐈 𝐂𝐉𝐈𝐒 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔-𝟎𝟗-𝟏𝟐): this company does not appear among the ~619 names on Colorado’s published CBI CJIS Vendor Management Program list. CBI also states that directory listing is not itself a guarantee of full CJIS compliance.

𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬:
𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐀: no public evidence found
𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐑𝐀: no public evidence found
𝐂𝐉𝐈𝐒: not CJIS (foreign / crowdsourced freelance workforce)
𝐒𝐎𝐂 𝟐 / 𝐒𝐎𝐂 𝟑: no public evidence found
𝐈𝐒𝐎 𝟐𝟕𝟎𝟎𝟏: no public evidence found
𝐆𝐃𝐏𝐑: no public evidence found
𝐅𝐄𝐑𝐏𝐀: no public evidence found

𝐂𝐉𝐈𝐒 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬
Not CJIS compliant.
𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧: Crowdsourced freelance transcription with people associated outside the United States is incompatible with FBI CJIS Security Policy expectations for CJI handling (U.S.-based, background-checked personnel).
𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭-𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬: typically no.
𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧: overseas freelancers are generally not available to appear in a U.S. court to authenticate a transcript.

𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:
𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬:
Crowdsourced human transcription model documented on About page with Federal Tax ID EIN 20-3855596 — https://castingwords.com/support/about-us.html
𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐬:
Multinational freelancer pool — Not CJIS; court-certifiable transcripts typically no (see CJIS section).
Physical Address not verified on this listing.

𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
no verified Google Business reviews page found
𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬:
Glassdoor: no verified profile found
Indeed: https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Castingwords
Trustpilot: no verified profile found
Long-running low-cost human transcription option mentioned historically in press (company cites NYT/Economist mentions). Crowdsourced model means quality and confidentiality vary by job tier—confirm before sending sensitive audio.

𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬:
https://castingwords.com/
About: https://castingwords.com/support/about-us.html
Contact: https://castingwords.com/support/contact-us.html
𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞: Crowdsourced freelancers — review confidentiality terms carefully.