PlaintiffStack vs Tavrn

What Tavrn does

Tavrn is a medical records company first. It requests, follows up on and delivers medical records, billing records, imaging, accident reports and insurance coverage details from providers across the US, and builds medical chronologies and demand letters from the file it collects. It serves law firms, hospitals and health tech companies, and offers an API and webhooks for teams that want records inside their own product. Tavrn reports more than 500 organizations and 100,000 provider requests.

Tavrn raised a $15M Series A in 2025 led by Left Lane Capital, with A*, Hummingbird and BoxGroup. Third-party profiles list workers' comp, SSDI and malpractice alongside personal injury; Tavrn's own site speaks to law firms generally.

Where Tavrn is strong

• It does the chasing. Records retrieval is slow, repetitive work, and Tavrn takes it off your staff, including follow-ups and fee approvals.
• National reach. It works with providers in every state, which matters for firms with clients who treated far from home.
• Plugs into your system. Records arrive in Clio, Litify, SmartAdvocate, Smokeball, SharePoint or Dropbox, or through its API.
• Security basics covered. Tavrn lists HIPAA, an audited SOC 2, a BAA, SSO and an audit trail.

Where PlaintiffStack differs

PlaintiffStack doesn't retrieve records. It is a case management system for California personal injury, workers' comp and employment that tracks the requests your team sends and reads what comes back. Morning checks flag record requests nobody has touched, the missing records report shows what the case still needs, and agents build a treatment chronology with each entry cited to its page. Those facts feed the demand, and the settlement statement and lien tracking sit in the same case. In workers' comp, the same records work feeds the QME records index and flags records due to the QME.

The limits:

• No retrieval service. Your team, or a service like Tavrn, still has to get the records.
• No OCR yet. Agents read searchable PDFs, Word and text files. Scanned records and faxes aren't read, and scanned pages inside an otherwise searchable PDF aren't flagged. If your providers send scans, that's a real gap.
• California only.

In practice, the two can divide the work. A retrieval service gets the records; PlaintiffStack keeps the case: who asked for what and when, what's still missing, what the records say, which deadlines are coming, and what the settlement statement will show. Firms that use a retrieval vendor should still keep the request log in the case, because a missing record is often why a demand or a QME report slips. Ask any retrieval vendor whether delivered files are searchable text, since that decides whether PlaintiffStack's agents can read them today.

For requests, our free medical records request letter generator and the guide to California medical records request laws can help.

Pricing

Tavrn doesn't publish prices on its site; a third-party roundup reports retrieval plans from $299.99 a month for 20 requests, with provider fees on top as case costs. PlaintiffStack is $250 per case with every app included and no monthly fee. AI usage is billed separately, with an estimated cost shown before each tool runs; how usage is billed is part of your quote.

Who should pick which

These products overlap less than they seem to. Pick Tavrn if retrieval is your bottleneck, and keep it whatever case management system you run. Pick PlaintiffStack if you want the case, its deadlines and its drafting in one California-built system. Tavrn doesn't list PlaintiffStack as an integration today; it does deliver to Dropbox, and PlaintiffStack syncs two ways with case folders in Dropbox. See also how to build a medical chronology.