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# Texas AI Vendor Governance

AI vendors evaluated against TX-specific frameworks — Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA, effective July 2024), Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI), Texas Bar Future of Law Committee AI Guidance, and emerging Texas Sunset Advisory Commission AI oversight.

Texas — vendors with explicit state engagement, ranked by 4 state-relevant governance axes.

Edition: 2026-Q2 State: TX Vendors: 30 State-relevant axes: 4

By [Stefan Efros](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanefros-cyberdefense/), CEO & Founder, EFROS

Updated · June 17, 2026

## Why this state view

Texas added the TDPSA in 2024 — broad consumer privacy + AI profiling controls — alongside CUBI (biometric law similar to IL BIPA). Texas Bar Future of Law guidance bound lawyer AI use beginning 2024. Texas is the second-largest state economy and a leading indicator for southern-state AI regulation.

## Primary frameworks anchored
- →Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA — effective July 2024)
- →Texas Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier (CUBI)
- →Texas Bar Future of Law Committee AI Guidance (2024)
- →Texas Sunset Advisory Commission AI oversight

State-relevant scoring axes

Columns marked with an accent dot in the scorecard below are the axes most relevant to Texas's regulatory frame. The state-relevance ranking in this view averages vendor performance across these axes only.
- •Training-data opt-out
- •Subprocessor list public
- •NIST AI RMF self-attestation
- •ABA Formal Op 512 readiness

| # | Vendor | TX Rel. | Score | Grade | •BAA | •Opt-out | •US Res | •SOC 2 | •ISO 42001 | •NIST AI | •CO AI | •§1557 | •SR 11-7 | •ABA 512 | •Subproc | TC |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Thomson Reuters CoCounsel | 88(4/4) | 80 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Partial | N/A | N/A | Yes | Yes | 4/5 |
| 2 | Lexis+ AI | 88(4/4) | 76 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | Yes | Yes | 4/5 |
| 3 | Westlaw Precision AI | 88(4/4) | 76 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | Yes | Yes | 4/5 |
| 4 | Abridge | 83(3/4) | 87 | A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | Yes | N/A | N/A | Yes | 5/5 |
| 5 | FICO Falcon Fraud Manager + FICO Score AI | 83(3/4) | 80 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Partial | N/A | Yes | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 6 | Suki AI | 83(3/4) | 72 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Partial | Partial | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 7 | Nuance DAX Copilot (Microsoft) | 83(3/4) | 70 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | Partial | N/A | N/A | Yes | 5/5 |
| 8 | Salesforce Einstein / Agentforce | 83(3/4) | 69 | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | Partial | Partial | N/A | Yes | 5/5 |
| 9 | Glean | 83(3/4) | 69 | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 10 | Arctic Wolf | 83(3/4) | 69 | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 11 | Huntress | 83(3/4) | 69 | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 12 | eSentire | 83(3/4) | 69 | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 13 | Sophos | 83(3/4) | 69 | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 14 | Unit21 | 83(3/4) | 68 | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | Partial | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 15 | Anthropic Claude | 83(3/4) | 58 | C | Partial | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 16 | Microsoft 365 Copilot | 75(4/4) | 75 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Partial | Yes | 5/5 |
| 17 | Harvey | 75(4/4) | 74 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Partial | N/A | N/A | Yes | Partial | 3/5 |
| 18 | Zest AI | 67(3/4) | 74 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Partial | N/A | Yes | N/A | Partial | 3/5 |
| 19 | Upstart | 67(3/4) | 74 | B | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | Partial | N/A | Yes | N/A | Partial | 3/5 |
| 20 | Google Gemini for Workspace | 67(3/4) | 58 | C | Partial | Partial | Yes | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 21 | OpenAI ChatGPT & API | 67(3/4) | 53 | D | Partial | Partial | Partial | Yes | No | Partial | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 4/5 |
| 22 | ConnectWise | 67(3/4) | 50 | D | Partial | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 3/5 |
| 23 | Ironclad AI | 63(4/4) | 63 | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | Partial | Yes | 4/5 |
| 24 | Hummingbird | 50(3/4) | 56 | C | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | N/A | Partial | N/A | Partial | 3/5 |
| 25 | Spellbook | 50(4/4) | 45 | D | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | Partial | Partial | 2/5 |
| 26 | Heidi Health | 50(3/4) | 45 | D | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | No | No | No | Partial | N/A | N/A | Partial | 2/5 |
| 27 | Notion AI | 50(3/4) | 33 | F | No | Partial | No | Yes | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Yes | 3/5 |
| 28 | Meta Llama | 33(3/4) | 25 | F | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | No | 2/5 |
| 29 | Otter.ai | 33(3/4) | 25 | F | No | Partial | No | Yes | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Partial | 2/5 |
| 30 | Perplexity AI | 33(3/4) | 19 | F | No | Partial | No | Partial | No | No | No | N/A | N/A | N/A | Partial | 2/5 |

## How vendors score on Texas's relevant axes

Yes / partial counts across the full 30-vendor pool, restricted to axes relevant to Texas's regulatory frame. N/A axes are excluded from the applicable denominator.

Opt-out

Training-data opt-out

TX

Yes 25/30 (83%)

Partial 5/30 (17%)

Subproc

Subprocessor list public

TX

Yes 21/30 (70%)

Partial 8/30 (27%)

NIST AI

NIST AI RMF self-attestation

TX

Yes 0/30 (0%)

Partial 21/30 (70%)

ABA 512

ABA Formal Op 512 readiness

TX

Yes 4/7 (57%)

Partial 3/7 (43%)

### Top 3 vendors on the Texas-relevant axis subset

[1 #### Thomson Reuters CoCounsel BTX 88/100Composite 80Legal AI assistant from Thomson Reuters (parent of Westlaw and Practical Law). Acquired Casetext in 2023. Integrated with Westlaw and Practical Law content.](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/thomson-reuters-cocounsel/) [2 #### Lexis+ AI BTX 88/100Composite 76LexisNexis's legal AI assistant integrated with the Lexis content corpus. Citation grounding from the Lexis case-law and secondary-source database is the differentiator.](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/lexis-plus-ai/) [3 #### Westlaw Precision AI BTX 88/100Composite 76Westlaw's AI-assisted research layer: natural-language query, AI-generated case summaries, and AI memo drafting grounded in Westlaw's primary-source database.](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/westlaw-precision-ai/)

## Buyer's guide for Texas

For Texas-deploying organizations, the binding constraint is TDPSA profiling consent + CUBI biometric handling. Vendors with strong training-opt-out defaults and granular subprocessor transparency clear the bar.

Operationalize the scoring

### Methodology — TDPSA + CUBI scoring

The Index tells you which vendors clear the bar for Texas engagement. The companion resource tells you how to turn that selection into a deployable governance program with documented evidence.

[Methodology — TDPSA + CUBI scoring →](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/methodology/)

## Compare Texas with other state and sector views

Other state views

[California (CA)](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/by-state/california/) [Colorado (CO)](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/by-state/colorado/) [New York (NY)](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/by-state/new-york/) [Illinois (IL)](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/by-state/illinois/)

Sector views

[foundation →](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/by-sector/foundation/) [productivity →](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/by-sector/productivity/) [legal →](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/by-sector/legal/) [healthcare →](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/by-sector/healthcare/) [banking →](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/by-sector/banking/)

Scoring as of 2026-05-13from public information (vendor trust portals, BAAs, SOC report cover pages, model cards, vendor documentation). Posture changes frequently — re-verify with the vendor's trust center before contract. State filter views surface vendors with explicit state engagement on the axes most relevant to that state's regulatory frame; they do not replace deployer-side state compliance work. Methodology: [read the full methodology](https://efros.com/research/us-ai-vendor-governance-index/methodology/).

## Turn the scoring into a deployable program

The Index tells you the posture. These engagements turn the posture into operational evidence for Texas deployments.

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