British Columbia’s artificial intellgigence startup scene at full boil. You’ve got climate technology heros reinventing energy, fintech folks building the next Stripe, artificial intelligence hardware engineers who sleep next to GPUs, and blockchain dreamers still clinging to Web3 like it’s 2021 (it’s time to move on I think.) But something exciting in Vancouver happened last week. Startup TNT dropped their BC Summit XI Top 20 list, and tucked right between some hopeful companies there was Caseway.
Trust me, I know that legal technology doesn’t usually make you want to sprint to your laptop and go down a habbit hole. But I’ve been hands-on with this space for years, and Caseway caught my eye months ago. This wasn’t because of hype, but because of how quietly dangerous their product is. Dangerous in a good way. Dangerous to the “billable hour” legal mafia, which Alistair Vigier the CEO of Caseway calls the “Lawfia.”
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The Vancouver company has trained their artificial intellgience system on hundreds of millions of court decisions. That’s right, millions. You ask it a question like, “Can my landlord kick me out for getting a cat?” and it doesn’t send you to a Reddit thread or some random’s blog post. It pulls up actual rulings by judges. Think of it as Westlaw for regular people… but you don’t need to sell your liver to afford access.
It’s not theoretical either. In eight months, they racked up hundreds of paying users, scored a massive federal grant, and started getting calls from both law firms and business departments with budgets that smell like old money. They’re not only aiming at lawyers. They’re aiming at consultants, real estate agents, and business owners. People who can’t afford a $475-an-hour lawyer but still need real answers, fast.
That’s why Startup TNT adding them to the Top 20 matters. TNT has weeks of diligence, investor grilling, and awkward Zooms where someone always forgets to mute. But it works. You don’t get in unless the back end checks out. And now Caseway is heading to the pitch night at the AWS office in Vancouver on April 15, which means one thing: it’s game time. Let’s go!
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One of the founders once sued a corporation into dust and bought a house with the settlement (I’m exaggerating… a little). These guys know how to build, break, and rebuild faster. They’ve done this dance before, but now they’ve got AI in their corner. And when you’ve got a machine reading 100M cases, you don’t need buzzwords. It’s the real deal.
Parsing that much court data in real time is borderline sci-fi. It’s the mission. Most legal technology founders wants to cut lawyers out. Caseway wants to cut confusion out. The goal is a future where your first legal move isn’t “find a lawyer,” it’s “ask Caseway.”
That shift is massive. It’s the difference between a $0 consultation and a $5000 surprise invoice. Multiply that by the 70% of people who go to court alone in Canada and the USA, and the numbers get crazy. Imagine ten million people getting legal clarity without legal bills. That’s a revolution and it’s long overdue.
So yeah, there’s buzz around this company. But it’s earned and startup TNT didn’t hand out trophies. They threw down a challenge. Caseway accepted. And if they do well in this thing, it won’t be because they pitched well, it’ll be because they’re solving a real problem that almost no one else wants to touch.
If you’re in Vancouver, go watch the pitch night and if you’re an investor, get on their radar before someone else does. If you’re a regular person with a legal headache then go try Caseway before your headache turns into a lawsuit.
Legal technology’s had enough dashboards. It’s time for disruption with teeth. Caseway brought a chainsaw.
Author: Dean McMullen
