If you’re a lawyer, paralegal, or even someone dealing with a legal issue, you’ve probably noticed the legal tech space is heating up, especially regarding AI. The market’s getting crowded, and with so many different AI products promising the world, it’s fair to ask, “So what makes this one different?” In the case of Caseway, the answer is pretty compelling.
Not a ChatGPT Wrapper
Caseway isn’t just another artificial intellgience software toy wrapped in a slick UI. It’s purpose-built software focuses exclusively on legal content, and that’s its biggest strength. Instead of scraping the internet for Reddit threads or blog posts, it sources everything directly from judge-written court decisions in Canada and the U.S. And they have a database of over 100 million rulings.
This is likely even larger than Thompson Reuters and LexisNexis, which charges ten times as much as Caseway. And if their AI gets something wrong, it’s not hallucinating, it’s citing a judge who might’ve had a bad day, which of course happens many times out of 100 million court decisions.
This narrow focus means it’s also fast and on-point. It’s the difference between fishing with a net and a spear. And lawyers don’t have time to sort through junk data. They want quick, accurate, judge-backed information. That’s what Caseway delivers.
Partnerships and Talent
Caseway is also backed by talent and funding. The company secured three PhD students from a major Canadian University, alongside $750,000 in government grants, and it’s working on partnerships with organizations like the Squamish Nation to increase access to justice through interactive legal education (using gamification, like the game where kids learn math via a game.)
What makes it all click is that one of the co-founders, Alistair Vigier, isn’t an outside to law. Alistair built a $5M law firm before starting Clearway (a lawyer review website) and now Caseway. He talks to lawyers every day. This is a founder who knows where the time goes, and what lawyers need from software like this.
The Caseway Business Model
Caseway has a clean B2B SaaS model: $49/month for individual users and $99/month for the version that lets you upload legal documents into your own legal portal (just for you.) Upload a civil claim, and Caseway can flag legal holes, overruled cases, or sections that don’t line up with precedents.
It’s already rolled out to paid users, and 50 paid sign-ups were made in its first month. The plan is to scale to $25K/month in recurring revenue, then raise a $1–3M round to fuel growth. There are plans for API licensing, including with firms like Affipay, which serves 19,000 law firms and is considering offering Caseway as a white-labeled feature in its product suite.
They’re not burning money on PPC ads. Alistair Vigiers’s been hustling in the media and on Linkedin, manually reaching out to lawyers and getting an 50% response rate for people interested in trying the product. It’s old-school, but it’s working.
Who’s Using Caseway?
Solo lawyers and small firms are obvious targets, these are folks without dedicated research staff who can spend hours digging through caselaw. Caseway cuts research time down to seconds. One lawyer recently said using it gave them “a weekend of their month back.”
Government lawyers love it, too. Crown counsel, who often juggle multiple cases under time pressure, have told the team this is precisely what they’ve been waiting for. Nobody wants to dig through a 100-page ruling to realize it’s irrelevant.
Self-represented litigants are a massive and underserved group. 70% of people in the Canadian justice system don’t have a lawyer. Caseway doesn’t replace legal counsel but gives them access to case law in plain English. That’s a game-changer. Judges respect self-reps who show up prepared; Caseway helps them do that.
Practice Areas Where Caseway Hits Hard
If you’re in family law, research is often half the job. Precedents, custody rulings, and spousal support formulas are buried in case law. Cut that time in half, and it changes everything.
Immigration and personal injury lawyers need up-to-date decisions constantly. One court ruling can change how an entire case is handled. Caseway delivers the latest decisions instantly.
In criminal defence, where can 70% of the time be spent on case review? That’s where Caseway arguably makes its most significant impact. One Crown prosecutor said it best: “This is what we’ve been waiting for.”
Not Just for Lawyers
Caseway has also been quietly onboarding non-lawyer organizations. These include businesses, clinics, and municipalities. This is done by training bespoke agents on their past legal documents (think NDAs, separation agreements, etc.). The Caseway AI reproduces documents with the same structure and wording every time, meaning consistency, accuracy, and real productivity gains for teams not even in legal practice.
What’s Next?
The next phase is expanding into the U.S., enterprise licensing, and building features like Microsoft Word integrations and in-platform document automation.
They’re also exploring optional features that allow users to decide whether to keep data inside the platform or export summaries into Word. Caseway isn’t trying to replace anything lawyers are already doing. It’s just making those workflows faster and smarter.
Suppose you’re in the legal field, whether in court every week or just trying to draft solid contracts without spending five hours on research, Caseway’s one to watch. It’s not trying to be everything to everyone. It’s focused, practical, and built by people who know the trenches.
And that kind of clarity is rare in a market full of noise.
Author: Eric Lawson
Eric Lawson is a legal technology analyst. He specializes in AI software for law firms.
