Cited. Instant. Precise.Coast to coast to coast.
Canadian law is bijural, bilingual, and 13 jurisdictions deep. Court Stairs is built to be a Canadian alternative for legal AI: cited answers, voice intake, and meeting intelligence, designed for both legal traditions and both official languages.
The map
Where the categories sit, and where we sit
Two questions sort every legal-tech product: who is it built for, and does it answer the legal question or just point you at documents? Plot the categories and a gap appears in the top-right. That gap is what Court Stairs is built for.
Public corpora
Free public access to case law and statutes. Search-only: you read every result yourself.
Everyone, cited AI
Cited AI answers, voice agent, meeting intelligence. Built for both Canadian legal traditions and both official languages, with a free tier open to everyone.
Subscription research
Paid research databases. Search-focused, primarily designed for firms.
Firm-focused legal AI
AI products primarily designed for firm subscriptions and specific firm workflows.
Two questions sort every legal-tech product: who is it built for, and does it answer the legal question or just point you at documents to read? Court Stairs is built to sit at the intersection that the other categories miss: cited AI answers, available across Canadian common-law and civil-law materials, in English and French, with a free tier open to everyone.
Different category, different audience
What Court Stairs is, and is not
When people first hear "AI for Canadian law," they reach for one of three mental models. Here is the honest version of which category we are in.
Different problem space
Some legal-tech products handle time tracking, billing, matter management, and document storage. They are a firm's back-office system.
Court Stairs is the legal-research and client-intake layer, not a practice-management tool. We answer the legal question with citations, take the intake call, and turn meetings into matter files. We are designed to sit alongside back-office systems, not replace them. Our free tier is open to everyone.
Different audience
Other legal AI products are designed primarily for the largest firms with enterprise procurement processes, contracts, and onboarding.
Court Stairs is designed for Canadian solos, small practices, paralegals, students, and individuals researching their rights. Bijural, bilingual, free tier. A different audience requires a different ground truth.
Built to add an answer layer
Public legal databases give Canadians access to case law and statutes. They are search engines and libraries, not answers to a question.
Court Stairs is built to give you a cited answer in seconds, by voice or text, in French or English, with deep links back to the public source so you can verify it yourself. Where legally permitted, we link out to public legal sources for verification.
What we focus on
Five capabilities, built into one product
Each of these takes time to build. Together, they shape what Court Stairs is for.
Bijural by design
Civil-law sources (Code civil, Code de procédure civile) and common-law sources (federal and provincial case law and statutes) in the same jurisdiction-aware engine. Built to handle both Canadian legal traditions natively.
FR-CA and EN-CA, native
Not a translation layer. The voice agent, the retrieval, and the citation grounding are designed to run in French-Canadian and English-Canadian at parity, including federal courts, New Brunswick, and parts of Ontario, Manitoba, and Nunavut where bilingualism applies.
Sovereign by design
Canadian-region hosting. Law 25-aligned controls. Canadian-corp incorporation in progress. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness on the roadmap. Built so client data does not need to be retrofitted to work with us.
Voice-to-Case loop
A client calls. The AI takes the call in their language, transcribes it, builds a mind map, drafts the matter file, and surfaces relevant precedent before you walk back to your desk.
Citation-grounded answers
200,000+ Canadian legal documents in the corpus, indexed and structured. Every AI answer ships with clickable deep links to the source. If we cannot cite it, we do not say it.
Coast to coast to coast
All 13 jurisdictions, two legal traditions, two languages
Court Stairs is built to cover every Canadian jurisdiction, both legal traditions, and both official languages in a single product.
Common-law provinces and territories
BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, NB, NS, PE, NL, YT, NT, NU. Grounded retrieval over Canadian federal and provincial case law and statutes. EN-CA-first voice agent. Same case OS, same Canadian-region infrastructure.
Civil-law tradition
The civil-law jurisdiction has its own corpus and a French-first practice. Court Stairs covers Code civil, Code de procédure civile, and the related case law, with a French-Canadian voice agent on the same engine.
Officially bilingual jurisdictions
Federal courts, New Brunswick, parts of Ontario, Manitoba, and Nunavut. Designed to handle both languages natively, in both legal traditions.
Every province and territory has solos who miss intake calls, want grounded research, and want to keep client data inside Canadian-region infrastructure. That is our entire ICP, coast to coast to coast.
Try it
Ask a Canadian legal-research question. Free tier.
No credit card. Pick chat, voice, or meeting upload. Same engine.