Cited. Instant. Accessible.Canada-wide.
Canadian law is bijural, bilingual, and is composed of 13 jurisdictions across the country. CourtStairs is built for Canadians to be a specialized alternative for legal AI: cited answers, voice intake, and meeting intelligence, designed for Canadian legal traditions and official languages.
The map
Where CourtStairs sits on the legal-tech map
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 CourtStairs is built for.
Free public indices
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? CourtStairs is built to sit at the intersection that the other categories miss: cited AI answers across Canadian common-law and civil-law traditions, in English and French, with a free tier open to everyone.
Different Category | Different Audience | Different Needs
What CourtStairs is, and what it is not
Different problem space
Some legal-tech products handle time tracking, billing, matter management, and document storage. They are a firm's back-office system.
CourtStairs 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.
CourtStairs is designed for Canadian solos, small practices, law students, support staff, and individuals researching their rights. 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.
CourtStairs is built to give you a cited answer in seconds, by voice or text, in French or English, with clickable links back to the source so you can verify it yourself.
What we focus on
Five capabilities, one product
Each capability takes time to build. Together, they shape the purpose of CourtStairs.
Bijural by design
Cited answers across Canadian civil-law tradition (Code civil, Code de procédure civile) and common-law tradition (federal and provincial public legal information), with citation links pointing back to the public sources. 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.
Phone call workflow
What happens when a client calls CourtStairs: 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
Cited answers across both Canadian legal traditions, structured for precision. Every AI answer aims to ship with clickable deep links pointing into public sources so you can verify it yourself.
Canada-wide
All 13 jurisdictions, two legal traditions, two languages
CourtStairs is built to work across 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. Cited research over federal and provincial public legal information — statutes, regulations, and government-published court decisions — in covered jurisdictions. EN-CA-first voice agent. Same case OS, same Canadian-region infrastructure.
Civil-law tradition
The civil-law tradition has its own primary sources and a French-first practice. CourtStairs cites Code civil, Code de procédure civile, and the related public case law, with a French-Canadian voice agent on the same product.
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, Canada-wide.
Try it
Ask a Canadian legal-research question. Free tier.
No credit card. Pick chat, voice, or meeting upload. Same product.