OUR STORY
99.5% of Canadian law firms have fewer than 100 lawyers. Harvey AI costs $225/user/month and is built for Am Law 100. We built Juris for everyone else.
When the 2024 BCSC decision landed, it sent a chill through Canadian practice. A lawyer had filed AI-hallucinated citations and faced sanctions. It was not the last case. The risk was real, and every lawyer who used AI felt it.
Harvey, CoCounsel, and Lexis+ AI were built for BigLaw. Their pricing ($225+/user/month), their onboarding, their support model — none of it fits a 2-person immigration boutique or a solo practitioner in Calgary.
Clio takes $150+/user/month and ships no meaningful AI. ChatGPT has no CanLII access, no privilege protection, no verification workflow. Lawyers were trapped between expensive compliance and dangerous convenience.
99.5%
of Canadian law firms have fewer than 100 lawyers
Source: Law Society data
53.7%
of lawyers use generative AI — but only 22.1% trust it
Source: Thomson Reuters 2024 State of the Legal Market
$225+
per user per month at Harvey AI — before enterprise minimums
Source: Harvey AI published pricing
Every design decision in Juris has a specific reason. Here are the ones that matter.
Schema-per-tenant isolation
Legal data is uniquely sensitive. A shared database means a software bug could expose one firm's client files to another. We eliminated that possibility architecturally — not just in policy.
Privilege exclusion at the data layer
Prompt-level instructions ("don't use privileged documents") can fail. Database-level exclusion cannot. Flagged documents are filtered in the SQL query before any AI sees them.
Mandatory citation verification
After Zhang v. Chen, we decided that optional verification was not enough. Sage cannot present a citation it has not checked against CanLII. This is not a feature — it is a constraint we chose.
EU hosting
US-hosted infrastructure is subject to CLOUD Act subpoenas. A US court can compel disclosure of client files without notifying you or your client. EU hosting removes that risk. Stronger protection, same price.
Flat firm-rate pricing
Per-user pricing punishes firms for growing. It creates a disincentive to add lawyers who need the tool. One flat rate means you add the articling student without a conversation about the billing impact.
Juris is operated by Kwata Team Inc., a federally incorporated Canadian company registered in Alberta. We build software for Canadian professionals who need tools built with Canadian law, Canadian data residency expectations, and Canadian professional obligations in mind.
We are a small team. We are not a VC-funded startup racing to enterprise. We are building the tool we would want if we practised law.
✓Kwata Team Inc. · CBCA federally incorporated · Registered in Alberta
✓EU-hosted infrastructure · GDPR-jurisdictional · Not subject to US CLOUD Act
✓PIPEDA + Alberta PIPA compliant · 7-year audit retention for legal data