OUR STORY
The vast majority of law firms are small. Enterprise AI legal tools are built for BigLaw. 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.
Enterprise AI legal platforms were built for BigLaw. Their pricing, their onboarding, their support model — none of it fits a 2-person litigation or immigration boutique, or a solo practitioner in Calgary.
Traditional practice software is expensive and ships no meaningful AI. Generic AI tools have no verified legal-source access, no privilege protection, and no verification workflow. Lawyers were trapped between expensive compliance and dangerous convenience.
Verified
Every citation Sage relies on is checked against authoritative legal sources and linked — anything it can’t verify is flagged
Source: Built-in verification
Private
Your data is encrypted, isolated per firm, never used to train AI, and never sold
Source: Confidential by design
Per-firm
Schema-per-tenant isolation, mandatory two-factor authentication, and privilege-aware AI
Source: Security by design
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.
Citation verification against authoritative sources
After Zhang v. Chen, we decided optional verification was not enough. Sage checks its citations against authoritative legal sources, links you to each one, and clearly flags anything it cannot verify, so you never unknowingly rely on a case that may not exist. You still confirm before filing — but you are never guessing.
Your data is never a dataset
Many AI tools quietly use what you put in to improve their models. We do not. Your client files are never used to train AI, never sold, and never handed to advertisers. They exist only to do the work you asked for, inside your firm.
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.
Documents that sound like you
AI-drafted briefs that sound like a generic LLM are a tell. Lawyers have a voice — built over years of filings, rulings, and correspondence. Juris learns it. Upload previous work and Sage drafts in your voice, not ours.
Practice before you perform
Oral argument is a skill. It degrades without practice. A simulated judge or decision-maker that asks the questions you are not prepared for — before you face a real one — is not a gimmick. It is professional development that fits in 20 minutes.
Investigative and judicial AI modes
A research assistant that only finds cases is a library. Juris lets you switch Sage into investigative mode (map evidence gaps), judge mode (stress-test your argument), or analysis mode (structured risk assessment) — without leaving the case file.
THE NAME
Juris is Latin — the genitive of ius: law, right, justice. It is the root of jurisdiction, jurisprudence, and jury — the oldest word for what a lawyer actually does: hold the line on what is lawful, and what is right.
We chose it deliberately. A tool that handles privileged client work should be named in the language of the law, not the language of tech.
And we named the assistant Sage — an owl — because wisdom is knowing what you don't know. Juris holds the matter together; Sage surfaces the cases, the contradictions, and the gaps; you do the lawyering.
Juris is operated by Kwata Team, based in Alberta, Canada. We started by building for Canadian firms, and Juris now serves lawyers across practice areas and jurisdictions — grounding research in the firm's own country of practice, with the data residency and professional obligations of legal work 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 · Alberta, Canada
✓Confidential by design · Never used to train AI · Never sold
✓PIPEDA + Alberta PIPA aligned · 7-year audit retention for legal data
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