Canadian founder Alvin Lourdes is building a litigation intelligence platform designed to help lawyers navigate one of the most time-consuming parts of case preparation: reviewing large, document-heavy disclosure packages.
Developed by LegalFocusAI, DisclosureReview is an early-stage platform that converts unstructured legal documents into a searchable workspace of facts, timelines, witnesses, evidence and source references.
Lawyers can upload PDF and Word documents, after which the software extracts and organizes information from the file. It then performs a case assessment intended to identify apparent positions, contradictions, evidentiary gaps, key issues and potentially relevant cases.
Each finding is linked to the original document, allowing lawyers to examine the underlying material and verify the platform’s work themselves.
That traceability is central to how Lourdes is positioning DisclosureReview. Rather than simply producing summaries—or attempting to replace legal judgment—the platform is intended to organize complex information so lawyers can spend more time evaluating evidence and developing case strategy.
Lourdes has been bootstrapping the software while demonstrating it to criminal defence, insurance, civil and legal aid lawyers, as well as Crown counsel, across Canada. The platform remains in active development, with practitioner feedback being used to validate its workflow and refine its capabilities before a broader launch.
According to Lourdes, a consistent concern raised during those conversations is that disclosure packages continue to grow in both size and complexity, making document review an increasingly demanding part of litigation.
DisclosureReview is designed to address that burden by transforming documents into structured and explainable information. In addition to extracting facts and building timelines, the platform aims to help counsel see how witnesses, evidence and issues connect across a file without losing the link to the original source.
Lourdes says he has also developed a proprietary model trained specifically on Canadian legal materials. He believes the specialized model can reduce hallucination risk and improve the relevance and explainability of the platform’s findings.
The company has not yet announced a commercial launch date. For now, Lourdes is continuing to meet with practitioners and demonstrate the technology as he builds DisclosureReview around the realities of Canadian litigation.
Its development reflects a broader shift in legal AI away from general-purpose assistants and toward tools built for specific, document-intensive workflows. In DisclosureReview’s case, the ambition is not to make decisions for lawyers, but to give them a clearer and more navigable view of the evidence on which those decisions depend.
Lawyers interested in learning more or requesting a demonstration can visit legalfocusai.com.