Most legal practice management platforms are designed around lawyers and billing. Kelowna startup Reede is taking a different approach by building its software around the professionals who keep matters moving.
Founded by practising British Columbia paralegal Adrienne Brabandt, Reede brings a matter’s documents, data, deadlines, communications and billing into one platform, supporting the file from intake through completion.
Brabandt drew on approximately a decade of experience in conveyancing, corporate law and minute book work to design the platform’s workflows.
“I’ve never had software that worked the way a file actually runs,” Brabandt told LegalTech.ca. “Practice management tools are built around the lawyer and billing. The paralegal doing the work ends up running the matter out of Word, Outlook and a spreadsheet anyway.”
Brabandt had been envisioning the platform for years but lacked a traditional software-development background. Advances in coding tools ultimately gave her a way to turn the idea into a working product.
“I’ve had the thing sketched out in my head for years,” she said. “This year the coding tools got advanced enough that I could build it without being a developer, so I did.”
Reede allows users to upload an intake email, contract, court form, corporate record or other document. Its AI extracts structured information—including names, dates, addresses, amounts and parties—and uses it to establish a matter and propose a checklist of next steps.
That information remains attached to the file and can be used for document drafting, electronic signatures, deadline tracking, client communications, timekeeping and invoicing. Reede can also maintain a register of contracts and track terms, renewals and termination windows.
Its AI assistant can prepare documents, organize document sets, follow up on signatures and identify outstanding tasks. Users decide how much autonomy it receives, ranging from suggesting an action to drafting or completing it with approval.
Reede’s guided workflows currently cover matters such as incorporations, conveyances, annual filings, probate, share transfers, reorganizations and commercial transactions. The platform also supports general files across corporate, real estate, litigation, family, wills and estates, and employment law.
Brabandt said the product is currently strongest in solicitor-side work, reflecting her own professional background. Over the next several months, she plans to expand its matter workflows for litigation and family practices while completing an integration with BC Registries.
The platform is also designed around Canadian legal requirements rather than generic templates. Its forms, workflows and defaults reflect the relevant jurisdiction, including content developed specifically for Quebec’s civil-law system.
AI features remain optional, and every workflow can be completed manually. Documents produced with AI are identified as drafts requiring counsel review. Reede says customer information is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is logged and client data is not used to train AI models.
Reede launched in August and is already being tested by paralegals and small firms, primarily in British Columbia. Brabandt said two larger Kelowna firms are also evaluating the platform.
She is running a founding-user program that gives a small group of paralegals access for one year at a reduced rate in exchange for candid feedback.
The platform is broadly available now, with firms able to try it on a single matter before committing to a subscription. The first matter costs $49, subsequent individual matters cost $99 and firm plans begin at $289 per month.
By turning a paralegal’s firsthand understanding of legal work into software, Reede is betting that practice management can become more useful when it reflects not only who oversees a file, but also who keeps it moving.