As Canada’s legaltech community heads to Boston for ClioCon 2026, LegalTech.ca is spotlighting five Canadian companies helping law firms rethink how they do business.
Next up is AltFee, which helps law firms turn their pricing knowledge into consistent, data-driven fees that lawyers can confidently explain and clients can better understand.
For many law firms, pricing knowledge lives largely in individual lawyers’ heads. Canadian legaltech company AltFee wants to turn that experience into a resource the entire firm can use.
The company helps firms capture their pricing knowledge, build repeatable frameworks, and use historical information to make more consistent decisions. For prospective clients seeking cost certainty, that can mean a clearer conversation about fees before work begins.
“The goal is not simply to produce a number faster, but to help lawyers arrive at an upfront fee they can explain and confidently stand behind, while giving their prospective clients more cost certainty,” AltFee Co-founder and COO Digby C. Leigh tells LegalTech.ca.
AltFee’s integration with Clio connects those pricing decisions to the work that follows. Firms can price a matter in AltFee, streamline how that pricing flows into Clio for matter setup and invoicing, and then automatically bring matter, time, and billing data back into AltFee to assess how the work actually performed.
That feedback gives firms a stronger foundation for pricing similar matters in the future. It can also help lawyers explain how a proposed fee reflects the scope, complexity, and circumstances of a client’s needs.
“In a competitive intake process, that clarity and confidence can make a real difference in winning the work,” Leigh says.
At ClioCon, AltFee will be exploring how those conversations are changing as technology reshapes legal work. For Leigh, the growing focus on AI and efficiency raises an accompanying question: what happens to pricing when firms can deliver work more efficiently?
“If the way legal work is delivered is changing, firms need better tools to understand how they should scope, price and ultimately measure the success of that work.”
AltFee’s own development reflects that shift. Leigh says the platform is increasingly connecting pricing with budgeting, matter economics, and historical performance, helping firms understand both what they charged and how the engagement performed.
The company is also launching a new offering ahead of ClioCon specifically for Clio customers, designed to analyze fixed-fee matters using the time, billing, and matter data already captured in Clio. The goal is to help firms understand which fixed fees are working, where performance varies, and what they can learn from that history when pricing similar work in the future.
Leigh describes that work as part of a broader move toward “pricing intelligence,” using firms’ existing information to inform better decision making before, during, and after an engagement.
AltFee will arrive in Boston with another talking point: the company has just been named the 2026 Clio Integration Award winner for Best Business of Law App.
For firms considering how to adapt their pricing as legal work evolves, AltFee’s message is straightforward: better pricing starts with a better understanding of the work, the economics behind it, and what firms can learn from the historical performance of similar matters across that project type.