Canada’s legaltech ecosystem is entering a decisive new phase. After years of experimentation, 2026 is shaping up to be the year when legal technology moves from promise to practice, with startups demonstrating real adoption, revenue, and impact across law firms, in-house teams, and legal service providers.
The 10 companies featured here reflect that shift. They span pricing and practice economics, AI-native legal services, document intelligence, contract management, intake, intellectual property analytics, and real estate law. What unites them is a focus on solving concrete problems lawyers actually face — predictability, efficiency, trust, compliance, and client experience.
Together, these startups signal where Canadian legaltech is headed — and why 2026 will be a pivotal year to watch.
AltFee
AltFee is a Vancouver-based legaltech startup helping law firms move beyond the billable hour through structured, value-based pricing. Its SaaS platform enables firms to scope matters, build fixed-fee and alternative fee arrangements, and manage pricing collaboratively with clients—improving transparency, predictability, and profitability.
Co-founded in 2020 by Scott Leigh and Digby C. Leigh, AltFee draws on deep legal industry experience to modernize how legal services are priced in an increasingly efficiency- and client-driven market.
BorderPass
BorderPass is an AI-native immigration legal practice founded in 2020 by Sally Daub and Josh Green to solve the economics problem that has long constrained legal services. The company combines automation with licensed lawyer oversight to deliver scalable, affordable, and compliant immigration support for students, newcomers, and employers.
Unlike many AI startups, BorderPass is profitable and self-funded, demonstrating a sustainable business model. Its traction has earned recognition on Deloitte’s Fast 50 and The Globe and Mail’s Top Growing Companies 2025 list, positioning BorderPass as a blueprint for scalable legal services beyond immigration law.
Formic AI
Formic AI is a Toronto-based legaltech startup founded in 2021 by CEO Daniel Escott. Its “Made-in-Canada” AI platform delivers secure, explainable, citation-linked search and analytics tailored for regulated industries like law and finance, helping organizations trust and verify results against their own data.
Publicly launching in 2025, Formic positions itself as a transparent alternative to opaque AI systems, emphasizing compliance, data sovereignty, and efficient operation for sensitive, high-stakes work. Its technology aims to enhance enterprise search and decision support while keeping clients’ data secure and fully controlled.
Goodfact
GoodFact is a Toronto-based legaltech startup that transforms massive, complex document sets into accurate, interactive litigation chronologies in minutes, helping lawyers focus on advocacy instead of tedious admin work by parsing emails, PDFs and more with AI-enhanced precision. It was co-founded in 2022 by commercial litigator Tali Green and software engineer Thomas Rubbert out of a need to automate manual chronology building.
GoodFact’s tool is used by litigation teams globally to bring clarity to case facts and streamline workflow, with an emphasis on fact-curation and reliability over generic AI summaries.
Lawbrokr
Lawbrokr is a Toronto-based legaltech company modernizing how law firms attract and qualify new clients. Its platform replaces static contact forms with conversational, interactive intake workflows that pre-qualify leads and boost conversion rates, helping firms capture better data and reduce wasted marketing spend.
Lawbrokr recently launched Lawbrokr Enterprise, including AI-powered tools like Justice, to support partners such as legal directories and agencies with smarter digital intake and marketing automation. Trusted across North America, the SaaS solution streamlines client intake and helps firms grow efficiently by guiding prospects through tailored workflows.
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LexSelect
LexSelect is a Vancouver-based legaltech startup co-founded by CEO Morgan Maguire in 2023. The company uses AI to transform unstructured legal documents—such as PDFs and scanned files—into structured, machine-readable data. Its flagship product, LexChat, enables lawyers to query large document sets and receive fully cited answers tied directly to source material, with seamless Microsoft Word integration.
Designed to handle messy, real-world documents without hallucinations, LexSelect reduces manual review and unlocks institutional knowledge. The company was selected for the TLTF Summit Startup Showcase in 2025, highlighting its growing traction in legal AI.
NLPatent
NLPatent is a Toronto-based legaltech startup transforming patent research with AI. Its platform uses proprietary, patent-trained large language models to let IP and R&D professionals search, analyze, monitor and visualize global patent data faster and more accurately than traditional methods.
NLPatent serves law firms, Fortune 500 companies and universities, helping users make better decisions in patentability, prior art and competitive analysis. In 2025 the company raised $3M to expand across North America and Europe and build more advanced AI workflows. It was founded by former IP lawyer Stephanie Curcio and engineer James Stonehill in 2022.
Ownright
Ownright is a Toronto-based proptech legaltech firm that simplifies residential real estate transactions with a digital-first platform, offering streamlined property closings, mortgage refinancing, and condo status certificate reviews.
Formerly known as Doormat, the company rebranded in 2025 after raising a $4.5M seed round to expand automation and client experience. Ownright has processed thousands of deals in Ontario, integrates legal expertise with technology for transparent pricing and real-time tracking, and provides tools for proptech partners. It aims to make the traditionally complex legal side of home buying and selling faster, clearer, and more accessible.
Recital
Recital is a Vancouver-based AI-native contract platform co-founded in 2021 by Martin Ertl and Brendan Mulholland. It helps in-house legal teams automatically discover, organize and manage contracts scattered across email and cloud storage into a structured, searchable repository with minimal setup.
Recital’s tools streamline key tasks like version comparison, clause search, and data extraction directly in tools lawyers already use, reducing manual effort and accelerating contract workflows.
Walter
Walter is a Vancouver-based legaltech startup that simplifies the fragmented legal ecosystem by unifying contracts, cap tables, minute books and client records. Founded by multi-exited entrepreneur Ryan Wilson, Walter has expanded into AI, launching a workflow-embedded AI Agent that works natively in Microsoft Word and Outlook to streamline document drafting, email communication and routine firm tasks, freeing lawyers for higher-value work.
The company’s AI Joint Innovation Program now includes major firms like McCarthy Tétrault, highlighting its practical approach to responsible AI adoption in transactional law.