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"Local-first AI case management for Ontario criminal defence lawyers — zero cloud, zero data leaves1-10 Employees
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"Local-first AI case management for Ontario criminal defence lawyers — zero cloud, zero data leaves
LexSort Legal is a local-first case management tool built specifically for Ontario criminal defence lawyers. Everything — client communications, disclosure documents, matter files, AI-assisted extraction — runs entirely on the lawyer's own machine. Nothing goes to the cloud.

Criminal defence practice involves some of the most sensitive material in law: unredacted Crown disclosure, wiretap transcripts, informant records, and constant client communication under real time pressure. Commercial cloud AI tools require uploading this material to third-party servers, which creates real confidentiality and Law Society of Ontario compliance risk. LexSort was built as the alternative: a sovereign, on-device workstation where AI helps organize and surface information, but every suggested action requires the lawyer's explicit review before it's committed — human-in-the-loop by design, not an autonomous agent making decisions unsupervised.

We're an early-stage, pre-revenue company, and we're upfront about that. We're working with a practicing Ontario criminal defence lawyer for product development and feedback, and in active hands-on co-design with a law student testing the application directly. We have a native desktop application for macOS, verified end-to-end on a clean install, with a Windows version in active development.

If you care about building software that handles real stakes — where a missed detail has real consequences for someone's liberty, not just a business metric — this is that kind of work.

Contract Engineer — Harden & Extend Native Desktop App (Swift/Cocoa, WebView2)

Onsite or remote • Toronto • Remote (Toronto, Ontario) • Remote (Ottawa, Ontario)
$60k – $70k CAD • No equity
5 days ago
William Commu
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