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August 2026 Update A mid-year update on where Caseway is and what we are focused on through the fall.

As someone knee-deep in building a company that uses AI for legal research, I’ve watched the recent “hallucination leaderboard” with fascination and dread. This isn’t an official contest anyone wants to win. It’s a running tally of artificial intelligence screw-ups. It’s where chatbots invented fake facts or citations that ended up in real court filings. Every time another lawyer gets burned by a chatbot’s fantasy case law, I shake my head. It’s wild that in 2025, we have a scoreboard tracking which AI models lead in making stuff up. And honestly, I’m pretty proud (and relieved) that Caseway isn’t anywhere on that list. This is one list that we don’t want to be on.

Sean Midwood and I spent October 1 in Ottawa at CADSI’s Cyber and Digital Outlooks 2026, presented by Accenture. Most of Caseway’s defence work comes through large prime contractors. We work with those companies, but the end customer decides what needs to be built. That’s why we went: to hear directly from the people setting DND’s digital priorities, then talk with the companies responsible for delivering on them. The morning started with Vidya ShankarNarayan, MGen Cayle Oberwarth, MGen Justin Thibert and Janhabi Nandy, speaking from their leadership roles in DND’s digital organization. Then the focus moved to operations, with LGen Darcy Molstad, Commander of CJFC, and MGen Dave Yarker, the Cyber Force Commander. I liked that sequence. Before the coffee break, we had heard from the people responsible for the department’s digital systems and the commanders who rely on them. As a subcontractor, you don’t always get to hear both perspectives together. It helps put the work in context. The breakouts gave us more to dig into, followed by a lunchtime keynote from Jason Choueiri, ADM Digital Services and Chief Digital Officer. Where Caseway fits: A lot of the work we do starts with a fairly ordinary frustration. Someone has to copy information from one form into another. An approval sits in an inbox because nobody knows it’s waiting there. Records are scattered across systems, and reconciling them becomes a job in itself. These problems aren’t glamorous, but they take up time that people could spend doing the work they were hired for. Caseway builds sovereign AI to help with that. OmniFill fills forms using records a team already holds. Greenlight, our decision-control service, puts a review and approval checkpoint around decisions so the person signing off has the information they need. Both run where the data needs to stay, under the customer’s control. In defence, “sovereign” needs to mean something specific. Can the software run inside a controlled environment? Who can access the data? Can the supplier get through a prime contractor’s security review? Buyers should be asking those questions before they get excited about a demo. We’ve spent much of the past year getting our own paperwork in order. Caseway is registered under the Controlled Goods Program and qualified at Band 1 on PSPC’s Artificial Intelligence Source List. We’re IWSCC-certified, listed on CanadaBuys and the BC Defence Supplier Directory, registered on SAM.gov, and have an NCAGE code. We also belong to the Alliance of Canadian Defence Companies, and all 15 members of our team are based in Canada. I know that’s a long list of registrations and acronyms. But when a prime is deciding whether to bring a small company onto a bid, those details matter. We would rather have the answers ready than hold up the process. Why I was glad Sean came: Sean sits on Caseway’s advisory board. He served as a combat systems engineer in the Royal Canadian Navy, worked as a NATO civil servant, and now chairs Tribune Defence Corp. Much of his work involves helping technology companies navigate NATO and EU procurement. We spend a lot of time figuring out how a smaller Canadian company can contribute to a much larger defence program. Sean brings experience from the buying side, as well as an understanding of how those opportunities extend beyond Canada. That’s a useful perspective to have beside you at an event like this. The conversations we’re looking for: Caseway works with large companies in two ways. We build products together and share the revenue, or we help their existing teams get through their work with less manual effort. For a team spending too much of its week filling out forms, chasing approvals or piecing together records, the starting point doesn’t need to be a big discussion about AI. I’d rather understand what’s taking up their time and whether we can help. If you run a program at DND or lead a team at a prime contractor, I’d welcome that conversation. -Al Vigier is the CEO of Caseway

Caseway is now a pre-qualified supplier on the Government of Canada's Artificial Intelligence Source List. The confirmation arrived last week from Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), following our response to the Invitation to Qualify (Solicitation EN578-180001/B). Caseway qualified under Band 1 and will be invited to bid on federal AI opportunities solicited through the list.

Every month, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles publishes a report on how often electronic filings are rejected. In the year from December 2022 to November 2023, filings submitted through the court's self-represented "Guide & File" channel for family law were rejected at monthly rates as high as 38.7 percent, well above the roughly 17.5 percent court-wide family-law average and the 9.0 percent average for civil filings overall (Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles EFSP Rejection Rates report). The court also lists why filings bounce. The reasons are procedural: an incorrect filing code, a case number that does not match, a document missing information or attachments, the wrong court location, a form that is out of date (LA Superior Court). LA Court

July 2026 The first half of 2026 has been the busiest stretch in Caseway's history. Since our last public update, we have signed new partnerships on three continents, expanded our legal AI products deeper into the US market, and taken our defence decision-support work into Canada's NATO-aligned procurement pipeline. Here is what we have been working on.

When a company built on legal AI starts talking about cyber situational awareness and counter-drone decision support, the natural assumption is that it has changed course. That assumption is wrong. Caseway has not set aside legal technology to chase defence budgets. The defence work and the legal work run on the same engine, aimed at the same kind of problem from two directions.

Web Summit Vancouver runs May 11 to 14 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Caseway will be there for the second year in a row, this time as one of twelve BC ventures selected for the AI + Quantum block of the BC Venture Spotlight at the BC Pavilion, presented by Innovate BC in partnership with AI in BC and the Quantum Algorithms Institute. Our slot is Tuesday afternoon, May 12. Last year was a re-introduction. This year is different, and worth explaining why. Last year, we were the lawsuit company In May 2025 we walked into Web Summit Vancouver fresh off a court fight with a national case law database that had sued us for using publicly available court decisions. They didn't get their injunction. We didn't do anything wrong. But it sucked momentum out of the year, and we used the conference to take the narrative back. I wrote about that approach for Vancouver Tech Journal: How we made Web Summit work for us, instead of just surviving it. The CanLII matter settled confidentially in March 2026. That chapter is closed. The story we're telling at Web Summit this year has nothing to do with it. What changed in twelve months A short list of what's different about Caseway since we last set up at the Convention Centre. Caseway is now positioned as a Vancouver automation company that partners with large enterprises through a joint venture model and shares revenue with them. That's the partnerships page.

In the age of artificial intelligence, software like ChatGPT have made it tantalizingly easy to get quick answers to complex questions. Legal professionals, academic researchers, and enterprise clients are understandably intrigued by the prospect of AI-driven legal research that saves time. However, when it comes to law, what an artificial intelligence says is only as good as where the information comes from. Recent examples show that general artificial intelligence models can pull information from non-official sources (even crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia) in sensitive legal contexts, raising red flags about accuracy and reliability.

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At Caseway, confidentiality is the foundation. We recognize that legal professionals, businesses, and individuals place immense trust in us when they use our software. Whether you're drafting a contract, reviewing a court decision, or uploading sensitive materials into our platform, we treat your data with the level of care expected in the legal world: discreet, secure, and strictly private. This document outlines in plain terms and legal clarity how we handle, store, protect, and dispose of the data entrusted to us.