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AI for Canadian law firms and legal teams
Ask a matter file a question and get the passage back. Digby reads the contracts, precedents and policies a firm already works from — and stores the work in Canada.
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What it does for a legal team
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Matter-file Q&A
upload the disclosure, the correspondence and the expert report to a project, then ask in plain language and get the passage that answers it.
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Contract review support
flag unusual clauses, compare a draft against your firm’s standard form, and list what changed between two versions.
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Precedent research with sources
Digby searches the live web when facts are current, cites what it found, and a different model checks the answers that matter.
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Policy and know-how Q&A
the firm manual, the conflicts policy, the billing guidelines, in one place everyone can ask.
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Drafting from a template
a first-pass memo, a client update letter or a chronology, written in your voice from the project’s instructions.
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A project per matter
Each matter gets its own project: its own documents, its own instructions, its own people. Invite the associate and the paralegal as editors, the student as a viewer, and nothing crosses into another matter.
Project instructions carry the firm’s rules — the tone of a client update, the defined terms you always use, the sentences a reply must never contain — so every draft in that matter starts from them.
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Confidentiality, in plain terms
Your documents are stored in Canada and processed by models served on Canadian hardware, and they are never used to train or fine-tune AI models. Memory is visible and deletable; conversations can be deleted one at a time or all at once; share links are opt-in and revocable. A firm that must keep everything inside its own network can self-host the full stack.
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Where a lawyer still has to be the lawyer
Digby drafts and summarises; it does not advise. Every output is a first pass that a licensee reviews, verifies and takes responsibility for — the same way a junior’s memo is reviewed before it leaves the firm.
That matters for professional obligations too. Law societies across Canada have been clear that lawyers remain responsible for the work product and for client confidentiality, whatever tools they use. Nothing here changes a firm’s own obligations, and nothing on this page is legal advice.
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A sensible first month
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Start with know-how, not matters
put the firm manual and the standard forms in a project and let people ask questions about their own procedures first.
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Then one closed matter
a file that is already resolved, so the team can check Digby’s answers against the record.
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Write the rule down
what may go in, what never does, who reviews an output before it is used.
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Then open it up
new matters, with a reviewer named for anything client-facing.
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Bilingual client service
Ask in French and the answer comes back in French; ask in English and it does too. For firms serving clients in both languages, a project can hold both versions of a document and answer from either.
Frequently asked questions
Is Digby a legal advice tool?
No. Digby drafts, summarises and finds passages. A licensee reviews every output and remains responsible for it. Nothing Digby produces is legal advice.
Can I put client documents into Digby?
Many firms do, in a project scoped to that matter. Your files are stored in Canada, processed by models on Canadian hardware, and never used to train AI models. Whether a given document may go into any third-party tool is a decision for the firm under its own confidentiality and client obligations.
Can Digby cite where an answer came from?
Yes. Answers grounded in your uploaded documents point back to the passages they used, and research answers cite the pages Digby read.
Can we keep client data out of the cloud entirely?
Yes — self-host Digby on your own servers with your own model endpoints, so documents and inference stay inside the firm’s network.
Does Digby work in French?
Yes. Digby answers in the language it is asked in, and reads French documents as readily as English ones.
What should we not use it for?
Anything requiring legal judgement without review: final advice to a client, a limitation-period calculation you have not verified, or a citation you have not opened and read.
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