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Built for Ontario litigators · v1.0

Ontario legal work,
from question
to drafted output.

Curia is the workspace, not the chatbot. Research, document analysis, matter timelines, and drafting live in one place — grounded in Ontario law, cited line-by-line, and wired into the way litigation actually gets done.

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What's the duty-to-mitigate threshold for a 14-year tenured VP of Sales under Ontario law?

Ontario courts apply the Red Deer College standard, but for long-tenure senior executives the bar sits noticeably higher — Peet v. Babcock and Lake v. La Presse treat an unreasonable two-to-three month search as the floor, not the rule.

For a 14-year VP with industry-specific compensation, courts have consistently credited six to nine months of search activity without reduction.

Peet v. Babcock & Wilcox2001 ONCA · 55 O.R. (3d) 321
Lake v. La Presse2022 ONCA · 2022 ONCA 742
Red Deer College v. Michaels1975 SCC · [1976] 2 S.C.R. 324
Working memory: Okafor⌘⏎ ExpandInsert into Factum
The thesis

Every legal AI tool is a chatbot bolted onto search. Curia is the opposite: a full workspace where research, documents, matter state, and draft output share the same memory.

We built it for one jurisdiction, not fifty. Ontario case law. Ontario procedure. Ontario forms. Because generic almost-correct is worse than specific and known.

Ask a question. Upload a statement of claim. Open a matter. Same workspace. Same context. No re-explaining who your client is across six tabs.

One matter, three surfaces

From “what's the law?” to a filed factum, in the same workspace.

Follow one real question as it moves through Curia — research grounded in Ontario cases, documents auto-analyzed into the matter timeline, then drafted with live citations back to source.

1
Research
Ask a precise question in plain English.
Curia searches CanLII, court files and your own matter history. Every answer is grounded in specific paragraphs of specific cases, never a vague summary.
R-2428 · Lindqvist12 results
Bardal v. Globe & Mail ONCA
Honda Canada v. Keays SCC
Lake v. La Presse ONCA
Peet v. Babcock & Wilcox ONCA
2
Analyze
Drop a document. It becomes part of the matter.
Statements of claim, IME reports, affidavits — Curia extracts issues, pulls dates into the timeline, flags contradictions, and threads everything through the matter file.
Statement_of_Claim.pdfparsed
3 causes of action extracted
11 dates to timeline
2 contradictions flagged
8 comparable cases queued
3
Draft
Write the factum with citations that actually exist.
Drafting opens with your matter's context already loaded. Ask for a damages section; get one with live pincites, defensible quantum, and a passable tone for the bench — not generic legalese.
Factum · Summary Judgmentv4
Parties §1–4 · complete
Facts §5–18 · complete
Issues §19–22 · complete
Relief sought · in review
Seven surfaces, one context

Every tool a litigator reaches for, sharing the same memory.

01 · Matters

A file drawer that thinks.

Every matter is a live workspace: timeline, documents, research sessions, drafts, and tasks under one spine. Ask “what do I need to do on Okafor this week?” — Curia knows.

Active matters · 144 urgent
Okafor v. Sentinel FreightDue todayR-2428
Lindqvist v. RiverstoneMediationR-2419
Estate of H. TremblayDiscoveryR-2406
BrightArc v. NovaSteelPleadingsR-2401
02 · Timeline

Every fact, on a line.

Dates pulled from documents and pleadings become a navigable matter timeline. Spot gaps before the other side does.

Mar 14, 2023
Collision · Hwy 407
Apr 02, 2023
First IME — Dr. Ng
Apr 20, 2026
Motion for summary judgment
May 14, 2026
Settlement conference
03 · Research

Ontario law, paragraph-level.

No hallucinated citations. Every authority Curia returns exists, sits in its real context, and is one click from the source paragraph.

R-2428 · Duty to mitigateCanLII
Lake v. La Presse2022 ONCA
Peet v. Babcock¶ 14–19
Evans v. Teamsters2008 SCC
04 · Drafting

Factum-quality, first pass.

Not autocomplete. Drafting writes structured work product — facta, letters, memos — with pincite citations you can defend.

Factum — Part II, Issues

The plaintiff submits that the threshold of “reasonable mitigation efforts” is a contextual inquiry Red Deer College, not a rigid proof of ninety-day outreach.

05 · Expert Attack

Break a bad IME.

Drop an expert report. Curia identifies methodological weaknesses, contradictions with the medical record, and cross-examination angles worth trying.

IME — Dr. Chen, MD4 issues
High
Methodology: no ICD-11 baseline documented before functional capacity assessment.
Med
Contradicts family physician record dated Aug 12 (pain diary).
06 · Damages Bank

Comparable awards, cross-referenced by facts — not just citations.

Search by plaintiff profile, injury type, venue, and year. Curia returns the 8–15 comparables that actually match — then projects a defensible settlement range you can take into mediation.

Ontario · Mild TBI · Age 35–50 · 2022–2628 comparables
$280k $420k
Low · $280kMedian · $340kHigh · $420k
07 · Judges

Who's on the bench — and what they actually do with motions like yours.

Bench analytics across Ontario and federal jurists. Plaintiff verdict rates, median general damages, summary judgment grant rates, typical motion-to-decision timelines. Know what you're walking into before you draft the notice.

Plaintiff verdict · MVA
62%
Morishita J · ONSC
Median general damages
$155k
36-mo trailing
SJ grant rate
41%
n = 148 motions
Motion-to-decision
38 d
avg., civil side
Specific, on purpose

Generic almost-correct is worse than specific and known.

Other tools spread thin across every jurisdiction. Curia goes deep on one. Everything below is built into the workspace by default — no integrations, no “coming soon,” no disclaimer you have to remember in motion practice.

  • i.
    Ontario Rules of Civil Procedure — wired in.
    Deadlines, service rules, form numbers surface contextually as you work. No more rule-by-rule grep.
  • ii.
    CanLII + court files, fully indexed.
    Every citation returns to source. Every pincite is real. Updated daily, not quarterly.
  • iii.
    Canadian data residency, SOC 2 in-flight.
    Your matters never leave Canadian cloud. Tenant-isolated. Legal professional privilege respected as a primitive, not a policy.
  • iv.
    Tuned for litigation, not transactional.
    PI, employment, civil, estates, disability. If you draft pleadings and argue motions, Curia is built for you.
Pricing

One plan. Everything included.

No tiers to compare. No features locked behind upgrades. Start free and upgrade when you’re ready.

FAQ

Answers before you ask.

Does Curia actually check its citations, or is this the usual hallucinated-case story?
Every citation Curia surfaces is verified against CanLII at response time. If it can’t match the case in the live index, the citation doesn’t ship. You can click through to the paragraph in source. No "I’m sorry, that case doesn’t exist" letters to the bench.
Why only Ontario? I do work in BC and Alberta too.
We’d rather be excellent on one jurisdiction than mediocre on all of them. Ontario is a deliberately narrow v1 — the Rules, the case law density, and the procedure are modelled end-to-end. Other provinces are on the roadmap once the Ontario experience is tight.
Where does my matter data live?
Canadian cloud, tenant-isolated, encrypted at rest and in transit. Your data is never used to train shared models. SOC 2 Type II is in flight; DPA available for firms.
What does "workspace, not chatbot" mean in practice?
It means research, documents, timeline, and drafts are the same object, not three tools loosely connected. Ask Curia about a matter, and the answer is grounded in that matter’s documents and history — not a generic response you then copy into a separate drafting surface.
Is this going to replace my paralegal?
No. It’s going to give your paralegal an afternoon back. Curia compresses the rote parts of the work — citation gathering, timeline assembly, first-pass drafting — so the people on your team can work on the parts only they can do.
How accurate is "accurate enough"?
Every output is reviewable before it leaves the workspace. Drafting surfaces cite-by-cite sourcing. Research surfaces paragraph-level pincites. Damages Bank shows you the comparables it ranged from. You’re always the signatory — Curia’s job is to be the fastest correct first pass you’ve ever worked with.
Open your first matter

Start on a hard question.
End on a filed draft.

Five free credits to test it on a real matter. No credit card.

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