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French is the official language of Juge.ca. In the event of any discrepancy, ambiguity, omission, or conflict of interpretation, the French version shall prevail.

Roadmap

Where Juge.ca is today and where it is going. Dates are targets and may evolve.

Our north star

The Litigation Copilot

Every litigant and every lawyer eventually asks the same question: what should I do next? Our goal is for Juge.ca to always know the answer — the next procedural step, the next missing exhibit, the next motion, the next deadline, and the next strategic move. That is when Juge.ca stops being a legal information site and becomes the operating system for litigation.

Where we're going

Legal Strategy Engine

A “legal GPS”: your strongest and weakest arguments, what to file, defenses to expect, and an honest read on likelihood of success.

Evidence Gap Analysis

Surfaces the proof you're missing — witness statements, emails, timeline evidence — before it costs you.

Litigation Risk Dashboard

Strengths, weaknesses, and risks at a glance: exhibits, witnesses, limitation periods, and burden-of-proof concerns.

Settlement Intelligence

Expected settlement ranges, the cost and time of continuing, and the risk of losing — for rational decisions.

Witness Center

Profiles, statements, and interview notes — with generated examination and cross-examination questions, contradictions, and credibility issues.

Hearing Simulator

Practice with an AI that plays judge, opposing counsel, and witness — then critiques your answers.

War Room & Courtroom Mode

A visual map of parties, evidence, events, and motions — plus one-click, tablet-ready hearing preparation.

AI File Review

Upload thousands of pages; get key facts, contradictions, important dates, and parties — saving hundreds of hours.

Justice Score™

A single readiness metric across evidence, timeline, legal support, witnesses, and procedure. “Case readiness: 84/100.”

These capabilities describe where Juge.ca is headed. They are not yet available, and Juge.ca provides legal information, not legal advice.

Roadmap

  1. Phase 0Jun–Jul 2026
    In progress

    Foundation & stabilization

    • Bilingual, accessibility-first institutional platform (this release)
    • Trust & compliance pages, versioning, changelog, roadmap, status
    • Stabilize build, CI, and the development workflow
  2. Phase 1Aug 2026
    Planned

    Attorney beta

    • Invite-gated marketplace: connect the public with verified attorneys
    • Attorney verification via Barreau du Québec membership
    • First litigation-engine registries: documents and exhibits
    • Secure cloud backend: accounts, encrypted storage, Canadian data residency
    • Conversion analytics, funnel instrumentation, and email capture
  3. Phase 2Oct 2026
    Planned

    Public beta

    • Open the public beta to ~1,000 users
    • Chronology engine and witness registry
    • Engine → marketplace handoff with scoped dossier sharing
  4. Phase 3Jan 2027
    Planned

    General availability

    • Open registration and live billing
    • Procedure and affidavit generation, filing and service tracking
    • Hearing-preparation workspace and legal-research assistant
    • Google Drive document import (Dropbox & OneDrive to follow)
  5. Phase 42027+
    Planned

    Juge.ca Ver.9.11 & expansion

    • Full Litigation Operating System: manage a matter from intake to hearing
    • Lawyer collaboration portal
    • Multilingual informational expansion and growth beyond Québec

Long-term mission

Save lives through access to justice

The long-term vision is more than document assistance. It combines justice navigation, risk detection, human intervention, and evidence intelligence, beginning in civil justice where Juge.ca can prove value responsibly.

Juge.ca does not exist merely to help people file documents. It exists to identify when a person is approaching a legal, financial, or personal point of collapse and to provide the structure, information, and support necessary to preserve their rights, dignity, liberty, and safety.

North star

Every person facing the justice system should have access to documentation, organization, procedural guidance, and early intervention before reaching a crisis point.

Staged expansion

Phase 10-24 months

Win civil justice first

Prove that Juge.ca can help self-represented litigants navigate complex matters in housing, small claims, administrative tribunals, employment, and consumer protection.

  • Matter Builder: documents, emails, texts, letters, and evidence become a chronology, evidence inventory, issue map, and procedural roadmap.
  • Deadline Engine: hearings, limitation periods, filing deadlines, and service deadlines.
  • Risk Engine v1: eviction, homelessness, business closure, bankruptcy, and income loss, with a risk score and recommended actions.

Target: 10,000 active matters.

Phase 212-36 months

Human distress detection

Move beyond legal documents to understand the overload, confusion, urgency, and distress experienced by the litigant.

  • Litigant Pulse Score: sentiment signals, login frequency, missed deadlines, and abandoned workflows.
  • Green, yellow, orange, and red outputs to prioritize attention.
  • Crisis escalation: safety, housing, support, and immediate-danger questions, followed by routing to legal aid, crisis resources, or emergency contacts.

Target: documented prevention of severe case failures.

Phase 324-48 months

Evidence intelligence

Become the best evidence organization platform: reliable, verifiable, and built for real litigation.

  • Evidence Vault: encrypted storage, chain of custody, document hashing, and audit trails.
  • AI Evidence Review: contradictions, missing documents, timeline gaps, and witness conflicts.
  • Chronology Engine: automatically generated timelines, event maps, and relationship maps.

Target: 100,000+ evidence files processed.

Phase 436-60 months

Careful criminal justice pilot

Enter criminal law safely, avoiding the highest-risk categories first and beginning with deeply underserved needs.

  • Criminal case workspace for disclosure, witnesses, exhibits, and court appearances.
  • Bail preparation assistant: sureties, employment proof, housing proof, and community support.
  • Sentencing package builder: rehabilitation evidence, character references, and mitigation materials.

Target: 1,000 criminal matters assisted.

Phase 548-72 months

Legal evidence environment

Handle difficult evidence responsibly in separated, supervised environments.

  • Segregated Evidence Network: encrypted environments, isolated processing, and role-based access.
  • Multi-agent review: chronology, contradictions, disclosure completeness, and procedural analysis.
  • Human oversight layer: AI never becomes the final decision-maker.

Target: recognition by criminal defence organizations.

Phase 65-10 years

Justice preservation network

Predict failure before it happens and intervene before procedural or personal catastrophe.

  • Justice Risk Index: housing risk, liberty risk, family risk, economic risk, and mental-health indicators.
  • Early intervention: imminent eviction, missed court appearances, procedural default, and self-representation failure.
  • Routing to appropriate resources with explainable evidence of what the system detected and why.

Parallel strategic tracks

Legal legitimacy

  • Build relationships with the Barreau du Québec, Canadian Bar Association, legal clinics, law schools, and innocence organizations.
  • Become trusted infrastructure, compatible with courts, regulators, and legal professionals.

Research

  • Create the Juge.ca Research Institute.
  • Study self-represented litigants, procedural barriers, access-to-justice failures, and wrongful convictions.
  • Publish annual reports.

Public trust

  • Everything must be auditable, explainable, and transparent.
  • Users should always know what the AI did, why it did it, and what evidence it used.

Allocation priorities

  1. Matter Builder
  2. Chronology Engine
  3. Evidence Vault
  4. Risk Detection
  5. Criminal pilot, only after the first four pillars are stable

Criminal justice requires a higher threshold of care: staged entry, initial exclusions for the highest-risk files, separated environments, human oversight, and professional compliance before any expansion.

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