A mother sits alone on a stone bench outside a courthouse, holding a manila folder — waiting, dignified, unhurried.
OPEN SOURCEMPL-2.0BUILT IN CANADA BY MICHAEL BRYANT

Legal Help Apps.

Software for everyone the legal system forgot. Free, freemium, and open source — forkable by clinics, law schools, public-interest orgs.

(And for solo and small firms forgotten by legal tech catering to Big Law — apps for you too.)

Try a tool→Why apps?→See the roadmap→View the source→
See what we're building→

Live Now

RenterShield

Live

Lease compliance audit for Toronto renters. Upload your lease, get a plain-language report on what’s enforceable and what’s not.

Open tool →

Termtool

Live

Privacy policy and terms generator for Shopify app developers. Scoped to your actual API permissions.

Open tool →
Full roadmap →

Where do you fit in?

I Need Legal Help

I Want to Build

/build

I’m a Lawyer

/lwrtools

The Opportunity

/invest

Read the Blog

/blog

The Plan

Build Sequence

Phase 1Live NowRenterShield, TermtoolCurrent
Phase 2Criminal LawCharter Delay Calculator, Bail Tools
Phase 3EmploymentSeverance Calculator, ESA Calculator
Phase 4Family + PlatformFinancial Statements, Court Forms
Phase 5API + MCPProgrammatic access, AI agent integration
Read the A2Jai Manifesto →

Research

The Borovoy Coefficient →

A civil-liberties measure of the gap between what a law promises and what it actually does — scoring Canadian statutes, regulations, and bylaws from 0 to 100 across five dimensions grounded in constitutional doctrine and the machine-learning alignment literature. Explore the interactive dashboard and read the paper.

Join the Movement

Be first to know when we launch each phase.