Canner for Law Firms.
Your firm handles privileged client data. The tools your team builds shouldn’t send it across the border.
Canner lets lawyers and legal-ops teams build internal tools, intake forms, and client portals on Canadian-owned infrastructure — solicitor-client data stays in Quebec, under Canadian law.
Legal work runs on confidential information — matter files, client PII, privileged communications. Firms increasingly want to build their own small tools: a client intake form, a document-status tracker, a conflicts-check lookup, an AI-assisted research helper. The blocker is where those tools run. Most modern hosting is US-incorporated and subject to the CLOUD Act, which is a hard problem for privileged data. Canner removes it — 100% Canadian-owned, hosted only in Montreal.
Privilege can’t cross the border
A US-hosted tool holding matter data is exposed to US legal process under the CLOUD Act, regardless of encryption. For solicitor-client privileged material, that’s a risk most firms won’t accept.
Client and regulator scrutiny
Corporate clients — and law societies — increasingly ask where firm data lives. “A US cloud with a Canadian region” is not the same answer as “a Canadian-owned host under Canadian law.”
Non-developers need to ship
Legal-ops and knowledge-management teams can now build real tools with AI, but they need somewhere safe and simple to host them — without standing up infrastructure or hiring DevOps.
Client intake & matter portals
Deploy a secure intake form or a client-facing matter portal that writes to a Postgres database hosted in Montreal. HTTPS and per-tenant isolation come standard.
AI research & drafting helpers
Host a tool that calls an LLM API with your key kept server-side. Prompts and results transit your Canadian server, not a US SaaS you don’t control.
Internal dashboards & lookups
Conflicts checks, docket trackers, billing dashboards — build them as small apps, connect a database, and give the firm a private URL or custom domain.
Canner is 100% Canadian-owned and operates solely from Montreal, Quebec — it is not a “US person” and is not subject to the US CLOUD Act. That makes it a defensible answer to PIPEDA and Quebec’s Law 25 obligations, and to law-society expectations around confidentiality. A signed Data Processing Agreement and a data-residency attestation are available for your compliance file, and are included with the Sovereignty & Enterprise SLA add-on.
Is client data actually kept in Canada?
Yes. Compute and managed Postgres both run in Montreal. Canner has no US affiliate, so there is no CLOUD Act exposure.
Can non-technical staff use this?
Yes. Drag-and-drop deploys let legal ops ship a tool an AI helped them build, with no server administration. Developers can use GitHub or the CLI.
Can we get a DPA and residency attestation?
Yes — both are available on their own (one-time), and included with the Sovereignty & Enterprise SLA add-on, which also adds a 99.9% uptime SLA and priority support.
What about privileged AI use?
Keep your LLM API key as a server-side environment variable so requests originate from your Canadian host. For contractual guarantees, the Enterprise SLA add-on covers it.
Build without the sovereignty headache.
Tell us about your use case and we’ll help you scope it — from a single internal tool to a firm-wide rollout. For detailed or regulated projects, this reaches our team directly.