ClaimPath Canada
A bilingual AI intake assistant that walks refugees claiming asylum in Canada through the IRB process — gathering their story, organizing evidence, drafting the Basis of Claim narrative, and matching them with pro bono legal aid in their city.
Newly arrived asylum seekers in Canada who need to organize a refugee claim without immediate access to a lawyer
- Guided intake covering the Personal Information Form key elements in plain language with auto-translation
- Timeline builder for the IRB hearing — events, locations, dates, claimants, and supporting documents
- Secure evidence locker with photo, document, and witness-statement upload
- Legal-aid matcher by city and language (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary clinics)
A sudden surge of World Cup visitors claiming asylum in Canada is straining already-thin legal-aid capacity, creating an immediate need for self-serve intake tooling.
IRB data shows 173,000 refugee claims in fiscal 2024-2025 with intake 'far exceeding' funded capacity — a large, strained pool of self-represented claimants.COW - Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Main Estimates (2025-2026) ↗Asylum statistics, trends and data - canada.ca ↗
Courtready.ca already markets AI tools for Canadian courts/tribunals and is tracking the new IRB AI notice; Legal Aid Ontario and Pro Bono Ontario cover the legal-aid-matching layer — specialized bilingual AI intake for refugee BOC is relatively open but not greenfield.IRB AI Practice Notice: Effective September 2026 - courtready.ca ↗Welcome - Pro Bono Ontario ↗
Target users are newly arrived, often indigent asylum seekers; Ontario legal aid is being cut and refugee lawyers report being 'blindsided' — weak direct willingness-to-pay and no obvious sustainable B2B buyer identified.Refugee lawyers blindsided by legal aid cuts - The Toronto Star ↗Services for refugee claimants - Legal Aid Ontario ↗
Canadian asylum system and IRB are durable institutions, but each user is a one-time claim (~years-long lifecycle) and demand spikes track political events (e.g., the unverified 2026 World Cup claim in the pitch) rather than steady growth.Asylum statistics, trends and data - canada.ca ↗
The IRB's new Practice Notice (effective Sept 7, 2026) explicitly prohibits using AI to draft, rewrite, or alter a claimant's Basis of Claim narrative, affidavits, witness statements, or corroborating evidence — the core 'drafting' feature of ClaimPath is barred, with sanctions including declined evidence and negative credibility inferences.Practice notice: Use of artificial intelligence in IRB proceedings ↗IRB AI Practice Notice: Effective September 2026 - courtready.ca ↗