Pylox Systems Inc. Confidential / May 2026
NOMOS Québec

The legal AI built for Quebec civil law.

Bilingual. Hosted in Montreal. Loi 25 compliant. Lowest hallucination rate of any legal AI in Canada, verified on every output.

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NOMOS Québec The Opportunity
The Market

28,000 Quebec lawyers spend $130M a year on legal tech, and none of it was built for them.

28K
Quebec lawyers
Plus 3,500 notaries. Concentrated in Montreal + Quebec City.
$130M
Annual legal-tech spend
Westlaw, Lexis, Clio, PCLaw, plus emerging AI tools.
0
Civil-law-native AI tools
Harvey, Lexis+ AI, Spellbook, TruLexa: all common-law trained.
NOMOS Québec The Problem
Why Quebec firms are stuck

Hallucinated legal citations now cost Quebec lawyers real money and their reputation.

  • Specter Aviation Ltd. c. Laprade, 2025 QCCS 352. Quebec Superior Court sanctioned a litigant $5,000 for citing AI-hallucinated case law. Barreau du Québec now requires every AI-generated citation be validated.
  • The wrapper economy. Quebec firms pay $300 to $500 per seat per month for Word add-ins that are essentially ChatGPT in a custom UI, trained on US common law, hosted on US servers.
  • Loi 25 risk. Most "Canadian legal AI" sends every prompt to OpenAI or Anthropic in the US. Quebec privacy law makes the firm liable, not the vendor.
  • Bill 96 risk. Contracts of adhesion in Quebec require an equivalent French version. Current AI tools produce Parisian translations, not Quebec French.
NOMOS Québec The Solution
Architecture

Five layers of hallucination defense, built around a Quebec foundation model nobody else has.

Layer 5 / Verification
Citation chip on every cite, green or red, before user sees it
Specter Aviation defense
Layer 4 / Native voice
Hochelaga 8B polishes output for Quebec French dialectal accuracy
Proprietary moat
Layer 3 / Reasoning
Claude Opus 4.7 on AWS Bedrock Montreal drafts the answer
ca-central-1
Layer 2 / Retrieval
Hybrid search over 42,266 article-level chunks of Quebec law
Already built
Layer 1 / Corpus
CCQ, CPC, 18 Quebec statutes, full federal corpus, all licensed clean
1.2 GB on disk
NOMOS Québec The Competition
Why nobody else can copy this in under 12 months

Every other Canadian legal AI is a US wrapper. We are the only Quebec-native option.

Product Civil-law native Quebec French native Loi 25 hosting Owns own model Published benchmark
SpellbookNoNoNoNoNo
Harvey AINoNoNoNoNo
Lexis+ AI CanadaNoPartialPartialNoNo
TruLexaClaimedPartialPartialNoNo
NOMOS QuébecYesYesYesYesYes
NOMOS Québec Why Us, Why Now
Timing and team

The Quebec civil-law AI window opens exactly once. We are the only ones with the corpus, the lab, and the residency.

Why now

  • Loi 25 fully in force since Sept 2024. Quebec firms now liable for cross-border AI calls.
  • Bill 96 mandates Quebec French equivalence in contracts of adhesion.
  • Specter Aviation Ltd. c. Laprade, 2025 QCCS 352 set the Quebec court precedent on AI hallucinations.
  • Canadian lawyer AI adoption doubled in 2024, doubling again in 2025.
  • 6 to 12 month window before Harvey, Lexis, or Spellbook decide to enter Quebec specifically.

Why us

  • Bilingual founder relocating to Montreal indefinitely. Resident-founder credibility.
  • Pylox Systems lab fully operational. Hochelaga 8B foundation model in active training right now.
  • 42,266 Quebec legal articles already parsed and indexed. The corpus is built, not theoretical.
  • Three production surfaces (CCQ Assistant, Litigation, Memo Drafting) shipped and demo-ready.
  • Multiple shipped AI projects under Pylox Systems Inc. We deliver, we do not pitch.
NOMOS Québec Founders Circle
First 100 lawyer seats

50 percent off for life. Capped at 100 seats. Creates urgency and locks the reference cohort.

$174.50
Solo (founder)
List $349 / mo per seat
$299.50
Small firm (founder)
2 to 10 seats · list $599
$499.50
Mid firm (founder)
11 to 50 seats · list $999

Lifetime lock at 50 percent off. Non-transferable. Non-renegotiable. The first 100 lawyers we sign become the reference cohort, fund the first $20K MRR, and lock in pricing they will defend publicly.

NOMOS Québec Pricing
Year 1 list pricing

Priced between TruLexa and Harvey. Higher than wrappers because we deliver more.

Solo
$349
per seat / month CAD
Single-lawyer practice. Self-serve. 30-day trial. All 10 practice surfaces.
Small Firm
$599
per seat / month CAD
2 to 10 seats. Annual contract. Admin console + audit export.
Mid Firm
$999
per seat / month CAD
11 to 50 seats. Annual contract. Priority support + SLA + Bedrock dedicated.
Enterprise
$1,500+
per seat / month CAD
50+ seats or on-prem. Custom 6-figure annual. Hochelaga deployed to customer.

Priced between TruLexa and Harvey. Higher than wrappers because we deliver more.

NOMOS Québec Unit Economics
Gross margin at scale

82 percent gross margin at list pricing. Capital-light infrastructure.

Per Solo Seat at $349 list / month

Revenue$349.00
AWS Bedrock + storage($50.00)
Stripe fees (3%)($10.47)
Partner lawyer rev-share($3.49)
Gross profit$285.04 / 82%

At $1.5M ARR run rate

Annual revenue$1,500,000
Operating costs / year($156,000)
Quebec corp tax (26%)($349,440)
Retained$994,560

No GPU hosting, no model serving, no datacenter. All infrastructure is per-query API spend on AWS Bedrock Montreal. Cost scales with usage, not with seat count. Pre-revenue investment under $2,000 CAD plus 10 weeks of operator time.

NOMOS Québec Capital Structure
Self-funded from existing infrastructure

No outside capital required. Founder retains 95 percent at $1M ARR.

Typical Canadian SaaS at $1M ARR has already given up 30 to 50 percent equity to seed and Series A investors. NOMOS Quebec reaches the same milestone with zero outside capital, full founder ownership preserved, and the option to raise or sell on its own terms.

Typical Canadian SaaS at $1M ARR

Seed raise$500K to $2M
Series A (if needed)$3M to $8M
Founder dilution30 to 50%
Founder share of exit50 to 70%

NOMOS Québec at $1M ARR

Outside capital raised$0
Investor dilution0%
Senior Legal Advisor equity5%
Founder share of exit95%

At a $5M acquisition (5x ARR multiple), the founder retains roughly $4.75M instead of $2.5 to $3.5M under typical dilution. Same product, same revenue, very different outcome.

NOMOS Québec Revenue Projection
Conservative Quebec-only path to $3M ARR

Founders Circle fills by month 8. Public launch fills the next 400 seats by month 24.

NOMOS Québec The Moat
Three products. One category. One owner.

Strip out any one of these and competitors clone in weeks. Together they create a category nobody can enter.

01
Hochelaga 8B
First open-weights Quebec foundation model. Trained on Quebec Hansard, CCQ, CanLII Quebec. Apache 2.0 release. Earns Mila, McGill, Concordia academic credibility and Le Devoir / La Presse press surface.
Open / Brand
02
NOMOS Québec
Closed-weights commercial product. The thing Quebec lawyers actually pay for. Sells at $349 to $1,500+ per seat. Tier 2 and 3 deploy Hochelaga on customer hardware for $100K to $300K per year.
Closed / Revenue
03
NOMOS-BENCH-QC
First public benchmark for Quebec legal AI. 300+ lawyer-reviewed questions, Apache 2.0. Every competitor either scores publicly or refuses. We control the scoreboard.
Open / Standard
NOMOS Québec Go-to-Market
12-week sprint to first paying customer

MVP built, demos in Montreal, partner lawyer signed by week 8, Stripe live by week 12.

Week 1-4
MVP build. Corpus parser, RAG, verifier, three core surfaces, FastAPI server.
Week 5-6
Move to Montreal. Quebec corp filed. AWS Bedrock approved. Open business bank.
Week 7-8
15 in-person demos with Quebec firm partners. Top 5-10 enter free 60-day beta.
Week 8-10
Partner lawyer signed from beta cohort. ToS, privacy, Bill 96 French version finalized.
Week 11
NOMOS-BENCH-QC v1 published. Stripe live mode. Founders Circle pricing locked.
Week 12+
Beta firms convert at founder pricing. Public self-serve opens. First $20K MRR.

Already shipped: Quebec corpus of 42,266 indexed articles (CCQ, CPC, 18 statutes, federal corpus), three production surfaces, citation verifier, retrieval pipeline, live demo. Hochelaga 8B foundation model in active continued pre-training on the Pylox Systems lab. Months of engineering already done. Beta cohort starts on day one of Montreal arrival.

NOMOS Québec Risks and Mitigations
What could go wrong

Five real risks. Five concrete mitigations already in the plan.

Risk 01
Partner lawyer not signed in 6 to 8 weeks
Mitigation: 28K-lawyer pool, 3 to 5 candidates evaluated in parallel from beta cohort. Revenue-triggered retainer plus 5% equity is market-attractive.
Risk 02
Harvey or Lexis enters Quebec specifically
Mitigation: 6 to 12 month structural lead. Civil-law training and Quebec French depth cannot be retrofitted onto a common-law model in under a year.
Risk 03
Legal sales cycles run long
Mitigation: 60-day free beta with locked-in Founders Circle conversion offer accelerates time-to-paid by 3 to 5x vs cold paid sales.
Risk 04
Hallucinated citation reaches a customer
Mitigation: citation verifier is foundational, not optional. Every citation validated against retrieved source before display. Specter Aviation compliant by design.
Risk 05
Quebec firm conservatism on AI adoption
Mitigation: CAIJ partnership track (the Quebec Bar's library, 28K-member reach), Barreau du Québec services corporation engagement, named Senior Legal Advisor on team page from day one. The endorsement layer makes the firm decision easy.
NOMOS Québec The Ask
What we need from you, Marc

Capital-light by design. The product does not need outside money to launch. It does need a sounding board.

01
Sounding board
Strategic feedback on the Montreal move timing, partner lawyer selection, and go-to-market cadence.
02
Network intros
Quebec ties or Canadian SaaS contacts who could accelerate beta cohort or partner lawyer search.
03
Time-allocation FYI
Other Pylox Systems projects on slow track during the 10-week MVP sprint. NOMOS gets 80%+ of focus.
04
Optional angel
If interested in equity participation. The product is designed to launch without it.

The window for Quebec-civil-law-native AI is 6 to 12 months before a serious entrant arrives. Highest-conviction commercial bet in the Pylox Systems portfolio.

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