Ontario Software Services Contract Lawyer

Ontario lawyer needed: client contracts for a small software services company We're a small Ontario corporation. We build and run custom software for small and mid-sized contractors and logistics companies. We need a lawyer licensed in Ontario to advise us on the contracts we need with our clients, and then to draft them. How we work: - We work on a services basis. Clients pay for custom build work, plus a monthly retainer for ongoing support and hosting. - Each client gets its own deployment, which we host and manage. All clients run on one core platform that we maintain. - The software has AI features. One connects to a client's mailbox to sort email and pull out invoice and PO details. Another is a chatbot that answers questions from the client's own documents. - Clients always own their own data. They usually also own what they pay us to build, and we think that's fair. - Today each client has signed an NDA with us and we invoice them directly. There's no other signed agreement. - Most of our clients are in Ontario. We're starting to talk to companies in the UK and US. What we need: - Advice on which agreements we need and how they fit together. - Plain-English agreements we can reuse for each new client. - Advice on what the contracts should cover for the AI features, mailbox access and privacy. - Advice on where to draw the line between what a client owns and the shared platform underneath. - A way to put our existing clients under contract. - A call to walk us through the documents and tell us which parts we can change ourselves. - Where we'd need separate advice for UK or US clients.

Requirements

- Licensed by the Law Society of Ontario. Please include your licence number in your bid (strongly recommended) - Experience drafting contracts for software, technology or IT services companies. In your bid, please describe similar work you've done, give a fixed-fee quote, and tell us how long it would take.