blackline.legal
Blackline is legal intelligence for the moments the other side already has a lawyer in the room: a job change, and a contract on your desk.
Who built this
I’m Ajay Krishnan. Called to the bar in Ontario. I stopped practicing to build Blackline because I watched the same thing happen over and over — on both sides of the table.
Employees signed away severance they were owed because nobody had explained the range. Founders and operators signed contracts they didn’t fully understand because the other side’s lawyer drafted them, and reading carefully was nobody’s job.
Blackline is built from a decade of that case work. Two tools, one ethos: you deserve the lawyer in the room.
Two tools
Blackline Employment
Termination, severance, workplace rights. Blackline reads your situation against Canadian statutes and case law, and gives you specific numbers before you sign anything.
Blackline Contracts
Vendor agreements, MSAs, consulting contracts, offer letters. Upload the stack and get it back in the format you actually read: plain language, podcast, graphic novel, or clause-by-clause.
Ethos
Free
$0 to use. The information matters more than the price tag, and the information is the part that takes courage to ask for.
Private
Each user gets an isolated environment. Conversations aren’t shared, aren’t used for training, aren’t indexed.
Specific
Numbers, clauses, dates. Not “it depends.” Blackline is built to name the leverage, not hedge around it.
Blackline is legal research and analysis — not legal advice, not a solicitor-client relationship. Always verify critical decisions with a licensed lawyer.
Ajay Krishnan. Called to the bar in Ontario. Not practicing. Built this because employees shouldn’t need $500/hour to understand their own rights — and nobody should sign a contract they don’t understand.
No. Blackline is built on a decade of Ajay’s practice materials — real employment contracts, termination analyses, commercial agreements — plus current Canadian statutes, regulations, and case law. Each user gets an isolated computing environment.
No. Blackline is legal research and analysis — like a law library and research assistant, available at 2am. It doesn’t create a solicitor-client relationship. Always verify critical decisions with a licensed lawyer.
Each user gets a separate, isolated environment. Conversations aren’t shared or used for training. Upload your contract or your situation; it stays yours.
Because the alternative is people signing things they don’t understand. Blackline absorbs the cost rather than put a paywall between you and the information you need to protect yourself.