Worth Knowing: Mary Technology

Much of the first wave of legal AI has focused on helping lawyers find, summarise and draft text. Australian legal tech company Mary Technology is tackling a different problem: facts.

Litigation matters can contain thousands of pages of correspondence, witness statements, reports, financial records and other evidence. The challenge isn’t simply finding a document. It’s working out what actually happened, when it happened, where the evidence for it sits, and where the gaps and contradictions are.

Mary describes its product as a Fact Management System. It ingests matter documents and converts them into a structured factual record, with extracted facts linked back to their source material. Lawyers can then use that record to build chronologies, investigate issues, analyse financial information and generate work product grounded in the underlying evidence. (Mary Technology)

It’s an interesting development in legal AI because it shifts the unit of analysis from the document to the fact.

That potentially opens up a much broader set of applications. Once the facts of a matter exist as structured, traceable data, AI can help lawyers interrogate relationships between them, identify missing information and construct different forms of legal work product from the same underlying record.

Mary was founded in Sydney in 2023 and raised $7 million in 2026 as it expanded internationally. (Point Blank)

It’s a good example of Australian legal tech moving beyond the general-purpose AI assistant and redesigning a particular part of legal work from first principles.