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Al Vigier’s Biography

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Al Vigier is the CEO of Caseway, an AI company that co-creates products with large enterprises and shares the revenue with them. He spent seven years in the Canadian Army, where he was shot.

One of Canada's most published defence writers, Al has written more than 150 op-eds for Canadian and international outlets, including the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's The Strategist, Vanguard Defence, BetaKit, Daily Hive, and Vancouver Is Awesome. His writing covers defence procurement, sovereign…

Al Vigier’s Journalist Portfolio

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From Courtrooms to Battlefields: How Caseway is Building the Decision-Making Layer for Physical A...

From Courtrooms to Battlefields: How Caseway is Building the Decision-Making Layer for Physical A...

Following its June appearance at InnoVEX, the startup platform of Computex 2026, Caseway AI-a British Columbi…

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SFU prof launches legal-AI collaboration with Caseway to improve access to justice

SFU prof launches legal-AI collaboration with Caseway to improve access to justice

Professor Chang is leading a planned research collaboration with Vancouver-based startup Caseway AI to examin…

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Dr. Vered Shwartz collaborates with Vancouver-based tech startup to study legal research engine

Dr. Vered Shwartz collaborates with Vancouver-based tech startup to study legal research engine

NSERC Alliance-MITAC

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Al Vigier: The defence boom is here. So far, it mostly pays people like me

Al Vigier: The defence boom is here. So far, it mostly pays people like me

Talking about increasing our military capabilities is big business. Actually doing it is less so

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Sovereignty is now a feature, and Canadian founders are shipping it for free

Sovereignty is now a feature, and Canadian founders are shipping it for free

Al Vigier writes that even when the trade war ends, the founders who prioritize sovereignty will win out.

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The River-class debate is about hulls. The long bill is in the software.

The River-class debate is about hulls. The long bill is in the software.

By Al Vigier, 27 August 2026 Jeff Gilmour's 7 August post asked whether Canada can afford 15 River-class dest…

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Canada needs the engineering record behind GlobalEye

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By Al Vigier
| Conversations with Vanguard Defence
The debate over GlobalEye has mostly been about which aircraft Canada should buy. I keep coming back to what happens ten years after delivery, when the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) wants to fit a new sensor. Will a Canadian engineering team have the records and permission to do the job? Saab became Canada's preferred supplier in May, while making clear that it had neither a contract nor an order.
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OPINION: The CRTC needs a plan for fake public opinion

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By Al Vigier
| The Wire Report Verified
One of the people who supposedly weighed in on America’s net neutrality rules in 2017 had been dead for seven years. Someone used a New York man’s name and address to urge the Federal Communications Commission to repeal the rules. He had, of course, expressed no such view. This content is available to wirereport.ca subscribers Already a subscriber? Sign in here Take a free trial or subscribe to The Wire Report now. Two weeks of free access to thewirereport.ca and our exclusive newsletters.
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Winnipeg, economic diversity and risks from AI

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By Al Vigier
| Winnipeg Free Press Verified
I run a company that builds software to read documents and fill out forms. When I look at Winnipeg, I see a lot of potential customers. I also think the city should be asking some fairly uncomfortable questions about what companies like mine are selling. Winnipeg has spent decades building an economy that does not depend on any one industry. Insurance, agriculture, transportation, aerospace, manufacturing, government, health care. That mix has served it well.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

No

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Integrity

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#iusedtothink

Awards

BC Business 30 under 30

2017 - Business

Life Story: The son of a Canadian Armed Forces member, Victoria native Alistair Vigier planned on a military career, joining the reserves at 17. As a freshman at UVic, where he earned a BA in psychology in 2012, Vigier was injured on operation. Medically discharged, he switched to marketing and business development and launched a consulting firm catering to franchises. In 2014, Vigier met Darren Hart, a seasoned Victoria attorney with ambitions to turn his family law-focused firm into a franchising operation, a high-wire act in a sector as regulated as the legal profession. Vigier proved adept at recruiting franchisees who wanted to start their own Hart Legal–branded practice. He also streamlined the business model, centralizing marketing and client retention operations in Victoria. Over the course of three years, firms popped up in Vancouver, Surrey and Richmond, while the groundwork was laid for franchises in Burlington, Ont.; Calgary; Regina; Toronto; Los Angeles; and San Francisco. The Bottom Line: Under the entity Hart Management, Vigier has helped grow the firm’s revenue from $2.5 million in 2015 to an expected $3.5 million last year.

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Victoria Police Award

2015

Civil Service Award