Mary Technology adds drafting and financial analysis to FMS platform

Sydney legal-tech start-up Mary Technology on Friday released three new tools on its Fact Management System platform. The two-year-old company is moving past document chronologies and into bank-statement analysis and template-based drafting. The upgrade is aimed at family lawyers, litigators and personal-injury firms that already use the product to organise client documents.

Co-founder and chief executive Daniel Lord-Doyle said in a statement accompanying the launch that the additions reflected what customers had asked for once chronologies were live. “Lawyers need more than just faster output. They need a work product grounded in an understanding of the matter,” Lord-Doyle said.

Mary was founded in 2023 and is headquartered at 477 Pitt Street in the Sydney CBD. Its FMS platform now serves more than 3,000 lawyers across 100-plus legal teams in Australia, the company says. Named customer firms include Hall & Wilcox, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, Shine Lawyers, Bowes Legal, Ala Law, Rogalski Lawyers, Trilbymisso Lawyers and Zaparas Lawyers.

What the upgrade adds

The first new module is Custom Chronologies. It extends Mary’s existing timeline product so users can build issue-specific timelines that flag contradictions and corroborations between documents. The second is Bank Statement Analysis, aimed at family-law property settlements; it categorises transactions and produces court-ready indices from raw statements. The third, Template-Based Drafting, generates firm-specific documents from facts already verified inside the FMS.

The financial-analysis tool addresses a workflow that often consumes 10 or more hours of a family lawyer’s time per matter. Australian family lawyers manually organise financial disclosures and index bank statements during property settlement proceedings, the company said in its launch material. The new module is designed to compress that to minutes.

Mary positions the FMS as a category distinct from the document-management and practice-management software that most firms already run. The platform extracts and links facts to source documents. Lawyers can then ask plain-language questions and get one-click citations back to the underlying contract, email or transcript. Lord-Doyle introduced the FMS framing publicly at the Legal Innovation & Tech Fest in Sydney in April 2025.

Customer and investor backing

The user list reads as a cross-section of Australian plaintiff-side and mid-market firms. Simon Fletcher, principal solicitor at Fletch Law, said in a customer testimonial last year the chronology engine had been “a game-changer for us, saving days and days of both mine and paralegal time”. Personal injury lawyer Georgia Walker, in a testimonial on the company website, said matter preparation that previously took half a day to a full day was now finishing in under 15 minutes through the platform.

The company has raised about $A2.27 million in disclosed equity to date. A $A920,000 pre-seed round closed in September 2024, first reported by Artificial Lawyer. Empress Capital led, with Sam Nickless, the chief executive of Sydney corporate firm Gilbert + Tobin, joining as an angel. A $A1.35 million seed extension followed days later. Empress led again, alongside Sydney Angels, The Fund, and Lendi Group co-founders Mark Kalajzich and Martin Lam.

Co-founder and chief operating officer Rowan McNamee, a former lawyer, has framed the product as a tool aimed at practitioners rather than back-office teams. The leadership group also includes co-founders Harry Raworth, who runs growth, and Luke Abagi, who heads product. Engineering is led by Laurence Qi, with Jesus Flores as founding engineer.

Where it fits

The launch lands in a Sydney legal-tech market that has seen a string of recent moves. In April, Stockholm-based Legora acquired Melbourne firm Graceview and announced local hiring. Australian start-ups are also lobbying Canberra over the proposed capital gains tax overhaul, which founders argue could blunt R&D tax incentive gains flagged in the 2026 federal budget.

Mary is a domestic player with a vertical focus. The company has not disclosed pricing for the new modules. Lord-Doyle said the FMS approach was meant to remove friction rather than add another seat licence to firms’ growing software stacks. “Technology should simplify, not complicate, the practice of law,” he said in the September 2024 funding announcement.

The chronologies engine processes thousands of client documents in under 15 minutes, the company said, citing one litigation case study in which a 12,000-page brief was indexed in 12 minutes. Mary’s homepage says the system handles PDFs, Word files, emails, images and video, with duplicate detection and Microsoft Word export.

Forward look

Mary has not signalled a follow-on funding round. The 2024 seed extension, which closed at $A1.35 million on top of the pre-seed, was small by Australian software-as-a-service standards. The company’s user growth since suggests further capital may be on the table. For now, the focus is on selling the new modules into the existing customer base of family-law, personal-injury and litigation firms, where the financial-analysis tool in particular addresses a known billable-hour problem.

Whether the FMS framing sticks as its own software category, distinct from document management and e-discovery, will depend on whether competitors follow. Local rivals such as Smokeball and Leap operate further up the practice-management stack. Overseas entrants including Harvey, Legora and Spellbook target large-firm work. Mary is betting that mid-market Australian firms will pay for a tool that sits between those layers and turns documents into verified facts rather than searchable text.