Vistera

At Spraggs Group, we know that terminations are among the most unpleasant yet necessary parts of the job for small- to medium-sized business owners, founders, and leaders. Get it wrong, and you’re looking at a wrongful dismissal claim that drains capital, time, and team morale. This is exactly why our COO, Aaren Terrett, and CPO, Charlene Kane, CPHR, together with Lead Workplace Lawyer Jay Spiro from Spraggs Law, hosted a practical, no-fluff webinar on the common termination mistakes we see businesses making and how to avoid them. We’re covering everything from the high bar for “just cause” terminations to ensuring your employment contract and policies are airtight. Plus, you’ll receive Spraggs Law’s employment contract audit framework and our termination procedure checklist as downloadable content after having watched the webinar.

Although this journey seems so much longer, we are reaching the end of our first quarter. We have broken the 100 companies in our Vistera platform mark and our expert network continues to expand. Thanks to those amazing experts, outcomes continue to be delivered to our clients every day. Our development team is improving the platform with the tremendous feedback they give us - it's incredible how fast you can bring new capabilities to life. We have enough data to show that we are saving our clients 78% over the traditional hourly billing model. Current savings by our clients, almost $540k. I really need to build a ticker that rolls over with every outcome delivered. Hey Vero, build me a savings ticker. This is the new way of services. I want to also thank Mike Jain from IRAP, and the National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada for their support in getting us to where we are today, and their continued support to help develop this platform as we truly help Canadian businesses. Get it right. Just ask.

A Vancouver founder got tired of paying a lawyer for every little thing. Royce S. runs Kinesin, an early-stage tech consulting company. In The Globe and Mail today, he puts the problem plainly: the costs stack up because lawyers bill for everything. The emails, the meetings, the work. He found out about Vistera a month ago. What sold him was knowing the price in advance. Kinesin is one of more than a million small businesses in Canada without an in-house legal team, HR department, or CFO. Most get by on a friend who might know, a late-night search, or an hourly invoice they hope they can survive. Vistera works differently. The price is agreed before the work starts. A senior licensed expert reviews and signs off on every outcome before it reaches you. For a business of Kinesin's size, that means one predictable number a year instead of an invoice for every email. Thank you Vanmala Subramaniam for the article, and Royce for trusting us. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/g2nRBNXm #SmallBusiness #CanadianBusiness #LegalTech

A Calgary lawyer banned generative AI at his firm in November 2024. Ten months later, the Alberta Court of Appeal told him he still bore ultimate responsibility for the hallucinated case law in his factum. A third-party contractor had written it, and may well have lied about using a model. Didn't matter. Write the policy, ban the tool, hire the work out to someone who swears they aren't touching AI. It still goes out under your name. The rules tightened over the same stretch. Ontario employers with 25 or more staff have had to disclose AI use in job postings since January 1, 2026, alongside published pay ranges. BC's pay transparency reporting widens to employers with 50 or more by November. Quebec's Law 25 already requires disclosure when a decision comes purely from automated processing, resume screening included. And nothing federal is coming to tidy it up. AIDA died on the order paper in early 2025. Join Vistera and Collage HR on September 15 at 10am PST/1pm EST for a live webinar on the changes already in force, the ones landing next, and the Canadian cases worth reading before your next job posting goes live. Jay Spiro on legal, Luiz Custodio on HR, Nevena Radoicic moderating. 15 minutes of live Q&A after. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gfhQvf_c Cindy Danielson

For decades, professional services ran on one rule: The longer the work takes, the more you pay. Small businesses either swallowed the invoice or went without help, no in-between. A solution didn’t exist because traditional firms controlled the narrative. The provider held the upper hand, while the little guy paid for it. Today, that changes. Vistera is live. We’re Canada’s professional services tech platform that provides you with access to senior legal, HR, and finance expertise, on demand, at a flat price you see upfront. Our multi-agent orchestration layer, Vero, does the groundwork. Document creation, information pulling, routing to an expert. Then a licensed expert signs off on every outcome, so what you get holds up. The hourly meter stops here. The callback queue, eliminated. The runaround you despised? Gone. Every large company has a legal team, an HR department down the hall, and a CFO on payroll. Every small business had none of that. Until now. Get started for free: https://www.vistera.ai/