It can absorb thousands of documents and answer a lawyer\u2019s questions via simple verbal prompts within seconds. Opposing counsel no longer will be able to bury documents during a case\u2019s discovery phase.<\/p>\n
Mary aims to eliminate \u201cfact chaos\u201d \u2013 the manual, decade-old process of fact extraction \u2013 and counter what Mr Lord-Doyle called \u201cartificial thinking\u201d, which was the unquestioning acceptance of an external, unverifiable AI output.<\/p>\n
Mary\u2019s fact management system aimed to change how legal AI processes information by treating every relevant detail as a \u201cfirst-class citizen\u201d fact that was permanently linked back to its source document. <\/p>\n
Mr Lord-Doyle said this was crucial for solving the legal profession\u2019s verification crisis. He said that unlike general-purpose AI that attempts to retrieve information based on a best guess, Mary\u2019s system extracted and organised verified facts like a human lawyer would, but at \u201cmachine speed\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe say, within this document of 10 pages, there\u2019s actually 50 facts. And based on what you\u2019ve told us the matter is about, here\u2019s the 10 most important facts from that that you really should understand. Here\u2019s everything that we think about it, but please don\u2019t trust us. Click on it and view it straight away, right next to the fact,\u201d Mr Lord-Doyle said.<\/p>\n
He said users could verify and edit those \u201cfacts\u201d, which become the \u201cbuilding blocks for Mary to mirror a human process\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMary gives you an answer that when you ask it \u2018how did you come up with this answer?\u2019 It actually understands: \u2018I use these 325 facts. 250 of them have been verified by a human\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
The platform introduces what the company calls \u201cproductive friction,\u201d a process designed to ensure that human judgment is applied at the factual level \u2013 effectively \u201cgatekeeping\u201d where unverified AI could lead to errors.<\/p>\n
The $7m capital raising will allow Mary Technology to further invest in its proprietary algorithms and accelerate its global ambitions. The company, founded in 2023 by Mr Lord-Doyle, Rowan McNamee, Harry Raworth and Luke Abagi, has already achieved 10 times annual recurring revenue in 2025, although Mr Lord-Doyle did not disclose the exact figures or the company\u2019s valuation.<\/p>\n
Oliver Darwin of OIF Ventures said: \u201cFrom our first meeting, it was clear that fact chaos is a genuine hair-on-fire problem that\u2019s gone unsolved for far too long \u2013 and the Mary Technology team has both the depth of understanding and the execution chops to finally crack it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve delivered on every promise and are showing strong growth. We couldn\u2019t be more excited to partner with the team as they take on the global market.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jared Lynch is The Australian\u2019s Technology Editor, with a career spanning two decades. Jared is based in Melbourne and has extensive experience in markets, start-ups, media and corporate affairs. His work has gained recognition as a finalist in the Walkley and Quill awards. Previously, he worked at The Australian Financial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian start-up Mary Technology has raised $7m to solve the misuse of artificial intelligence that is plaguing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,2095,254,263442,263445,255,64,63,689,263421,485,263430,11387,263423,263433,788,263428,263447,263432,263429,263441,263436,263444,263438,263426,263424,34389,263443,263434,263422,91,263440,673,2041,2067,677,263431,243447,263435,263437,263446,6113,263425,670,105,263427,2614,263439],"class_list":["post-530241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-america","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-platforms","tag-artificial-thinking","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-start-up","tag-california","tag-capital-raise","tag-chief-executive","tag-company-calls","tag-court-rooms","tag-daniel","tag-doyle","tag-execution-chops","tag-fact-chaos","tag-fact-extraction","tag-general-purpose-artificial-intelligence","tag-genuine-hair-on-fire-problem","tag-hall-ampampamp-wilcox","tag-human-judgment","tag-human-lawyer","tag-human-process","tag-justice-concept","tag-lawyer-office","tag-legal-profession","tag-machine-speed","tag-maurice-blackburn","tag-near-zero-fault-tolerance","tag-new-south-wales","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-oliver-darwin","tag-personal-injury-case","tag-processes-information","tag-proprietary-algorithms","tag-rowan-mcnamee","tag-san-francisco","tag-source-document","tag-sydney","tag-technology","tag-technology-editor","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-verification-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jared](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/jared_lynch.png\")
<\/a>Jared Lynch<\/a>Technology Editor<\/p>\n