Every collective agreement, managed and searchable

Your CBAs aren't static PDFs in a filing cabinet. They're the instrument the whole system reads from.

Digitise every agreement you administer into structured articles, search your whole library in plain language, ask questions answered from the text, and compare clauses side by side.

One agreement or twenty — Sertus reads each on its own terms, and never blends them.

Built by the co-author of Canadian Labour Arbitration (Brown & Beatty), the reference text Canadian arbitrators cite.

Collective agreement
Digitised
PDF parsed into structured articles · searchable, with page references

  • Article 8.4

    Seniority and layoff

    p. 9

  • Article 12.1

    Time limits for filing

    p. 14

  • Article 14.3

    Discipline and discharge

    p. 17

  • Article 18.2

    Overtime by seniority

    p. 22

  • Article 23.5

    Vacation entitlements

    p. 29
Grievance step template
  • Step 1 — Supervisor10 days
  • Step 2 — Department head15 days
  • Step 3 — Arbitration30 days
Every article, section, and step template parsed and linked back to the page it came from.

Manage every agreement in one place

Each CBA you administer becomes a structured instrument the rest of the system reads from. If you have multiple agreements, each stays its own — Sertus never treats them as interchangeable.

  • PDF in, structure out

    Upload each CBA as a PDF, even scanned ones. Each is parsed into articles, sections, and step templates, with page references intact and editable any time.

  • Procedures per agreement

    Step templates are configured separately for each CBA, so "reply due 10 working days after the meeting" in one and "5 calendar days" in another both behave correctly.

  • Expiry, LOUs, and amendments

    Track each agreement's expiry date, letters of understanding, and mid-term amendments in one place, so nothing lapses unnoticed.

  • Wired into every case

    A digitised agreement powers the grievances and complaints filed under it: the right articles surface and the right deadlines drive every step.

  • Re-onboarded when re-signed

    When a CBA is re-signed, we re-onboard the new version without losing the cases that lived under the previous one.

Search, ask, and compare across your library

Once your agreements are structured, the whole library becomes answerable — search it in plain language, ask one question across every agreement at once, and compare how each handles the same topic.

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PDF in, structure out

  • Article 12.1

    Time limits for filing

    p. 14

  • Article 14.3

    Discipline and discharge

    p. 17

  • Article 18.2

    Overtime by seniority

    p. 22
Articles, sections, and step templates, each linked back to its page.

Search and ask

  • Semantic search across every agreement

    Ask in plain language — "overtime for part-time employees" — and get the relevant article, not just keyword hits, across your whole library.

  • Ask one question across all of them

    Corpus chat answers a single question against every agreement at once — "which of our agreements cap contracting-out?" — each answer cited back to the clause.

  • Every answer cited

    Nothing inferred from the open web. Each answer points back to the article it came from, so anyone can click through and check it.

Compare and export

  • Compare clauses side by side

    Put two or more agreements next to each other on the same topic — vacation, seniority, overtime — and see where they agree and diverge.

  • Export the comparison

    Take a side-by-side comparison out as a table or PDF, ready for a meeting or a bargaining-prep document.

AI that reads each agreement on its own terms

Two CBAs that look alike can disagree on the details. Sertus reads each one on its own terms, and keeps them apart.

Grounded in the right agreement

  • One CBA per case, never blended

    When a grievance is filed under a particular agreement, the AI reads only that agreement. Article 17 in one CBA is not Article 17 in another, and Sertus never confuses them.

  • The right articles, already surfaced

    Whoever opens the case — a business agent, steward, or member helping out — finds the relevant clauses from the applicable CBA pulled up with citations.

  • Search across, or within

    Ask a question of one agreement, or compare how several handle the same topic side by side, and see where they agree and disagree.

Answers your team can verify

  • Read against its own definitions

    Each agreement is read against its own terms: what counts as just cause, how seniority ties break, when a probationary period ends.

  • Citations your team can check

    Nothing fabricated, nothing inferred from the open web. Every claim points back to a section of the right agreement that anyone can click through and read.

  • Answers in plain language

    A member asks about overtime; the agreement chat finds the article, quotes the text, and explains how it applies — even if nobody on the team has done labour relations before.

Part of the Sertus platform

Sertus works whether you're a small local or a large organization. Start with what you need — grievances, complaints, agreements, and your own decisions are one system, so there's nothing to migrate as you grow.

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See it on your own files

See it on your own agreements

We'll digitise one of your collective agreements and show you search, chat, and side-by-side comparison on your actual language.

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