In this final edition of Leadership Connect 2025 featuring leaders from GoVeyance, we spotlight Gavin Heer, Co-Founder & CTO — sharing his role, vision for the future of conveyancing, and the opportunities he’s most excited about in the next 3-5 years.
1. Can you start by telling us more about your role at GoVeyance? What does your day-to-day look like, and how does it feel to be a part of a technology solution supporting Canadians?
As CTO, I lead our technology strategy and oversee the engineering team. My day is a mix of hands-on coding, guiding architecture decisions, and mentoring the team so they can grow. The focus is on building secure, scalable solutions that are rooted in practical innovation, we want to provide legal professionals with the tools they need.
It’s incredibly rewarding to know that the work we do behind the scenes is directly helping Canadians navigate one of the biggest transactions of their lives, home ownership.
2. What are the biggest challenges you’ve seen in the conveyancing space in BC that we can work through in Ontario?
In BC, the biggest challenge we faced was change resistance. Many legal professionals stick with outdated, and buggy platforms simply because switching to something new can be daunting and with their desks piling up with files, time is literally money.
With GoVeyance, we have a unique opportunity in Ontario to provide the community with what’s been missing; transparency, export support, and delivering innovation that makes the conveyancing experience more efficient and accurate. We can help professionals adopt better tools without the friction.
3. As technology evolves rapidly how do you foresee AI helping to future-proof the tooling that GoVeyance provides for notaries and all legal professionals?
AI is going to fundamentally reshape conveyancing. We’re already implementing the technology to automate document intake, data extraction, and more, ultimately saving professionals time on every file.
The next step is enabling AI to draft requisitions, ledgers, and other documents so lawyers can focus on higher-value client work. Our vision is to make GoVeyance an AI assistant to the legal professional helping drive unparalleled accuracy and efficiency.
4. What is your leadership philosophy, and how do you inspire and guide your team at GoVeyance?
I believe in leading by example while giving engineers the autonomy to do their best work. Innovation is encouraged, but only when it solves real problems for our customers.
I push the team to put quality first: speed matters, but never at the expense of reliability. Most importantly, I want every engineer to feel ownership over what they build. That means tying daily work back to our bigger mission of transforming legal tech in Canada and supporting growth through mentorship.
5. What excites you the most about the partnership between GoVeyance and Teranet and the future for legal professionals across Canada?
What excites me most is the way this partnership brings together the strengths of two Canadian companies: GoVeyance’s agility and engineering innovation with Teranet’s scale and real estate expertise. It allows us to expand the workflows we’ve proven in BC into Ontario and, over time, nationwide.
Together, we have a real opportunity to unify and simplify the real estate process, giving legal professionals better tools and automation. Ultimately, this partnership lays the foundation for a faster, smarter, AI – driven future for legal professionals across Canada.
To learn more about GoVeyance, visit www.goveyance.com.
