Aracor CEO and Co-Founder Katya Fisher joined Fritz Spencer on EisnerAmper’s TechTalk to discuss how Aracor is reshaping the future of M&A, investment, and due diligence.
Katya explains how the Aracor AI Dealmaking Platform brings order, speed, and clarity to complex transactions. She highlights how Aracor helps eliminate institutional amnesia so deal teams retain the intelligence behind every decision, clause, and negotiation.
The conversation also covers one of the most important topics in modern diligence: security and compliance in AI. Katya outlines how Aracor’s secure architecture, Zero Data Retention, and enterprise-grade controls provide the power of AI without compromising trust.
For professionals in M&A, private equity, venture, or corporate legal, this is a clear look at how technology is elevating the business of deals.
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We’re pleased to share that Aracor has been recognized by the Legal Insider Awards 2025 in the category “Most Innovative AI-Native Dealmaking Platform – Miami 2025.”
This award is an important milestone for our team. We’ve been focused on building a tool that makes the deal process clearer and easier for lawyers, investors, and companies. Aracor helps teams review documents, prepare deal materials, and manage the full process from start to finish — all in one place.
We’re grateful to Legal Insider for this recognition, and to our customers and partners for their trust and feedback. It motivates us to keep improving the product.
Read the official announcement on Legal Insider
The world of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is notoriously painstaking, slow, expensive and error-prone. Lawyers spend weeks combing through thousands of documents—validating signatures, comparing versions, and flagging risks.
Lawyers and dealmakers sift through mountains of documents—often numbering into the thousands—to validate every detail, from validating signatures, comparing the documents involved in the deal transaction, flagging risks to to patent validity. This meticulous process typically drains weeks or even months of productivity from highly trained professionals. Aracor AI set out to change that and to solve the M&A transparency gap. The Miami-based AI platform is laser-focused on transforming this painstaking due diligence into an automated, accurate, and dramatically faster operation.
Before Aracor, M&A lawyers faced countless hours verifying signatures, comparing contract versions, and manually summarizing massive troves of legal documentation. Traditional attempts at automation—such as generic summaries from AI tools like ChatGPT—fell short, lacking the critical accuracy, citations, and domain-specific context lawyers demand. The process was expensive, slow, and fraught with potential inaccuracies.
Aracor built an end-to-end AI platform specifically tailored for the complex, precise requirements of dealmakers: family offices, private equity firms, venture capitalists, and other high-stakes investors. At the core of their innovation was a robust vector search capability provided by Qdrant.
Lesly Arun Franco, CTO of Aracor, explains, “Search is a massive problem. Our platform ingests thousands of legal documents, each requiring precise retrieval and accurate citations. Without Qdrant, delivering this level of performance and scale was nearly impossible.”
By adopting Qdrant’s vector database, Aracor gained the critical ability to efficiently index and search through massive document repositories. This empowered the platform to automatically generate precise document summaries, accurate comparison reports, signature verifications, and essential citations for every finding—features indispensable in the rigorous legal world.
When Aracor first set out to integrate a vector database roughly eighteen months ago, Lesly and the team evaluated several vendors. Qdrant stood out for several reasons:
Since integrating Qdrant, Aracor has realized substantial operational improvements:
With Qdrant handling the heavy lifting of scalable vector search, Aracor continues to innovate, working towards even more sophisticated multimodal and domain-specific embedding techniques. As they expand their platform, Aracor is confident in their capacity to support increasingly complex, high-volume document processing needs, all backed by the proven power and reliability of Qdrant’s vector database solution.
We are thrilled to announce the promotion of Lesly Arun Franco, Aracor’s very first hire, to the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Lesly has been an integral part of Aracor’s journey, driving innovation and crafting cutting-edge AI solutions that empower professionals and redefine the legal tech landscape. His expertise in natural language processing (NLP) and a visionary approach to AI have positioned Aracor as a leader in delivering state-of-the-art AI legal solutions.
"I’m honored to step into the role of CTO at Aracor. With a strong background in AI and a passion for solving complex problems, I’m excited to drive innovations that empower industries like venture capital and SaaS." Lesly shared.
Lesly’s journey to becoming CTO is an inspiring one. As Aracor’s first hire, he has been a cornerstone of the company’s success. Before joining Aracor, Lesly developed his expertise at AstraZeneca, where he led AI-driven initiatives focusing on data privacy, compliance, and generative AI applications. His work during this time emphasized bridging cutting-edge research with real-world enterprise applications, a skillset that has been instrumental in shaping Aracor’s approach to innovation.
"Technology should simplify complexity," Lesly often says, reflecting his dedication to making sophisticated tools accessible and impactful. This philosophy has guided his work in creating intuitive solutions for legal professionals.
Lesly’s vision for Aracor extends far beyond addressing today’s challenges. His focus is on shaping the future of how businesses operate. By continuing to integrate advanced AI capabilities, he aims to create solutions that redefine workflows and empower professionals in various industries.
"At Aracor, we’re building tools that not only solve today’s challenges but also shape the future of business operations," Lesly explained. "I’m excited to lead efforts that have a meaningful impact, and I look forward to what we will achieve together."
This forward-looking approach aligns perfectly with Aracor’s mission to blend advanced AI with practical applications, ensuring that clients can tackle their most pressing challenges with confidence and precision.
Under Lesly’s leadership, Aracor is poised to redefine the legal technology landscape. Tools like AI for law firms, legal research automation, and streamlining contract management with AI will continue to evolve, providing even greater value to clients. His work emphasizes scalability and usability, ensuring that these tools remain relevant and impactful across industries.
By focusing on areas like automated legal workflows, AI contract review, and faster legal research with AI, Lesly is ensuring that Aracor stays ahead of the curve, offering innovative solutions that transform how legal professionals work.
Lesly’s promotion to CTO marks an exciting new chapter for Aracor. His expertise in AI legal solutions and his visionary approach to innovation will propel the company to new heights. With a focus on creating intuitive, transformative tools, Lesly is set to make a lasting impact not only on Aracor but also on the broader legal tech industry.
"Thank you for your support, together, we’re building a future where technology empowers professionals to achieve more with confidence and precision." Lesly concluded.
The legal industry has long been seen as an immovable force, governed by tradition and resistant to change. For Katya Fisher, those established norms were not rules to follow but challenges to overcome. Her career reflects a determination to do more than navigate the system. She set out to reimagine it entirely, blending creative problem-solving with a drive to transform how lawyers work. Along the way, she realized that excelling in law was not enough. The profession needed better tools, and Katya was determined to build them.
Katya graduated from law school during the Great Recession, a time when jobs in law were scarce and competition was fierce. Many new lawyers found themselves stuck, waiting for the economy to recover. But Katya took a different approach. At just 27, she launched her own law practice, a bold move that set the stage for her career.
The decision paid off, with Katya’s practice growing into a high six-figure business and eventually leading her to a partner role at an AM200 law firm, where she also served as a data privacy officer. Yet, even as she reached new heights, she could not ignore the inefficiencies around her. Much of the work felt outdated. Manual processes, fragmented systems, and tools did not match the complexity of modern legal challenges.
Katya’s ability to think beyond tradition brought her to Constructor Group, where she oversees legal operations across more than ten countries and multiple industries. From managing intricate legal frameworks for a venture capital fund to guiding governance for a nonprofit, Katya became known for handling complexity with precision. But as her career expanded, so did her frustration with the tools available to her.
“There were too many moments where I thought, ‘Why doesn’t something better exist?’” Katya explains. That recurring frustration ultimately became the foundation for Aracor AI, a platform designed to address the inefficiencies she had encountered throughout her career. Blending artificial intelligence with human expertise, Aracor enhances security, automates repetitive tasks, and streamlines workflows. It tackles problems that felt all too familiar to Katya, whether simplifying contract reviews or protecting sensitive data through automated redaction.
“When I was building Aracor, I kept thinking about the tools I wished I had,” she says. “The goal is to empower legal teams to focus on what really matters, which is strategy, decision-making, and creating value.”
This vision resonated when Katya introduced Aracor AI at a CodeX group meeting at Stanford Law School, a hub for legal technology innovation. The gathering brought together professionals eager to tackle similar challenges, making it the perfect venue to showcase the platform’s potential. “The feedback was incredible,” she recalls. “It showed me that I wasn’t alone in these frustrations and that there’s a real hunger for change.”
Aracor’s success lies in its ability to address real-world pain points. By automating tasks like due diligence and regulatory compliance, it saves legal teams time and allows them to focus on higher-value work. The platform’s impact is rooted in Katya’s own experiences as a lawyer, navigating outdated processes and using that insight to create something better.
Katya Fisher’s journey is a masterclass in turning obstacles into opportunities for innovation. From launching her own practice during an economic downturn to building a platform poised to reshape the legal industry, she has shown that progress is not about waiting for the right moment. It is about creating what is needed to move forward.