Ayora

Ayora is a London-based, VC-backed company founded in 2022, specializing in AI-powered solutions designed to enhance revenue decision-making and streamline operations for law firms. Their platform transforms existing matter, time, and financial data into structured intelligence, operationalized through AI-driven applications for pricing, matter management, and growth. Ayora's offerings include a Matter Pricing Agent that assists lawyers and pricing teams in creating fee proposals using comparable historic matters, adjusted for current realities. The Matter Management tool tracks budgets, work-in-progress, billing, collections, and emerging profitability risks against benchmarks from similar historic work, enabling proactive intervention. Additionally, Ayora provides data enrichment services that generate consistent metadata at the matter and time-entry level, including work type, context tags, phases, and tasks. Their proprietary AI anonymization system ensures compliance by masking sensitive data while preserving its semantic structure. Ayora's platform integrates with existing practice management systems, offering open APIs for data exchange and is available both in the cloud and on-premise. The company has secured $1.6 million in pre-seed funding and has established commercial relationships with leading law firms worldwide, including a partnership with Mishcon de Reya to implement their solutions across multiple practice groups. In August 2026, Ayora was acquired by BigHand, marking the next phase in its AI strategy and reinforcing its commitment to shaping the future of legal pricing. The acquisition brings Ayora's AI capabilities, data enrichment technology, and experienced team into BigHand, with the first phase focused on integrating Ayora with BigHand Matter Pricing. Over time, AI capabilities will be introduced across BigHand's wider portfolio, including Resource Management and Business Intelligence. The company's headquarters are located at 20 Primrose Street, The Broadgate Tower, London, England, EC2A 2ES, United Kingdom. The platform is available through a subscription-based pricing model and offers hybrid deployment options, including both cloud and on-premise solutions. Ayora's offerings are categorized under Legal Workflow Automation, Legal Operations, and Legal Spend Management. The company is active and continues to serve law firms worldwide, providing innovative AI-driven solutions to enhance revenue decision-making and streamline operations.