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Harvey announced on 29 October 2026 that it has acquired Aida, an AI-native sales execution platform founded by Piyush Prahladka and Atish Das Sarma. The company said the deal is its fifth acquisition of the year.
According to Harvey, the acquisition will accelerate its work to help each firm build its own ontology, which it said provides context that makes every agent, model and product an organisation uses more effective. Harvey said the Aida team’s expertise in search and machine learning complements existing work across its product surface to help firms own, organise and optimise their internal context.
Key points
- Harvey announced the acquisition of Aida on 29 October 2026.
- Aida is Harvey’s fifth acquisition of 2026, following Guardrails in September and Benchmark in July.
- Aida was founded by Piyush Prahladka, a co-founder of Glean, and Atish Das Sarma, who previously led engineering, data science and growth teams at Patreon, Apple and X.
- The co-founders and their team of search and machine learning engineers will join Harvey’s product and engineering organisation.
- Harvey said the acquisition will accelerate its work to help firms build their own ontology.
What Harvey said
Harvey’s chief executive Winston Weinberg said, “Legal teams have decades of valuable knowledge locked away in documents and systems that are difficult to search and connect. Unlocking that knowledge securely will fundamentally change how they work. Piyush and Atish have deep expertise in solving this challenge, and their team will help us make Harvey even more powerful for our customers. We’re thrilled to welcome Aida to Harvey.”
What Aida said
Aida co-founder Piyush Prahladka said, “We founded Aida because we believed AI could understand the context of people’s work, connect information across fragmented systems, and turn that knowledge into action. Joining Harvey gives us the opportunity to bring that vision to one of the world’s most knowledge-intensive professions at a global scale. We’re excited about what we can build together.”
The deal
Harvey said the Aida team’s unique skillset in sophisticated search and machine learning provides a complement to existing work being done across its product surface to help firms own, organise and optimise their internal context. The company said the founders will take on leadership roles at Harvey.