I’m Alejandro Vargas — a former New York lawyer turned entrepreneur, and the founder of Fluid Mind. Before building companies, I spent nearly a decade practicing law at Skadden and Davis Polk, working on complex corporate, securities, and capital-markets matters. Since then, I’ve built and operated companies across legal recruiting, compliance technology, AI, e-commerce, and international business.
That combination puts me in a slightly unusual place. I’m not a lawyer who only advises from the outside. I’m also the person negotiating the contracts, reviewing the investment documents, managing corporate structures, dealing with employment issues, pushing deals forward, and trying to make practical legal decisions in real time.
Like many founders and operators, I use lawyers when the stakes require it. But there is a huge amount of legal work that happens before, between, and around formal legal advice: reviewing drafts, spotting risks, preparing documents, understanding what matters, deciding what to escalate, and turning legal language into practical business judgment.
That is where existing AI tools kept falling short.
General tools like ChatGPT and Claude are powerful, but they are not built around a legal workflow. They can answer questions, summarize clauses, or draft language — but they do not consistently think like a legal operator managing a live matter. Even legal-specific products still feel too general for the kind of practical, guided legal work that founders, executives, and dealmakers actually need day to day.
Other legal AI tools often feel built for law firms or legal departments, not for people who are legally sophisticated but operating outside a traditional legal team. They don’t reflect the way legal issues actually show up in the life of a founder or operator: messy, urgent, commercial, and tied to decisions that need to be made quickly.
Avogado came from that gap.
The name is a play on “abogado,” the Spanish word for lawyer, and my initials — Alejandro Vargas. But the product is more than a name. It reflects the type of legal ally I wished I had: one that understands legal documents, but also understands the commercial context around them. One that helps you move faster without pretending legal risk disappears. One that does not replace judgment, but sharpens it.
Avogado is built for people who need more than a chatbot and less than a full legal team for every question. It is for founders, operators, investors, recruiters, executives, and legally sophisticated business people who live with legal documents every day and need an AI agent that can help them review, reason, organize, and act.
Avogado exists because I needed it myself.
Fluid Mind AI Lab
Avogado is a project of the Fluid Mind AI Lab, where we build practical AI products from problems we understand firsthand. We don’t start from the technology — we start from work we’ve actually done, and the tools we wished had existed while doing it.