🎧 START pod: Natalie Aresta-Katz, Cofounder & CEO, Regbase: “Tracking global laws, grants and consultations”

About this episode

Natalie Aresta-Katz discusses her journey in creating Regbase to efficiently track global laws and regulations.

Google used to surface the PDF of a law if you searched its exact name. Now it surfaces consultancies advising on it. And LLMs have gotten worse at this too. As they’ve tried to cut costs and focus on the information 99.99% of users want, long-tail edge-case data has become much harder to find. Natalie Aresta-Katz was at a big law firm. One of their biggest clients wanted to track new and proposed laws in 45 countries that didn’t publish in English. They hired lawyers in every single country. Tried probably 15 tools on the market. Ran manual searches. Nothing worked well. Now she's building the tool she wished she had. One workflow went from up to 13 paralegals and around 120 hours a month to one user and about an hour and a half. ‍ 🎙️ Natalie Aresta-Katz, CEO & Founder of Regbase, on Fondo START pod (full ep in comments) ‍ 00:20 “Regbase was really born out of a place of necessity.” 01:32 Tracking new and proposed laws across 45 countries 02:00 Why existing tools failed 02:43 The “Wizard of Oz” backroom behind regulatory databases 03:26 Why long-tail legal data is getting harder to find 04:23 Dropping into YC after Andrew said, “an MBA isn’t really school” 05:37 Finding…

People in this episode

Guest: Natalie Aresta-Katz

Topics covered

• legal technology
• law tracking
• entrepreneurship
• LLMs
• regulatory databases
• business efficiency

Keywords

• legal data
• consultancies
• law firms
• manual searches
• output-based billing
• school safety funding

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Regbase, Google, YC

Places: 45 countries, state-level

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