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Building products that make legal work faster and clearer.

I'm building Whisperit, a secure AI workspace for legal teams. I care deeply about product execution, practical AI, and building things that genuinely help people work better. Outside work, I reset by swimming in cold lakes, training, and sauna. I also love hiking in Valais with my family and cooking for friends.

Founder and CEO at Whisperit
Focused on secure AI for legal teams
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March 18th, 2025/ Legal Tech

Whisperit: Revolutionizing Legal Tech Efficiency with AI-Powered Workspace

Discover how Whisperit is transforming the legal industry by helping lawyers become 10x more efficient through AI-powered workspace solutions. Learn about the future of legal tech and how it's reshaping the way legal professionals work.

Romain de Wolff

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March 4, 2026 at 10:46 PM/ 2 pages

Eat Your Own Product

One of the most important yet often overlooked principles in building a great product is using it internally, and despite knowing this for years, the team behind Whisperit has not been fully applying it. The common excuses — not being lawyers, needing different features, having different use cases — are ultimately not valid, and the real reason comes down to small frictions in the product, like an extra click here or there, that make it tempting to reach for another tool instead. This is a significant mistake, because once a product has reached a decent level with its first hundreds of users, the difference between good and great lies in the details. The commitment going forward is for the entire team to use Whisperit for AI tasks, documents, and meeting recordings, as this is the only way to identify and fix all the small issues that stand between the product and becoming the leading tool in Legal Tech.

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March 4, 2026 at 4:15 AM/ 2 pages

The 4 AM Founder Advantage

The early morning hours around 4:30 AM are described as the ideal time for focused work, when everything is quiet with no emails, calls, or messages coming in. These sessions are used for writing notes, reflecting on the previous day, preparing a top-three task list, and reading about other entrepreneurs' journeys. The shift from being a night owl to an early riser came with the birth of a first daughter seven years ago, when exhaustion after long days made late-night work unsustainable. Starting early felt like a tenfold increase in productivity and made it possible to hold a full-time job while learning to become an entrepreneur — a process that took longer than expected but proved to be a rewarding journey overall.

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March 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM/ 4 pages

Shadow Days Are the Cheat Code

On March 3, 2026, a full day was spent shadowing an M&A lawyer and his firm in Geneva as part of an ongoing practice of "shadow sessions" aimed at improving the next version of Whisperit, a legal software product. The experience reinforced how valuable it is to observe customers in their daily workflows, revealing countless small but critical details that serve as a goldmine for product feedback — yet surprisingly few companies seem to invest in this kind of hands-on customer immersion. The day also sparked a recurring personal fascination with the legal profession, though the immediate priority remains fully dedicated to making lawyers' work more efficient. Early adoption stats from the firm are encouraging, with 80% of employees using Whisperit weekly and 50% daily, and with upcoming features like deeper integrations, automations, self-learning capabilities, and voice usage on the horizon, there is strong optimism about the product's future. More shadow sessions with partners in other cities are already planned for the coming weeks, continuing a learning-driven approach to building something

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February 28, 2026 at 10:41 PM/ 3 pages

A Day of Doing Nothing

On a rare day without any work, the entry reflects on how much has changed since younger years spent prioritizing pleasure, friends, skateboarding, video games, and travel with no deadlines or agenda. That earlier lifestyle now seems both insane and amazing in hindsight, because the current reality revolves around working and pushing beyond comfort zones every single day, to the point of wondering whether this drive is compensation for the lack of effort in youth. The day was instead spent building Lego with four-year-old Alice and drawing with Mathilde, including a picture of the family dog, and there is a genuine sense of happiness and pride in those small, meaningful moments — a reminder not to forget the love and little things that count for so much.

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February 27, 2026 at 8:12 PM/ 2 pages

Learning at Impossible Speed

The ease and speed of learning through AI tools has reached a remarkable level, making it possible to analyze data, explore subjects in depth, and get advice on any topic almost instantly. This quality of access to information opens up enormous possibilities for anyone with curiosity and motivation, and it is striking that none of this was available at this level even just over two years ago. One particularly valuable application is in optimizing processes, especially in the context of running a small startup with big ambitions, where AI can compress tasks like analyzing, reflecting on, documenting, and implementing improved processes from days or weeks down to hours. The recommendation is straightforward: try it, embrace it, experiment freely, push its limits, and learn from the errors it makes, because hands-on exploration is the best way to understand and benefit from a new technology like this.

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February 25, 2026 at 6:57 PM/ 3 pages

Writing Under Watching Eyes

Making personal journal notes publicly visible on a website has a noticeable effect on the writing process, introducing a layer of self-awareness and calculation that replaces the feeling of writing freely, even when the audience is small. This experience suggests that the gaze of others, however minimal, creates a sense of accountability, which may explain why sharing goals publicly tends to push people to follow through and step outside their comfort zones. There is an appeal in the combination of transparency and optimization, and in the broader life goal of aligning what one thinks, says, and does, since actions ultimately carry more weight than words. The underlying rhythm worth maintaining is one of building, measuring, and learning, meeting people, exchanging ideas, and above all enjoying the process.

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February 21, 2026 at 12:39 AM/ 4 pages

Secure AI With Full Transparency

In late February 2026, Whisperit completed version 1.0 of its legal documents, marking a significant milestone in providing transparency and high-security AI services to customers. The platform allows users to select their preferred AI provider — whether Swiss, European, or global — while all data remains hosted in Switzerland, giving each firm the flexibility to choose what best fits its needs. A key ongoing challenge is ensuring consistent quality across all supported AI models, particularly when sourcing reliable partners within Switzerland, but a robust suite of evaluation and quality tests now enables rapid benchmarking of LLM providers for reliability, speed, and hosting capacity. There is consideration of making these benchmarks public, similar to what VALS.ai offers for legal tech, to share insights that could benefit the broader community. The model selection feature has been available since the early beta, and the newly finalized documentation has already received strong positive feedback, with one of Switzerland's largest law firms notably praising the architecture data flow as the best they have seen on the market.

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February 16, 2026 at 7:18 PM/ 3 pages

The AI War Rages On

As of mid-February 2026, the AI competition among major players is intensifying, with OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), and Meta (Llama) leading the field, while Asian companies like DeepSeek, Kimi, and MiniMax are gaining ground. Notable recent developments include Anthropic running ads that mock OpenAI, and OpenAI hiring Pieter Steinberg, an Austrian engineer whose open-source AI personal assistant, Open Claw, went viral for its ability to autonomously handle virtually any computer task and has become the fastest-growing open-source project of all time — a strategic move that brought both talent and public attention to OpenAI. Meta appears to be falling behind, with little notable output in recent months, while the Chinese and Asian AI companies continue to impress by shipping high-quality, often fully open-source models at a rapid pace.

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February 14, 2026 at 3:04 AM/ 2 pages

AI Work Feels Superhuman

As of early 2026, the integration of AI into daily work has become transformative and hard to imagine working without. In one example, a series of tasks from a work journal were cleaned up, deduplicated, and reorganized by AI in seconds, and then a coding agent was set to work writing user stories and implementing them based on the product source code — running autonomously for hours while other work continued. The sentiment is widely shared, with more and more professionals, including lawyers, describing the experience as feeling like having a superpower. The technology is not perfect, but the shift in how work gets done is unmistakable and accelerating.

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February 13, 2026 at 8:21 AM/ 1 page

Standup Keeps Us Human

The daily team standup is appreciated as a valued part of the routine, even though most participants are typically sitting at their desks rather than actually standing up, and there is an emphasis on keeping people at the center of the practice.

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