Séverine Nolf

Forbes just put me on the 30 Under 30 Europe AI list.

My impostor syndrome and I are both very surprised. Though if the criteria is "got tired enough of fixing slides to fix it for everyone", I'll take it.

I spent nearly four years at McKinsey fixing slides.

There's a clean inspirational story in there. The real version is messier — moving across the Atlantic, one very specific frustration, and a former colleague Maxime Lahy stubborn enough to go build it together. (Frustration, it turns out, is a reasonable foundation for a company.)

The frustration: watching the smartest people in the room spend their sharpest hours on work that had nothing to do with thinking.

And that's what we're fixing.

Thank you Forbes and thank you to every analyst who's ever sent me a "this is literally my life" message. You're the reason we're building pleasefix.ai. 🖤

Who would have thought pitching at SuperNova would mean catching up with John Heymans, on stage explaining how he used ChatGPT to qualify for the Olympics. Love it.

I was happy to share our perspective on the future of AI in finance. The last mile of deal work is where most of the value is created, and it's still entirely manual. The real shift is a system that remembers how your firm works so every deal builds on the last one.

Big thank you to our investors Pitchdrive for the invite 💙