It’s 2025. In Italy (and in many other spots across good old Europe), transferring shares of a privately held company still demands a physical visit to a notary. Yes, even if the seller must fly in from the other side of the globe.

If those shares aren’t digitized, the seller has to bring a paper certificate with them. On this ancient, massive piece of paper, we must stick an adhesive stamp with the seller’s signature, which the notary then ‘authenticates’.

But if even one solitary signature is absent from that relic of a certificate, the notary (quite rightly) stops the entire proceeding.

The only recourse then is for the seller’s lawyer’s unfortunate junior (or, generally, the most junior person in the room) to grab the certificate, jump in the car, drive nearly 100 km just to chase down that signature, and then rush back.

If it’s 5 PM, that’s when the real fun begins.

So, the real question is: What arrives first? An AI capable of enabling a humanoid robot to perfectly mimic the junior’s 200km paper chase, or an actual and deep system change?

We’ll see.

In the meantime, keep building 🛠️