Three years ago, I would take 1h every night after work to start building an app.

I had never done it so I had to learn everything from scratch.

I was simultaneously preparing for my certification of information security manager and helping my employer getting ISO 27001 certified, so it was intense.

I would isolate myself in a 6m2 room of my Barcelona flat and do the work.

I would hit walls every day. Nothing was working. Every time I thought it was unlocked, another obstacle would popup.

It took me 7 months from first thinking about building the app (February) to having it ready to share with the world (September).

Once I launched, nothing happened. Total silence for one month. The first customer I got was in October 2023.

The app was a basic "policy generator". It looked very... artisanal. The economics didn't make sense because people needed it one time yet I was selling a subscription.

I quickly realized what people needed wasn't a one-time policy generator but an assistant they could always rely on when dealing with ISO 27001. Like ChatGPT, but specialized in compliance. But oh boy, I was alone with just my keyboard, and every attempt to build something more advanced would take months. I tried anyways with everything I could.

This period of trying to build all by myself lasted until summer 2025. In July, after I left my job, my best friend who happens to be a CTO offered to help. He scratched his head for a couple of months, but in October 2025, ISMS Copilot finally launched as a real app.

Three months later, it turns out it is starting to pay off. Adoption doubled in January 2026, and we processed over 130,000,000 tokens this month alone. It's hard to quantify precisely, but it's tens of thousands of messages. So we had our eyes stuck at the console to make sure scaling this rapidly wasn't breaking anything.

It is hard to realize, but what started as a side project now allows me to work with my best friend, and my partner who is joining the project as of today.

Building a compliance alternative to the AI giants is scary, but it is exciting, and I'm happy to do this on my own terms!

Thanks to everyone who supported until today, really