What I am doing now

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Updated on August 30, 2026 from Biarritz, France.

I’m going deep on my health and I'm feeling the results

I’ve invested a lot in my business, my freedom and my inner world.

Now I’m bringing the same intensity to my health.

People close to me know that when I'm interested by something, I'm going all in. Depth and intensity to the maximum.  

I started working with functional medicine (I strongly recommend) and discovered early signs of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, increased intestinal permeability and gut dysbiosis.

Actually, most people are affected by gut dysbiosis and leaky gut, especially because of things like gluten, alcohol, and many other factors. But since very few people get regular bloodwork done, most live with these issues their whole lives, without realizing they're quietly affecting their physical / mental health.

I’m actively working on all three. Supplements, peptides, changes, practices.

I’ve changed parts of my diet, cut out gluten entirely, started taking several supplements recommended by my functional medicine doctor, started tracking my recovery with an Oura Ring, and took BPC-157 to help heal my gut.

I’m now experimenting with Epitalon, and I’ll try Pinealon next.

These are two peptides that are getting increasingly popular in the longevity space, particularly for sleep and cognitive function.

I want to understand my body as deeply as possible. And I'm doing that to live at full capacity. 100%, not 60%.  

Health isn’t a side quest anymore for me. It’s the foundation underneath everything else.

Hermes Agent is changing how I build

I’ve been using Hermes for around three months. This is making a huge difference in my life. And the benefits for MailReach are going to be very important in the upcoming months and years. 

Calling it an AI assistant doesn’t really capture it.

MailReach is only a 2-person company but we now have 4000 customers. But with Hermes, that no longer means having the execution capacity of two people.

To me, being only 2 has always been a major advantage over our competitors. When you're small, you go much faster. You're leaner, sharper, more direct. You have less time for bullshit. You cut what's useless and go straight to what really matters. 

With Hermes, we're now operating with the force of a company made of dozens of people. Dozens.

Hermes handles increasingly complex work across MailReach:
- improving the product
- improving our acquisition & retention
- reviewing UX and UI
- researching acquisition opportunities
- analyzing retention and churn
- improving internal systems
- turning ideas into actual execution

And the capabilities keep expanding.

The interesting part isn’t just the amount of work it can do. It’s the combination of execution power and velocity.

A larger company may have more people. But it also has meetings, handoffs, internal politics, permission layers, bureaucracy and just... a lot of bullshit to manage.

We get more and more of the execution power without adding the weight.

MailReach is becoming better at a speed that would have been impossible for a two-person company a few years ago.

And honestly, it feels like we’re becoming unstoppable.

I’m mentoring founders

I’m taking more and more pleasure in helping other founders scale their companies.

But I’m realizing that I don’t really coach the business separately from the person building it.

One minute, we might be talking about acquisition, pricing, hiring, delegation or self-serve.

The next, we’re looking at the belief underneath a decision.

The fear of running out of money.

The need to prove something through MRR.

The guilt that appears when work starts taking less space.

The tendency to rebuild the exact prison they’re trying to escape.

I look for the game under the game. That's the interesting part.

Because the real bottleneck is often not another tactic. It’s the founder’s operating system.

My style is direct.

I try to see patterns quickly, name what is actually happening and challenge without crushing.

I’m not there to flatter someone or give them another list of productivity hacks.

I want to help them stop being the machine and start building the machine. A business that can grow without depending on them for every sale, decision or customer.

But also a business that serves the life they actually want.

More revenue. More freedom.

More joy now, not after the next milestone.

High ambition without using achievement to prove that you’re enough.

It turns out I love this work.

Helping someone identify the real bottleneck, make a cleaner decision and become freer as their business grows is deeply energizing to me.

I can see this becoming a bigger part of what I do.

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