About

Serena Manzoli

Founder, New Adventures in AI-Fi

Trained as a lawyer, spent a decade making the law less painful with design and software, and now builds the same kind of tools for anyone stuck doing repetitive work by hand.

BASED IN Valencia, Spain Working with clients worldwide
The path here

Law, then legal design, then software

Same underlying question the whole way through: why does a process this repetitive still need a human to do it by hand?

University of Bologna & University of Kent

Two law degrees

Trained as a lawyer across Italy and the UK — and came out of it more interested in how legal information is structured and communicated than in practising in the traditional sense.

Foundations
Peppercorn

Legal architect & social media

Early work applying design thinking to legal content and information architecture — the first real step away from practising law and toward making it easier to understand.

Legal design
2014 — Founder, Wildcat

Wildcat Legal

Founded a digital marketing and legal innovation studio working with small businesses and law firms — part agency, part legal design lab, and a member of the Legal Design Network throughout.

Founder
Cognitiv+

Intelligent document review

Worked with one of the earlier NLP-driven contract review platforms — a first close look at how machine learning could actually change legal document work, not just digitise it.

Legal tech
Avvoka

Document automation

Worked alongside a leading document automation and e-signature platform.

Legal tech
Now — Founder, New Adventures in AI-Fi

Bespoke automation, beyond just law

Everything learned building tools for lawyers, now applied more broadly: bespoke document generation, review, classification and support-chat tools for accountants, HR teams, real estate firms and small businesses — sometimes with AI, sometimes with plain automation.

Today
In the press

Writing & coverage along the way

A few of the pieces and interviews from the legal design and legal tech years.

Legal Futures Beautiful law: how design and visualisation can make law simpler, useful and even fascinating Read →
ABA Journal Women are squarely in the picture where law and technology combine
Lawyernomics Women in legal tech, defining the future of the profession
The Lawyerist Legal tech startups to watch
Law21 An incomplete inventory of new law
Lawyer Fair Podcast Serena Manzoli & the connections between music and law
Off the clock

Music is the other thread running through all of this — it's where New Adventures in AI-Fi gets its name, a nod to R.E.M.'s New Adventures in Hi-Fi. These days that shows up in the work too: one of the automation builds featured on this site was for a concert production company, filing paperwork with collecting societies so someone else doesn't have to.

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