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Legora employee vibe coded a custom immigration app in one day

Jacob Lauritzen · Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jun 6, 2026 · at 20:26

Jacob Lauritzen is the CTO of $5.6B enterprise legal tech startup Legora. He illustrates how internal teams use AI vibe coding to quickly deploy custom business software instead of buying third-party tools.

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“Ryan, who joined from Canada, we have a team of people joining from Canada, they're all moving to Sweden, and he vibe coded an app to help everyone migrate. So like very specifically, if you're Canadian, these are like all the laws and all the steps you take, and there's like, it's interactive, and you can see how far you've made it, and it's awesome, and it took, I don't know, a day to vibe code, and it saves so much time for an entire team.”

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