About Breezeway

Three countries.
One obsession: the cut.

Breezeway is built by editors who got tired of exporting transcripts by hand and engineers who got tired of watching them do it. We are based in Berlin, Helsinki and Amsterdam — and we build for the EU first.

Our story

Started in a Kreuzberg backyard, 2021.

41,000 editors
2,300 studios
3 offices
1 timeline

Lena Hartmann was a documentary editor. Jonas Berg was training speech models.

The first version of Breezeway was a script that turned a transcript into a rough cut.

Today Breezeway is used by 41,000 editors and 2,300 studios.

What we believe

Four rules we don’t bend.

01

Craft over shortcuts

AI should remove the paperwork, not the decisions.

02

Privacy by default

EU hosting, no training on customer content, consent before analytics.

03

European by design

Built for GDPR from the schema up, ready for the AI Act.

04

Show the seams

We explain what the model did and why. No magic boxes.

Milestones

The long cut.

2021

A script in a backyard

Breezeway starts as a transcript-to-rough-cut script.

2022

The first editor

The transcript editor ships to 100 beta editors.

2023

Helsinki and EU render

Second office opens in Helsinki. EU render farms go live.

2024

Amsterdam, brand kits

Third office in Amsterdam. Brand kits and approval flows ship.

2025

32 languages

Captions and AI dubbing reach 32 languages.

2026

AI Act ready

Transparency features for the EU AI Act ship across the product.

The people

Editors first, engineers second.

A small team across three offices. Everyone here has shipped a film, a model, or both.

Lena Hartmann

Co-founder & CEO

Berlin

Jonas Berg

Co-founder & CTO

Berlin

Aino Virtanen

General Manager, Finland

Helsinki

Daan de Wit

Head of Product

Amsterdam

Dr. Mira Albrecht

Data Protection Officer & Legal

Berlin

Noor Jansen

Head of Design

Amsterdam

Where we work

Three rooms, one timeline.

Open studio hours every second Thursday. Bring footage you’re stuck on.

Backing

Backed by people who understand post-production, not just spreadsheets.

Atlantic Labs Nordic Foundry 40+ European operators
We’re hiring

We hire slowly, and only for the cut.

If you have shipped films, models or both — and you like deadlines — write to us with a project you are proud of.