AI Service Standup
Date: February 2, 2026 Source: Granola Meeting ID: 80132ec6-c263-4612-bf7c-340a2501aafc URL: https://notes.granola.ai/t/80132ec6-c263-4612-bf7c-340a2501aafc
Participants:
- Uttam Kumaran (Brainforge)
- Gabriel Lam (Brainforge)
- Casie Aviles (Brainforge)
- Surfield Thomas (Brainforge)
- Mustafa Raja (Brainforge)
- Amber Lin (Brainforge)
- Pranav Narahari (Brainforge)
- Samuel Roberts (Brainforge)
- Clarence Stone (Brainforge)
Summary
Lilo Project Updates
- Skills API issue resolved
- Anthropic can only handle 8 skills at a time, but client has 9
- Need to clarify with client how to organize skills (single chat skill vs multiple)
- Error handling improvements needed - unhelpful messages misleading users
- Data warehouse focus this week
- Finalize numbers and polish discrepancies from last week’s demo
- Front-end wiring completion
- Ad hoc feature requests discussion
- Two current requests outside original scope
- Need formalized process for handling out-of-scope requests
- Will discuss scope management in CSO meeting
ABC Project Planning
- Two main items for sprint planning
- Zip codes implementation
- Central documentation improvements (extra hours required)
- ABC Sync meeting scheduled for today to discuss integration timeline
- Documentation enhancement meeting needed to determine resource allocation
Platform Development Acceleration
- Uttam shipping 3-10 PRs daily with high velocity development
- Multiple new MCPs, vault additions, Slack Assistant features
- Confident in ability to deliver significant progress with minimal time investment
- Code review process needs scaling
- Current Bug Bot and Codex reviews insufficient for volume
- Sam to research enhanced review tools (Code Rabbit, Graphite alternatives)
- Loom documentation for complex PRs
- Consider distributing review responsibilities beyond Sam
- Monorepo consolidation proposal
- Combine all repos into platform for simplified context handling
- Benefits: easier AI-driven cross-repo changes, reduced user confusion
- Concerns: deployment complexity, commit volume, branch protection needed
- Decision pending further planning
Development Process Improvements
- Business user enablement strategy
- Goal: idea-to-prototype capability, not full software engineering
- Expecting lower code quality from non-technical users
- 24-48 hour SLA acceptable for business-driven PRs
- Infrastructure considerations
- Environment variable management via OnePass CLI or Railway
- Pre-commit hooks and linting checks needed
- Auto-labeling for PR categorization
- Watch folder configurations for selective app rebuilds