Notable verbatim quotes

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1. [Motivation / frustration] "it originated from this type of frustrations are often like hey where's this file where's this presentation you're always looking for these kind of things changing people it's really irritating" — §2
2. [Why one brain matters] "if I am connected to the sort of all of the all the knowledge of the organization that was also part of. Like meeting to conversations then I'm just really easily able to sort of channel that. And bring us forward in using my work." — §2
3. [Small-team-high-volume rationale] "we really can't be occupied with trying to find folders trying to find stuff so we really have to work on AI native way just to be able to cope with the gigantic output." — §3
4. [The starter stack] "we just started with oak claw [OpenClaw] on the sandbox environment that GitHub is repository that has the data like all the research those kind of things and then we use I use obsidian to also have it locally on my system... and then telegram is yeah the surface through which I can just communicate 24/7" — §5
5. [Core shift] "we no longer search for files and more like for ideas and context and those kind of things. Which is a massive game changer." — §6
6. [Research as newspaper] "it's almost like my newspaper because I don't read the newspaper but I read everything evolving around agents, the eye, those kind of things. And that's the service to me daily in the morning." — §7
7. [Promote-to-vault discipline] "I promote stuff to the vault which is really important you need to remember this. Once after a while I figure out that it actually really important... because I don't want to bother everyone with my unvalidated research. It needs to find some grounding in reality." — §8
8. [Vault scale] "in our vault I have a lot of research... it's almost 1200 files this setup is able to cope with all these things without doing additional. Stuff" — §9
9. [Client vault] "we sort of figured out let's just interpret whatever they give to us and then put that into our system... so you can just say hey what were lost files from Calvin Klein that we got delivered from ex which is really useful when you run production" — §10
10. [Dorsey / hierarchy] "the emergence of AI is generous and premise of hierarchy as a requirement for the first line" (paraphrasing Jack Dorsey) — §11
11. [Make everything available to AI] "should we just make as much as possible humanly no pun intended available for 40 AI so that's every conversation that we have meetings research also code base obviously." — §11
12. [Record everything] "right now I feel like you should record everything because everything that is not like digitized sort of doesn't exist and you're already a disadvantage if you don't do that." — §12
13. [OB recorder / own the data] "you can just put it on a table it records it and then you can send it to your own servers so there's no like subscription stuff which is really own the data" — §12
14. [Granola] "Granola is a very useful tool for us as well. Which transcribes meetings but in a proper way and you can also type your own notes at the same time and then when it makes the full transcript it prioritize molds it around your notes" — §12
15. [Chief-of-staff vision] "what if our chief of staff just surfaces these type of questions that we need to ask to the client in that specific call so it can also help us think along." — §13
16. [Own your stack] "I would not want my knowledge to sit in just a lot or in other people. S chat windows I'd like to keep it as much as possible on like our own our own stack and our own service" — §14
17. [AI's failure mode] "the AI can be brilliant and dumb at the same time it can sort of lose sight of the most obvious things" — §15
18. [Start-small advice] "start small. Let one person suffer through first don't roll this out to everyone." — §18
19. [Chief-of-staff ROI argument] "if you can give them an agent that sort of shaves off 20% of all of those jobs and they find a little bit of a nuisance that they get a time back then they can actually move more into these type of optimization things." — §18
20. [Research agent magic] "the research agent this is just magic. To constantly get that information and be able to learn from the world through your curated lens." — §18