In the month that I've been here, I've been noticing a pattern in a lot of launches - strong demos, polished UI, clear outputs of "what it does."
But when I ask myself "What problem does this solve?" I sometimes have to dig for the answer. (I come by that thinking honestly - I've spent 33 years building and fixing businesses, so this is the lens I can't turn off.)
a16z published a piece last week arguing that everything at work is being recorded, and that companies who build AI on top of that context layer will win.
Compelling thesis. But it mostly frames recordings as a memory and retrieval problem. I think the more interesting question is what people are actually doing with them beyond transcripts, summaries, and action items.
I've seen teams use recordings for onboarding, async decision reviews, even as a source of truth when things go sideways. But I'm curious what's happening in practice.
A few things I'd love to discuss with the community:
