Last week's Together Table at Officina: engineering leaders from Ramp, Reducto AI, Datadog, Webflow, DoorDash, Zendesk, Notion, and Atlassian on the real trade-offs of closed vs. open models in production.
Smart people, strong opinions, great food. More of these coming.
Collected the most-loved internal Grok Bot use cases:
• Find / book flights biased towards Starlink access
• Order Whole Foods delivery from recipe photos
• Fix date/GPS metadata on hundreds of film scans
• Negotiate contractor quotes directly
• Book prospect / customer meetings via outbound agents
• Convert sales deck to different language before a customer call
• Auto-update decks from Granola discovery notes
• Pull deal context from mobile without logging into Salesforce
• Run a prospecting plan that edits a Google Sheet as it goes
• Orchestrate 100’s of cloud agents and summarize into Notion
• Narrate a cloud-agent demo in your own voice
• Turn a daily Slack digest into a 3-minute morning podcast
• Turn Kindle highlights into Anki cards every morning
• Turn an Instagram recipe reel into an Instacart order
• Convert Chase points into optimized flights
• Watch movie ticket drops and buy
• Redesign a personal portfolio in Webflow
• Prep a daily meeting brief on people you’re talking to
• Organize messy Slack channels