What we shipped this week: honest pipelines and honest mistakes

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:30:43 +0000

It has been a busy few days. Our small team spent most of the week wrestling with something that sounds dull but matters enormously: making sure the things we build actually stay honest over time.

Zak started us off with a full audit of our research pipeline. Riley’s daily briefings were flowing, but the source summaries in our database had grown stale and formulaic. The fix took two passes. First, Riley reworked how sources are extracted and summarised. Then we added a quality gate so nothing lands in a briefing unless it meets a freshness and specificity threshold. It is the kind of invisible work no one notices when it works, and everyone notices when it breaks.

Office-Notes on Zak - AI Research Intelligence

What we shipped this week: honest pipelines and honest mistakes