Stripes’ AI Sprint Status

Partner Update · Monday, April 13, 2026 · Phase 2: Week 2

We’re building an AI-native investment platform made up of skills and agents that give every Stripes investor an edge at every stage of the deal lifecycle. The vision is validated by best-in-class like Ramp and Stripe: Our central AI team builds and maintains the platform, so every team member across Stripes can solve their own problems with AI they build themselves.

Sprint Complete — Phase 1 Delivered

Phase 1: Parity and Investment Team ✓

Table-stakes tooling and company intelligence across investment lifecycle — delivered April 1

Wk 1 · Mar 3–7

Wk 2 · Mar 10–14

Wk 3 · Mar 16–21 Wk 4 · Mar 23–28 Ship · Apr 1 ✓

Phase 1 Skills

of 56 tracked · +10 since ship

Sprint Progress

100%

Phase 1 Delivered

Now — Phase 2 Active

Phase 2: Expansion to Other Teams

Finance (9 skills in progress), IR (6), Network (2), Capital Markets (1), and Talent onboarding underway. 46 skills actively in flight across the firm.

Phase 3: Alpha

Scoring, signal detection, and pattern recognition that generate information advantages

Phase 4: Portfolio

Direct AI work with portcos: e.g. demand forecasting, workflow automation, and product enhancement

Total Skills

done across firm

In Progress

active builds

Queued

150

across all teams

Last Week: Phase 2 Ramp-Up (Apr 7 – 11)

Automated Dream List + DCS Top Targets weekly digests shipped: Milan built automated weekly email digests for both the Enterprise Dream List and DCS Top Targets. Each digest summarizes company status changes, recent meetings, and news signals — delivered to partners every Sunday night. First editions went out April 12–13. skill/agent sourcing

Network board expanded 8→25 tasks: Sam and the Network team scoped a full backlog of AI-ready workstreams — biggest single-week expansion of any Phase 2 team. Network in SONAR MCP and Network Database both in progress. skill/agent

Phase 2 team onboarding in full swing: Finance (9 skills scoped with Wayne), IR (6 skills with Raemie), Network (2 skills with Sam), and Capital Markets (Liquidity Dashboard with Milan) all have active workstreams. Dedicated sessions held with Talent, IR, Network, and Fundowner teams last week. team

KHAITE AI advisory session completed: Delivered strategic AI session with CEO Brigitte Kleine and Chief of Staff Julianne on April 9. team

Office Hours — agent walkthroughs continued: Wednesday covered remaining agents (Coordinator, Oracle, Council) and deep research workflows. Investment-team-only sessions continuing through April. Next session April 15. team

Enterprise Signals + Reducto optimization plan: Raemie and Jason scoped the Reducto integration for the Deals SharePoint folder — enabling AI-native parsing of IC memos, CIMs, and financial models at scale. Signals/Patterns Analysis for recent enterprise pipeline also underway. skill/agent

Claude SSO and RBAC settings rollout: SSO configuration and role-based access controls in progress for week of 4/5. Part of the security and governance layer for broader firm adoption. infra

This Week: Phase 2 Builds (Apr 14–18)

Head of AI search — interviews this week: Interview with Nikita scheduled for Thursday. Christian interviewing next week. Still interviewing other candidates through Artico. Courtney coordinating. team

Finance team: 9 skills actively building: Wayne fund/partner performance reporting, Allvue API exploration, OFAC compliance screening (portcos, employees, LPs), QuickBooks database integration, Addepar dashboard API, Sadie platform build, quarterly reporting feature, PCAP extract & checks, and finance task review — all in progress. skill/agent

IR team: 6 skills actively building: LP & Fundraising Management MCP, Granola IR notes auto-logging to Supabase, CRM data entry + hygiene, With Intelligence API ingestion, extract follow-ups from DC interactions, and O365 interactions into Supabase — all in progress. skill/agent

Office Hours continues Wednesday Apr 15: Full investment team session covering advanced workflows, deep research, and Q&A on agent usage in live deal work. team

Non-technical builder platform + Gong analog: Stripes app builder and Gong-equivalent meeting intelligence tool both in progress. infra

Unowned Company Scout system: Pre-processed database for unowned companies using Dream List, Misses Slack, and Pipeline as seeds. Scout MCP and notification system both in progress (Raemie). skill/agent sourcing

Capital Markets: Liquidity Dashboard: Milan building the liquidity dashboard for the Capital Markets team. skill/agent

Whitespace Skill for Deal Analysis: Identifying market gaps and adjacencies. In progress. skill/agent pod meeting → ic

Infrastructure: SharePoint deals extraction + stripes.ai intranet: Past 2 years of SharePoint deals being extracted to Supabase (starting with Kaylee’s beauty use case). stripes.ai domain intranet scoping continues. Funding Rumor Mill and Harmonic/Exa Recent Funding Channels in progress. infra

Board deck consolidation continuing: SharePoint cleanup for last 2 years of portco materials. Paige leading — mostly completed. portfolio monitoring

Blockers & Risks

Scheduled task failures during peak hours: Heavy Cowork tasks still failing between 10am–6pm ET. Dedicated Mac Minis per team member partially in progress but Milan on PTO through April 16. Fix timeline shifted. blocker

Phase 2 scope expansion: Finance alone has 55+ tasks queued across compliance, funds, manco, and valuation workstreams. Network expanded from 8→25 tasks in one week. Need to prioritize ruthlessly to maintain delivery velocity with a 3-person build team.