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.
Now — Phase 2 Active · Week 4 of 8
Phase 2: Expansion to Other Teams
Rolling AI out across five functional teams. 39 skills in flight, 21 shipped so far. With Forge now live, every team member can also build their own apps directly. Each box below shows skills delivered and overall completion.
Next — Phase 3 & Phase 4
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
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
58
+19 since ship
Sprint Progress
100%
Phase 1 Delivered
Sourcing Intelligence push for the Investment Team: Doubling down on sourcing this week. Knitting together Scout, Forge-grown sourcing apps, Signal Reports, and Network apps into a single agentic workflow that surfaces the right companies and the right warm paths in to them — proactively, not reactively. Goal is a step-change in top-of-funnel quality and conversion. skill/agent sourcing
Forge rollout to remaining team: Data Team is working through the rest of the firm to complete Forge setup for everyone still pending. Goal is full firm-wide access by end of week. Office hours this week will support builders shipping their first apps. team
Monday Enterprise Pipeline App: Cross-team build for an enterprise pipeline view on top of Monday — designed to give partners a single live source of truth for the enterprise funnel. skill/agent sourcing
IR: 7 skills in active build: Granola Weekly Digests of LP Calls (refining prompt with Paige), DealCloud manual data push-back, IR Builder Framework setup, With Intelligence API → Supabase, Board Deck processing automation for Portco Tracker, Finance Portco Data Ingestion, and Preqin into LP MCP. skill/agent
Finance: 5 skills in active build: Allvue API exploration, QuickBooks databases for all "Companies", Financial Reporting (daily cash feed → Global Rec → LP allocation), Addepar dashboard/API access, and Sadie Platform build. skill/agent
Infrastructure: heavy build queue: Forge Setup ongoing, Auth0 apps for Partners and Ken, stripes.ai domain intranet, SharePoint deals extraction (Beauty use case), Funding Rumor Mill database, Harmonic/Exa Recent Funding channels, Mac mini AD logins, Claude SSO/RBAC, and Technomic 1,500 dataset. 12 infra skills in active build. infra
Network: Granola → Stripes.ai people matching + Network Database: Sam continuing Granola notes surfacing with calendar-email people matching, plus Network Database build. skill/agent
Talent: 3 in flight: Chrome Extension NDA Fix, Thrive Write MCP, and Super Carl demo. skill/agent
Capital Markets: Liquidity Dashboard: Milan continuing the build. skill/agent
Forge unveiled — non-technical app builder firm-wide: Wednesday's office hours featured the unveil of Forge, a framework that lets any Stripes team member build full web apps using plain natural language. The session walked through how it works under the hood, included a live build, and got every laptop in the room set up by the end. Within 24 hours, 12 team members had built 30 apps in Claude Code via Forge. Data Team is now driving setup across the rest of the firm. skill/agent team
Head of AI Search Update: Andrew Sohrabi 1st meeting Tuesday. Christian Giovanelli 2nd-round last Friday did not go well — sharpening pencils on candidate profile. Re-evaluating second rounds for Nikita based on feedback to Christian. team
Finance team shipped 3 more skills: Wayne Fund/Partner Performance for Ken, OFAC Process screening (portcos, employees, LPs), and Quarterly Reporting Feature all went live. Finance is now the most-shipped Phase 2 team at 9 of 68 total skills. skill/agent team
IR shipped LLM-powered followup completion marker: One of the 7 IR skills in flight last week — using LLMs to automatically mark completed followups in DealCloud — went live. skill/agent
Network shipped Scale Resources skill: Sam delivered the Scale Resources skill on top of the Network infrastructure shipped the prior week. Network team now at 4 skills delivered. skill/agent
Talent shipped Thrive Data integration: Thrive Data full integration delivered, building on the Thrive Read MCP from earlier this month. Talent now at 2 of 10 skills. skill/agent
Phase 2 scope still heavy — but Forge eases pressure: Network has 52 queued tasks, Finance 54, IR 16. Team of 3 builders (Sam, Raemie, Milan) still supporting 7 business teams centrally — but with Forge live, every team member can now build their own apps directly. Head of AI hire remains the unlock for scaling the central team.