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 5 of 8
Phase 2: Expansion to Other Teams
Rolling AI out across five functional teams. 30 skills in flight, 24 shipped so far. Forge fully operational and Claude Design now layered on top — every team member can build polished 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
65
+26 since ship
Sprint Progress
100%
Phase 1 Delivered
Sourcing Intelligence push for the Investment Team: Continuing last week's push. 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
Head of AI Search — sharpened scorecard: Updated scorecard from Artico received Friday May 1. Re-aligning candidate pipeline against the refined profile. Meeting Steven Shih (Citadel / Palantir) this week. team
Office Hours: Forge + Design hands-on building: Mon May 4 firm-wide AI Office Hours and Wed May 6 Office Hours + Lunch. Pivoting from demo to builder support — sessions focused on helping team members ship their first Forge apps with Claude Design polish. team
IR: 9 skills in active build: Granola Weekly LP Call Digests, DealCloud manual data push-back, With Intelligence API → Supabase, Portfolio Management System/MCP, Board Deck processing automation for Portco Tracker, Finance Portco Data Ingestion, Preqin into LP MCP, Slack alerts for Granola IR notes, StripesAI LP Demo Materials, and IR Core Finance Data Ingestion. skill/agent
Network: 5 skills in active build: Granola → Stripes.ai people-matching, Dedicated Network MCP, Network Database, Network Slack App, and Gatsby integration (event invite/RSVP/attendance data). skill/agent
Infrastructure: 10 skills in flight: Stripes Portfolio folder cleanup, Mac mini AD logins, Claude SSO/RBAC, Funding Rumor Mill, Harmonic/Exa Funding channels, SharePoint deals extraction (Beauty use case), Snowflake evaluation, Forge setup ongoing. Plus Gong Analog and Monday Enterprise Pipeline App on the General side. infra
Finance: Sadie Platform build: Last Finance skill standing in this batch — most others shipped. skill/agent
Capital Markets: Liquidity Dashboard: Continuing build. skill/agent
Investment Team: Unowned Scout notifications + Earnest dashboard + Engine Room buildout: Unowned Scout notifications wrapping for both Enterprise and DCS. Consumer Earnest dashboard and Consumer Dream List/Scout in active build. Engine Room buildout continuing. sourcing
Claude Design unveiled at Wed Office Hours: Wednesday's session featured Claude Design — a web-based UI prototyping tool that pairs with Forge for a complete build path. Real-time visual feedback, Figma-style commenting and team collaboration, plus seamless handoff to Forge for production-ready apps. The recommended workflow: start with a structured Q&A, ground prompts in actual data, iterate visually, then hand off to Forge. skill/agent team
Infrastructure: 8 skills shipped in one week: Biggest single-week infra delivery of the sprint — Auth0 apps for Partners and Ken, stripes.ai domain intranet, AI Quarterly Survey, Technomic 1,500 Data Set + 2025 Data Ingest, Custom MCP connection persistence fix, Beauty Benchmarking doc count, KPIs/sample CIMs/Pitch Decks → Reducto, and SharePoint Beauty extraction kickoff. infra
Sourcing Intelligence apps shipped: Pre-Processing for SONAR Signals, Pre-processed database for Unowned Companies, Unowned Company Scout MCP, Signals/Patterns Analysis for Recent Enterprise Pipeline, Sourcing Engine for Power Code Users, and DCS News List all went live. Foundation for the agentic sourcing workflow now in place. skill/agent sourcing
Talent shipped 3 more skills: Talent jumped from 2 to 5 of 10 — biggest WoW % gain of any team this week. skill/agent
Network shipped Email Channel network touchpoint check: Auto-detection when emails involve a Stripes network contact. Network now at 5 of 59. skill/agent
Monday Enterprise Pipeline App live in beta: Cross-team enterprise pipeline view on top of Monday — partners now have a single live source of truth for the enterprise funnel. skill/agent sourcing
General: 9 cross-team skills shipped: Skills Library in Slack, Audit Log, Investor Monday Board Follow-up Digest, PitchBook Network Map, Stripes Research Hub META Skill, Pipeline Skill, PortCo Lookup with Supabase as source of truth, Stripes Network Resources source of truth, Stripes Branding Skill, plus Deal Intel Lookup updates and SONAR Signals. skill/agent
IR: Portfolio Management System/MCP promoted to active build: Slack alerts for Granola IR notes also added to active queue. No new IR skills shipped this week — focus shifted to setting up the next batch. skill/agent