THAT WAS · Delhi · 17 January 2026
What did you actually ship with AI this quarter?
Invite only, five guests, one question, and the rule that "we are exploring it" does not count as an answer. Every person had to name a thing that reached a customer. Five did. The best story of the afternoon was the smallest: a single classifier that reads incoming support mail, which took a week to build and three months to be allowed to run.
- Where
- Coffee in Gurugram
- When
- Saturday, 3:00 pm
- Who
- 6 at the table
- Cost
- ₹0
Hover a chair. The company, never the name. 6 chairs filled. Companies below.
— AROUND THIS TABLE —
People from 6 companies
Who they are stays at the table. Where they came from is the whole afternoon.
- Curious PM
- American Express
- Microsoft
- Barclays
- Novatr
- Trellix
WHAT WENT ROUND
Three questions.
Three rounds of coffee.
They went round the table, in order. Nobody presented. This is what came back.
What are you building?
“Five things that shipped. Not one of them was a chatbot.”
What broke?
“Approval, every time. The model took a week; getting it switched on took a quarter.”
What's next?
“Ship the smallest thing that can be measured, then ask for the bigger one with the number in hand.”
THE BILL
Settled, as always.
Coffee, chai, whatever the café did well, and two hours of the table. The bill came to us, which is the whole arrangement.
- 018 chairs, 6 given out, 2 kept for the ones who turn up anyway.
- 026 people sat down.
- 03Nothing was recorded, posted or tagged.
CURIOUS PM
coffee meetup · receipt no. 063
hosted by Ankit Aggarwal
- 1 × Table for 8
- ₹0
- 1 × Saturday, 17 January 2026
- ₹0
- 1 × 3:00 pm to about lunch
- ₹0
- 1 × Coffee in Gurugram,
- ₹0
- Coffee, chai, snacks
- ₹0
- Slides, pitches, name tags
- —
6 at the table · settled by Curious PM
SETTLED · COME TO THE NEXT ONE
Every other Saturday · a different café each time
SAME TABLE, OTHER DAYS
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The next one is somewhere else, with the same eight chairs.