THAT WAS · Mumbai · 24 September 2026

Month in AI

A morning at the Taj over coffee and breakfast: what shipped in AI this month, what it changed in our own work, and what each of us is building next. Two hours that ran long, as they always do.

Where
Taj Santacruz · Coffee and Breakfast
When
Thursday, 8:00 am
Who
7 at the table

Hover a chair. The company, never the name. 7 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.

  • Morgan Stanley
  • Eccentric Engine Private Limited
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • Melento
  • gili.One
  • IDFC First Bank

WHAT WENT ROUND

Three questions.
Three rounds of coffee.

They went round the table, in order. Nobody presented. This is what came back.

Round one

What are you building?

“A voice bot for our support line. It works until someone has an accent.”

Round two

What broke?

“The evals. They pass. The customers still hate it.”

Round three

What's next?

“Ship it to 5 people on Monday and stop reading about it.”

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, 8 given out, 0 kept for the ones who turn up anyway.
  • 027 people sat down.
  • 03Nothing was recorded, posted or tagged.

CURIOUS PM

coffee meetup · receipt no. 966

hosted by Ankit Aggarwal

1 × Table for 8
₹0
1 × Thursday, 24 September 2026
₹0
1 × 8:00 am to about lunch
₹0
1 × Taj Santacruz · Coffee and Breakfast,
₹0
Coffee, chai, snacks
₹0
Slides, pitches, name tags
—

TOTAL ₹0 on us

7 at the table · settled by Curious PM

SETTLED · COME TO THE NEXT ONE
Every other Saturday · a different café each time

The next one is somewhere else, with the same eight chairs.