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.
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?
“A voice bot for our support line. It works until someone has an accent.”
What broke?
“The evals. They pass. The customers still hate it.”
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
- —
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.