The day,
block by block.

Anuj sets the day, the goal, and the kill-is-honorable framing. Short and direct — energy-setting, not information-transfer.

Three Builders project their screens at the front of the room and walk through the cold-start setup of their Claude Code projects in parallel — narrating the choices they make. The day opens with the black box of AI engineering being deliberately cracked open.

The team's first hour together. The PO walks the team through the spec, the Builder identifies the MVP slice and cut order, the Client Advocate probes scope from the buyer's seat, the Narrator drafts the value prop out loud, the Market Analyst describes the data plan, and the Pricing Strategist drafts the v0.1 business case. The working agreement is locked here. Recorded end to end.

Heads-down build toward the proof-of-life milestone: the AI is doing something end-to-end. Builders are in flow; non-builders produce in parallel (comp slides, pricing model, pitch outline).

Each Builder gets exactly 60 seconds at their station to demo what is currently working. Show, don't tell. Honesty over polish. No prep allowed. Then the room mingles for 10 minutes before lunch.

Open. Food in the room. Conversations from the Walk-Around continue without ceremony.

The longest single block of the day. Target: feature-complete and demo-ready. Scope cuts get sharper as time runs short — this is where the Discovery cut list earns its keep.

Builders freeze code — no more changes. Narrators rehearse the pitch on the live tool. Market Analysts and Pricing Strategists hand their slides to the Narrator. The team walks through the demo script once.

Three teams. Each team gets 8 minutes of demo + 5 minutes of Q&A. The demo must show the live tool — not slides, not a screencast. Narrators deliver. Builders run the tool silently.

Awards (15 min — every participant votes, no self-voting). Retro (25 min — each team shares one thing that worked, one that surprised them, one they'd do differently). The Commitment Ritual (20 min — each team makes a public commitment to ship within 60 days or kill within 14 days). Both are wins.