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Field notes: Lisbon offsite
Edited just now by Inês Moreau
Six interviewsTomás over two days, all with people who run small studios. The pattern was the same every time: the work happens in a shared doc, and the doc is never where the decision ends up.
Nobody trusts the copy they're looking at to be the latest one, so they paste it into chat to be sure. Two of them keep a printed version on the wall.
Can we lead the readout with this line?
November 2026
Week 46Left to spend in November
$2,481.20
Daily spending
Nov 1 – 24
Salary · Halden Lab
Nov 1
+$4,200.00
Rent · Calle da Luna
Nov 1
−$1,350.00
Bakehouse on Rua Nova
Today
−$8.40
Metro pass
Yesterday
−$42.00
Livraria Sá da Costa
Nov 10
−$27.90
Album · 2026
Yellow Hours
Saint Juniper · 11 songs, 41 min
Open questions
- · Do we show pricing before the invite step?
- · What does an empty workspace look like?
# launch
14 members
Priya Raman9:12
Build 412 is on staging. Can everyone give the new invite flow a spin before standup?
Jonas Weber9:20
Invites from a phone work now. The email preview still shows the old logo though.
Mei Tanaka9:24
Fixed in 413, deploying now. Attaching the before and after.
invite-email-before-after.png
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Priya is typing…
Plume · Docs that research teams write together, offline on the train.