Breakout track
Internal Conviction → IC
"I have to get others on my team on board."
Where you're starting
Whatever sourcing, triage, and personal due diligence you did, it's done. You're a full-body yes. Now what?
You have to prepare, socialize, get on the IC agenda, present your take, and prove this is 'our' kind of deal. The work between your yes and the firm's yes.
A starter example
Drafting the IC memo from your call notes + the data room — keeping the partner pattern-match objections pre-answered.
Agents that have come up in conversation
- IC memo first-draft from call notes + materials
- Counter-objection pre-mortem against partner pattern history
- Reference call summarizer + theme extractor
- 'Why this is our kind of deal' framing assistant
Five questions for the group
- Q1
What would you do if you had all the time and help you needed — and what do you actually do today, given constraints?
Current state vs. ideal state. The honest gap at the workflow level.
- Q2
What could AI tools / agents do to move you from status quo toward ideal? What's the agent's job description? What are the musts vs. the wants?
Designing the agent. 'Musts' force ranking — wants are nice-to-haves that surface only if musts are met.
- Q3
Has anyone here — or anyone you know — had a real breakthrough? What is it? What known tools might do this well?
Evidence and prior art. Surface what the room already knows so the dojo doesn't reinvent it.
- Q4
Where's the gap between effective and what's possible with your current toolkit and setup?
Personal honest audit. What you have vs. what you'd need to take the next step.
- Q5
Between now and the last Wednesday in June (June 24), are you willing AND able to dig into this deeper — or do you just want to hear back?
Self-sort, not group discussion. Captured in the closing live poll — splits the room into a doer cohort and an audience cohort, both legitimate.
12 minutes. Treat the questions as a rail, not a march — Q5 is the only mandatory landing.
What you bring back
Same shape across all three tracks. 90 seconds at the end, fill it out together: