counted it once last quarter: roughly 3 hours just pulling inputs before i opened a single slide. Last month's metrics out of notion, the roadmap state from linear, founder check-in notes sitting in granola, the open investor threads in gmail. None of it is hard work, it's just scattered across five tabs and i'm the courier carrying it between them.
The actual writing was never my bottleneck. a chat assistant drafts the narrative fine once everything is pasted in, but i'm still the one doing the gather step by hand first.
what changed it for me was letting a desktop agent do the cross-app read in one pass, notion plus linear plus granola plus gmail, and hand back an assembled draft before i touch slides. The deck quality wasn't the surprise. Not spending the morning as a copy-paste machine was.
The gathering is the tax nobody budgets for, and honestly it's the part i least want a human doing. written with ai
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