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Open Copper Tasks
It's Sunday — no meetings on the calendar and no recorded meetings yesterday (Saturday). The pipeline is buzzing, though: five deal channels saw activity in the last 72 hours, headlined by a strong Bungie endorsement from Rich Vogel, first-round slide decks for both Epic and Netflix, and an Amazon rally planned for Monday. The Riot TFT team posted a staffing transition plan for Stu's departure and a teaching component proposal. You have 31 open Copper tasks — many overdue from last fall — and 27 Gmail drafts including a batch of Exel by Merak follow-ups. A good day to review the pipeline state and tee up the week.
PIPELINE
5 Deal Channels Active — Bungie, Epic, Netflix, Amazon, Riot TFT
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Rich Vogel basically said "hire UX is Fine" for Bungie. Matt delivered Epic's first-round slide deck in Figma. You blocked out Netflix pitch slides with a Loom walkthrough. Amazon notes are compiled — Monday rally planned. Aaron posted the Riot TFT staffing plan for Stu's departure and teaching component proposal.
ACTION
Monday Prep — Amazon Rally & Riot TFT Internal Announcement
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Amazon rally scheduled for Monday to combine notes (Ashley to coordinate). Riot TFT team plans to announce Stu's departure to internal staff on Monday April 6. Review Aaron's Riot Plan outline and provide feedback before the internal announcement.
OVERDUE
31 Open Copper Tasks — Many Overdue Since Fall 2025
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Multiple follow-ups from Gamescom and DICE remain open. Oldest tasks date to October 2025 including DDM, Rogers, Marcus Foon, and Howdy-PHB follow-ups. Consider a cleanup pass to close stale tasks and re-prioritize for Q2.
DRAFTS
27 Gmail Drafts — Exel by Merak Follow-ups Ready to Send
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16+ Exel by Merak accelerator follow-up drafts sitting since March 1. Recipients include Merak Capital team, State Department contacts, Google (Baris), STV (Yazeed), studio founders (Abbas, Anas, Ratko), and program organizers. Review and send or archive.
🎯 Focus Topics
Auto-saved per day
📼 Saturday, April 4
No recorded meetings
ℹ️ Saturday — no meetings expected. Last recorded meetings were Wednesday, April 2.
📼 Wednesday, April 2 (last recording day)
Brian Tanner and Jason Schklar
External
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Action Items
- Jason to send further thoughts on the Austin board game event
- Jason to share the LinkedIn post about Take Two's AI department layoffs with Brian
- Brian to consider and confirm attendance at the Austin board game event
Director Project Discussion
Internal
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Follow up to Wednesday staffing. No detailed notes captured.
Cat // Dave // Jason — Studio Operations & Financial
Internal
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Action Items
- Cat to post contractor payment details in the back office
- Cat to attempt using AI to calculate profitability figures
- Cat to enter all contractor payments individually into QuickBooks
- Jason to determine the Austin event budget and discuss with Cat and Ashley
- Cat to locate the yearly and quarterly P&L Google docs and pin them
- Cat to download the quarterly financials as a Google Sheet
Jason / Ashley Catchup
Internal
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No detailed notes captured.
Biz Dev Weekly Sync
Internal
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Action Items
- Brandon to share the call transcript with Ashley
- Ashley to reach out to Tanya for time on the Netflix pitch deck
- Jason to block in the slides for the Netflix pitch deck
- Ashley to work on the Netflix pitch deck with brief, transcript, and slide deck link
Ric Neil Bookings
External
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Action Items
- Ric to complete another draft of the Malmö presentation by end of day
- Jason to share updates on AI tools landing with clients
- Jason to provide Ric with an intro to Levlr
- Ric to add Jason to the AI usage deck and include a UXIF blurb
- Jason to provide a brain-dump of AI usage details for the notebook/deck
- Ric to give Jason edit access and share links to both Gamma decks via email
Jason & Tricoman — Rising Stars
External
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Action Items
- Tricoman to send lore and documentation to Jason's email
- Jason to review the advisory agreement with legal team
- Tricoman to send the NDA form to Jason's email
- Jason to find a volunteer from UI/UX team to walk Tricoman through a component style guide in Figma
📅 Today's Meetings — Sunday, April 5
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No meetings scheduled
It's Sunday — enjoy the day off.
📧 Email — Notable Messages
PriceKubecka, PLLC · Apr 4
Your Access Code from PriceKubecka, PLLC
One-time access code for authentication (tax documents). Code is time-limited — check if you still need to access SafeSend Returns.
jschklar@gmail.com · Apr 4
Meds
Personal email forwarded from your Gmail account.
GameDev Reports (Xsolla) · Apr 4
GameDev Reports Premium — Updates (03/30–04/03)
Weekly premium gaming industry reports and articles. Relevant to market intelligence.
Turing Post · Apr 4
#2: The Unsexy Truth of AI Adoption
Institutional redesign: how companies actually become ready for AI. Potentially relevant to UXIF's AI consulting angle.
Crunchbase News · Apr 4
Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records — $300B
AI boom pushes startup investment to record $300B in Q1 2026. Market context for client conversations.
Stanford GSB Video Games · Apr 4
gsb-videogames Digest, Vol 233
Stanford GSB gaming network digest — industry discussions and networking.
💬 Direct Messages
Brian Tanner · Recent
DM: Apologized for holding you long in meeting
"lol missed this and held you long. thx/sorry" — and earlier: "Board member holding me a bit late"
Mike McMahon · Recent
DM: Wants to catch up on prototyping
"Jam&Tea right now and then i'll pop back in, actually do want to catch up. pretty sure we haven't had a solid catch up in a minute and i think prototyping we should chat on"
Dave Inscore · Recent
DM message
Recent DM from Dave — check Slack for context.
🔥 Deal Channels (5 active of 40 scanned · last 72h)
#deal-bungie-uxui
Jason (Apr 3): "Rich Vogel basically just said 'hire UX is Fine'… :)"
Ashley (Apr 2): "Boom overview deck shipped, thanks Ryan Wolper!!"
Ashley (Apr 2): "Boom overview deck shipped, thanks Ryan Wolper!!"
#deal-epic-ux-ui
Matt (Apr 2): Shared first round of Epic slide deck in Figma.
Dave: Suggested a page dedicated to YouTube streaming knowledge base on Unreal, asked about AI content to include.
Dave: Suggested a page dedicated to YouTube streaming knowledge base on Unreal, asked about AI content to include.
#deal-netflix
Jason (Apr 2): Blocked out the Netflix pitch deck with custom "The Ask" and "Why us" slides. Shared deck link and Loom overview.
Ashley: Initiated team sync to assign roles on the pitch.
Ashley: Initiated team sync to assign roles on the pitch.
#deal-amazon-prototypes
Jason (Apr 2): Shared compiled notes and "why we're the right partners" deck structure. Rally planned for Monday — Ashley to coordinate. Harrison & Mike leading UX of AI / AI story.
#deal-riot-tft-unreal-197rio
Aaron (Apr 2): Posted "Riot Plan" outline covering Stu's departure end of April, successor search, Harrison's lane swap in May, and teaching component proposal. Internal staff announcement planned for Monday April 6.
Cat (Apr 2): Requested the plan and forwarded SOW details to Aaron.
Cat (Apr 2): Requested the plan and forwarded SOW details to Aaron.
📂 Google Drive
No recent activity
No Drive files modified since yesterday
Weekend — no document activity detected.
💼 Open Copper Tasks (31 total)
🔴 Overdue
Check in with Rogers mid September
Due: Oct 9, 2025
DDM Follow Up
Due: Oct 9, 2025
Follow up from Gamescom
Due: Oct 9, 2025
Follow up w/ David Bisceglia
Due: Oct 9, 2025
Follow up with John and schedule a chat
Due: Oct 9, 2025
Marcus Foon | New role at Google
Due: Oct 9, 2025
Send post Gamescom Follow Up
Due: Oct 9, 2025
⏰️ Howdy — PHB Follow up: Testimonial for internal Hasbro project?
Due: Oct 9, 2025
Follow up on LinkedIn Message to Thomas
Due: Oct 15, 2025
Send Deck, Trailer, YouTube vids
Due: Oct 23, 2025
🟡 Due Q1 2026
Get Warm Intro to Tim Stuart
Due: Feb 25, 2026
Follow Up with Mark Day
Due: Feb 26, 2026
Intro Teresa to Ash
Due: Feb 26, 2026
Ashley: Follow up with Brendon for Amazon face-time at GDC
Due: Feb 27, 2026
Jason/Ashley: Decide on XDS hotel block
Due: Feb 27, 2026
Jason: Discuss AI policy with Mike re: Krisp transcripts
Due: Feb 27, 2026
Follow-up with Jay Minn (WotC) — GDC prep
Due: Mar 3, 2026
Review meeting: Accelerator Squad Meetup
Due: Mar 27, 2026
Synced from Copper CRM · Last updated Sunday, April 5, 2026 · Showing 18 of 31 tasks (oldest omitted for brevity)
⏰ Scheduled Tasks
| Task | Schedule | Status |
|---|---|---|
| morning-brief | Every day at 6:20 AM | Enabled |
🧠 Skills
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| morning-brief | Daily 7-tab HTML briefing from Krisp, Copper, Gmail, Drive, Slack |
| copper-crm | Pull live data from Copper CRM — tasks, notes, people |
| process-krisp-meeting | Post-meeting workflow: CRM notes, tasks, Drive doc, Gmail draft |
| krisp-to-copper | Publish Krisp meeting summary to Copper as a note |
| search | Ad-hoc cross-source lookup across Gmail, Calendar, Slack, etc. |
| people-brief | Enriched contact briefing for any list of people |
| qual-summary | Qualification summary for game industry prospects |
| game-analysis | Sonar-style player sentiment analysis reports |
| deliver | Send files/reports via Slack and/or Gmail draft |
| github-publish | Publish artifacts to GitHub Pages |
| onboard-mentee | Onboard new mentee/advisee studio into CRM |
| gdoc-to-markdown | Convert Google Doc to clean Markdown file |
| skill-creator | Create, modify, and measure skills |
| schedule | Create scheduled tasks |
✅ Claude To-Dos
TASKS.md not found — no active Claude improvement tasks.
📋 Deal Channel Scan — Full Pipeline
🟢 Active (5 channels with messages in last 72h)
| Channel | Last Activity | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| #deal-bungie-uxui | Apr 3 | Rich Vogel endorsement; overview deck shipped |
| #deal-epic-ux-ui | Apr 2 | First round Figma slide deck; AI content discussion |
| #deal-netflix | Apr 2 | Pitch deck blocked out; team assembling |
| #deal-amazon-prototypes | Apr 2 | Notes compiled; Monday rally planned |
| #deal-riot-tft-unreal-197rio | Apr 2 | Riot Plan posted; Stu departure; teaching component |
⚪ Silent (35 channels — no messages in last 72h)
#deal-luna-games-ux-prototyping
#deal-pokemon-tcglive-198pok
#deal-jam-and-tea-207jam
#deal-gg-sparkle-foshizzle
#deal-yellowbrick-ux
#deal-focus-ux
#deal-sony-mobile
#deal-2k-horizon-rfp
#deal-looknorthworld-ux
#deal-codenamered-tbd
#deal-scopely-poe-ui
#deal-zynga-ui-test-205zyn
#deal-ea-nhl-ux
#deal-nexon-uxresearch
#deal-supersaurus-website
#deal-riot-league-live-195rio
#deal-playformant
#deal-mission42-ux
#deal-amazon-prototypes
#deal-koboio-ux-ui
#deal-csi-decarb-202csi
#deal-behaviour-rfp
#deal-xbox
#deal-pocketsizedhands
#deal-nintendo
#deal-respawn-apex2
#deal-riot-project-c
#deal-turtlerock-imp-ui
#deal-dead-monkey-tbd
#deal-frima-imp
#deal-seconddive-ui-ux
#deal-probably-monsters
#deal-wb-breakaway
#deal-pietrap-foragefriends
#deal-nomadroid-rebrand