Based on 44 meeting recordings from February to late April 2026, here’s how Straive’s small team (3-6 people at any time, mostly freshers and interns) produce a continuous stream of client-facing demos across topics as diverse as image filtering, geospatial analysis, insurance contract verification, NFL medical scoring, OCR benchmarking, and song similarity clustering — often with a 24–48 hour turnaround from assignment to demo. Here is how the team works: ...
Straive turned on Chrome Enterprise Premium on my browser. This means: No extensions or DevTools. No downloading, copying, or printing (of work stuff). No incognito mode. Every page, text pasted, file attached, is sent to the admin. Since Edge is my primary browser, I now open Chrome for office work only when needed. So, my guess is: I’ll check mail/chat less frequently. I’ll have fewer client documents to review. I’ll have fewer demos I can build. This might make me more productive - though it’s probably not what was intended.
Surely we don’t have many activities to centralise? We already have a central hub for processing operations! We heard that from a fair section of our client organisation. They initially had operations spread across their branches. Some years ago, they had established a central hub and many regional hubs. Yet, Only a few prominent operations were centralised. Others were just regionalised. Regionalisation was inconsistent. Some branches still did these at their own premises. Branches still did the bulk of the work. We made a list of activities, surveyed all their branches and hubs, and got a good sense of which activities were happening at branches vs regionally vs centrally. ...
Change management can be analytic, as opposed to touchy-feely. Our client’s operating margin was falling. The bosses wanted to offshore their back office. Others weren’t convinced. To manage this change, we needed three questions answered: Who’s not convinced? Why aren’t they convinced? What’ll convince them? Who’s not convinced? We plotted the level of support and importance of key people on the stakeholder support matrix. This split people into 4 groups (below). Then we showed it around to people and had them move people around on the matrix. ...
After B2C and B2B, is it now going to be B2E?