Presentable · table read
Andrew · Luke · Sydney 4 days to the Sept 1 call 12 to rehearsal 19 to the Annex
I’d love for that to be happening up on screen as we’re talking. I am in AI conversations daily. And I didn’t know that was possible.

Sydney Cooke · 19 Aug 2026 · a walk · the sentence this is answering

Luke flipped a laptop mid-meeting and a page built itself. Sydney wants that on the projector at 2:30, with Eric, in front of 150 people who have never seen it. This is that laptop, stage-hardened. Not a dashboard.

What the room sees

The moment

She also said: she doesn’t even care what’s in it. The demo is the building. Three cards from the locked kickoff fixture — Ryan Heafy at 9:30, corporate innovation at 11:00, tables at 2:30.

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Two surfaces, one page

Presentable is already two repos. That is the product, not a cleanup item. The storefront owns the markup contract and the URL 150 phones will open. The live engine owns the microphone and the projector. They meet at a renderer that emits the same Paper the storefront already knows how to publish.

Storefront

presentable

  • Paper contract + validator
  • Published pages at /p/:slug
  • 150 phones, static, solved

Live engine

presentable-core

  • Mic → STT → typed AST
  • One projector, one writer
  • NVS is the proof, not the catalog

Sept 16 is the kickoff only. Table takeaway artifacts and the 45-minute proposal engine are out — not because they’re uninteresting, because they are a different product with an unowned integration (Mark’s badge/PIN) and a second AST mode. If this room wants those in scope, that is a decision, not a sneak.

In case one of us messes up

It still fills

Sydney asked to feed information ahead of time so a misspoken line doesn’t blank the screen. That’s here, and it is labeled honestly: a keyword matcher against a locked run-of-show. It cannot hallucinate. It is the safety net. It must never be the engine — otherwise the five minutes is a puppet show.

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What you owe a projector

The show continues

She didn’t ask for this. It’s the difference between Luke’s laptop in a meeting and a screen the back row can see. If the worker dies, the canvas holds. A static Paper backup is already a file. The QR handoff — same page, 150 phones — is Phase 4 and is not in these clips.

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What the desk sees

The rest of the year

The projector is one afternoon. This is the same machine on a call: conversation on the left, a Paper page assembling on the right. Recap, proposal, kickoff, table. Same Paper.

This is not the Sept 16 build: table takeaways and the 45-minute proposal engine stay out of the Annex, and these clips exist so question 2 has a shape to point at.

A 20-minute sales discovery. The buyer leaves with a one-pager they can forward.

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The stage is the proof; the desk is the catalog. Pick one of these four to talk, not all four.

Five minutes, as she walked it

Mapped from the Aug 19 walk onto the kickoff fixture. Eric is with her. The computer is mirrored to the projector. 28 Aug add: land it with curiosity — stay, ask the experts — not a stack explanation. The QR is still the page they take; it is not the speech.

  1. 0:00
    The hook. Dark canvas, listening. “Welcome everybody to Next Venture Summit 2026. Our motto this year is more show, less tell — we are not doing another panel telling you to use AI, we are demonstrating it right now.”
  2. 1:00
    Walk the day. Cards land as they name them. 9:30 Ryan Heafy, founder panel · 11:00 GE Vernova and Milliken · 2:30 expert match tables.
  3. 3:00
    Logistics. Restrooms, badge wi-fi, patio — spoken, then on the page. No icons; Paper has none, and inventing them is a contract change.
  4. 4:00
    The voice command. Luke’s “please change the color to blue and green,” said out loud. “AI, format this into a clean one page guide, apply our NextGEN blue and green brand colors, and generate a QR code.”
  5. 4:45
    The handoff. Phones out, scan the screen, take the agenda. Spoken closer is curiosity, not a lecture. This step is not built yet. Decide the URL before Sept 9 — it gets printed into the moment.

Questions for this table

This is the meeting. The clips are so you don’t have to imagine it. 28 Aug locked the live surface: kickoff only, Andrew’s laptop, curiosity not a lecture. Recaps stay after the fact.

  1. Does this match the laptop Luke flipped around?

    If the room would notice something missing, name it here. Sydney’s bar was not the contents. It was watching speech become a page.

  2. NVS is the proof, not the product. What is next?

    After Sept 16: more stage moments, the 45-minute proposal engine, or the published-page storefront. The desk is that storefront, in four flavors. Pick one to talk, not three.

  3. Where does the QR land?

    /p/nvs-2026 on the existing Pages deploy, or a real domain. The address is part of the choreography. Decide before the Sept 9 rehearsal.

  4. Table takeaways stay out. Confirm.

    Confirmed 28 Aug: only the kickoff is live on the projector. Recaps and table artifacts are after the fact, and they still sit on Mark Johnson’s badge/PIN backend. If this room wants the session-output promise on stage anyway, that is a new decision. The engine will not grow a second product in twelve days.

Appendix

Facts for if the conversation goes into the machinery. Not the spine.

Phase tracker — as of 28 Aug 2026
PhaseWhatState
0 · contract + harness AST, renderer, both transforms, tests with Wi-Fi off committed
1 · worker + SSE In-memory session, canvas receives frames committed
2 · mic + STT AssemblyAI Universal-Streaming v3, turn router committed
3 · stage canvas Projector page, control, pause/undo/restore, passcode in flight on main · projector test not run
4 · publish + rehearsal Finalize → storefront /api/pages → QR → phones not started

Real deadline is the Sept 9 rehearsal, not Sept 16. Sept 1, 11am, is the facilitator prep call.

Brief vs shipped — so nobody thinks we’re on Svelte

The Working Notes specs are a design memo. They describe a Svelte 5 / Tailwind CDN / Gemini Tier-1 monorepo that was never built. What shipped:

Brief saidShipped
Svelte 5 canvas + cdn.tailwindcss.comPlain HTML, vendored Paper theme, no CDN
Gemini as Tier 1, Claude as Tier 2Claude Opus 5 structured outputs, scripted fallback
packages/* monorepoOne Worker, flat src/
Logistics icons, qrModal.isOpenDropped — Paper has no icon vocabulary; the canvas decides how to show a share target
Keyword matcher as the engineRelabeled as break-glass. A test asserts it does not understand speech.
Explicitly out of Sept 16

Table takeaway artifacts / facilitator push. Stated session output of the event. Blocked on Mark Johnson’s badge/PIN contract. Track on the event side.

45-minute live proposal engine. Second AST mode, second theme, Stripe. Not before a live demo has happened once.

Durable Objects multiplayer. 150 phones load a published page. 150 websockets is not a thing to debut on stage.

WordPress ticketing, roster exports, and walk-in badges are the same week and a different problem. They are not in this visual.