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Agent Pivot

Taken over by later cycles — closeIts leftovers all moved on: the architecture thread became c10, the Mark M tag was settled in c11, feedback.json was retired in c12, and the older-calls question is c12's deferred Q6.· high confidence

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last activity Aug 20

Why we did this

Qpoint turned from watching API traffic to governing AI agents. The call tool still asked the old company's questions.

What happened

The old calls were archived as a browsable snapshot, the questions were rewritten around AI-agent use cases, and the dashboard now leads with the evidence for each. Two pilot calls ran clean.

In wordsThe 34 calls from before the pivot are archived as a snapshot you can still click through.
At a glance
4
changes
2
conversations
1
decisions
2
outside helpers

What changed

The three changes that matter most, in plain words. Open any one to see it.

  1. 1

    The 34 calls from before the pivot are archived as a snapshot you can still click through.

    The old calls, frozen but browsable · came from Mark Parson

  2. 2

    Each call is read for evidence about seven named ideas of what customers need, in one stream tagged by who said it.

    New questions for a new company · came from Mark Parson

  3. 3

    Calls with Mark Peterson and with Sam Curry of Zscaler were the first read the new way, and both passed the checks.

    The first two calls under the new lens · came from Mark Peterson, Samuel Curry and others

Also in this cycle
  • The dashboard opens on the evidence for each use case, with a page for product feedback and a journey page per company. In words

How we got here

Each change, traced back to the conversation it came from. A solid mark means the record names the source; a dashed one was matched by the draft and waits for review.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

No ruling needed: the work itself is the change.

So now

The 34 calls from before the pivot are archived as a snapshot you can still click through.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

No ruling needed: the work itself is the change.

So now

Each call is read for evidence about seven named ideas of what customers need, in one stream tagged by who said it.

Someone said

From the record: no recorded conversation behind this one.

We decided

market-analyst-c8-D1 Sam Curry / Zscaler is tagged prospect (potential build partner), not CISO advisory. — Mark Parson

So now

Calls with Mark Peterson and with Sam Curry of Zscaler were the first read the new way, and both passed the checks.

Thanks to

People outside Qpoint first. Every thank-you points at something they said or made.

MP
Mark Peterson
Advisor · Moto

His product review was the first call read the new way

Cited: the record names the Moto call (Mark M, then tagged as a prospect fractional CISO, interest 5 of 5) as one of the two pilot calls. How to tag him, advisor or prospect, was left open here and settled in c11.

SC
Samuel Curry
Prospect · Zscaler

His Zscaler call was the second pilot

Cited: the record names the Zscaler call as the other pilot, first tagged advisory through a person override, then retagged prospect (potential build partner).

MP
Mark Parson
Qpoint team

Asked for the pivot plan and ruled the source tags

Cited: his initial prompt asked to archive phase one, define what to analyze, start importing and question the architecture; the record says the Zscaler retag was "per Mark".

All images

Every picture from this cycle. Click any one to step through them all.

The pairs

Everything captured · 0

The full record 1 decisions · 4 key-change entries · 973 words · 4 captures

The record stays as written, for agents and for audit: Key Changes, every decision, the artifacts and the visual record.

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