The Cache.
Notes on company memory, agents, and the work that happens after the meeting.
Essays10LatestJuly 27, 2026Your company's second brain
10 essays
- 01
From transcript to action: how Squirrel decides what to do
A walk through the pipeline — capture, structure, extraction, resolution, execution — and the design decisions at each step that keep an autonomous agent from doing something stupid.
Product · 6 min
Product6 min - 02
Why we're building an agent, not a notetaker
Otter, Fireflies, Fathom and friends made meeting capture a commodity. We think the interesting product starts one step after the summary — and that's a different company, not a feature.
Building Squirrel · 4 min
Building Squirrel4 min - 03
The connector map: where your meetings actually land
A meeting produces five different kinds of output, and each belongs in a different tool. Here's how we think about routing — and an honest look at what's live versus what's next.
Integrations · 5 min
Integrations5 min - 04
Meeting notes were never the point
We measured what happens between the end of a call and the work actually starting. The gap is where projects quietly go to die — and no amount of summarization closes it.
AI · 4 min
AI4 min - 05
The follow-up tax: what the hour after the meeting really costs
Meeting cost calculators stop at the meeting. The expensive part is the admin trail behind it — and it scales with headcount faster than the meetings themselves do.
Playbooks · 4 min
Playbooks4 min - 06
Trust, permissions, and the undo button
An agent that writes to your Jira, your CRM, and your Slack has to earn that access. The design principles we're using to make autonomous actions safe to say yes to.
Product · 5 min
Product5 min - 07
Ask your company anything
The second half of a second brain: recall. What it takes to answer "why did we decide that?" across months of calls — and why cross-meeting memory is the hard version of the problem.
Second Brain · 4 min
Second Brain4 min - 08
How to run a meeting an agent can act on
Four habits that make automated follow-through dramatically more accurate. They also happen to make your meetings better even if you never use software for any of this.
Playbooks · 4 min
Playbooks4 min - 09
What we're building next
An honest snapshot of where Squirrel is: what works end to end today, what's mid-flight, and what's still a sketch. We'll keep this updated as things land.
Building Squirrel · 3 min
Building Squirrel3 min
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