Executive · Weekly review
The weekly review, written before the meeting starts
A meeting that begins with everyone reading the same document is a different meeting.
What the worker does
A weekly business review in Polaris is a recurring task assigned to an AI worker connected to Stripe, HubSpot and Linear. Each Monday the worker assembles the same brief: revenue and its change, pipeline movement, what shipped, and what slipped, with each number sourced. It delivers the brief as a comment before the meeting. Leadership supplies the interpretation and the decisions.
- Connections
- Stripe · HubSpot · Linear
- Cadence
- Weekly, delivered before the meeting
- Format
- Identical structure every week
Same shape, every week, on purpose
The value of a weekly review comes from comparison, and comparison requires that the document does not change shape. When one week's brief has four sections and the next has seven, nobody can tell what moved.
This is precisely what a worker with a fixed skill file is good at and what a busy human is bad at. The person assembling the brief improvises depending on what they had time for. The worker produces the same sections in the same order whether the week was calm or terrible.
The sections worth fixing in the skill file
The number and its delta
Revenue this week against last week and against the same week last month, each sourced from the connection it came from.
Pipeline movement
Deals that changed stage in either direction, and what the movement does to the month.
Shipped
What actually closed in Linear or GitHub, named, rather than a count of issues.
Slipped
Commitments from last week's brief that did not land, carried forward with their age. This section is the one that makes the review honest.
Unowned
Work in the leadership workstreams with no assignee, which is usually where next month's slip is already visible.
How Monday morning goes
- 1
Sunday evening: the task fires
A cloud machine claims the job. Nobody has to be online for this, which is the point of running workers on a machine rather than a laptop.
- 2
It reads the sources
Each connection you authorised, in the order set in the skill file, ticking acceptance criteria as sections complete.
- 3
It delivers before the meeting
One comment on the recurring task, with the document attached and anything it could not read stated plainly rather than left blank.
- 4
Everyone reads first
The brief is a comment on a shared task, so there is no distribution step and no version confusion.
- 5
The meeting starts at the argument
Decisions taken become tasks in the same workstream, owned and dated, and appear as slipped or delivered in next week's brief.
Questions people ask
+Can different teams get their own version?
Yes. Assign the worker one recurring task per team, each with its own acceptance criteria, and each delivery is a separate comment with its own history.
+Does this need us to move our data into Polaris?
No. The worker reads through connections you authorise once for the organisation, and Stripe, HubSpot and Linear stay where they are.
+How much does a weekly brief cost?
It is billed on human-equivalent hours at about $2 each, calculated from observable effort per session. A brief is a short session, and the line appears on the worker's work log where you can challenge it.
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The record that makes an unwatched run reviewable afterwards.