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Who actually uses vectorized company data?

At this point everyone is talking about vectorization of company data and making it available over MCP. (1,2)

I built a simple OCR ⇒ vector storage ⇒ MCP server and don't really use it.

The only time I remember using it for something useful was to lookup an article that I’d read but couldn’t find.

This doesn’t scream ~1 Trillion Dollars~ of enterprise value.

In theory I can ask it to summarize what I worked on yesterday, or last week, or for the URL of that article I forgot to bookmark.

If I get creative I could have it write up a .md file on how I operate every day.

If the vectorized data includes audio transcripts I could get feedback on how I present or codify how a daily standup is run.

But so far I haven’t done any of these things.

This may be because I’m an IC and most of my work is writing code not running meetings or evaluating or trying to create a coherent company culture.

This may be a cultural problem.

This may be people don’t actually want to be forced to adhere to strict guidelines on how to do performance reviews or daily standups.

This may be because I haven’t identified the right use case or an acute need.

Potential Use Cases

1. Codified Recipes for Meetings

I could imagine a tool that creates .md files that automate or codify specific aspects of company culture. Essentially, creating recipies for repeated actions.

Example for daily-standup-recipe.md :

Everyone should:

1. say one or two sentences about what they worked on Yesterday
2. say one or two sentences about what they worked on Today
3. say if they are blocked and what the blockers are OR that they are not blocked

The focus should be on providing this information and longer discussions should be tabled until after everyone has given their status.

This would be accessible by everyone on the team and editable by group or meeting.

I could see a world where calendar invites have these .md files attached so everyone knows what the goal of the meeting is.

And after each meeting every person gets feedback on how they did.

Ex: Next time, make sure to start with what you worked on Yesterday.

It’s not clear to me that this actually useful.

A better use case is a sales function where conversions and money can be driven by improving adherence to the sales script.

MCP server with vectorized company data replaces the wiki.

No one likes wikis. They are out of date and a sign that your organization is atrophying.

But with an MCP server, a person can just ask for a summary on what has been done on XZY project in the last week or over the duration of the project.

Further Out Concepts

I don’t use my vectorized data

I suspect this is because:

  1. It’s culturally taboo to codify things like meetings
  2. It doesn’t solve a pressing need in the same way that Cursor does for programmers or Harvey does for lawyers
  3. I’m not pressed hard enough at work to be drowning in process.

What ways are you currently using vectorized data?

Thanks for reading!