18 May 2026
One of the most challenging aspects of launching an EdTech startup while running an established Enterprise SaaS business is juggling the respective workloads.
As my co-founders and I have found time and time again over the past year, it is all too easy for the demands of the established business to eclipse those of the startup.
As an AI-native startup, we want to ensure that every part of the business we are building is, at the very least, actively exploring how to benefit from the efficiency gains that AI adoption can deliver.
We’ve realised that managing the aforementioned juggling act is a great candidate for AI-powered automation.
We’ve previously posted about an exciting open source project called Gas Town, which enables a structured approach to the simultaneous utilisation of multiple AI coding agents.
As with everything in the AI space, it is evolving at pace, and we are excited by the potential of a recent evolution of it called Gas City to automate business processes, of the kind we are going to put in place to help us better balance our engagement with both businesses.
We’re working on the specifics, but our initial idea is to use Gas City to create an automatic message in Slack which will include a prompt for each team member to provide a verbal summary of their weekly progress. This will then be transcribed, summarised and included in an automatically created Google Doc in readiness for our weekly standup.
I’ll update on how we get on in the coming weeks, though if the results we have experienced from applying similar automations to other parts of our workload over the past few months are anything to go on, I am very optimistic indeed!
Author: Benjamin Colchester
