In January we were at the airport, about to leave for a holiday we'd booked, when we got the news. My dad had passed away.
When I finally got back to work, the last thing I wanted was to spend a day making slides. But the team was waiting.
When I finally got back to work, the last thing I wanted was to spend a day making slides. If you're staring down your own planning season, here's what worked for us.
But the team was waiting. They needed to know what 2026 looked like for Pixelhop and Chat Thing.
How we normally do it
Every year, Zef and I regroup. We review the previous year: the good, the bad, the ugly. We write out everything we want and don't want. Rough notes at first, then something closer to a manifesto. Our north star.
Then we bring it to the team. A proper presentation: here's what happened, here's where we're going.
That presentation usually takes me a full day. Sometimes more. Finding the right structure, making it clear, making it feel right.
This year, I didn't have a day. I barely had a morning.
What we did differently
We still did our note taking:
We then wrote up our manifesto and north star. So we did all the real thinking. But turning 20 pages of notes into a presentation? That's where I usually lose time.
So we asked Glitch to help.
Glitch is our AI assistant. It runs on OpenClaw, an open-source framework that connects Claude (the AI model) to real tools: file access, web browsing, code execution, and more. Think of it as giving an AI hands, not just a voice.
We gave Glitch our manifesto, our strategy and all the chats we had had, explained the context.
We just asked Glitch to turn our ideas into a beautiful HTML presentation. And it delivered: Pixelhop branding, keyboard navigation, proper structure. The works.
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