Most of us work around money. AI keeps landing on our desks. Twice a month we sit down over very good coffee and separate what's real from what's noise.
Twenty seats, one long table, ninety minutes. No stage, no slides, no vendor demos.
You leave with sharper questions than you came with, and a strong opinion about the espresso.
Every pour gets listed like a table you'd book: the shop, what it costs, how loud it gets, and what's on the docket.
First and third Saturday, every month. The venue rotates. The argument doesn't.
Everyone on the roster gets drawn into the same house style: same linework, same amber, unmistakably you. Here's the whole loop.
Join the list, grab a seat at the next meetup, show up. Your first coffee is on the club.
After your first pour, you send one photo. The pipeline redraws you as a character in the club's style and deletes the original.
Attend, rate the shop, ask the question everyone remembers. XP stacks up and your rank climbs the drink ladder.
After every pour, the people who were actually there rate the shop. Scores roll up into a running leaderboard.
One ballot per member per pour · You rate it only if you sat in it · Scores out of 10
Four things worth your attention, picked for people who work around money. Skim them in line, argue about them at the table.
Autonomous workflows are moving from demos into controlled pilots: reconciliation, exception handling, report drafting. The question for a bank isn't capability anymore, it's audit trails and who signs off when the agent is wrong.
The unglamorous wins are the real ones: KYC file review, alert triage, drafting the first pass of a SAR narrative. Where does assistance end and accountability begin? Dana has opinions.
High-risk obligations phase in through 2027, and US supervisors are watching how Europe's playbook lands. If your models touch credit decisions or hiring, this stopped being someone else's problem a while ago.
What does "good with AI" actually mean on a resume in 2026? Hiring managers around the table say they've started testing for it, badly. Let's compare what works.
Got something the table should read? Send it with your RSVP and we'll slot it into the next briefing.
No pitches. Nobody sells anything before the second coffee, and ideally never.
Phones face down through the first pour. The feed can wait ninety minutes.
Argue with the idea, not the person. Hot takes welcome, heat isn't.
Table talk stays at the table, so the quiet parts can be said out loud.
You buy your cup. The club buys every first-timer's.
Twenty seats per pour and the roster gets first claim, so join before your neighbor does. Your first coffee is on the club.
Nothing to join. You buy your own coffee, figure $6 to $14 depending on the shop and your order. The club covers every first-timer's drink.
No. Half the table works in risk, ops, or compliance. If AI touches your job, you belong here. The only requirement is curiosity and a coffee order.
After your first pour you upload one photo, and our pipeline redraws you in the house style: same linework as everyone on the roster, still recognizably you. The original photo is deleted once your character is done.
Yes. The banking tilt comes from who showed up first, not from a rule. Bring another industry's problems and you'll be the most popular seat at the table.
Details for the Aug 1 pour land in your inbox this week. Bring opinions.