"CEO Update: FAI is now our default AI gateway" · 2026-07-17
I committed early on that it would be my only way in, because if it could not carry my daily decisions, it was not worth shipping to you. It carried them.
FoundryAI (renamed FAI) is now Groupon's default AI gateway — install from foundryai.groupondev.com, use for every new project, migrate all existing projects into FAI by end of August
Direct BigQuery access for personal AI is being decommissioned in September; new direct-access requests will only be approved in genuine edge cases FAI cannot support
Skills 'flea market' replaces GitHub for sharing — publish a skill/agent once and every subscribed team gets updates automatically; if you built something useful, this is where it stops being yours alone
FAI runs regular vs. private mode and learns from failures — when someone can't get a good answer about our data, the BI team treats that as a signal to improve documentation or expand coverage