"CEO Update: FAI is now our default AI gateway" · 2026-07-17
I have not touched BigQuery directly in three months; every number I've pulled has come through AI instead. Yet I have walked into meeting after meeting with real, specific numbers — not a deck someone built for me, but numbers I pulled and understood myself.
FAI (renamed from FoundryAI) is Groupon's default AI gateway — migrate all projects off direct BigQuery access to FAI by end of August, with September as the decommissioning month for personal-AI BigQuery access
Share what you build via the FAI 'flea market' marketplace (28 skills live there today alongside 18 curated official plugins) — publish once and every subscriber auto-updates, no GitHub required
FAI runs in regular vs private modes; in regular mode it builds a shared knowledge base and treats failed answers as a BI-team signal to expand documentation or data coverage
For managers: the HYPR CLI ingesting Asana, Jira, PRs, and Echelon (at brain.groupon.com/cli) will be plugged into FAI so you can see team performance without reinventing the wheel
100% 29 / 29 resolved of below-floor deals · week ending Jul 24, 2026 29 of 29 below-floor deals are now resolved (100%) — 24 corrected and live, 5 paused. Status 29 / 29 100% of below-floor deals resolved This week's wins — no movement this week Still open 0 queue is clear Program-to-date snapshot Since 2026-05-11 · 29 deals tracked · refreshed Jul 24, 2026 Corrected 24 Live + above floor $ Recovered $97,603 across 24 corrected deals · 8 reactivated from pause Paused 5 Deal pulled Pending 0 No action needed Regressed 0 Fixed → re-violating Dec
Single-contract merchants — ready for a second close 171 merchants closed post-training · 36 merchants with >1 contract closed · 110 single-contract merchants ready to chase. After 90 days the account reassigns to MD. Merchant Rep TG closed Deal Status First close Days open Spa Time ↗ Evan Hargis Massage - Couples Live 2026-04-28 90 days Season Four Spa ↗ Joshua Atwood Massage - Couples Live 2026-04-28 90 days Totally Chi Reflexology ↗ Micah Pepper Massage - Couples Paused 2026-04-29 89 days A Zen Massage ↗ Evan Hargis Massage - Couples Paused
Sprint day 82 · 90 live · 83 compliant (92%) · 0 severe · Live MVR 6mo $576,205 · 📅 Refreshed 2026-07-24 This tracker refreshes weekly on Mondays — not daily. As you complete renegotiations or revisions during the week, you won't see them reflected here until the following Monday refresh. The tracker reads from a snapshot, so check the Pacific South Case Report and deal pages for in-flight status between updates. Deals Progress Sprint Log By Division Performance Live deals 90 currently live in Pacific South Live MVR (6mo) $576,205 Compliant 83
Apr 23 – Jul 16, 2026 · Improvement portfolio — 181 mature (≥7d post) $-36,679 M1+VFM Δ · Units -784 Protection portfolio — 24 mature (≥7d post) · expected loss $-21,753 M1+VFM Δ · Units -493 221 changes logged · 220 implemented · 1 pending · 220 with any post-change data (0 under 7d + 15 paused/closed in SF , excluded from hero). Hero aggregates count only deals with ≥7 days post-change data AND currently Live in Salesforce (paused/closed deals still render in the table with a red pill but don't roll into the portfolio Δ, since their POST wind
Last full week: Jul 20 – Jul 26, 2026 · 14 franchise brands tracked $119,503 M1+VFM last week -1.2% WoW $530,977 GB last week -1.1% WoW 12.0% Refund rate last week dollar-weighted across 14 brands 318 Live locations +33 WoW Up this week Beverly Hills Rejuvenation Center +32.3% MassageLuXe +8.2% Hand & Stone Massage +7.8% Down this week Spavia Day Spa -28.7% Simplicity Laser -21.6% Deka Lash -17.0% Most rep actions SEV Laser Refund spike 19 Massage Heights Refund spike 14 Sold-out 3 4Ever Young Refund spike 11 Sold-out 1 Live deals M1+VFM Refund