📅 Tuesday, May 12, 2026

📆 Meetings Today

• 5:00 PM IST (30 min) — Jagadeesh Krishnan (Calendly). Confirmed. Google Meet meet.google.com/oqu-abmy-nyi. Theme: "Casual ones." Treat as collaboration intro per Calendly default. Pull his LinkedIn in the prep window at 4:45 PM. Standard demo cued.
• Wed May 13, 11:30 PM IST — Clay "Sales and RevOps Demo" livestream. Registration confirmed. Optional, observational only. Decide tonight whether to actually attend or treat as background.
• Thu May 14, 10:00 PM IST (30 min) — Prahalad Reddy (Calendly, rescheduled). Was canceled at 12:30 AM tonight after a travel conflict, rebooked for Thursday evening. Confirmed accepted. Better slot, easier prep.

📬 Emails Since Yesterday's Plan

• Massive cold outreach push at 02:20 IST this morning. ~20 emails sent from [email protected] to K-12 schools, foundations, and EdTech leaders: TEA (Morath), Lick-Wilmerding (Mundra), HMH (Lynch), Discovery Ed (Wirt), Daphne Bavelier (UNIGE), CZI (Sandra Liu Huang), Walton Foundation (Drucker), Gates Foundation (Bob Hughes), Newsela (Pep Carrera), Sidwell (Headofschool), Cardona Solutions, Florida DOE (Kamoutsas), CA Superintendent (Thurmond), Lakeside, Harker, Branson, FullScale (Beth Holland), EdTech Insiders (Ben).
• Bouncebacks already in: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. Cleanup needed. Verify email addresses before next batch.
• Auto-replies: CZI ("not taking unsolicited meetings"), CA CDE (high volume mailbox), Newsela support inbox is dead. Treat these as soft-no.
• 2 new Calendly events processed: Prahalad reschedule (May 13 → May 14) and Sneha completed yesterday.
• LLM SEO outreach from [email protected] (cold pitch, ignore).
• Inbox is otherwise quiet. No replies yet from yesterday's pitches.

✅ Progress Since 11 May Plan

slate-landing — ✅ Lock cleared overnight, drift down from 18 to 8 entries. Working tree is much closer to clean. Still has uncommitted: frontend/public/index.html, frontend/public/sitemap.xml, frontend/src/generated/blogRegistry.js, plus untracked SEO_BACKLINKS_REPORT_MAY12.md, 2 new May 12 blogs (ai-career-change-pivot-learn-new-skills-2026.md, ai-public-speaking-presentation-practice-2026.md), frontend/public/manifest.json, push-may12-blogs.sh. However a new .git/index.lock (dated today 06:32) is sitting on disk. Same pattern as before. Clear it again, commit, push.

Slate-app/Slate — ⚠️ No new commits since yesterday's two pushes. 83edfe1 and 69b66ec are still HEAD. New .git/index.lock dated May 11 05:40 is on disk. Tree is otherwise clean. Lock has been there since yesterday morning, so an automation is still racing.

Slate-expo — ❌ Unchanged. 57 dirty files, lock dated May 10 05:41 still present. Day 12 of cold-start drift. This continues to be the biggest fire on the board.

Cold outreach — ✅ Massive K-12 / foundation push went out overnight. ~20 personalized cold emails. Expect 5+ bouncebacks to clean up.