Happy September! Here's where you'll find Tray this month.
Sept 14-15: Gartner App Innovation Summit UK
Sept 15: Chicago meetup on automation, MCP, and vibe coding
Sept 23: Webinar on outgrowing n8n
Details: bit.ly/4p9Xsjb
Your team is building their own apps now, and they are bringing them to you to sign off.
Eleven questions to ask of every app before it goes live.
The reasoning behind each one --> bit.ly/47ISaDp
Ask a CIO how many agents are running in their company. You won’t get a confident number.
Gartner expects an 80% rollback of autonomous AI deployments by 2027 because of it.
Agents in Helix ship with the app, so IT sees them on day one.
bit.ly/3UkUb5m
Cancel the subscription. Cancel the implementation fees. Cancel the admin time. Finance will like that math.
Then somebody has to run what you built. Sign-in, permissions, a record of what happened, a named owner.
So where do you start?
bit.ly/48bRKp6
Building an internal app is the easy part. Getting people to use it is the hard part, and AI means more people are learning that.
New in Tray Helix: App Library + agents that ship inside the apps they serve.
Plus a live build session on Oct 28! linkedin.com/pulse/apps-peop…
🚨 𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗪 🚨
The five controls every AI-built app needs, plus a live build / deploy with all five attached.
Register → bit.ly/4iiylZo
2,500+ Slack channels at @Life360 led to an agent problem.
Single-purpose bots left people unsure which one to ping. One do-everything agent got slow and shallow. Both ended with employees pinging IT anyway.
Here's what they did about it: bit.ly/3QyZMTT
Most good internal ideas stay ideas. The ones that survive become a script on somebody’s machine that nobody can see or maintain.
A GTM systems engineer at @AbridgeHQ found a third option.
Full story: bit.ly/3SxsLIK
22% of deploys by heavy AI coding tool users end in a rollback, hotfix, or incident?
Great Scott!
Tray Helix makes going back in time easy. Pick the version that worked and it ships as a new deployment.
No plutonium required.
bit.ly/4yhdZEZ
#backtothefuture #BTTF
60% of IT leaders see or suspect unsanctioned AI automation running in their org.
Every one of those apps started as a request IT didn’t have the capacity to build. The queue is the thing that produced them, and the audit still has your name on it.
bit.ly/4isHPRU
Your vibe-coded app is great. It’s probably missing one of the five things IT needs before they’ll approve it.
Oct 28: all five, plus an app shipped live with every one built in.
Register 👇 bit.ly/3VJi9I0
“Everybody thinks they’re gonna get immediate ROI, and that actually doesn’t happen very often at all.”
- Mark Gill @ Zuora.
The governance process his team built, and the rules that hold even when someone vibe codes on their own laptop. 👇
youtu.be/a12j-NKlXiM
A renewal is 90 days out and someone has to say whether the account is healthy.
Contract in Salesforce. Invoices in NetSuite. Tickets in Zendesk. Health score in Gainsight. Logins in Pendo.
Every system is correct. Six open tabs is still the answer.
bit.ly/4yjTXth
🚨 𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗪 🚨
Customer 360 is the app everyone wants and nobody can finish.
We’re building one live tomorrow, 10am PT.
Save your spot: bit.ly/4AVDrCl











