ViVE 2026 — Protocol

Feb 22-25, Los Angeles

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The One Rule

If you don't capture it, you lose it. Everything else can happen later.

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How to Capture

Don't overthink it. Use whatever's fastest:

• Claude Code Mobile — talk to it, paste into it, drop images. It knows the system.
• Voice memo — 30 seconds of messy dictation > a perfect note you never write.
• Slack — one-liner is fine. "Met the Aetna CMO, wants deck."
• Photos — business cards, slides, booth demos, flyers. Drop them in dumps/.
• End-of-day debrief — brain dump everything over a call. We'll process it together.

Thomas: you're going to think you'll remember. You won't. Capture immediately. In the hallway, in the Uber, between sessions. Don't wait.

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What to Capture

Everything. Not just contacts:

• People you met — even partial names, even just "the Elevance guy"
• Things people said about their org, their problems, the industry
• Competitor stuff — booths, demos, positioning, claims
• Panel reactions — what landed, what was bullshit, who stood out
• Ideas — product, positioning, "we should try X"
• Vibes — what's buzzing, what themes keep coming up

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Processing

We can always make meaning later. Drop raw material into the system anytime — Claude processes it into:

• capture/contacts.md — people we met
• capture/intel.md — market observations
• capture/insights.md — things that change how we think
• synthesis/actions.md — what to do about it all

The structure is there. Just feed it.

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Last updated: Feb 20, 2026