Sage Tech LabsforPhoenix

AI engagement progress

Updated 2 Nov, 16:53 IST

3 of 6 workstreams are waiting on Phoenix. The longest, Phoenix IT Team, blocks 2 workstreams and has had no movement for 18 days.

At risk · 2 Nov
31 Aug
day 64
3 of 6
workstreams
18 days
Phoenix IT Team
10
across 6 workstreams
8
latest 2 Nov

Where the delay is coming from

31 Aug to today
  • Waiting on Phoenix
  • Shared: decision or joint meeting
  • Waiting on Sage
  • Step delivered
  • JD Creator

    Waiting on Phoenix IT Team: Access to Azure, GitHub and Vercel for dev deployment of the product

    39 days
    on Phoenix
  • AI Factory and Staff Portal

    Waiting on Phoenix IT Team: Access to Azure, GitHub and Vercel for dev deployment of the product

    18 days
    on Phoenix
  • ADSR

    Deferred to a later date

    18 days
    shared
  • Leasing Bot

    Waiting on Apoorv: The leasing contracts (about 40, from the last 3 years) as discussed in the meeting

    11 days
    on Phoenix
  • Finance Bot

    Requirements meeting pending

    16 days
    shared
  • HR Bot

    Requirements meeting pending

    6 days
    shared

By owner

  • Phoenix · JD Creator, AI Factory and Staff Portal, Leasing Botup to 39 days
  • Shared · ADSR, Finance Bot, HR Botup to 18 days
  • Sage · nothing waiting—

What Phoenix needs to send

Each of these is holding up work on our side.

  1. From Phoenix IT Team
    18days

    Access to Azure, GitHub and Vercel for dev deployment of the product

    Blocks JD Creator and AI Factory and Staff Portal · no movement since 15 Oct

  2. From Apoorv
    11days

    The leasing contracts (about 40, from the last 3 years) as discussed in the meeting

    Blocks Leasing Bot · no movement since 22 Oct

Latest update, 2 Nov: Waiting on Phoenix: Phoenix IT Team: tools, licences and Azure, GitHub and Vercel access (followed up 28, 29 and 30 Oct). Apoorv: leasing contracts.

Workstreams

Leasing goes first, about two weeks per department
PHO-1 · with Phoenix IT Team

JD Creator

Waiting on Phoenix

Generates a first-draft job description and screening framework from Phoenix's own past JDs, citing the source document per line, with an approval flow (Author, Hiring manager, HR, Legal).

Waiting on Phoenix IT Team

Access to Azure, GitHub and Vercel for dev deployment of the product

Done when: Phoenix HR can create, review and approve JDs through the real approval chain, running in the Phoenix-hosted environment.

PHO-2 · with Phoenix IT Team

AI Factory and Staff Portal

Waiting on Phoenix

The AI Factory portal, the Phoenix Staff Portal, and the Phoenix-hosted AI layer that the other tools run on, with department-level access control.

Waiting on Phoenix IT Team

Access to Azure, GitHub and Vercel for dev deployment of the product

Done when: The portal and tools run inside Phoenix infrastructure, with access limited by department.

PHO-3

ADSR

Deferred

One main agent for the leasing team over Phoenix's sales and leasing systems (Pathfinder, InTouch, POS Patrol), through one authenticated layer.

Deferred · 15 Oct

Deferred to a later date

Done when: The leasing team can ask plain-language questions about tenant sales and lease performance and get answers from live data.

PHO-4 · with Apoorv

Leasing Bot

Waiting on Phoenix

Leasing decisions backed by data from all live malls and the market around them: contracts read and parsed, comparative MIS automated, chat-based historical queries, later a challenger mode and a new-mall planner.

Waiting on Apoorv

The leasing contracts (about 40, from the last 3 years) as discussed in the meeting

Done when: Phase 1 delivered: contracts ingested, comparative MIS automated, chat-based historical queries working.

PHO-5

Finance Bot

Planned

Automates GST and IDT labelling for Recon and builds the finance use cases (lease-to-cash check, leakage watch, cash forecast).

Next

Requirements meeting · Pending

Done when: Monthly GST and IDT labelling runs on the SAP export with reviewable output, and the first finance use cases are agreed with Phoenix.

PHO-6

HR Bot

Planned

A People Desk on the Staff Portal and Teams in English and Hindi: hiring flow with JD Creator, leave, attendance and payroll questions, and HR analytics.

Next

Requirements meeting · Pending

Done when: First HR use cases agreed with Phoenix and the People Desk prototype demoed to HR.

How we got here

8 updates · drag or use the arrow keys

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  • Aug 31 ’26

    Engagement started.

    Engagement started.

    On track
  • Sep 5 ’26

    Three POC use cases agreed with Sunil Sir: Recon, JD Creator and ADSR.

    Three POC use cases agreed with Sunil Sir: Recon, JD Creator and ADSR.

    On track
  • Sep 24 ’26

    Progress deck sent to Sunil Sir and Apoorv.

    Progress deck sent to Sunil Sir and Apoorv.

    On track
  • Oct 15 ’26

    In-person meeting at Phoenix head office. Showed the UI/UX for the new AI Factory. Agreed to go one department at a time, leasing first, about two weeks per department.

    In-person meeting at Phoenix head office. Showed the UI/UX for the new AI Factory. Agreed to go one department at a time, leasing first, about two weeks per department.

    On track
  • Oct 16 ’26

    Hardware and software list sent to Sunil Sir and Phoenix IT Team: one Mac Studio (Rs 6,15,900), Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus with Codex, Vercel Pro, GitHub Team and an Azure VM tune-up.

    Hardware and software list sent to Sunil Sir and Phoenix IT Team: one Mac Studio (Rs 6,15,900), Claude Pro, ChatGPT Plus with Codex, Vercel Pro, GitHub Team and an Azure VM tune-up.

    On track
  • Oct 27 ’26

    In-person meeting. Laptop received from Phoenix. Spoke with Sunil Sir about access to the stakeholders' databases.

    In-person meeting. Laptop received from Phoenix. Spoke with Sunil Sir about access to the stakeholders' databases.

    On track
  • Oct 28 ’26

    Use-case deck for Leasing, Finance and HR sent to Sunil Sir.

    Use-case deck for Leasing, Finance and HR sent to Sunil Sir.

    On track
  • Nov 2 ’26

    Waiting on Phoenix

    Phoenix IT Team: tools, licences and Azure, GitHub and Vercel access (followed up 28, 29 and 30 Oct).

    Apoorv: leasing contracts.

    At risk