03 December 2026 11:45 - 12:15
The always-on intake flow: How we changed planning cycles at Uber using AI
Every planning cycle, product ops teams drown in cross-functional requests — scattered across Slack, email and hallway conversations, most missing impact data or duplicating existing asks. The result: garbage-in requests, invisible duplication, and triage bottlenecks that turn product ops into ticket sorters. We built an AI-powered intake system that guides requesters through structured problem articulation, auto-scores quality, deduplicates across the org, and routes work to the right team — feeding a single live board visible to leadership. The hard part wasn't the AI; it was getting 25+ teams to actually trust and use it.
What you'll uncover:
- How to design a multi-channel intake system that 25+ teams actually trust and use
- How AI can auto-score, deduplicate and route requests without manual triage
- A repeatable playbook for moving from triage spreadsheets to an always-on intake engine