Deadline
Aug 24Internal review-ready rough draft, leaving roughly one day for adjustments before the client meeting.
Meeting Intelligence / Kubota POC
From 3D Prototype To Sales-Floor Experience
Adam Kane and Devin Callahan aligned on turning the current Kubota tractor prototype into a clear, tablet-ready experience that clients can understand, explore, and react to without facilitation.
Executive Summary
The team has enough technical foundation. The next value comes from usability, focus, and disciplined consolidation.
The Kubota POC already demonstrates a recognizable tractor, environment, autosteer path, and browser delivery. Leadership aligned that the next pass should make the experience self-explanatory and sales-ready: a tablet-friendly open sandbox, optional guided tutorial, multiple camera perspectives, familiar settings, and a frictionless handoff between users.
The near-term milestone is a reviewable rough draft for Monday, August 24. The Tuesday, August 25 client session is intended to gather preference and scope feedback—not to present a finished training product. No customer budget or final procedure was established in this meeting.
Product Intent
Sell The Real Project
Show what the eventual experience could feel like without pretending the POC is production-ready.
Interaction Model
Open Sandbox + Tutorial
Let conference-floor users explore immediately, then trigger guidance when needed.
Delivery Control
Single Canonical Build
Merge useful work into one version and remove parallel versions that cause review confusion.
Decision Needed
Client Visual Alignment
Use the next client session to learn preferred branding, format, and interaction style.
What Matters Now
Four Leadership Signals
The meeting moved ownership from exploratory build work to an experience-led client proof. The prototype is valuable when it lowers the client’s imagination burden and makes tradeoffs easy to discuss.
Primary Surface
Tablet + WebControls must feel natural on touch while remaining usable in the browser during early review.
Experience Goal
Pick Up & PlayUsers should be able to explore, stop, and hand the device to the next person without a reset ritual.
Build Policy
One VersionPreserve one canonical simulator and let the main build win conflicts during consolidation.
Experience Direction
The Minimum Convincing POC
A coherent loop is more persuasive than scattered features. The strongest version gives users freedom first, guidance second, and enough presentation control to compare possible delivery formats.
Explore
Open Autosteer Sandbox
Start in a usable field with no mandatory setup. Users can drive, observe the guidance line, and understand the equipment relationship through direct manipulation.
- No forced restart between users
- Clear objective and immediate controls
- Environment should not appear flooded
Compare
Multiple Camera Modes
Use a visible camera control to test how first-person, third-person, and top-down views change comprehension and sales-floor appeal.
- Touch-appropriate orbit behavior
- Preference toggle for camera direction
- Fixed 16:9 presentation frame
Learn
Optional Guided Tutorial
Let a new user trigger step-by-step guidance without trapping experienced users in a linear sequence.
- Idiot-proof onboarding
- Easy escape back to sandbox
- Designed for self-service client review
“The objective of this thing is to sell the real project.” — Adam Kane, 28:32
Interactive Evidence
Kubota M7-174 Draft Model
Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom, and use the view buttons to inspect the current high-precision draft. This is useful POC evidence, not production CAD.
Visual Reference
Equipment & Geometry Evidence
Existing ForgeMedia references ground the POC in real equipment proportions and implement connections. Several photos use adjacent Kubota M-series tractors; labels below preserve those distinctions.
Delivery Plan
Sequence To Client Review
The schedule supports a productive feedback session if the team prioritizes a coherent user journey over feature breadth and protects a full day for internal review.
Aug 19
Ownership Transfer
Devin begins direct UX and environment refinement against the current canonical work.
Aug 20–23
Focused Build Pass
Consolidate versions; improve environment, camera behavior, settings, and self-service flow.
Aug 24
Internal Review
Review a rough but coherent build, supported by screenshots and interactive previews.
Aug 25
Client Feedback
Present the POC as a conversation tool and capture preferences for visual style and format.
Accountability
Owners, Controls & Risks
Speed comes from direct ownership and parallel AI-assisted work. Reliability comes from canonical versioning, screenshot-based QA, and clear separation between confirmed requirements and representative POC content.
Devin Callahan
Experience Owner
- Refine the environment and overall UX.
- Design tablet and conference-floor behavior.
- Prepare the August 24 internal review build.
- Work visibly through topic-specific Slack threads.
- Share screenshots and interactive evidence as work progresses.
Adam Kane
Platform & Direction
- Support tool usage and unblock AI-assisted workflows.
- Consolidate multiple simulator versions.
- Preserve the fixed 16:9 experience frame.
- Use blunt UX review loops to expose friction.
- Explore reusable mechanics without disrupting Devin’s work.
Operating Controls
How The Team Intends To Work
- Batch related changes to reduce slow cloud-build overhead.
- Keep work organized by topic-specific threads.
- Require screenshots on build updates for visual QA.
- Use ForgeMedia as the central asset record.
- Use Share Preview for fast, interactive review packages.
Watch Items
Risks To Manage Before Review
High
Version drift. Multiple simulator URLs already created confusion; consolidate before judging features.
Medium
Experience ambiguity. The current build is not yet sufficiently self-explanatory for an unassisted user.
Medium
Representative content. Final Kubota procedures, visual system, and client preferences remain unconfirmed.
Low
Build latency. Cloud updates are slower and costlier when requests are too granular; batch changes.