Using AI as a Personal Coach: Building a Robotic Coxswain for Meeting Performance

Tomasz Tunguz describes building an AI system that reviews his work meetings nightly and provides coaching feedback across five dimensions: active listening, empathy, questioning effectiveness, communication clarity, and technical depth. The system identifies specific behavioral patterns like interrupting founders, surface-level questioning in one-on-ones, and lack of empathy in investor updates, helping him internalize feedback his wife had given for years.