Co-work Fridays @ SQCo - The Stage: Agentic engineering patterns for Brownfield Systems
Friday @ SQ Collective
Friday is our open co-working day. People come to work on their own projects, take breaks together, and usually stay through the afternoon. It's quiet, focused, and builder- and founder-led. You can arrive anytime from 10AM. Most people show up after lunch and settle in before 1.30pm. Bring your laptop. Grab any open seat. Stay as long as you like.
At 1.30pm, we pause work briefly for a shared session called The Stage, then everyone goes back to working. This is how Fridays here work.
The Stage @ 1.30pm
The Stage is a short, open-format session where builders and founders share something they are actively working on. A workflow, a technical breakdown, a lesson learned, or just a topic keeping him/her up at night.
The goal is to spark ideas you can try immediately after, during the same afternoon. After the session ends, most people simply open their laptops again and continue working.
Topic: Building past demos: Agentic engineering patterns for Brownfield Systems
Hrishi Olickel · CEO, Southbridge.ai (formerly YC W21)
Hrishi runs Southbridge.ai, where he's spent the last year building long-horizon data agents for healthcare, research and finance — the kind of places where an agent that's flaky 5% of the time isn't an agent, it's a liability. He writes at olickel.com when he's not shipping.
Most AI demos look great and fall apart the moment real data shows up. Hrishi's sharing what he's learned about engineering agents that hold up past the greenfield honeymoon — the patterns that make them repeatable, dependable, and actually usable after 0 to 1. You'll leave knowing what breaks next, and how to build for it from day one.
Hrishi writes at olickel.com
After the session, we go back to work.
About SQ Collective
SQ Collective is a co-working space in Singapore for founders and builders working with AI. Fridays are open co-working days, with a short shared session called The Stage at 1.30pm. People come to work, learn something practical, and go back to building.
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