[Open space office. Bad lighting. Too many monitors. A TV hangs from a crooked mount, broadcasting a live internal company presentation. Slack pings in random bursts. Someone in the kitchenette keeps restarting a microwave that has already finished. A sour, fishy smell moves through the room like a policy.]
MICHAEL: Good afternoon, innovators. Welcome to our AI-Driven Engineering Initiative kickoff, also known as the AI Committee, also known internally as Project Future Velocity.
GILBERT: He named the meeting twice.
NORBERT: That means it is strategic.