Elliot Garreffa

Current truth

• Cofounder, ghostteam / agentdiscoverability.com (elliot@ghostteam.ai). Owns BD/outreach, sprint planning, ADO flow design.
• Availability: in London until 2026-07-04, then Georgia; one-day return to Lisbon for MCP Connect. Recovering from wisdom-teeth extraction (affects calls week of 2026-06-08; face visibly swollen 2026-06-09).
• OpenAI lockout: elliot@ghostteam.ai is locked out of ALL OpenAI services (Codex, API platform, ChatGPT) since 2026-06-05 — persistent authentication error across devices/browsers; re-invites to the org fail; shows as org owner but invisible in members. Support ticket filed via help.openai.com chat (~2-day response). Workaround: personal account for Codex.
• Committed to present on Hermes at MCP Connect Lisbon (2026-06-24, run with Supabase and alpic; free venue via Lunar Strategy in exchange for the talk).
• Daily stand-up cadence with Vincent: 08:30 every day; Thursday is a lighter “bike session” stand-up (Vincent’s gym), moved on the day if a longer one is needed.
• In the OpenAI Codex Ambassadors program (attends office hours as elliot@ghostteam.ai despite the lockout issue); London coffee with VB (OpenAI, runs the ambassador program) arranged for week of 2026-06-15 — a direct channel into the ChatGPT/Codex apps org.

Open questions

• Has OpenAI restored the elliot@ghostteam.ai account? (Suspected OpenAI-side bug; possibly business-plan/Codex-seat payment config.)

Timeline

• [2026-06-15] (internal discussion — strategy retro with Vincent) Raised personal-sustainability pressure as a driver of revenue urgency: needs ~£5k/mo to sustain, can’t keep “scraping the barrel” (about to turn 30, no savings/mortgage); both founders carry ~£4.5k outstanding company loans. Wants a financial model + loan-repayment/payment schedule built (week of 2026-06-15). Pushed to restore standups/sprint/fortnightly-retro cadence and adopt Linear. Strategic decisions on 2026-06-15-offering-pricing-fundraise.
• [2026-06-05] (internal discussion) Locked out of OpenAI on ghostteam email: auth error on every login path (cache clear, phone, re-invite all failed); listed as org owner/member since 2025-09-02 yet not visible in org members. Vincent (org admin) suspects an OpenAI bug; business plan showed a “configure plan and pay” prompt for Codex seats. Elliot filed a support ticket (chat via help.openai.com, ~2-day response) and used his personal account for Codex. Demo that day unblocked (static examples + Telegram instead of live Codex). Scraping-risk discussion: Vincent confirmed scraping runs only on throwaway accounts not linked to the company domain; Quan (confirmed 2026-06-11; “Quantice” in transcript) uses Vincent’s paid ChatGPT account.
• [2026-06-05] (internal discussion) Wisdom-teeth extraction scheduled for the following week — decided to proceed now rather than after Georgia (“only going to get busier”); working through the weekend to prepare. Agreed 08:30 daily stand-up with Vincent (Thursday lighter). Committed to MCP Connect Lisbon 2026-06-24 presentation on Hermes (free venue via Lunar Strategy; event with Supabase and Alpic). Decided NOT to reach out to Liad (the ideal senior-advisor profile; co-creator of competitor Ora — see agent-discovery-market): “he needs to come to us”. Priorities set: sprint + quarterly planning, GTM plan aligned to product roadmap, content system (research agents, build-in-public once product ships).
• [2026-06-12] (call) Ran the M&B wrap-up solo (Ewa Turney + Richard Whitehouse). Commitments and engagement terms live on mitchells-and-butlers.
• [2026-06-11] (community event) Attended Codex Ambassadors office hours; asked OpenAI directly about plugin sharing and a ChatGPT-apps/Codex-plugins store merger (see agent-discovery-market); DM’d + arranged London coffee with VB (OpenAI) for next week.
• [2026-06-09] (internal discussion) GTM pivot: drop mass automated outreach; targeted outreach to contacts already in our data (“got more to show you” → call) over next ~3 weeks; once free tier is live, reach out to every ChatGPT app with their profile/score. Took over category creation from Vincent (runs the category skill in Codex). Continuing thesis/assumptions work and quarterly sprint plan.