Quan

Canonical spelling: Quan (confirmed by Vincent 2026-06-11). Transcripts mishear as “Quan”, “quana”, “quad”, “Quantice”, “Quinn”, “quant”.

Current truth

• Contract developer in Vietnam, paid hourly, works on the ADO platform/tracker (ado-platform); senior dev by title. Manager: Han (relationship to agency unclear — see 2026-06-dev-strategy-quan).
• Daily 09:00 call with Vincent. Uses Warp as his agentic coding tool (tier/subscription unknown).
• Performance: consistently slow (~1 of 5 assigned tasks per day); status as of 2026-06-25: founders leaning toward ending the contract ($3,500/mo ≈ 10% of cash; second chance after Han’s vouch didn’t change the pattern) — final call pending, replacement search active. See 2026-06-dev-strategy-quan.
• Current/last workstream: Codex plugin tracking — scrape pipeline + UI (plugins = app + skills), live-check Codex tab.

Open questions

• Full name?
• Is the slowness Quan or the agency norm? (Han conversation outcome.)

Timeline

• [2026-06-25] (internal discussion — Vincent + Elliot, dual ad-hoc recordings ingested as one) Shipped the Codex registry-tracker update with “everything broken” (apparently didn’t check it); on the newsletter-logo bug he replied he’d rather fix the S3 image/scraper root cause first — Vincent read it as prioritizing process over the ship-tomorrow fix. Founders leaning toward ending the contract; details + replacement plan in 2026-06-dev-strategy-quan.
• [2026-06-23] (internal discussion — Vincent + Elliot standup) Unresponsive again: Vincent asked Quan to investigate platform bugs (hotel search/booking data not refreshing; broken newsletter icons) and Quan never replied — Vincent flagged it as starting to annoy him. Reinforces the slow/unresponsive pattern behind 2026-06-dev-strategy-quan. (Bug fixes themselves are Linear, not brain.)
• [2026-06-16] (internal discussion) Vincent is okay with Quan for now (doing real work; changing it hasn’t been a priority), but agreed to message Han within ~a week — for tips and to ask the contact for a possible replacement — then decide whether the Vietnam-dev arrangement is sustainable. Filed as an objective (“decide if it’s sustainable”). See 2026-06-16-q2-goals-gtm.
• [2026-06-09] (call) Demoed Codex plugin tracking to Vincent: ranking/overview working, filters good; morning scrape pipeline runs in dev (blocked on a cloud account — score below the 0.6 threshold the scraper requires). Agreed next: Codex page shows “Includes” (app + skills) instead of tools; add Codex as third live-checking tab; investigate whether skills need their own DB table. Quan to investigate skills storage.
• [2026-06-08] (internal discussion) Vincent assigned the Codex plugins scrape job; flagged 1-of-5 task completion rate.