Like many modern small software development teams, we’ve introduced agentic teammates across nearly every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). As a remote-first team, we nevertheless still rely on daily and weekly human-to-human synchronous videoconferencing rituals for efficient decision making, troubleshooting and prioritizing, and consider these encounters opportunities to bond and build trusted connections with each other. In fact, designing videoconferencing software that makes people who are not co-located feel like they are is what we’re all about.