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Research2026-07-11 · source-backed
The paper frames the "why did we build it this way" problem as a continuous alignment lifecycle. A decision starts in a Slack thread, gets refined in a meeting, lands in a PR, and loses its original rationale along the way. Aleena uses an agent to preserve that rationale across the fragments. This speaks directly to solo and small-team knowledge loss, where the reasoning behind a choice evaporates faster than the code that encoded it.
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Stripe uses Slack / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
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Cursor supports Slack / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Claude partners with Slack / Shared entity: PRs / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Salesforce partners with Slack / Shared entity: Slack / Shared topic / What happened next
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Vercel partners with Slack / Shared entity: PRs / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
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OpenAI partners with Slack / Shared entity: PRs / Same source domain / What happened next / Tension
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