The pipeline + checkpointing framing resonates. The "ask me" tab needing love is a real pain point — human-in-the-loop approval gates work best when they're surfaced proactively, not buried.

We run asyncpg directly against Neon Postgres without PgBouncer — works well for low-to-medium concurrency. Neon's serverless connection pooling handles a lot of what PgBouncer would, so the overhead didn't seem worth it for our use case.