Gaylord Leroy - Santa as a Service: orchestrating Christmas gift approval at scale | GristCon 2026

Speaker: Gaylord Leroy (au carré) The title is not a joke! Grist partner au carré has created a workflow that combines forms, custom widgets, and complex access rules to facilitate decentralized selection, approval and ordering for over 55,000 gifts sent to employees’ children. If you’ve ever built an approvals workflow, you know how tricky managing cross-departmental back-and-forth collaboration can be. See how they did it in Grist. Full GristCon 2026 agenda: https://www.getgrist.com/gristcon-2026/#agenda Grist: https://www.getgrist.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/getgrist.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grist-labs Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@grist