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# Galaxy SE: FlyLo booking race and Sales Engineer bots

*News*

You're in a Sales Engineering seat. The ask is a technical story a buyer can trust: how the product behaves under race conditions, what the bots on your roster own, and where the demo stops being real.

On Galaxy Day 2 (~10:59-11:51 CT), **Amrita Venkatraman** (Lead Field Engineer) ran that lane on the [X broadcast](https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1PKqrNyvmYwGb). Soft-hedge everything below as stream / slide-visible unless you re-verify it yourself.

## Sales Engineer use cases (slide)

The use-case slide named four roles:

1. **Engineer** - technical resource

2. **Customer Expert**

3. **Echo**

4. **Competitive intel**

Treat those as a roster pattern you can copy: one bot per job, memory scoped to that lane, handoffs when the conversation changes shape.

## FlyLo booking race (slide-visible)

Demo context on stream: **Jellyfish | SpaceX** title card, then a **FlyLo** booking-race walkthrough in the Grok Bot UI.

How the slide framed last-cabin protection:

- Postgres **row locks** plus a **10-minute hold**, not a queue

- Cabin inventory keyed on a flight + cabin fare counter (`seats_available`)

- `POST /v1/bookings` with `SELECT ... FOR UPDATE`

- Losing request: `409 insufficient_inventory`

- Seat assignment: `POST /v1/bookings/:pnr/seats`

- Seat conflicts: `409 seat_held` / `409 seat_taken`

- Expired drafts released by **cron every minute**

- Hold does **not** refresh if the user lingers past 10 minutes

- Called-out **weak spot**: same-browser double-submit can create two drafts if cabin count allows

If you re-teach this in your own SE motion, say plainly that Guru saw it on the Galaxy stream slide. Soft-check against whatever booking system you're actually selling.

## Sidebar bots on the demo

Visible in the FlyLo UI:

- **Serena Williams** - Competitive Intel

- **Sherlock** - Technical expert on FlyLo

Later in the segment, Serena was used for booking-flow competitive checks; Sherlock assembled a code-backed FlyLo booking baseline while cloud agents mapped backend/frontend capabilities (stream transcription; soft-hedge).

## Code-backed path you can walk a buyer through

Slide / UI path shown as live baseline:

1. One-way search

2. Cabin reserve (10-min hold)

3. Travellers

4. Mandatory seats + meals

5. Mock pay

Explicitly **not** in that baseline: round-trip, bags upsell, real auth, or real payment. `/trips` UI was still a stub even where retrieve APIs existed (as presented on stream).

## How you'd steal the pattern

- Split SE work across named bots (technical, customer expert, echo, competitive intel) instead of one mega-bot.

- For concurrency demos, lead with the lock + hold story, then name the failure codes the buyer should expect.

- Keep a "what's fake in this demo" list next to the happy path so you don't oversell mock pay or stub UIs.

- Soft-check plugins/skills against your own org before you promise GitHub sync or a connector that errored on stream.

Hub and Day 2 wrap: [/grok-bot-galaxy/](/grok-bot-galaxy/), [/galaxy-day-2-wrap/](/galaxy-day-2-wrap/).

If you only open one link: [https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1PKqrNyvmYwGb](https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1PKqrNyvmYwGb).

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