"Org Designing" Your AI with Roo Code: Modes as Agents | The Roo Cast - Nov 14, 2025 Ep. 30

In this episode of Roo Cast, host Hannes Rudolph is joined by Matt Rubens, Danny, and special guest JB Brown from Smartsheet. JB, one of Roo Code's top open-source contributors, shares the inside story of how Roo Code spread like "wildfire" through Smartsheet's engineering organization. He details his motivation for becoming a significant contributor, including his "selfish" reason for building the foundation of the Roo Code Marketplace: to support a private, internal-only marketplace for Smartsheet's proprietary modes.The conversation shifts to enterprise-level AI strategy, covering Smartsheet's "focus on return, not cost" philosophy for AI spend and their unique KPIs for tracking adoption. JB shares a deep dive on moving from "perishable" single-engineer prompts to a team-based AI SDLC with shared standards. This leads to a fascinating discussion on "org designing" your AI, treating modes as a specialized "workforce" of agents, and how Roo Code's new cloud agent roadmap aligns with this future of asynchronous, "digital teammates."