Guru Gathering 2026: The Morocco Meetup

If you’re new here, hi. 👋 At Resource Guru, we’re a fully remote team building resource management software that helps keep your team’s workloads balanced and your projects profitable. The Guru Gathering is our yearly company retreat, and this year it took place in Morocco.

Our incomparable Talent Guru, Imogen, pulled out all the stops to help us hit the goals of the Gathering:

• Alignment – The analogy we like to use is that we all want to be sailing the same ship in the right direction. At the Gathering, we discuss the coming year and lessons learned from the previous one
• Getting to know each other better – We’re a distributed team, and while we’re tight-knit and openly share things about ourselves, there’s a nice bonus in being able to shoot the breeze in person
• Changing perspective and refreshing – We champion remote working, but a change of scenery is good for the soul (that’s also in our remote working guidelines, for the record)
• Getting some work done – That’s a given, but we experimented with a new format this year. More on that in a bit

Please enjoy a day-by-day blow-by-blow of the whole adventure.

Day 1 – Distinctly “Marrakesh” moments

Scan the photos and you’ll notice the team looks a little different to how it did in Madrid. 

I don’t mean that we’ve all aged a year (and I’d thank you for not pointing that out.) I mean we’ve had the joy of welcoming a bunch of new Gurus in the last 12 months. 

For some of them, it was their first time meeting their peers IRL, which made it extra special, even by usual Guru Gathering standards.

After clocking some serious mileage en route — 1,820 mi (2,935 km) for some — refueling was essential. 

Our first team meal was a spread of Moroccan delicacies that put the “spectacle” in “spectacular.” Dinner with a show is pretty much a Gathering tradition, and this year was no exception. 

I challenge you to find another team retreat that comes with candle-balancing belly dancers… Or another use of that sentence in recorded history. 

Anyway, after all that excitement and some minor jetlag, the team turned in for the night.

Day 2 – Slideshows and system prompts

Another Guru Gathering tradition is kicking off day two with presentations. Sounds stuffy, but the title slides prove otherwise: 

Our founders, Andrew and Percy, kick off the presentations, followed by department leads. And, I don’t know about you, but I think our 6-minute slots are *chef’s kiss*. 

Our take on presentations is always so smooth because each one is tight, and has a specific purpose: reflect on wins and where there’s room for improvement, and set the scene for next year’s plans and priorities.

Given we’re a software company in 2026, no prizes for guessing that AI was a hot topic among the presenters. 

We see AI as a huge opportunity. We’re a lean team with massive ambition and talent, and AI amplifies both. 

You can see our first foray into AI in our MCP server, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 

Case in point: after the presentations, we split into small groups to build a new AI agent each, with our most seasoned practitioners helping where needed. 

After wrangling the robots, it was tea time, featuring traditional Moroccan mint. Refreshed, the team then demoed what they’d built. 

They also shared plans to tighten up and deploy the workflows after the Gathering, making our lives easier and freeing up time for new projects. 

After all that hard work, it was time for a delicious dinner, some well-earned drinks, and another sweet surprise. 

After a sensible number of cocktails and glasses of wine, the night wound down, and the team rested up ahead of the last full day of Guru Gathering 2026.

Day 3 – Sailing the skies and supper at sunset

How does that saying go? “The early bird catches the…” hot air balloon ride? Well, that was fitting on day 3, at least. Some brave souls got up at 4am to soar over the desert. 

Here’s what one of them had to say about the experience:

The rest of the team got a lie-in, then tried their hand at Moroccan-style cooking later in the morning. 

Here’s how the alternative morning activity went down:

Free time followed to explore Marrakesh before the team reconvened for a final meal to mark the end of the Gathering. Tagines abounded, but the most interesting thing on the menu was probably the fire.

To top it off, the team was treated to a bucket-list-worthy view of camels crossing the desert at sunset until, inevitably, our Gurus headed back to the fabulous hotel for a final good night’s sleep.

Day 4 – A fond farewell

You can always feel the “I don’t want to go home yet!” energy on the departures day of the Guru Gathering. In Morocco, that even included one of our QA analysts who has a fear of snakes. Not ideal given the location! 😱

We’re a tight-knit team and this yearly opportunity to catch up and collaborate always leaves us counting down the days until the next one. It feels bittersweet when it’s over, but this year’s Gathering closed with a clear plan for the year ahead, new AI agents to build on, and a team that feels closer than ever.

What’s next for Team Guru?

You tell me. 

No, genuinely. 

If you use our software, you can always ask for new features on our product portal. Our team reviews and prioritizes based on these requests all the time. It’s not just a suggestion box. 

The non-facetious answer is that the team’s re-energized and full of fresh ideas to make our customers even happier in the coming year. 

I’ve been on Team Guru for a while now and say this after every Gathering, but I mean it every time. 

I’ve never worked anywhere where people pour so much energy into making the product the best it can be, care into mastering their craft, and effort into being open and inclusive with each other. That’s what makes the other 361 days of being a Guru as magical as an exotic few days away with your work pals.

In the future, we’ll keep doing what we’ve always done — helping you embrace smarter scheduling that makes for profitable projects and happy teams. If you’d like to see the fruits of our collective labor, Resource Guru is free to try and you can get started here: