Meeting Title: Interlude Standup Date: 2025-09-29 Meeting participants: Mustafa Raja, Samuel Roberts, Justin Breshears
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1 00:00:08.029 ⇒ 00:00:08.660 Samuel Roberts: A…
2 00:00:09.670 ⇒ 00:00:11.070 Mustafa Raja: Ayyyy.
3 00:00:12.660 ⇒ 00:00:16.730 Samuel Roberts: Excuse me. Alright, so… We’re sweet.
4 00:00:16.730 ⇒ 00:00:19.690 Mustafa Raja: I think we… we are waiting for Justin, right?
5 00:00:20.910 ⇒ 00:00:21.580 Samuel Roberts: Sorry?
6 00:00:21.910 ⇒ 00:00:23.429 Mustafa Raja: We are waiting for Justin.
7 00:00:24.150 ⇒ 00:00:25.089 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, I think so.
8 00:00:25.290 ⇒ 00:00:26.680 Mustafa Raja: Wow. Okay.
9 00:00:27.810 ⇒ 00:00:29.050 Samuel Roberts: He’s the only other one.
10 00:00:38.360 ⇒ 00:00:39.440 Samuel Roberts: Maybe it would jump up.
11 00:00:40.570 ⇒ 00:00:41.490 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah.
12 00:00:42.830 ⇒ 00:00:43.940 Samuel Roberts: He’s on here, though, technically.
13 00:00:45.850 ⇒ 00:00:49.849 Mustafa Raja: Let me actually send the message to Caitlin.
14 00:00:51.130 ⇒ 00:00:52.149 Samuel Roberts: Oh yeah, definitely do.
15 00:01:02.710 ⇒ 00:01:04.099 Justin Breshears: Hello, friends!
16 00:01:04.959 ⇒ 00:01:06.109 Samuel Roberts: Ugh.
17 00:01:10.329 ⇒ 00:01:11.499 Samuel Roberts: It’s your weekend.
18 00:01:13.320 ⇒ 00:01:15.459 Justin Breshears: Pretty good. How about yours?
19 00:01:15.860 ⇒ 00:01:22.510 Samuel Roberts: Good, yeah, pretty good. I went to a water balloon festival with my, very cool.
20 00:01:28.360 ⇒ 00:01:30.370 Justin Breshears: Very nice, very nice ball.
21 00:01:30.370 ⇒ 00:01:40.089 Samuel Roberts: A little under the weather today. I’m hoping it’s not getting worse, but it’s been getting progressively worse over the weekend, so if I sound a little off, it’s because I’m very congested, but .
22 00:01:40.690 ⇒ 00:01:44.890 Justin Breshears: Well, I understand that, so we are in the same boat. I am…
23 00:01:45.680 ⇒ 00:01:48.859 Justin Breshears: Dealing with, I guess, allergies or something. It’s awful right now.
24 00:01:49.610 ⇒ 00:01:56.279 Samuel Roberts: thought it was allergies, but it’s different than it normally is about. Normally, I get, like, runny nose. This is very congested.
25 00:01:56.990 ⇒ 00:01:57.850 Justin Breshears: Oof.
26 00:01:57.850 ⇒ 00:01:59.749 Samuel Roberts: Hoping. Hoping it’ll go away soon.
27 00:02:01.340 ⇒ 00:02:02.749 Justin Breshears: Hopefully it clears up.
28 00:02:03.230 ⇒ 00:02:03.790 Samuel Roberts: Yeah.
29 00:02:06.060 ⇒ 00:02:09.419 Justin Breshears: Well, let’s chat about Interlude.
30 00:02:09.729 ⇒ 00:02:10.499 Samuel Roberts: Yes.
31 00:02:11.220 ⇒ 00:02:15.310 Justin Breshears: This is what I have on the docket currently for this week.
32 00:02:19.090 ⇒ 00:02:21.629 Samuel Roberts: We, that’s definitely…
33 00:02:23.130 ⇒ 00:02:28.160 Samuel Roberts: what Mustafa’s gonna be working on, because that’s what we have right now. It’s the PDFs.
34 00:02:29.050 ⇒ 00:02:31.199 Samuel Roberts: All the text out, stuff like that.
35 00:02:31.910 ⇒ 00:02:36.250 Justin Breshears: You know, those… those things they sent us over, the decks and whatnot.
36 00:02:36.250 ⇒ 00:02:41.139 Samuel Roberts: Exactly, yeah, I think I… I’ll push again, actually.
37 00:02:43.130 ⇒ 00:02:43.740 Justin Breshears: Bye.
38 00:02:44.610 ⇒ 00:02:46.020 Samuel Roberts: And then… yeah.
39 00:02:47.180 ⇒ 00:02:52.389 Justin Breshears: What, what, with this one… what are we doing with it? So we’re…
40 00:02:52.390 ⇒ 00:02:52.730 Samuel Roberts: Yeah.
41 00:02:52.730 ⇒ 00:02:55.110 Justin Breshears: A deck agent?
42 00:02:55.760 ⇒ 00:02:58.289 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, so the idea here is that,
43 00:02:58.930 ⇒ 00:03:05.299 Samuel Roberts: once we have these decks, and right now they’re PDFs that we need to probably process through some, like, AI stuff.
44 00:03:05.490 ⇒ 00:03:06.740 Samuel Roberts: Pull out the text.
45 00:03:06.860 ⇒ 00:03:20.899 Samuel Roberts: We’re also… we asked them if they could potentially provide SVGs that might have selectable text, and that skips a step of, like, AI messing things up, potentially. But that… for now, we’re gonna try it with the PDFs. What that’s gonna do is pull out the…
46 00:03:21.080 ⇒ 00:03:23.460 Samuel Roberts: Text, at least, to start.
47 00:03:23.910 ⇒ 00:03:31.359 Samuel Roberts: Of, like, what a final version of the deck looks like, and then with the transcripts and questionnaires, we’ll have a full,
48 00:03:31.960 ⇒ 00:03:36.249 Samuel Roberts: Excuse me, a full… Excuse me, sorry.
49 00:03:37.030 ⇒ 00:03:41.940 Samuel Roberts: A full picture of, like, Start to finish, what the deck agent should be doing.
50 00:03:43.400 ⇒ 00:03:52.069 Samuel Roberts: You can test against that for prompts and stuff, so it’s just, kind of refining it, making it more consistent with their language and things.
51 00:03:52.510 ⇒ 00:03:53.020 Samuel Roberts: So…
52 00:03:53.020 ⇒ 00:03:53.690 Justin Breshears: Cool.
53 00:03:54.570 ⇒ 00:03:55.390 Justin Breshears: That’s too bad.
54 00:03:55.820 ⇒ 00:03:59.310 Justin Breshears: We think we’re gonna… finish this one.
55 00:04:03.030 ⇒ 00:04:07.310 Samuel Roberts: ingest the decks? That’s… okay, I would say, Mustafa, how long do you think
56 00:04:08.750 ⇒ 00:04:18.319 Samuel Roberts: the ingesting is gonna take for… well, the plan is to ingest a few of them first, see how it looks, if the AI’s doing it right, and then probably just process them all at once.
57 00:04:18.329 ⇒ 00:04:25.519 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so by ingesting, do we mean the, putting it into the golden dataset in BrainTrust?
58 00:04:25.709 ⇒ 00:04:27.089 Mustafa Raja: That we can then run.
59 00:04:27.090 ⇒ 00:04:29.789 Samuel Roberts: Yeah? I think, yeah, we want to at least get the text out.
60 00:04:30.340 ⇒ 00:04:31.520 Samuel Roberts: As a first step.
61 00:04:31.520 ⇒ 00:04:44.059 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, the first step is going to be, converting them to text, right? So, that should be, by end of tomorrow. Tomorrow is a good deadline for that, I feel.
62 00:04:45.310 ⇒ 00:04:46.590 Samuel Roberts: Cool. Okay. Cool.
63 00:04:46.940 ⇒ 00:04:47.580 Mustafa Raja: Hmm.
64 00:04:48.670 ⇒ 00:04:52.070 Samuel Roberts: If we get a little bit of it done today, we can confirm, and then just run it, right?
65 00:04:52.070 ⇒ 00:04:53.380 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, and for…
66 00:04:53.800 ⇒ 00:05:06.920 Mustafa Raja: For further steps, we do need the transcripts and questionnaires from them. We only have those, we only have questionnaires for two companies only, which is…
67 00:05:06.920 ⇒ 00:05:07.500 Samuel Roberts: Yeah.
68 00:05:07.500 ⇒ 00:05:08.409 Mustafa Raja: I don’t know if it’s enough.
69 00:05:09.510 ⇒ 00:05:11.290 Samuel Roberts: It’s probably not enough, but I’ll… I’ll see.
70 00:05:11.290 ⇒ 00:05:12.099 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I do.
71 00:05:12.100 ⇒ 00:05:14.469 Samuel Roberts: message Mika, but I’ll message him again.
72 00:05:15.190 ⇒ 00:05:24.640 Mustafa Raja: And if we don’t have, questionnaires and transcripts for all others, the outputs that they have sent us are almost meaningless.
73 00:05:26.330 ⇒ 00:05:29.490 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, so at least the ones that they can share will be the helpful one.
74 00:05:30.440 ⇒ 00:05:31.140 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
75 00:05:31.510 ⇒ 00:05:35.569 Samuel Roberts: We’ll see, see what they give us, but this is at least a good first step to keeping this…
76 00:05:36.060 ⇒ 00:05:40.259 Samuel Roberts: Michael, A few more is better than nothing, I think, at this point.
77 00:05:41.490 ⇒ 00:05:46.710 Justin Breshears: Okay, so if we need these a little bit faster, we need to bump up, like, the due date on this one?
78 00:05:47.410 ⇒ 00:05:51.200 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, yeah, I’ll requ… I mean, I’m gonna just request again, but it’s… it’s kinda…
79 00:05:51.620 ⇒ 00:05:52.900 Justin Breshears: We’ll keep these on.
80 00:05:52.900 ⇒ 00:05:57.439 Samuel Roberts: so it’s blocked, but yeah, you know what I mean? Like, it’s… I will keep at it if I don’t hear back.
81 00:05:57.440 ⇒ 00:06:01.419 Justin Breshears: Yeah, yeah. No, it’s not like a you due date, it’s more them due date, but…
82 00:06:01.420 ⇒ 00:06:05.770 Samuel Roberts: Totally, yeah, I’m just… yeah, if you have to keep going until then, I’m just gonna keep pestering, so…
83 00:06:05.770 ⇒ 00:06:08.779 Justin Breshears: Yeah, I’ll just… I’m putting it there just to, like.
84 00:06:08.880 ⇒ 00:06:24.520 Justin Breshears: remind me, basically. Totally, yes, that’s good on top of that. Cool. Cool, well, that sounds good. So, tomorrow we’ll check back in, you know, get them an update, or whatever we need to do to push forward, and then this guy’s the next one, right?
85 00:06:25.200 ⇒ 00:06:25.850 Justin Breshears: 42.
86 00:06:25.850 ⇒ 00:06:32.570 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, that’ll be if, once we get at least a full set of, like, inputs and outputs, we can start on that.
87 00:06:33.130 ⇒ 00:06:33.750 Justin Breshears: Perfect.
88 00:06:34.130 ⇒ 00:06:37.039 Justin Breshears: Y’all need anything on transcripts?
89 00:06:37.040 ⇒ 00:06:37.600 Samuel Roberts: Hold on.
90 00:06:39.330 ⇒ 00:06:53.619 Samuel Roberts: like I said, we mentioned the SVGs to him Friday, which might speed things up a little bit for us, so I’m also gonna pass her on that, but I wouldn’t bother making a ticket for that. Well, if we get those, it might change how we do this, but the process is still the same.
91 00:06:54.580 ⇒ 00:06:55.400 Justin Breshears: Okay.
92 00:06:56.050 ⇒ 00:06:58.369 Justin Breshears: Mustafa, you’re all set?
93 00:06:59.450 ⇒ 00:07:00.100 Mustafa Raja: Yep.
94 00:07:01.630 ⇒ 00:07:02.230 Justin Breshears: Awesome.
95 00:07:02.530 ⇒ 00:07:06.869 Justin Breshears: Well… then I will let y’all get back to it. Thank you so much.
96 00:07:06.870 ⇒ 00:07:13.210 Samuel Roberts: The one other thing, we didn’t have that meeting, so we haven’t spoken with Sylvia yet, either. I think Utam had mentioned it.
97 00:07:14.470 ⇒ 00:07:17.539 Samuel Roberts: So, I’m just wondering…
98 00:07:20.730 ⇒ 00:07:22.900 Justin Breshears: Remind me again what you’re talking about?
99 00:07:23.270 ⇒ 00:07:28.330 Samuel Roberts: So, yeah, Sylvia’s the designer, and so I think two Fridays ago,
100 00:07:28.440 ⇒ 00:07:32.699 Samuel Roberts: Matt was showing us the, like, Figma and the design process. It’s not really, like.
101 00:07:33.220 ⇒ 00:07:33.830 Justin Breshears: Yep.
102 00:07:33.830 ⇒ 00:07:43.550 Samuel Roberts: active right now, but it was kind of like, let’s talk to the designer and see if we can help out a little more. Obviously the Friday meeting didn’t happen, but I think she declined it anyway, but he…
103 00:07:43.670 ⇒ 00:07:48.309 Samuel Roberts: I believe when he requested the decks directly from Matt, he mentioned that too, and I don’t think anything got set up.
104 00:07:49.670 ⇒ 00:07:51.400 Justin Breshears: Okay, we can follow up.
105 00:07:53.320 ⇒ 00:07:54.709 Justin Breshears: Thanks for the reminder.
106 00:07:55.180 ⇒ 00:07:56.420 Samuel Roberts: Yeah, ugh.
107 00:07:57.240 ⇒ 00:08:01.139 Samuel Roberts: Besides that, I think we’ve got our workout for the deck stuff cut out.
108 00:08:02.140 ⇒ 00:08:03.070 Justin Breshears: Sounds good.
109 00:08:03.240 ⇒ 00:08:08.009 Justin Breshears: Alright, so for right now, we have about…
110 00:08:08.190 ⇒ 00:08:19.539 Justin Breshears: 4 points worth of work for the week. That could obviously change, depending on when they… they unblock us, and if they give us anything more, but right now, I’ll plan on… on four, and then we can adjust from there. Okay.
111 00:08:19.740 ⇒ 00:08:21.160 Samuel Roberts: Yeah. Appreciate you, fellas.
112 00:08:21.560 ⇒ 00:08:22.190 Justin Breshears: Have a good one.
113 00:08:22.190 ⇒ 00:08:22.840 Samuel Roberts: Thanks.
114 00:08:23.190 ⇒ 00:08:24.440 Justin Breshears: Might be as well.