Meeting Title: Brainforge x ReadMe QA Sync Date: 2026-01-27 Meeting participants: Greg Stoutenburg, Elizabeth Conference Room
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1 00:00:07.480 ⇒ 00:00:09.590 Greg Stoutenburg: What nice lighting we have here.
2 00:00:12.330 ⇒ 00:00:13.740 Greg Stoutenburg: I’m saying that to you.
3 00:00:14.580 ⇒ 00:00:21.839 Greg Stoutenburg: Are you serious, or are you being sarcastic? No, I’m serious, it’s nice. Oh, I’m just… I’m being recorded as I say that. Cool.
4 00:02:36.770 ⇒ 00:02:37.540 Elizabeth Conference Room: Hello?
5 00:02:37.950 ⇒ 00:02:38.490 Greg Stoutenburg: Hello!
6 00:02:39.170 ⇒ 00:02:40.340 Greg Stoutenburg: Hey, how’s it going?
7 00:02:40.740 ⇒ 00:02:41.750 Elizabeth Conference Room: Doing well, how are you?
8 00:02:42.340 ⇒ 00:02:45.220 Greg Stoutenburg: Good. Did you, survive the icy weekend?
9 00:02:45.400 ⇒ 00:02:47.709 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, pretty much. How about yourself?
10 00:02:48.110 ⇒ 00:02:53.130 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, same. Very cold. Layer of ice in the driveway that isn’t going anywhere.
11 00:02:53.370 ⇒ 00:03:01.100 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, something in my car shakes now, I think, from probably pushing through all the snow. But, you know, other than that, that’s still surviving. I’m fine.
12 00:03:01.690 ⇒ 00:03:02.800 Elizabeth Conference Room: I’m good.
13 00:03:04.050 ⇒ 00:03:10.849 Speaker 1 (Elizabeth Conference Room): It’s gross here in the city. The snow’s all become, you know, yuppy slush, so hopefully we get some warm temperatures and some melting soon.
14 00:03:12.050 ⇒ 00:03:17.920 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, and that’s not gonna go anywhere, right? Like, it’s… you have to wait until it gets quite a bit warmer before that’s going to change.
15 00:03:17.920 ⇒ 00:03:19.640 Speaker 1 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Yeah, unfortunately.
16 00:03:19.640 ⇒ 00:03:23.250 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well…
17 00:03:23.680 ⇒ 00:03:24.060 Speaker 1 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Yeah.
18 00:03:24.060 ⇒ 00:03:24.795 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright.
19 00:03:26.850 ⇒ 00:03:34.900 Speaker 1 (Elizabeth Conference Room): So, did you all have thoughts that you wanted to share after we chatted last, or do you want me to talk through what I’m thinking?
20 00:03:35.620 ⇒ 00:03:46.480 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I mean, I think… I mean, the last thing was we had discussed some of the work that you had in mind around, QA for pricing changes, for onboarding changes, analytics for onboarding.
21 00:03:46.480 ⇒ 00:03:58.470 Greg Stoutenburg: And looking at how all these things affect conversion rates. Robert and I chatted about that, thought that sounded good, and just wanted to sync up with you and, you know, see if there are any other thoughts, and if we can
22 00:03:58.860 ⇒ 00:04:00.010 Greg Stoutenburg: Moved forward with the plan on that.
23 00:04:00.880 ⇒ 00:04:02.969 Speaker 1 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Yeah, so.
24 00:04:03.830 ⇒ 00:04:13.349 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): what our team is planning to do over the next couple of weeks is, a pretty organized QA process,
25 00:04:13.440 ⇒ 00:04:25.740 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): on the new pricing. So, really, what we need is, like, additional sets of hands to kind of run through those various scenarios. I have a doc I can share, great.
26 00:04:25.860 ⇒ 00:04:28.550 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Kind of like a changelog of what’s…
27 00:04:28.920 ⇒ 00:04:42.509 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): changed, what’s, what, like, the expected behavior is, what some of those, test cases are. There’s gonna be someone on our team who’s, like, coordinating, kind of, all the QA efforts, because
28 00:04:42.510 ⇒ 00:04:55.850 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): if this is, you know, something that you guys agree to, you’ll be a set of hands, we’ll have an internal set of hands, we have, our support team is located in the Ukraine, like, they’re gonna be a set of hands, and so it’s kind of just, like, figuring out what…
29 00:04:56.270 ⇒ 00:05:02.680 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): group owns, kind of, like, what experience, and testing from there, and then…
30 00:05:02.780 ⇒ 00:05:19.220 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): we’re gonna be, have, like, a pretty built-out process on, like, when you see an issue, how you log that issue in our internal. We use, I don’t know if you’re familiar with Linear, that’s the tool we use for ticketing. So just, like, ironing all of that out on, like, okay.
31 00:05:19.220 ⇒ 00:05:29.759 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): these are the test cases that you’re gonna go through, this is how you log an issue, and then, of course, you know, we have to figure out internally who’s gonna, like, make a fix. So I’m still working through with our…
32 00:05:29.770 ⇒ 00:05:32.170 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): head of QA, like.
33 00:05:32.600 ⇒ 00:05:45.960 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): how that will all function from a process standpoint, and, like, the timelines, and stuff like that. But I see you all playing, like, a pretty pivotal role on being one of those testing groups.
34 00:05:46.940 ⇒ 00:05:48.829 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Yeah, yeah, sounds good.
35 00:05:48.950 ⇒ 00:05:49.550 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Okay.
36 00:05:49.550 ⇒ 00:05:51.830 Greg Stoutenburg: And that would be for.
37 00:05:51.830 ⇒ 00:05:55.810 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Beyond that, I mean, that’s probably, I don’t know, the next 3 weeks?
38 00:05:56.120 ⇒ 00:06:05.550 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Hopefully not longer, and then beyond that, I’m… there’s probably, you know, additional bodies of work, but I’m not really there yet, mentally.
39 00:06:05.980 ⇒ 00:06:17.060 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, sure, no, I understand. Yeah, and you had mentioned last time as well, because there are these changes for pricing and onboarding, that we’ll do some of the same kind of work that we did for measurement, do that kind of thing as well.
40 00:06:17.060 ⇒ 00:06:17.530 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Exactly.
41 00:06:17.530 ⇒ 00:06:18.680 Greg Stoutenburg: how things are going now.
42 00:06:19.100 ⇒ 00:06:21.270 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, that all sounds great to us.
43 00:06:21.270 ⇒ 00:06:25.740 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Okay, cool. How would you structure an engagement like that?
44 00:06:26.490 ⇒ 00:06:30.129 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so for that, I mean, I think what I can do is,
45 00:06:30.150 ⇒ 00:06:37.779 Greg Stoutenburg: I can put two… we can just put together a new contract for the next 3 months, and, take these pieces and…
46 00:06:37.780 ⇒ 00:06:52.600 Greg Stoutenburg: I’ll just leave it vague, because some of the timeline is still being worked on, as you just mentioned. Yeah. But include these in there as deliverables, and just say, you know, Brainforge likes to operate on a 3-month minimum, so, you know, I’d put it together as a 3-month
47 00:06:52.600 ⇒ 00:07:08.160 Greg Stoutenburg: engagement, and, we’ll do the work that you described, and if it… if it finishes, and there’s more to do, and there’s still time left on that 3 months, we’ll, we’ll see where else we can provide value. If it looks like we’re going over, we can look at what the future of the engagement looks like then.
48 00:07:08.580 ⇒ 00:07:10.109 Elizabeth Conference Room: Cool, that sounds great.
49 00:07:10.340 ⇒ 00:07:10.900 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep.
50 00:07:11.030 ⇒ 00:07:11.730 Greg Stoutenburg: Cool.
51 00:07:12.180 ⇒ 00:07:13.350 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Alright.
52 00:07:13.350 ⇒ 00:07:15.699 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, great. So,
53 00:07:16.530 ⇒ 00:07:24.450 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so if that sounds good to you then, then I can draft something up, and, you know, we’ll review it internally over here, and I’ll send it over.
54 00:07:24.890 ⇒ 00:07:26.160 Speaker 1 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Yeah, that’s great, and we probably.
55 00:07:26.165 ⇒ 00:07:40.664 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): we don’t need to meet, Thursday, unless you want to hold that time just for me to review the agreement, but we can probably do it async. So I’m just, like, wrapping my hands around a bunch of these, like, QA things, as I discussed. But I’ll be in touch over Slack when we’re, like, ready to go.
56 00:07:40.670 ⇒ 00:07:41.020 Greg Stoutenburg: Perfect.
57 00:07:41.020 ⇒ 00:07:44.530 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): So, you all know, we’ll make sure to, like.
58 00:07:45.140 ⇒ 00:08:01.039 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): give you, you know, all the access you need to staging, whatever, to do all of the, you know, we’ll give you test cards and stuff to try everything out. So we’ll make sure you’re all set up to do this from, like, a tooling perspective. And then…
59 00:08:01.040 ⇒ 00:08:14.419 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): again, like, the guy leading QA, I imagine we’ll have some detailed instructions on the scenarios, but as you guys have started to learn the Rebeat product, you might also have… and just…
60 00:08:14.640 ⇒ 00:08:24.149 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): understanding what it’s like to be, like, a user of many products, you may have additional things that you run into, or things you want to test, so…
61 00:08:24.550 ⇒ 00:08:40.600 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, perfect. That sounds good. So I know, again, I know some of this is still being figured out in terms of timelines. When do you think you’d probably be ready to start the engagement for, you know, reviewing with me what you want to have tested, setting up those.
62 00:08:40.600 ⇒ 00:08:41.380 Elizabeth Conference Room: Monday?
63 00:08:41.380 ⇒ 00:08:43.460 Greg Stoutenburg: and so on. Okay, great.
64 00:08:43.590 ⇒ 00:08:48.179 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): I will go fast. Okay, awesome. Thank you, I appreciate it.
65 00:08:48.370 ⇒ 00:08:49.390 Greg Stoutenburg: Cool.
66 00:08:50.100 ⇒ 00:08:59.409 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, great. I mean, well, that’s it from my end. Just wanted to talk through what you thought about that, and it sounds like we’re in a good position to, move forward, so I’ll put together a document and send it over.
67 00:08:59.410 ⇒ 00:09:01.029 Speaker 2 (Elizabeth Conference Room): Perfect. Sounds good. Cool. Appreciate it.
68 00:09:01.030 ⇒ 00:09:02.909 Greg Stoutenburg: Awesome. Alright, thanks. See ya. Bye.