Meeting Title: Brainforge Weekly Kickoff Date: 2025-02-03 Meeting participants: Mariane Cequina, Luke Daque, Nicolas Sucari, Janna Wong, Uttam Kumaran, Robert Tseng, Miguel De Veyra
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1 00:06:02.160 ⇒ 00:06:03.100 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, guys.
2 00:06:07.430 ⇒ 00:06:08.990 Nicolas Sucari: Hey? You done, hey? Guys.
3 00:06:08.990 ⇒ 00:06:09.640 Uttam Kumaran: Hey!
4 00:06:09.890 ⇒ 00:06:10.820 Miguel de Veyra: Everyone.
5 00:06:37.220 ⇒ 00:06:38.670 Uttam Kumaran: Give everybody! Another minute.
6 00:06:41.280 ⇒ 00:06:41.880 Luke Daque: Guys.
7 00:07:21.380 ⇒ 00:07:27.800 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna get started. So as I mentioned Friday, I think I want to kick off
8 00:07:29.670 ⇒ 00:07:37.983 Uttam Kumaran: I want to kick off this call, really just going over the Okrs again, and then speaking a bit about how we’re gonna take action on some stuff
9 00:07:38.490 ⇒ 00:07:39.520 Uttam Kumaran: this week.
10 00:07:40.172 ⇒ 00:07:42.829 Uttam Kumaran: So let me share my screen.
11 00:07:44.010 ⇒ 00:07:50.140 Uttam Kumaran: I think the big thing is we’re gonna be having conversations across each team about how we start to track.
12 00:07:51.037 ⇒ 00:07:57.642 Uttam Kumaran: These but again, I just want to share this slide about the mission and values we went through
13 00:07:59.050 ⇒ 00:08:09.330 Uttam Kumaran: in terms of the sales. Okra, I would say, this is really on Connor and Robert, who are leading sales. So I’ll probably let you guys work towards how
14 00:08:09.530 ⇒ 00:08:21.210 Uttam Kumaran: you know we can track towards these on the delightful service delivery. So this is something that I’m going to be working with the AI team on for the 1st
15 00:08:21.672 ⇒ 00:08:37.600 Uttam Kumaran: part of this initial Kr, which is starting to measure slack. And how do we, you know, measure that we’re sending messages to clients, and then, similarly, for the bottom care, we’ll talk a little bit about this in the ait meeting about how we’re gonna build a roadmap for this.
16 00:08:38.142 ⇒ 00:08:56.319 Uttam Kumaran: I think the only thing. And, Nika, I was gonna message you. I know you mentioned on Friday. That you had some ideas about this kr, in case you have any of those notes before you head out this week, let me know, would be great to to read those.
17 00:08:57.390 ⇒ 00:08:58.500 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, okay.
18 00:09:00.690 ⇒ 00:09:04.240 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, even if you just have like, 30 min to spend to put something together
19 00:09:04.530 ⇒ 00:09:11.930 Uttam Kumaran: that way, you kind of work towards this this week, and then when you’re back, or I guess I’ll I’ll see you. We can. We can kind of walk through it so
20 00:09:14.670 ⇒ 00:09:15.540 Uttam Kumaran: cool.
21 00:09:15.952 ⇒ 00:09:22.309 Uttam Kumaran: And then the last objective. So I think I know Hannah and Brian are on. I don’t know if, and
22 00:09:22.540 ⇒ 00:09:28.840 Uttam Kumaran: hands on as well. So this is really for the design team. So I think we’ll also talk about this a bit tomorrow.
23 00:09:29.300 ⇒ 00:09:39.459 Uttam Kumaran: And I know, Ryan, we’re talking a little bit about content later today, so we can start to establish how we’re going to build sort of towards these.
24 00:09:39.890 ⇒ 00:10:04.219 Uttam Kumaran: I think. Really a lot of this is going to be done initially through content. But one. I want to just take a step back and understand, like, what are the volume numbers that we need to start to hit and start to establish like a weekly reporting cadence. Most likely, Ryan, I think these will. This will fall under you on reporting this out to the team about how we’re doing across these 3
25 00:10:04.944 ⇒ 00:10:09.419 Uttam Kumaran: and then sort of laddering up each of the content assets towards this.
26 00:10:11.330 ⇒ 00:10:24.839 Uttam Kumaran: so yeah. And then I I think otherwise. We we still have the same clients this week. We have another client kicking off in 2 weeks. And then most likely we’ll kick off with ABC. Home
27 00:10:25.070 ⇒ 00:10:27.649 Uttam Kumaran: next week or later this week.
28 00:10:29.150 ⇒ 00:10:34.977 Uttam Kumaran: and then, yeah, I think one other piece. So I think, Jana, you’re on the call right?
29 00:10:36.300 ⇒ 00:10:37.810 Janna Wong: Yeah.
30 00:10:38.333 ⇒ 00:10:55.620 Uttam Kumaran: I just wanna call out Jana. She’s joining on the AI team. I don’t know Miguel or Jana. If you guys wanna do intros. I know you guys know each other. But would would love an intro, and then we could probably do something. Probably have you do like another intro on Friday, but.
31 00:11:02.940 ⇒ 00:11:19.039 Janna Wong: Hi, so I’m Jana, and I’m more on the automations. Especially so I’ve tried automating, using Zapier. make.com air table automations as well as app scripts. So yeah, hope hopefully, I could be a great asset to your team.
32 00:11:21.370 ⇒ 00:11:21.950 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
33 00:11:22.350 ⇒ 00:11:27.019 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, Miguel and Jenna, I think, work previously together, and she’ll be helping us with
34 00:11:28.650 ⇒ 00:11:36.899 Uttam Kumaran: She’ll be helping us with all the existing tasks on the AI side. And again, we’re just about to close our another AI client, so she’ll be working on that.
35 00:11:37.100 ⇒ 00:11:42.219 Uttam Kumaran: Miguel. Do you want to say anything about ABC. Or about Jana, or on the AI team.
36 00:11:43.370 ⇒ 00:11:45.789 Miguel de Veyra: Yeah, I don’t. Yeah. I think.
37 00:11:46.240 ⇒ 00:11:49.399 Miguel de Veyra: yeah, I’ve worked with Jana. I think last year
38 00:11:49.770 ⇒ 00:11:59.740 Miguel de Veyra: she’s very meticulous and stuff. That’s why I recommend her. I recommended her. She’s from Davao, too, so she’s like the furthest away from the rest of the team in the Philippines.
39 00:12:00.000 ⇒ 00:12:04.480 Miguel de Veyra: So that’s like I don’t know 2,000 kilometers away, or something like that.
40 00:12:05.020 ⇒ 00:12:12.810 Miguel de Veyra: So yeah, I think that’s pretty much it. And then we signed a new client, or at least we did. Abc.
41 00:12:13.140 ⇒ 00:12:21.950 Miguel de Veyra: so yeah, we’re very excited on how we’ll proceed there. Cause that’s technically our 1st AI client excluding Vitaco. Right? Tuta.
42 00:12:22.350 ⇒ 00:12:24.200 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I guess Vita cocoa was like.
43 00:12:25.210 ⇒ 00:12:26.220 Miguel de Veyra: Yeah.
44 00:12:26.380 ⇒ 00:12:33.846 Uttam Kumaran: But yeah, first, st like, exclusive, like, agent building client. So we have the plan today.
45 00:12:34.710 ⇒ 00:12:36.170 Uttam Kumaran: that we’ll be going through.
46 00:12:36.905 ⇒ 00:12:38.909 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so yeah, I think
47 00:12:39.030 ⇒ 00:12:44.679 Uttam Kumaran: for my goal for this week is to sort of meet with everybody across the teams.
48 00:12:45.179 ⇒ 00:12:57.749 Uttam Kumaran: individually, or in a smaller team meeting and walk through these 2. Robert, I just mentioned that I think you and Connor will sort of own the tracking and plan towards the sales. Okr.
49 00:12:59.720 ⇒ 00:13:10.020 Uttam Kumaran: And then the other thing is, I think we’ll plan for Fridays on how each team or one member of each team is gonna present on progress towards the goals.
50 00:13:10.547 ⇒ 00:13:14.719 Uttam Kumaran: So we’ll start very simply. But again, this isn’t.
51 00:13:14.920 ⇒ 00:13:30.179 Uttam Kumaran: It’s helpful to say, like as a company, we’re gonna do these things. But the best way is we’re gonna start to assign names. To say, Hey, your job is to while you get all of your work done is to make sure that it all all your decisions line up with moving this, these metrics or initiatives forward.
52 00:13:31.400 ⇒ 00:13:44.616 Uttam Kumaran: Otherwise, yeah, we have a lot of items this week, I think. Still, there’s a lot of data stuff in the backlog. I think, Nico, just before you head out today, maybe we can. We can sync anything that I need to handle?
53 00:13:46.260 ⇒ 00:13:49.889 Uttam Kumaran: I’m trying to think if there’s anything else
54 00:13:54.430 ⇒ 00:13:58.810 Uttam Kumaran: I think that might be it. I don’t know. Robert. Do you have anything else to share today.
55 00:14:00.030 ⇒ 00:14:05.639 Robert Tseng: No, yeah. I think this is this is good. We’ll we’ll figure out, yeah. I mean, we’ll we’ll be presenting
56 00:14:06.020 ⇒ 00:14:11.679 Robert Tseng: how we’re gonna be measuring these initiatives. Come Friday, so excited to see what the team puts together.
57 00:14:13.620 ⇒ 00:14:30.403 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, I know. Marianne, you’re starting to own a lot more in operations. I think we’re gonna submit a few more requests. But if anyone has any questions about notion or general operations, please. Message Marianne, we’re also working on more documents about onboarding and things like that. So
58 00:14:30.850 ⇒ 00:14:31.580 Uttam Kumaran: yeah.
59 00:14:31.580 ⇒ 00:14:37.800 Miguel de Veyra: Oh, yeah, in terms of onboarding I created. I submitted the form for Janet of
60 00:14:38.010 ⇒ 00:14:40.900 Miguel de Veyra: obviously, I’ve already created the email and slack invite.
61 00:14:41.090 ⇒ 00:14:46.889 Miguel de Veyra: And I’ve I think I tagged you, Morian, on that one, so not sure how we’ll proceed from there.
62 00:14:47.420 ⇒ 00:14:57.470 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, I actually actually saw your message on notion, and I’ll work on that. And then I’ll be creating Jonna. Her personal notion workspace as well. Later.
63 00:14:57.470 ⇒ 00:14:58.719 Miguel de Veyra: Okay. Thanks. Marianne.
64 00:14:58.950 ⇒ 00:14:59.770 Mariane Cequina: Okay.
65 00:15:01.700 ⇒ 00:15:04.200 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, perfect. Anyone else.
66 00:15:04.340 ⇒ 00:15:05.480 Uttam Kumaran: Have anything else.
67 00:15:09.870 ⇒ 00:15:16.369 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. Alright guys, short meeting. But let’s chat in slack. And I think most teams are meeting today for planning. So we’ll see everyone there.
68 00:15:16.650 ⇒ 00:15:17.909 Miguel de Veyra: Thanks everyone. Bye-bye.
69 00:15:17.910 ⇒ 00:15:18.740 Mariane Cequina: Thank you.
70 00:15:19.580 ⇒ 00:15:20.680 Nicolas Sucari: Guys. Bye-bye.