Meeting Title: Uttam_Caio Date: 2025-02-17 Meeting participants: Caio, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:01:17.380 ⇒ 00:01:18.380 Caio: Hello!
2 00:01:18.380 ⇒ 00:01:19.240 Uttam Kumaran: Hey!
3 00:01:20.200 ⇒ 00:01:21.909 Caio: Hey? How’s it going? Sorry I’m late?
4 00:01:21.910 ⇒ 00:01:22.520 Uttam Kumaran: Now you’re good.
5 00:01:22.520 ⇒ 00:01:26.390 Caio: This headphone work today. I don’t know what happened.
6 00:01:26.820 ⇒ 00:01:28.229 Uttam Kumaran: No problem. How are you?
7 00:01:28.420 ⇒ 00:01:29.670 Caio: Good! Good! How are you?
8 00:01:30.060 ⇒ 00:01:36.749 Uttam Kumaran: Good thanks for. Thanks for joining today. And yeah, we’re excited to have you. We have
9 00:01:37.290 ⇒ 00:01:45.569 Uttam Kumaran: bunch of stuff. I think you’ll you’ll be excited to see today. But just thought I’d I’d say, Hi! Before sort of the day kicks off
10 00:01:47.450 ⇒ 00:01:54.930 Uttam Kumaran: I think maybe I’ll give you a couple. I’ll give you a little bit of a sense of like how our team structure and things work. But
11 00:01:55.200 ⇒ 00:02:06.840 Uttam Kumaran: lot of it will sort of be learning, you know, as you go, I think the biggest focus this today is one you’ll get to see a little bit of insight into our overall company like okrs.
12 00:02:07.315 ⇒ 00:02:21.509 Uttam Kumaran: We have okrs around sales around, you know, client delivery as well as around marketing and brand so excited for you to see that we’ll be going through that with the team. I’ll also just ask you to maybe give a brief intro
13 00:02:21.932 ⇒ 00:02:24.720 Uttam Kumaran: and you could say hi to everybody on the call later today.
14 00:02:25.500 ⇒ 00:02:25.750 Caio: Okay.
15 00:02:26.000 ⇒ 00:02:38.190 Uttam Kumaran: And then I just you know, I’ll be making sure that you’re in all the relevant slack channels. But I just messaged the data team that previously we were running sort of, we have 6 active data clients. We were running sort of
16 00:02:38.310 ⇒ 00:02:42.380 Uttam Kumaran: all of it in like one stand up every day. Basically, we’re gonna start to switch
17 00:02:42.590 ⇒ 00:03:07.519 Uttam Kumaran: the more like groups where we have one group of 3 clients each. That way gives a little bit more time to discuss. Typically the way we do work is we have tickets in notion. We have, of course, all the access and things that are in either through bigquery or snowflake. So we’ll make sure today that you have access to all those things as well as github
18 00:03:07.927 ⇒ 00:03:19.320 Uttam Kumaran: and then in those meetings. We basically just discuss like what’s on the agenda. So there’s tasks around data analysis. There’s tasks around ae work. And there may be a couple of tasks around de work.
19 00:03:20.780 ⇒ 00:03:49.920 Uttam Kumaran: So now that our Ae team is 3 strong, including you. I think I’m gonna start to schedule, probably one weekly meeting, just with the analytics engineers. Previously we were just a couple of us, so we’ll sort of just client work. But I would love to talk a little bit as well about our like overall structure for doing ae work and sort of begin the process of feedback loops. Probably the biggest thing you’ll see at Brain Forge is, I think, of everything as sort of loops, like feedback loops and iteration loops
20 00:03:50.450 ⇒ 00:04:06.269 Uttam Kumaran: right the faster we can execute something, get feedback implement, the feedback and go again. You know, the better we can. We can confirm that every week we’re sort of getting 1% better ideally more than a 1%, you know. And so those compound right? And so
21 00:04:06.580 ⇒ 00:04:33.449 Uttam Kumaran: as much as we can learn from each other. You know, and execute on client work, but also discuss the way we execute broadly on client work. I think the Ae. Group has a really good opportunity to do that and then, of course, like level everyone up. I wanna make sure that we’re all sort of learning from each other. So yeah, I mean, 1st week will be probably a little bit crazy, just getting used to everything. So don’t worry too much. You can ping me or ping anyone in the data team channel
22 00:04:33.690 ⇒ 00:04:39.619 Uttam Kumaran: like as much as needed. I would say, if you have any questions, the
23 00:04:39.740 ⇒ 00:04:47.079 Uttam Kumaran: and you know you’ve tried to Google your way out of it or look through it. Please just ask there I would. I wouldn’t wait until the next stand up.
24 00:04:49.220 ⇒ 00:05:08.010 Uttam Kumaran: and then yeah, so I’ll I’ll start to add you to the various channels. I think I’m still today. I’m gonna decide which client you’re gonna be assigned to but I’ll make sure you’re in both meetings, and so you can kind of get a sense of everything. I’m still working with the team to figure out what the current assignments are.
25 00:05:10.850 ⇒ 00:05:25.429 Uttam Kumaran: But yeah, that’s a lot, I guess, like any questions I can answer or anything I can share, you know. Just starting up. I also wanna make sure you have access to everything, so I can make sure you’re in Github. I can make sure you’re notion on this meeting, so let me know.
26 00:05:26.060 ⇒ 00:05:39.229 Caio: Perfect perfect so far I have slack and and gmail account so for that I’m good, and the only question I have now is I don’t know if it depends on the client that you’re gonna decide. But
27 00:05:39.648 ⇒ 00:05:48.890 Caio: do you know, more or less, what? How many hours? And how do I do about the hours? Do I do it? It’s already standard by week. Or is it ongoing.
28 00:05:49.230 ⇒ 00:05:55.250 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so we do have clockify. You should get access to that soon. And it’ll be by client.
29 00:05:55.678 ⇒ 00:06:12.371 Uttam Kumaran: So I think 1 1 of the things that we’ll do. I think. Just feel free to attend the meetings today, I think in the data meeting we will. We will look at which client I think we need the most help on, and then I’ll give you a sense of like what the
30 00:06:12.900 ⇒ 00:06:17.150 Uttam Kumaran: you know what the range for hours would be, I think, for this week plan at least
31 00:06:17.360 ⇒ 00:06:25.469 Uttam Kumaran: 10 to 20 h. Of course. Like, if if you end up taking on more work. Just let me know. But I think keep that as a good range.
32 00:06:25.984 ⇒ 00:06:31.639 Uttam Kumaran: That way. You have time, of course, for, like our company meetings. You have time for client work.
33 00:06:32.175 ⇒ 00:06:34.300 Uttam Kumaran: So let’s plan on that for this week.
34 00:06:34.690 ⇒ 00:07:02.370 Uttam Kumaran: Broadly, I think after today it’ll be more clear what the client is, and which one you’re assigned to, I think also today, get take a look at each of our clients and sort of hopefully you’ll get a sense of what I mentioned, which is, we have several clients in e-commerce, several clients in B, 2 B sas, a lot of the work we’re doing is foundational ae work. And then just basic dashboarding, executive dashboards, financial dashboards. You know, I’m particularly excited because I feel like you worked
35 00:07:02.540 ⇒ 00:07:27.699 Uttam Kumaran: sort of full stack on everything. So I think you’ll kind of get a good chance to see how we’re doing things. And just sort of understand, like where our current problems are. And of course, like, we have a lot of stuff to work on for clients. And it’s a lot of very basic things at the moment. So I’m excited for you to kind of see all that. And you know, I’ll be looking for feedback on how we can improve so.
36 00:07:28.090 ⇒ 00:07:29.979 Caio: Perfect. Sounds exciting. Yeah, yeah, nice.
37 00:07:29.980 ⇒ 00:07:30.530 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
38 00:07:30.530 ⇒ 00:07:33.249 Caio: And for that I need notion right to check.
39 00:07:33.250 ⇒ 00:07:37.040 Uttam Kumaran: So let me make sure. Let me make sure you’re in notion right now.
40 00:07:43.920 ⇒ 00:07:46.340 Uttam Kumaran: So you should have got any invite to notion.
41 00:07:46.920 ⇒ 00:07:47.540 Caio: Good.
42 00:07:48.270 ⇒ 00:07:49.799 Uttam Kumaran: Just double check that.
43 00:07:51.120 ⇒ 00:07:54.180 Uttam Kumaran: And then also, if you don’t mind
44 00:07:57.090 ⇒ 00:08:03.860 Uttam Kumaran: giving me your github username, I will also add you. You can. You can use your existing one, or if you wanna
45 00:08:04.060 ⇒ 00:08:06.730 Uttam Kumaran: make a new one for Brainforge. That’s also fine.
46 00:08:07.760 ⇒ 00:08:13.880 Caio: Okay I don’t know. I can make one for for you. Then.
47 00:08:14.120 ⇒ 00:08:15.390 Caio: Oh, let me check
48 00:08:49.530 ⇒ 00:08:50.640 Caio: I’m creating.
49 00:09:24.880 ⇒ 00:09:27.259 Caio: Let me check. If I received the detailed one.
50 00:10:01.490 ⇒ 00:10:05.840 Caio: Oh, there’s so many security layers now on data.
51 00:10:06.740 ⇒ 00:10:13.359 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And I feel like we’re pretty good, like, I am pretty good at trying to make sure everything has 2 fa and stuff like that cause.
52 00:10:13.360 ⇒ 00:10:14.690 Caio: Perfect, perfect.
53 00:10:15.310 ⇒ 00:10:19.629 Uttam Kumaran: It’s it’s yeah. It’s just a business we’re in. So.
54 00:10:19.630 ⇒ 00:10:20.769 Caio: Yeah, no, no, it’s.
55 00:10:20.770 ⇒ 00:10:29.219 Uttam Kumaran: But also we have we. We use one password, so you should have also received a invite to one password, and you can store all your pass keys and things in there.
56 00:10:31.190 ⇒ 00:10:39.709 Uttam Kumaran: so. And then once you’re in notion to our operations team, Mary Ann, she’ll she’ll give you like an onboarding doc and things to go through. So
57 00:10:40.107 ⇒ 00:10:43.329 Uttam Kumaran: I just wanna make sure for the core things. You have it today.
58 00:10:44.150 ⇒ 00:10:46.630 Caio: Perfect. I think I have access to detail now.
59 00:10:49.830 ⇒ 00:10:54.209 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah. And if you send me what your username is, I can make sure you’re.
60 00:10:55.120 ⇒ 00:11:06.120 Caio: Yeah. And rather than here, can you send me? You want to send me an email checked
61 00:11:07.710 ⇒ 00:11:09.640 Caio: my screen here?
62 00:11:16.410 ⇒ 00:11:19.660 Caio: Yeah, it’s kind of Alasco, via great porch.
63 00:11:41.600 ⇒ 00:11:46.859 Caio: and you use you use normal gift or.
64 00:11:47.360 ⇒ 00:11:48.530 Uttam Kumaran: I used to come.
65 00:11:48.530 ⇒ 00:11:48.910 Caio: No.
66 00:11:48.910 ⇒ 00:11:49.450 Uttam Kumaran: Oh!
67 00:11:49.760 ⇒ 00:11:50.460 Caio: Okay.
68 00:11:50.920 ⇒ 00:11:59.099 Uttam Kumaran: But I think people use a mix of get in the cli or github desktop, basically.
69 00:12:22.390 ⇒ 00:12:28.390 Caio: I received an email saying that the invitation was canceled, probably because you’re switching to the.
70 00:12:28.390 ⇒ 00:12:29.190 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
71 00:12:29.190 ⇒ 00:12:30.043 Caio: Okay. Cool.
72 00:12:33.000 ⇒ 00:12:38.690 Uttam Kumaran: Try it now, you should have just got a okay, let me just make sure you’re in the right ones.
73 00:12:43.250 ⇒ 00:12:45.179 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, check it out. Now.
74 00:12:46.930 ⇒ 00:12:48.489 Caio: Oh, yes, oh, yes.
75 00:12:51.770 ⇒ 00:12:52.460 Caio: 2.
76 00:12:52.750 ⇒ 00:12:57.608 Caio: Picture my home. Let me check.
77 00:13:06.900 ⇒ 00:13:10.890 Caio: If I start with my authenticator that I have already on my phone.
78 00:13:11.090 ⇒ 00:13:14.409 Caio: Would it be possible to still use the one password you think.
79 00:13:14.410 ⇒ 00:13:19.940 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, I think, yeah. And you, I think you can. You’ll be able to switch it over whenever
80 00:13:28.710 ⇒ 00:13:29.840 Caio: Same here.
81 00:13:36.120 ⇒ 00:13:36.950 Caio: Download.
82 00:13:48.700 ⇒ 00:13:50.699 Caio: Okay, cool. I have access.
83 00:13:54.190 ⇒ 00:13:57.149 Uttam Kumaran: So let me just make sure that you’re in
84 00:13:57.630 ⇒ 00:14:03.841 Uttam Kumaran: and in notion. If you want to share your screen, I can sort of give you a little bit of an overview of
85 00:14:04.760 ⇒ 00:14:11.890 Uttam Kumaran: everything in notion. There’s a lot of stuff, but I think the primary place you want to spend time is in the data team
86 00:14:12.000 ⇒ 00:14:15.050 Uttam Kumaran: board as well as on our clients.
87 00:14:16.120 ⇒ 00:14:19.330 Caio: Okay, one more time and share my screen.
88 00:14:30.090 ⇒ 00:14:32.819 Caio: Okay, do I share my screen? Okay, right here.
89 00:14:43.110 ⇒ 00:14:43.450 Caio: cool.
90 00:14:48.480 ⇒ 00:14:50.110 Caio: Cool. Probably you can see it now.
91 00:14:51.220 ⇒ 00:14:52.140 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
92 00:14:52.720 ⇒ 00:14:58.809 Uttam Kumaran: So if you’re able, yeah, if you’re in notion, notion has a desktop app, you can also use it on the web.
93 00:14:59.450 ⇒ 00:15:00.045 Caio: Okay.
94 00:15:00.860 ⇒ 00:15:03.130 Uttam Kumaran: But if you wanna go into
95 00:15:03.910 ⇒ 00:15:07.370 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, if you just go to notion.so yeah.
96 00:15:09.890 ⇒ 00:15:12.850 Uttam Kumaran: and you just try to log in with your with your Google.
97 00:15:32.590 ⇒ 00:15:33.310 Caio: One moment.
98 00:15:36.850 ⇒ 00:15:37.620 Caio: Oh, okay.
99 00:16:07.830 ⇒ 00:16:12.270 Caio: another room. Because sometimes this room, the Internet doesn’t.
100 00:16:13.160 ⇒ 00:16:14.250 Caio: Maybe we work on.
101 00:16:15.210 ⇒ 00:16:16.551 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And I think once
102 00:16:17.300 ⇒ 00:16:22.889 Uttam Kumaran: once, once you’re logged in and stuff, you can also get the notion desktop app. It’s a little bit nicer.
103 00:16:25.670 ⇒ 00:16:30.409 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, I think on the if you on the left side, if you hit more
104 00:16:31.840 ⇒ 00:16:33.699 Uttam Kumaran: and have you used notion before.
105 00:16:35.316 ⇒ 00:16:37.999 Caio: No. Actually, I was using conference before.
106 00:16:38.000 ⇒ 00:16:40.657 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, it’s like a nicer version of that.
107 00:16:40.990 ⇒ 00:16:43.060 Caio: Nice, cool.
108 00:16:44.930 ⇒ 00:16:52.220 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So if you go to if you just go to the brain forge AI Hq homepage. Yeah.
109 00:16:53.190 ⇒ 00:16:55.540 Uttam Kumaran: So this is our company homepage
110 00:16:55.780 ⇒ 00:17:00.539 Uttam Kumaran: here, you’ll see sort of like all of our links, and like
111 00:17:00.640 ⇒ 00:17:06.960 Uttam Kumaran: sort of how to navigate I think the 1st thing to go into is if you go to clients at the top.
112 00:17:07.460 ⇒ 00:17:10.006 Uttam Kumaran: I guess. 2. Yeah. If you go to clients
113 00:17:10.599 ⇒ 00:17:13.651 Uttam Kumaran: right in the middle here
114 00:17:14.800 ⇒ 00:17:16.329 Caio: Oh, right? Okay.
115 00:17:16.339 ⇒ 00:17:16.989 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
116 00:17:19.079 ⇒ 00:17:25.749 Uttam Kumaran: and if you scroll down you’ll see here. These are all of the clients that we have right now.
117 00:17:26.059 ⇒ 00:17:31.029 Uttam Kumaran: Of course we are also a client because we have data work for our company.
118 00:17:31.459 ⇒ 00:17:34.419 Uttam Kumaran: I like to think of us as a client as well.
119 00:17:35.460 ⇒ 00:17:46.949 Uttam Kumaran: But basically, if you scroll down here. You’ll also see basically, all the the tasks that we’re working on for clients. And if you click into actually one of the client pages.
120 00:17:47.160 ⇒ 00:17:50.290 Uttam Kumaran: if you go back up the top
121 00:17:50.820 ⇒ 00:17:54.439 Uttam Kumaran: like, let’s say you click click on Javi coffee, for example.
122 00:17:56.670 ⇒ 00:17:57.500 Caio: Right here.
123 00:17:58.820 ⇒ 00:18:03.020 Uttam Kumaran: So you actually get taken. And you can, you can hit the full screen. Item here.
124 00:18:04.700 ⇒ 00:18:20.814 Uttam Kumaran: this is actually like our client homepage for Javi coffee. Javi. Coffee is a e-commerce sort of coffee concentrate company. They make a lot of money selling that you’ve probably seen them on Tiktok. Maybe
125 00:18:21.250 ⇒ 00:18:22.620 Caio: I think so. Yeah.
126 00:18:22.620 ⇒ 00:18:28.470 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So we we sort of are building out their their data analytics, infrastructure.
127 00:18:28.927 ⇒ 00:18:49.239 Uttam Kumaran: This includes. And if you scroll down you’ll sort of see information about the company, the profile, but also more specifically all the tasks that we’re working on. In fact, here at the bottom here, you’ll see all the tasks overview. These are all things that the team is working on for this client. I wanna just walk through like one task. And I think
128 00:18:49.490 ⇒ 00:19:18.210 Uttam Kumaran: once we kind of hop off this meeting, you can sort of poke around and everything. But what does a task have? The task is, gonna have the name who is assigned to status. And I think status isn’t is in particularly important. We have backlog right where we’re like, okay, client, just said something. Let’s throw that in. Let’s build the requirements. Then it gets sort of planned out and assigned, and then, of course, it goes into development, goes into review and then gets deployed. So I’m here.
129 00:19:18.630 ⇒ 00:19:20.849 Uttam Kumaran: If you scroll down
130 00:19:20.960 ⇒ 00:19:28.350 Uttam Kumaran: you’ll see like a horizontal bar to sort of move to the side. I think if you go all the way down to this list?
131 00:19:29.487 ⇒ 00:19:31.039 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So this.
132 00:19:31.160 ⇒ 00:19:36.479 Uttam Kumaran: if you sort of move right, you’ll sort of see that we have all of these columns. Right? So
133 00:19:36.660 ⇒ 00:19:40.950 Uttam Kumaran: we have the type of the type of task.
134 00:19:41.070 ⇒ 00:19:55.330 Uttam Kumaran: the whether it’s like, when it was done, any pull requests associated with it. Due dates, priority, sort of what you would expect out of like a typical tickets. I would say
135 00:19:56.290 ⇒ 00:20:00.089 Uttam Kumaran: I am. I’m less interested in like
136 00:20:00.548 ⇒ 00:20:08.800 Uttam Kumaran: all of the rituals around tickets and things like that. In fact, I think we probably do more of just what’s necessary versus
137 00:20:08.990 ⇒ 00:20:13.580 Uttam Kumaran: everything. I think, in fact, probably over time, as we get people that
138 00:20:13.710 ⇒ 00:20:18.619 Uttam Kumaran: sort of like, hey, I can handle whatever comes my way. We will probably have less and less
139 00:20:18.960 ⇒ 00:20:43.619 Uttam Kumaran: of like process, and more, just like there’s 3 things on my play. Let’s get it done. Let’s keep pushing but the biggest things is like we we try to use this to translate to the client timelines. So the biggest things here are just understanding what’s in the ticket, and when it can get done and then we also have like status reasons. So when we go through daily meetings, when we talk about clients, we walk through like, what’s the status
140 00:20:44.800 ⇒ 00:20:46.590 Uttam Kumaran: nice. So you, too.
141 00:20:46.590 ⇒ 00:20:47.300 Caio: Very nice.
142 00:20:47.300 ⇒ 00:20:51.341 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, for each of these clients. We have one of these pages, and then
143 00:20:51.790 ⇒ 00:20:56.409 Uttam Kumaran: From my angle, I sort of look at all the I look at like everything we’re doing for all clients.
144 00:20:56.780 ⇒ 00:21:00.349 Uttam Kumaran: and you’ll kind of see us walk through all of that today.
145 00:21:00.762 ⇒ 00:21:09.210 Uttam Kumaran: I think the one key area. We can get better on. I think we’re gonna do a bit better on this week is just having tickets with more clear requirements.
146 00:21:09.400 ⇒ 00:21:16.229 Uttam Kumaran: We sort of get hit with the slack. And then we’re like, okay, let’s just make a ticket really quick. But then we look at it next week, and the ticket doesn’t happen. It’s like pretty
147 00:21:16.420 ⇒ 00:21:19.279 Uttam Kumaran: just like normal problems. So.
148 00:21:19.280 ⇒ 00:21:23.597 Caio: That’s important. I remember I remember people having problems with it.
149 00:21:23.990 ⇒ 00:21:34.019 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, we’ll get better at that over time. I think we were in a mode where we just had nobody on the team. So now that we have a few more people, we can work a little bit more methodically.
150 00:21:34.895 ⇒ 00:21:35.340 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
151 00:21:35.610 ⇒ 00:21:44.220 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, I would. I would encourage you to sort of look at all of the different client pages that we’re working on. We have clients across data and AI
152 00:21:45.120 ⇒ 00:21:55.710 Uttam Kumaran: and of course, like our notion, we’re still building out components of it. But I would think about our notion as sort of the operating system for our business. Everything you can expect
153 00:21:56.300 ⇒ 00:21:59.250 Uttam Kumaran: that exists in our business is either in here.
154 00:21:59.820 ⇒ 00:22:07.220 Uttam Kumaran: It’s it’s it’s it’s in here. Typically. And then all of our communication happens in slack. We don’t have any other. We don’t use Google docs for much.
155 00:22:08.390 ⇒ 00:22:10.620 Uttam Kumaran: Most of the stuff will happen here.
156 00:22:10.760 ⇒ 00:22:14.749 Uttam Kumaran: So really, we’re using zoom, we’re using Github. We’re using
157 00:22:15.243 ⇒ 00:22:20.829 Uttam Kumaran: notion or using slack, so I try to keep it very, very streamlined, for where you should be. Expect to find information.
158 00:22:20.940 ⇒ 00:22:27.010 Uttam Kumaran: If you can’t find something here, it’s not clear. Feel free. You can put in the data team or in the entire brain force team slot.
159 00:22:29.820 ⇒ 00:22:35.079 Uttam Kumaran: yeah. And then I think the only other thing is, if you go back to the homepage and we’ll be talking a little bit about this.
160 00:22:35.644 ⇒ 00:22:41.025 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, you can click here or yeah, right here. If you click on
161 00:22:41.530 ⇒ 00:22:47.810 Uttam Kumaran: if you click on the I think 2 things. One. If you click on documentation here, I’ll just show you this right now.
162 00:22:48.960 ⇒ 00:23:12.969 Uttam Kumaran: We are sort of building out all of our. We build out a lot of documentation on, like how to do different things across engineering sales, marketing. So one of the things that I think we’ll talk about as an ae squad this week is, how do we improve our documentation from the files to the client to the, to the A team, to the data team. Right? So we’ll be talking about that. We use loom for a lot of stuff.
163 00:23:13.449 ⇒ 00:23:22.059 Uttam Kumaran: So feel free if you want to log in there and then the last thing I’ll show you is you go back to the home page and you click on okay, ours.
164 00:23:25.460 ⇒ 00:23:31.120 Uttam Kumaran: So these are our company okrs for this quarter, as well as like
165 00:23:31.450 ⇒ 00:23:34.809 Uttam Kumaran: what our focus areas are for 2025.
166 00:23:35.100 ⇒ 00:23:37.620 Uttam Kumaran: So we’ll be walking through each of these
167 00:23:38.660 ⇒ 00:23:43.130 Uttam Kumaran: okrs. And are you familiar with sort of like the concept of okrs?
168 00:23:43.460 ⇒ 00:23:44.580 Caio: More or less, more or less.
169 00:23:44.580 ⇒ 00:23:51.789 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it’s sort of the basic concept that you set an objective. An objective can be more qualitative. And then you have key results that are
170 00:23:52.210 ⇒ 00:24:17.629 Uttam Kumaran: that have to be able to be measured right? The nice thing is, we’re a data company. So we, I know that we should be setting goals that are measurable. And so you’ll see here that we try to be very open with the team about what our company goals are for the quarter. This is the 1st quarter we’re doing. Okay, ours, you’ll see. Like objective, accelerate revenue goals. Okay, increase this and ideally. As you scroll down here, you’ll see 3 objectives
171 00:24:17.660 ⇒ 00:24:29.260 Uttam Kumaran: accelerate revenue goals, delightful service delivery, and one thing about our brand and marketing. Everybody’s work in the company should go up to one of these okrs?
172 00:24:29.940 ⇒ 00:24:46.870 Uttam Kumaran: and I think some people are more tied to them. Some people are working on client work that then ladders up to one but definitely. This is how we’re gonna start talking in every single company meeting. We will be starting with talking about this, not only how we did last week.
173 00:24:47.150 ⇒ 00:24:55.840 Uttam Kumaran: but then what we’re doing this week. And then on Friday, we review, what do we say we’re gonna do? And what do we do? It’s not really a process to like.
174 00:24:56.230 ⇒ 00:25:01.079 Uttam Kumaran: call people out and like be like where this thing didn’t happen. Where is it? It’s more of like
175 00:25:01.360 ⇒ 00:25:05.909 Uttam Kumaran: looking in the mirror, because every every one of us will have
176 00:25:06.100 ⇒ 00:25:24.489 Uttam Kumaran: their component of work that ladders up to these. But our goal is to understand a couple of things. One are our goals achievable? Can we set out the things we say to do? And how fast do things take to do and like, do they? We have the right team members. So all that is helpful for me and Robert to sort of build the machine.
177 00:25:25.770 ⇒ 00:25:30.730 Uttam Kumaran: and as you see here, I look at this every week we’ll be looking at this with the company, which is we only have.
178 00:25:31.160 ⇒ 00:25:32.610 Uttam Kumaran: We’re about halfway through
179 00:25:32.760 ⇒ 00:25:45.959 Uttam Kumaran: right? So it’s helpful to see that and keep that in your mind that we don’t that time sort of moves by quickly. But I feel pretty good about our goals, and sort of towards the mid of next month we’ll start to set goals for the for the next quarter.
180 00:25:47.540 ⇒ 00:25:47.995 Caio: Okay.
181 00:25:48.450 ⇒ 00:26:04.554 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, poke around this. I’ll also I’ll also be poking a couple of other people and get some more one on one schedule. So you can meet some people on our data team. You can meet some people on our our company like our operation marketing team.
182 00:26:05.690 ⇒ 00:26:11.740 Uttam Kumaran: and then, yeah, I think you know I I’m I know you’re a curious person. So go through everything you see here.
183 00:26:12.281 ⇒ 00:26:16.669 Uttam Kumaran: And let me know if you have any questions you’ll see stuff that’s old. You’ll see stuff that’s new.
184 00:26:17.170 ⇒ 00:26:20.869 Uttam Kumaran: We’re working on getting everything as organized as possible. But
185 00:26:21.740 ⇒ 00:26:28.349 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I’m excited. I’m excited to get your feedback on on stuff. So and I perfect, perfect. Yeah.
186 00:26:28.350 ⇒ 00:26:34.449 Uttam Kumaran: And I saw that you’re looking at like Chat Gbt deep seek and stuff you’ll probably get interested to talk to our AI team.
187 00:26:34.833 ⇒ 00:26:38.779 Uttam Kumaran: Probably sometime in the next few weeks, too, we do a lot of stuff with.
188 00:26:39.220 ⇒ 00:26:45.090 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, we’re doing whatever you can think about in AI is we’re we’re doing it for clients or for us.
189 00:26:45.950 ⇒ 00:26:55.879 Uttam Kumaran: So we have a lot of opportunity. I and we’ll talk a little bit about this with the Aes. But I’m using cursor. I know Luke on the a team is using cursor for a lot of stuff.
190 00:26:56.450 ⇒ 00:27:15.039 Uttam Kumaran: Right now, we’re not doing a lot of we’re doing more AI internally on the operations and sales side. But I think, probably towards the end of the year we’ll start to look as engineering gets more like clear. We’ll start to look more about. How do we use AI to augment some of the work in engineering.
191 00:27:15.920 ⇒ 00:27:20.060 Uttam Kumaran: but yeah, like, if that’s of interest, we have so much that we do on the AI side.
192 00:27:20.060 ⇒ 00:27:22.070 Caio: Nice. It’s nice. Man.
193 00:27:22.070 ⇒ 00:27:22.700 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
194 00:27:22.700 ⇒ 00:27:33.520 Caio: Perfect cool. No looks really good. It’s really good. I think there’s some parts that I might be able to to help with stuff that I already have. Because everything I do. I always try to really document everything.
195 00:27:33.520 ⇒ 00:27:33.850 Uttam Kumaran: Great.
196 00:27:33.850 ⇒ 00:27:40.669 Caio: Portfolio has already some things which are like, okay, open source. But I can, of course, put it here.
197 00:27:41.358 ⇒ 00:27:44.470 Caio: Yeah, yeah, I’ll check and let you know.
198 00:27:45.640 ⇒ 00:27:59.550 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think the core parts we need on documentation is like when we work on. It’s like better pr descriptions as well as when we do logic and files, making sure things have comments in line. Now that we have a few people before, it was just like maybe 2 of us.
199 00:27:59.780 ⇒ 00:28:14.369 Uttam Kumaran: We always go back and like, why do we? Why do we do this case statement, or something so like that’s the classic stuff that I think will, as we all get to review our Prs more and have a process. We’ll make sure that things are documented well, so.
200 00:28:14.740 ⇒ 00:28:15.470 Caio: Okay.
201 00:28:15.730 ⇒ 00:28:16.839 Caio: Okay. Cool.
202 00:28:16.840 ⇒ 00:28:17.270 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
203 00:28:17.810 ⇒ 00:28:26.123 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, great? Well, then, I’ll chat with you at the team meeting, and then I’ll be booking a few other meetings that should pop on to your calendar.
204 00:28:27.160 ⇒ 00:28:29.789 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I guess excited to kick off today.
205 00:28:30.210 ⇒ 00:28:32.960 Caio: Thank you. Perfect. I’ll see you. Then, on the next one.
206 00:28:33.460 ⇒ 00:28:33.960 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you.
207 00:28:33.960 ⇒ 00:28:35.159 Caio: Okay? Bye for sure.