Meeting Title: Brainport Team Weekly Check-in Date: 2025-08-29 Meeting participants: Ryan Brosas, Uttam Kumaran


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1 00:05:30.620 00:05:31.230 Ryan Brosas: Hey.

2 00:05:31.230 00:05:31.920 Uttam Kumaran: Brian.

3 00:05:32.170 00:05:33.450 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, how are ya?

4 00:05:33.860 00:05:35.550 Ryan Brosas: Doing fine, how about you?

5 00:05:36.860 00:05:37.670 Uttam Kumaran: Good.

6 00:05:37.820 00:05:39.970 Uttam Kumaran: Busy week, just glad it’s over.

7 00:05:40.280 00:05:41.360 Ryan Brosas: Yeah.

8 00:05:41.530 00:05:49.079 Ryan Brosas: Me too. Yeah, been enjoying the sales, involving more on the sales stuff, and yeah.

9 00:05:49.360 00:05:52.260 Ryan Brosas: I, enjoyed the learning process there.

10 00:05:53.130 00:05:54.179 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool.

11 00:05:56.050 00:05:58.519 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m glad. How are you feeling? Okay?

12 00:05:58.720 00:06:00.479 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, yeah, it’s fine, ….

13 00:06:00.480 00:06:01.040 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

14 00:06:01.070 00:06:04.609 Ryan Brosas: All things have settled, yeah. Thank you very much.

15 00:06:04.610 00:06:05.430 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

16 00:06:05.740 00:06:09.080 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, no, of course. I’m glad that, …

17 00:06:09.850 00:06:15.879 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know, I’m glad that you’re still with us, and I’m really, really happy that, you know, …

18 00:06:16.240 00:06:23.840 Uttam Kumaran: we… hope you’re still motivated in the things we’re doing, and I’m really happy, so… I appreciate it.

19 00:06:24.660 00:06:42.230 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, I’m really, comfortable. Well, I… well, for me, comfortable is really, like, a dangerous thing, but here I can, like, on Brainport, I learn a lot of stuff, and I’m comfortable that I can learn more on here. I think that is not a good, like.

20 00:06:42.230 00:06:47.349 Ryan Brosas: a bad thing that I see, but a good thing, and also, like, there’s, like, like.

21 00:06:47.490 00:06:52.020 Ryan Brosas: On the previous day, that there’s, like, this certain, like, environment.

22 00:06:52.130 00:07:00.359 Ryan Brosas: That has, like, you know, oh, this is good. Yeah, I think that’s really good, for me, and, well, I’m still, like, you know,

23 00:07:00.410 00:07:15.799 Ryan Brosas: I still want to win, you know, guys, so I just want to still, like, push, like, content, and still, you know, want to get those results that I wanted to see, and also, like, help you guys on the sales stuff, assist you guys on there, and yeah, …

24 00:07:15.800 00:07:21.339 Ryan Brosas: I’m really open to, like, you know, help you guys on sales and content.

25 00:07:21.750 00:07:23.370 Ryan Brosas: Like, I really appreciate that.

26 00:07:23.370 00:07:24.040 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.

27 00:07:24.300 00:07:31.189 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, no, I think what you’re gonna… you’re gonna… you’re gonna keep getting pushed to do new things, so I’m really happy to hear that you’re…

28 00:07:31.380 00:07:35.149 Uttam Kumaran: You’re interested in continuing to evolve, so…

29 00:07:40.000 00:07:44.180 Uttam Kumaran: Tell me what else is new, like, what have you been learning or reading on your side?

30 00:07:44.770 00:07:57.870 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, right now, well, I’m still… I’m back on, like, on the AI stuff, like, right, well, the Cloud one, so I was, like, watching, like.

31 00:07:57.980 00:08:03.240 Ryan Brosas: Cole meddling, like… vibe code, whole…

32 00:08:03.250 00:08:10.879 Ryan Brosas: like, app or something, so I tried, like, the BMAT, Archon, and…

33 00:08:10.880 00:08:24.319 Ryan Brosas: plaid code, so that’s one that I’m trying to… I was trying last week, so I got… instead of just reading the 100M leads from… from, like, the leaks.

34 00:08:24.320 00:08:31.010 Ryan Brosas: I got distracted of doing VIP coding. But yeah, …

35 00:08:31.060 00:08:47.870 Ryan Brosas: It’s really good, so from, like, doing it, like, copy-pasting on… on ChatGPT, or, like, in Cloud, I can build, like, a simple or, like, a… an agent, agentic or something Agentic AI that

36 00:08:48.040 00:09:06.270 Ryan Brosas: It’s pretty simple, but I want to, like, learn on, like, how I can expand those usage. I will be, like, learning that over the weekend. And also, like, some GTM also, I think I can include that on… over the weekend, yeah.

37 00:09:09.380 00:09:10.880 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, dope.

38 00:09:12.060 00:09:21.050 Uttam Kumaran: How do you feel, like, overall, you know, it’s after, like, a kind of a year of doing stuff, like, what do you… like, do you think we’re… we’re better? Do you think we’re worse? Like, where do you think we are?

39 00:09:22.080 00:09:42.059 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, we, right now, well, for the… well, for the current progress that we have, I can see that we are better, but we are in the middle of it. As, you know, as, Nick said, or the… the feedback from Nick, it’s really helpful, because

40 00:09:42.300 00:09:53.779 Ryan Brosas: it’s kind of like a… like a reminder to me, because, like, I… my advocate always here is, like, you know, we don’t need to mention, like, our bread, and…

41 00:09:53.780 00:10:02.580 Ryan Brosas: I did… I missed that. I missed… I missed that, that, you know, we use, like, we use branding and… and… and, like, images on our…

42 00:10:02.680 00:10:05.380 Ryan Brosas: content, and… I think I…

43 00:10:06.180 00:10:18.960 Ryan Brosas: I’m pretty, like, stick on the… on the pillars instead of, like, you know, sharing, like, interesting, or, like, genuine experience. I didn’t really think, like, I…

44 00:10:19.090 00:10:24.240 Ryan Brosas: I didn’t, like, I forgot that also, like, those elements on doing content.

45 00:10:24.370 00:10:29.129 Ryan Brosas: It is good, so I’m still, like, learning and, like.

46 00:10:29.240 00:10:45.050 Ryan Brosas: like, refreshing, or, like, a refresher, like, something like that. Yeah, I think, we are not bad, not good also, but we are in the middle. We are still, like, improving our, our content, our process on sales also.

47 00:10:45.910 00:10:46.640 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

48 00:10:47.110 00:10:50.220 Uttam Kumaran: How do you think, like, Ray is doing and everybody on the team?

49 00:10:51.180 00:10:55.289 Ryan Brosas: Ray is… I think Ray’s…

50 00:10:55.580 00:11:12.700 Ryan Brosas: good at this moment, but, … yeah, I think the… I think Jay will be enabling him more on the… on the content stuff, and I think he expressed, like, there’s, like, a… there’s, like, a video expert of, like, content.

51 00:11:12.960 00:11:20.190 Ryan Brosas: I think… he is good, and, like, I think, he is expressing, like, you know,

52 00:11:20.310 00:11:25.490 Ryan Brosas: expanding more on other stuff, like, he is currently, like,

53 00:11:25.760 00:11:34.789 Ryan Brosas: helping, Hannah on the boilerplate, but, yeah, I think he expressed, like, interest of, like, expanding, his role.

54 00:11:35.990 00:11:38.190 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, I agree, okay.

55 00:11:41.850 00:11:53.420 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, I feel pretty good. I think content is… I don’t… I don’t know, like, for me, the biggest thing is, like, I think we wanted to bring in Jake because he’s really opinionated, and I think can be more of a guiding figure.

56 00:11:53.570 00:11:54.979 Uttam Kumaran: For the whole team?

57 00:11:55.170 00:12:09.899 Uttam Kumaran: And so I’m kind of hopeful. I think he’s already kind of doing some really cool stuff. So just keep giving him feedback, because you know… you know what we do really, really, really well, and so I’m kind of excited for you guys to work together, you know, on things.

58 00:12:11.670 00:12:22.749 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, yeah, I… yeah, I think, that will be… I will be touching with… collaborating with him more, because, con… with the video stuff.

59 00:12:23.050 00:12:26.640 Ryan Brosas: Also, like, we can expand on, like.

60 00:12:26.810 00:12:38.070 Ryan Brosas: You know, the case study, or, well, adding some stuff, or, like, case study videos, or, like, the video that he is currently working on to our, like.

61 00:12:38.290 00:12:56.769 Ryan Brosas: on our homepage, because currently we only have, like, logos and, human, like, a video testimonial would be right there. I think I will be, touching, like, collaborating or asking him what would be, the good approach for that, because, you know.

62 00:12:56.770 00:12:57.090 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

63 00:12:57.090 00:13:13.299 Ryan Brosas: to improve overall of our assets, so we can convert most of our traffic, on, on website, on, well, everywhere, or LinkedIn and socials that we have. Well, it’s also, like, I will ask him for more, like.

64 00:13:13.400 00:13:17.979 Ryan Brosas: video, ideas, because, you know, he has, like, some…

65 00:13:18.110 00:13:30.099 Ryan Brosas: good, experience regarding to that, and yeah, as Ray mentioned that, that he’s also, like, excited to… to call up with Ray… with… with Jake, sorry.

66 00:13:31.150 00:13:32.580 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, safe.

67 00:13:36.090 00:13:54.219 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, great. I mean, yeah, I agree. I’m hopeful that, like, I think I want to see, you know, you start to also, like, work with the AI team more. Like, I guess, like, what do you think has been stopping us there? Like, I kind of… I told the AI team that you’re… you’re, like, kind of the most AI-enabled

68 00:13:54.240 00:14:00.540 Uttam Kumaran: person on the marketing team, but I still think that, like, you’re doing a lot of stuff on your own, so I wanted to see if… how, like, you can

69 00:14:01.010 00:14:02.780 Uttam Kumaran: Work with them closer.

70 00:14:04.210 00:14:23.780 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, right now, … well, I can, like, provide some concept, like, in a weekly basis… a big basis, like, how we… how I use, like, cloud code or, like, IDE on, on my… on my personal project, or, like, what I’m currently testing.

71 00:14:23.920 00:14:36.799 Ryan Brosas: And I think that’s really good also to… well, for me, it’s good because I’m… I’m practicing my… my explanation and, like, educating also them on… on how I use, like.

72 00:14:37.210 00:14:46.690 Ryan Brosas: IDE or… or other stuff that I can combine with, for example, the BMED and plus Arcan, it’s pretty…

73 00:14:47.050 00:14:52.259 Ryan Brosas: Really, your recent, like, what do you call these templates, or, like.

74 00:14:52.570 00:15:04.599 Ryan Brosas: what do you call, method of, like, building agents. I think that is really interesting to, like, delve or, like, apply in our AI team, because.

75 00:15:04.600 00:15:05.010 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

76 00:15:05.010 00:15:17.079 Ryan Brosas: It’s pretty easy, because it’s… we can… there’s, like, like, you need to just, provide, like, a database on… on Arcon, like, it will automatically split

77 00:15:17.260 00:15:22.100 Ryan Brosas: Scrape something, or, like, the dock of the specific

78 00:15:22.410 00:15:27.650 Ryan Brosas: Framework that we want to use on… on building a certain agent.

79 00:15:27.860 00:15:39.920 Ryan Brosas: I think that’s really, really great for me, because, for me, from my perspective, because it’s pretty easy, and it doesn’t, I can’t really say that it doesn’t,

80 00:15:40.160 00:15:44.639 Ryan Brosas: Hallucinate, but it is lessened, because it has more context.

81 00:15:44.900 00:15:45.580 Ryan Brosas: ….

82 00:15:45.580 00:15:45.980 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

83 00:15:45.980 00:16:03.950 Ryan Brosas: that is really great. I can do that, and, like, on my weekend, I can, you know, record or something, and… and also, like, you can also, like, repurpose this, because you can redo all my steps, and we can post that in… in your LinkedIn account.

84 00:16:04.210 00:16:06.290 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. No, we should, we should.

85 00:16:07.180 00:16:15.749 Ryan Brosas: What else? Yeah, I think, for the N8N part, yeah, I, I still like,

86 00:16:16.090 00:16:18.139 Ryan Brosas: Well, I didn’t really, like…

87 00:16:18.140 00:16:36.929 Ryan Brosas: really like NA10, to be honest, but I’m still, like, learning, on… on how I can, use it on my, on my, on my personal, well, usage. For example, I’m current… I’m interested on… on… on utilizing it on my,

88 00:16:36.930 00:16:43.640 Ryan Brosas: email, my, my email’s really, really, not organized, so, there’s, like.

89 00:16:43.670 00:16:51.570 Ryan Brosas: there’s some of the videos, videos that is, you know, on YouTube that’s showing that it can organize something, and I want to add.

90 00:16:51.570 00:16:54.099 Uttam Kumaran: No, dude, I need help, I need help with that as well.

91 00:16:54.760 00:17:08.409 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, yeah. Then adding some agentic features that, from my, my, from my, like, learning from, from the courses that I have. And, yeah, I’m really interested on, on adding those

92 00:17:08.560 00:17:25.499 Ryan Brosas: Like, combining my… from others, and combining the knowledge of, like, from these sources, and, you know, it combining all of them, and it’s… it’s pretty much, like, a new, agent, or something.

93 00:17:25.500 00:17:27.050 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah.

94 00:17:27.589 00:17:28.620 Uttam Kumaran: Makes sense.

95 00:17:33.530 00:17:35.660 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool, what else can I help with?

96 00:17:36.600 00:17:43.129 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, I think, you already, like, mentioned that. So, …

97 00:17:43.200 00:17:58.909 Ryan Brosas: you already said that, from, like, previous, like, previous day that you already, like, proceeded to the, management, and I really appreciate that. I’m really sorry about what I, what I acted last….

98 00:17:58.910 00:18:02.740 Uttam Kumaran: No, no, no, you’re totally fine. It happens, it happens.

99 00:18:02.740 00:18:11.659 Ryan Brosas: It’s just normal, within this month, because it’s my, my father’s death under pursuer, and, like.

100 00:18:11.770 00:18:13.860 Ryan Brosas: Next to it would be my mom’s.

101 00:18:13.980 00:18:23.600 Ryan Brosas: So, it’s… this is really, really, really, hitting me hard, because… well, it’s… I’ve been… I’ve been, like, it’s been…

102 00:18:23.830 00:18:25.630 Ryan Brosas: Like, 4 years?

103 00:18:25.830 00:18:26.380 Ryan Brosas: And….

104 00:18:26.380 00:18:26.780 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

105 00:18:26.780 00:18:29.360 Ryan Brosas: I still can’t really, ….

106 00:18:29.520 00:18:31.799 Uttam Kumaran: Where were you, like, when it happened?

107 00:18:32.770 00:18:33.690 Ryan Brosas: …

108 00:18:35.510 00:18:46.409 Ryan Brosas: First, I was, well, just to give… well, I’m really, like, comfortable, while, sharing this, because it’s kind of like my therapy over and over again.

109 00:18:46.410 00:18:50.730 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, that’s fine, if you don’t want to share, no, I didn’t mean to ask, I’m sorry.

110 00:18:50.730 00:18:55.020 Ryan Brosas: No, no, no, I said, it’s fine because this is kind of my,

111 00:18:55.020 00:18:55.390 Uttam Kumaran: Oh.

112 00:18:55.390 00:19:00.799 Ryan Brosas: therapy, because I can’t really have a word, psychiatry or something, because, …

113 00:19:01.060 00:19:13.690 Ryan Brosas: as I said before, that I’m currently, like, you know, I have a business before, like, like, outsourcing business, so I was doing that, and I was, like, spending 16 hours a day.

114 00:19:13.760 00:19:26.269 Ryan Brosas: And I was really busy, and, you know, when I was done doing my stuff, I’m direct… I’m just asleep, directly, like, when…

115 00:19:26.380 00:19:40.180 Ryan Brosas: my whole cycle is just, PC, eat, and, you know, sleep. It’s not a really good, healthy way, but yeah, that’s what I was doing before. Then, …

116 00:19:40.330 00:19:49.229 Ryan Brosas: when I was pulling another all-nighter, my brother, you know, wake me up. I, well.

117 00:19:49.870 00:19:57.000 Ryan Brosas: I tried to, like, sleep a little bit, and my brother wakes me up, and my dad is…

118 00:19:57.390 00:20:01.679 Ryan Brosas: You know, in… He was in the brink of, like.

119 00:20:02.210 00:20:07.550 Ryan Brosas: losing, or, like, dying or something. He is, like.

120 00:20:07.790 00:20:14.940 Ryan Brosas: I smell that… the smell of a corpse or something? I smell something like that, and…

121 00:20:15.080 00:20:29.290 Ryan Brosas: My, my brother ran over to the barang guy and asked for assistance, and then, well, we both witnessed how he died, so it’s pretty, really hard for us.

122 00:20:29.590 00:20:36.949 Ryan Brosas: brother, and, Ben, he arrived, well, he’s not…

123 00:20:38.310 00:20:52.849 Ryan Brosas: not, alive anymore. So, then my mom got depressed, he… she sell all my dad’s equipment, and also, like, all his tools, then…

124 00:20:53.740 00:20:58.250 Ryan Brosas: Then she sold us… she sold the hou- our house.

125 00:20:59.590 00:21:07.040 Ryan Brosas: And she lost, … well, I think she lost the will of living.

126 00:21:07.040 00:21:07.420 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

127 00:21:07.420 00:21:22.960 Ryan Brosas: because they… they are… they were, like, partner in, you know, in good days and hard days, and I think that even she doesn’t say it, I know, because when I see them talk.

128 00:21:23.360 00:21:34.669 Ryan Brosas: you can see how they love each other. And yeah, this is the hardest part for me, because my mom, like, died slowly.

129 00:21:35.580 00:21:36.040 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

130 00:21:36.040 00:21:53.349 Ryan Brosas: she, she… died… well, she died, like, I tried to, to, to save her, like, go to hospital, we go, we ask for, like, help, but we… we don’t… we didn’t really…

131 00:21:53.720 00:21:57.570 Ryan Brosas: get some of help, because, well, …

132 00:21:57.860 00:22:12.250 Ryan Brosas: the government here is really, really fast, so… and also we tried to ask for help in our reality, but we didn’t really got any, so that’s…

133 00:22:12.420 00:22:20.400 Ryan Brosas: So that’s one, and when we… when we moved her to… to province.

134 00:22:20.920 00:22:30.440 Ryan Brosas: What that they did is just spend the money that I’ve… that I kept, you know, that I’m sending my mom, so…

135 00:22:30.650 00:22:33.930 Ryan Brosas: Instead of… instead of, like, you know, …

136 00:22:34.120 00:22:41.900 Ryan Brosas: Spending the… or budgeting the money for… for making her… Well… Yeah.

137 00:22:43.730 00:22:44.829 Ryan Brosas: It… they didn’t….

138 00:22:44.830 00:22:45.150 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

139 00:22:45.150 00:22:50.370 Ryan Brosas: They just returned my mom as worse at it is, and…

140 00:22:50.470 00:23:02.859 Ryan Brosas: continuously, she died slowly, and that is really, really, broke me. I stopped, like, doing anything for 2 years, and yeah, …

141 00:23:03.160 00:23:11.510 Ryan Brosas: I… yeah, I lost my… my two years, and yeah, that’s… that’s why I… I lost, like, from the business, I didn’t really have, like.

142 00:23:12.790 00:23:21.599 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, that’s… that’s what… what happened there. So, just kind of, like, months. But I still tried to, like.

143 00:23:21.800 00:23:30.850 Ryan Brosas: do it, like, all the tasks, all of the things that I need to do, just burying the thoughts that, you know, keeping…

144 00:23:31.460 00:23:37.399 Ryan Brosas: something, so I try… I’m tr… I was… well, I’m trying, but sometimes…

145 00:23:37.590 00:23:42.139 Ryan Brosas: It’s in there, so… Yeah, no, I hear you.

146 00:23:45.510 00:23:55.869 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it’s … it’s really difficult, man, I don’t know. It’s… I’m really glad that you’re still here with us also, and you’re… you’re so diligent and working, so it means a lot.

147 00:23:58.380 00:24:03.880 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, I really appreciate that, Tom, I really appreciate that, because… …

148 00:24:04.670 00:24:10.060 Ryan Brosas: this is something that I haven’t experienced before, because most of, like.

149 00:24:10.580 00:24:13.289 Ryan Brosas: You know, you’ll get…

150 00:24:13.560 00:24:15.680 Ryan Brosas: You’ll get just, you know, …

151 00:24:15.840 00:24:26.149 Ryan Brosas: You get, like, a late or something, you are penalized or something, and if you just miss something, there’s, like, something that is, like.

152 00:24:26.540 00:24:35.670 Ryan Brosas: a penalty or… or something sort, so… I really appreciate this sentiment and, this… treatment, …

153 00:24:36.330 00:24:37.190 Ryan Brosas: And thank you very much.

154 00:24:37.190 00:24:37.860 Uttam Kumaran: Of course.

155 00:24:38.680 00:24:39.770 Uttam Kumaran: Of course.

156 00:24:40.070 00:24:50.140 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, dude, I’m here for you, so… you’ve been huge for our business, and I want you to be with us, you know, as long as we’re around, and so, yeah, this is the least I can do.

157 00:24:52.740 00:24:56.729 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, great to hear that, and I will, I will….

158 00:24:59.790 00:25:00.470 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

159 00:25:00.580 00:25:10.150 Uttam Kumaran: Great. Well, dude, let me know, take a little bit of time this week, and let me know how I can be helpful. I know we’re… we’re continuing to stay locked in, and so…

160 00:25:10.320 00:25:12.440 Uttam Kumaran: I think, I’m really happy that

161 00:25:12.890 00:25:21.139 Uttam Kumaran: that we’re growing, and we have the Soledad, and we’re gonna have another person starting soon, so… we’re… we’re making our way through, you know.

162 00:25:22.060 00:25:28.560 Ryan Brosas: Yeah, I’m really excited about that, and we are pushing more and more campaigns.

163 00:25:28.810 00:25:38.840 Ryan Brosas: And yeah, I’m really excited that, I will help, you know, to help you guys on the sales side, and yeah, producing, like.

164 00:25:38.870 00:25:57.280 Ryan Brosas: pushing more campaigns, and yeah, I’m really excited to do that, because, I’m still, like, constantly, like, learning and applying stuff, and I’m really happy… well, really happy to be helpful and be useful to the team.

165 00:25:57.810 00:26:04.540 Ryan Brosas: And yeah, I really appreciate you guys, all of you, like, Robert, Hannah, and you. I really appreciate you guys.

166 00:26:05.530 00:26:06.620 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, definitely.

167 00:26:07.600 00:26:08.520 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

168 00:26:08.780 00:26:15.820 Uttam Kumaran: All right, dude, we’ll take some… take some time this weekend and enjoy, and I’ll, definitely talk to you on Monday then.

169 00:26:16.570 00:26:18.319 Ryan Brosas: Yeah. Thank you very much.

170 00:26:19.130 00:26:21.120 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, talk to you soon. Bye.