Meeting Title: Brainforge x Omni Project Planning Date: 2025-09-17 Meeting participants: Jake Nathan, Omni Notetaker, Tamara John
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1 00:02:56.350 ⇒ 00:02:57.460 Tamara John: Hello?
2 00:02:58.520 ⇒ 00:02:59.579 Jake Nathan: Hey, can you hear me?
3 00:02:59.580 ⇒ 00:03:03.210 Tamara John: Hi. Yes, sorry, I can hear you. Can you hear me okay?
4 00:03:03.210 ⇒ 00:03:05.659 Jake Nathan: Yep, can hear you loud and clear. How are you doing?
5 00:03:05.660 ⇒ 00:03:10.269 Tamara John: Awesome. I am doing okay. How are you? Sorry for being a minute late, I…
6 00:03:11.020 ⇒ 00:03:16.639 Tamara John: Zoom was taking forever to load, and I, like, had a sneezing bit a minute ago, and just all the chaos.
7 00:03:16.940 ⇒ 00:03:20.730 Jake Nathan: Hey, I totally, totally understand, yeah, thank you for making time.
8 00:03:20.890 ⇒ 00:03:31.589 Tamara John: Of course. No, thank you so much for reaching out, and sorry, I will say, I feel like, Slack, I’ve been saying this on a lot of calls recently, has gotten worse, and threads and notifications are just…
9 00:03:31.590 ⇒ 00:03:32.060 Jake Nathan: Oh my gosh.
10 00:03:32.250 ⇒ 00:03:39.950 Tamara John: Like, my internal and external stuff is messed up, and I’m in, like, every customer and partner channel, and I just don’t know…
11 00:03:40.310 ⇒ 00:03:41.950 Tamara John: I don’t know where to look.
12 00:03:42.500 ⇒ 00:03:49.909 Jake Nathan: I know what you’re saying, I’ve thought about that, like, it’s… it’s still crazy to me that, yeah, it’s like, it’s 2025, and… yeah, you just…
13 00:03:50.420 ⇒ 00:03:58.000 Jake Nathan: Yeah, you just click the activity and just think, like, okay, I don’t even know where to start right now, I just gotta somehow get through all this.
14 00:03:58.200 ⇒ 00:04:06.019 Tamara John: Yeah, like, video conferencing, Slack, and, like, internet are still core issues, like, as we talk about AI.
15 00:04:06.020 ⇒ 00:04:09.069 Jake Nathan: Yeah, exactly, that’s… that’s the funny part, so…
16 00:04:09.070 ⇒ 00:04:09.560 Tamara John: Oh, yeah.
17 00:04:09.560 ⇒ 00:04:11.560 Jake Nathan: Yeah, I’m right there with you.
18 00:04:11.560 ⇒ 00:04:16.569 Tamara John: Awesome. Well, thank you so much for taking the time. I just kind of wanted to make sure,
19 00:04:16.850 ⇒ 00:04:36.309 Tamara John: I looked… I, like, briefly looked through the example that you sent. It’s beautiful. I just want to make sure, like, I kind of understand the process and what it is that you’re trying to get. I think that Jamie Davidson is probably the right person. He is our president and co-founder, but just kind of taking a look at your questions and what I think you may be trying to get to.
20 00:04:36.700 ⇒ 00:04:44.149 Tamara John: Jamie’s background is an engineer, and he still likes to code and build, like, for fun. Or, not for fun, we use it, but…
21 00:04:44.270 ⇒ 00:04:46.410 Tamara John: He has a lot of other things to do, and then he’ll.
22 00:04:46.410 ⇒ 00:04:46.770 Jake Nathan: Yeah.
23 00:04:46.770 ⇒ 00:04:48.699 Tamara John: be like, oh, I also built this feature this week.
24 00:04:49.370 ⇒ 00:05:07.960 Tamara John: But he’s also, like, very, very tied to AI, following it closely, does a lot of customer calls, so I thought he would probably be the right blend of, like, okay, details and able to get into the weeds, but also be able to connect to the value and kind of market a little bit more.
25 00:05:08.210 ⇒ 00:05:11.719 Jake Nathan: Awesome. Yeah, that… that sounds… sounds great.
26 00:05:11.720 ⇒ 00:05:12.450 Tamara John: Okay.
27 00:05:12.840 ⇒ 00:05:21.679 Tamara John: Awesome, let me see, and I’m just kind of looking through, because will the person… I imagine there’ll… there will be, like, individual quotes in it.
28 00:05:21.680 ⇒ 00:05:22.290 Jake Nathan: Yes.
29 00:05:22.290 ⇒ 00:05:30.810 Tamara John: So, some of it’ll be, like, kind of the… you’ll get, like, the high-level story from Jamie, and then there’ll be, like, we can align on… on final quotes and call-outs and stuff with his name.
30 00:05:30.810 ⇒ 00:05:37.930 Jake Nathan: Yeah, totally. I wanna, make sure, you know, like, yeah, as far as the process goes, like, I’ll do the interview, and then.
31 00:05:37.930 ⇒ 00:05:38.310 Tamara John: And.
32 00:05:38.310 ⇒ 00:05:47.629 Jake Nathan: I know y’all are… like, everyone’s just so busy, so for me, what’s helped is just, like, get out a first draft for y’all, like, for everyone to react to, just so…
33 00:05:48.260 ⇒ 00:05:59.280 Jake Nathan: we can see it, and then, yeah, like, for sure, finalize, like, make sure all the quotes, like, yeah, nothing’s gonna be published without, without y’all’s consent, so…
34 00:05:59.280 ⇒ 00:06:12.910 Tamara John: I do all of our customer interviews and stories, and I’m smiling because, like, everything you just said is what I said, as I’m like, I do this, I give you something to react to, you have full edit rights, you’re not gonna be surprised.
35 00:06:13.530 ⇒ 00:06:15.390 Tamara John: Exactly. Yeah, that’s.
36 00:06:15.390 ⇒ 00:06:21.719 Jake Nathan: Okay, that’s good to hear, yeah. That’s… that’s just what’s worked best, so… Okay. Yeah.
37 00:06:22.380 ⇒ 00:06:30.569 Tamara John: Awesome, that is totally fine. Here, let me pull up, okay, yeah, sorry, just wanted to kind of clarify a couple things. What is,
38 00:06:30.890 ⇒ 00:06:38.030 Tamara John: And what does kind of the timeline look like? The only, like, the flag, but this is just kind of for everything, is…
39 00:06:38.650 ⇒ 00:06:42.889 Tamara John: Our team is doing, like, 20 global events this fall.
40 00:06:42.890 ⇒ 00:06:43.280 Jake Nathan: Wow.
41 00:06:43.280 ⇒ 00:06:47.089 Tamara John: Which is, like, personally killing me a little bit, because I’m building.
42 00:06:47.090 ⇒ 00:06:47.610 Jake Nathan: I can imagine.
43 00:06:47.610 ⇒ 00:07:07.479 Tamara John: But also, we’ve got our founders, we’ve made sure that we’ve got a founder at every single event, so, everyone’s, like, flying every other week, so that’s why I was like, you know what, if we just talk and schedule, like, Jamie’s in Spain right now, I didn’t even realize until looking at his calendar, so I was like, if you and I just talk live, it’s just gonna be faster.
44 00:07:07.480 ⇒ 00:07:08.060 Jake Nathan: Yeah.
45 00:07:08.060 ⇒ 00:07:10.270 Tamara John: To actually book a time,
46 00:07:11.100 ⇒ 00:07:21.430 Tamara John: So it looks like, potentially, the earliest that we could do would be the end of this month, maybe, like, Tuesday the 30th or Wednesday.
47 00:07:21.430 ⇒ 00:07:32.060 Tamara John: October 1st, then it looks like he’s gonna be in Europe again, so we can start with those days, or we can go look at a little bit later.
48 00:07:34.060 ⇒ 00:07:37.359 Jake Nathan: You said Tuesday the 30th? Yeah, I mean… Yeah.
49 00:07:37.520 ⇒ 00:07:41.639 Jake Nathan: What… what time would work best, then?
50 00:07:42.030 ⇒ 00:07:48.410 Tamara John: Let me take a look at his calendar, I was starting to look at other dates already. And how long do you think you need for this?
51 00:07:49.200 ⇒ 00:07:58.650 Jake Nathan: Most of the interviews I do are 45 minutes, so if you… if you could do that, or 30 minutes to an hour, just more… I’d say 30 minutes is kind of a…
52 00:07:59.150 ⇒ 00:08:03.570 Jake Nathan: Bare bones, but if we have 45 minutes, that would be awesome.
53 00:08:03.570 ⇒ 00:08:08.109 Tamara John: Okay, awesome, totally. I do the exact same thing for customer interviews. Wonderful.
54 00:08:08.520 ⇒ 00:08:15.210 Tamara John: Totally fine. How about we do that afternoon? It looks like…
55 00:08:18.540 ⇒ 00:08:27.369 Tamara John: I’m gonna… assume that Jamie may need a little travel from this one thing. Maybe, like, 2.30 to 3.15?
56 00:08:27.920 ⇒ 00:08:28.600 Jake Nathan: Yeah.
57 00:08:28.600 ⇒ 00:08:30.430 Tamara John: Does that work? Are you Pacific?
58 00:08:30.790 ⇒ 00:08:38.660 Jake Nathan: I’m, I’m Central, but, that, that works for me, too. So, you said 2.30 to 3.15 Pacific?
59 00:08:38.669 ⇒ 00:08:40.499 Tamara John: Yes, I think 4.30 for you, is that okay?
60 00:08:40.500 ⇒ 00:08:41.030 Jake Nathan: Yep.
61 00:08:41.030 ⇒ 00:08:43.219 Tamara John: Perfect. Awesome, thank you.
62 00:08:43.559 ⇒ 00:09:00.989 Tamara John: And you can just add, if… I don’t know if you… I’m happy to send the invite, or if you prefer to, it would just be, like, myself, so Tamara at Ami.co, and I can kind of help with anything on our side, and then Jamie is just Jamie, J-A-M-I-E. I can just, like, I can chat you his email. Awesome.
63 00:09:06.280 ⇒ 00:09:07.410 Jake Nathan: Thank you. Cool.
64 00:09:07.410 ⇒ 00:09:09.930 Tamara John: Yeah, and then I’ll just send you mine.
65 00:09:10.540 ⇒ 00:09:11.260 Jake Nathan: Nice.
66 00:09:13.790 ⇒ 00:09:15.290 Jake Nathan: Thank you, thank you.
67 00:09:16.600 ⇒ 00:09:20.059 Jake Nathan: Awesome. Yeah, I can go ahead and schedule that.
68 00:09:20.060 ⇒ 00:09:21.389 Tamara John: Okay, awesome.
69 00:09:21.790 ⇒ 00:09:25.260 Jake Nathan: And yeah, I’ll just put the Zoom link, and then,
70 00:09:25.460 ⇒ 00:09:32.999 Jake Nathan: do you think… is it just easiest, those questions that I sent over Slack, just… I can pop those in the description, or, like, is there…
71 00:09:33.310 ⇒ 00:09:37.640 Jake Nathan: Do you think Jamie, like, is he the type of person who’ll probably do it just off the cuff?
72 00:09:37.640 ⇒ 00:09:51.140 Tamara John: Oh, yeah. I sent him the questions as a preview, and I was like, heads up, I think that you’re probably gonna be the right person for this, I’ll get it scheduled, and he was like, oh yeah, that’s fine. If you put him in the Slack, it’s… I mean, if you put him in the invite, it’s just great, because then he and I can…
73 00:09:51.590 ⇒ 00:09:56.820 Tamara John: Just, like, see them for additional context,
74 00:09:57.010 ⇒ 00:10:02.760 Tamara John: And we’ll be able to find them in the moment, but, jamie…
75 00:10:02.760 ⇒ 00:10:03.340 Jake Nathan: split.
76 00:10:03.840 ⇒ 00:10:07.729 Tamara John: Jamie’s gonna be, like, very comfortable talking to this.
77 00:10:07.730 ⇒ 00:10:08.880 Jake Nathan: I would imagine.
78 00:10:08.880 ⇒ 00:10:09.530 Tamara John: Yeah.
79 00:10:09.530 ⇒ 00:10:16.740 Jake Nathan: That makes sense. Okay, and just to confirm one more time, 4.30 to 5.15 Central, 2.30 to 3.15 Pacific.
80 00:10:17.390 ⇒ 00:10:29.109 Tamara John: Yes, that should work. Jamie had something on his calendar a little bit earlier, but I’m assuming that there’s probably, like, travel in that, so I think that 2.30 Pacific gives us, like, a decent buffer.
81 00:10:29.320 ⇒ 00:10:30.010 Jake Nathan: Okay.
82 00:10:30.670 ⇒ 00:10:43.349 Jake Nathan: Cool. Well yeah, on my end, it’ll be me, and then I’m just gonna CC, Utom, our CEO, so yeah, he might… he might join as well. So yeah, I think…
83 00:10:43.800 ⇒ 00:10:48.180 Jake Nathan: That sounds good, and I know you kind of mentioned on Slack,
84 00:10:48.410 ⇒ 00:10:57.769 Jake Nathan: the note about decision intelligence, so yeah, like, you know, we’ll make sure either it aligns with that definition, or if not, we’ll use, like, a different term, so that way…
85 00:10:57.770 ⇒ 00:10:58.190 Tamara John: Okay.
86 00:10:58.190 ⇒ 00:11:00.350 Jake Nathan: We’re not, like, overlapping on that tournament.
87 00:11:00.350 ⇒ 00:11:06.279 Tamara John: Oh my gosh, no, totally fine. I… have been working on, like… I…
88 00:11:06.360 ⇒ 00:11:24.449 Tamara John: like Jamie and a lot of the company, I also came from Looker, and we all have, like, a long history, and I’ve been working in BI for a long time. And I usually own the Gartner relationship, and a company I did a short stint at was, like, trying to be in the decision intelligence space. And I mean, it’s, like, all terms, people just kind of, like.
89 00:11:24.850 ⇒ 00:11:31.259 Tamara John: they don’t really have meaning, but I’m just, like, a little sensitive to the Gartner meetings, although… also.
90 00:11:32.360 ⇒ 00:11:41.880 Tamara John: also kind of a made-up definition, but I usually do the titles, like, after things anyway, and just kind of see, like, what comes through. That’s usually the last thing I write, so all good.
91 00:11:42.220 ⇒ 00:11:44.699 Jake Nathan: Awesome. Yeah, that sounds good.
92 00:11:44.700 ⇒ 00:11:45.480 Tamara John: Okay, awesome.
93 00:11:45.480 ⇒ 00:11:50.450 Jake Nathan: Well, yeah, I’ll get that… that invite sent out, and yeah, really looking forward to it, and thanks again for…
94 00:11:50.660 ⇒ 00:11:53.290 Jake Nathan: making time, and I’m excited for it.
95 00:11:53.290 ⇒ 00:12:02.860 Tamara John: Of course, and let me just, while I have you on the call, because I know John had given me just a little bit of context, I haven’t worked with your team yet. I think you guys are new Omni partners?
96 00:12:03.490 ⇒ 00:12:10.379 Jake Nathan: Yes, I’m actually… I’m quite new to Brainforge as well, but I know, that…
97 00:12:11.000 ⇒ 00:12:18.740 Jake Nathan: That’s a good question. I’m not sure if we’re at… if… I know that we’ve used Omni in, in projects,
98 00:12:19.090 ⇒ 00:12:22.570 Jake Nathan: But… That’s a good call-out on…
99 00:12:22.730 ⇒ 00:12:24.710 Jake Nathan: Let’s look at the slack here.
100 00:12:25.210 ⇒ 00:12:27.019 Tamara John: Yeah, okay, I was just wondering, I was like, I don’t.
101 00:12:27.020 ⇒ 00:12:27.380 Jake Nathan: Yeah.
102 00:12:27.380 ⇒ 00:12:31.599 Tamara John: I didn’t get a ton of context on it.
103 00:12:36.280 ⇒ 00:12:44.180 Jake Nathan: Yeah, what, from what, I’ve gleaned just from Uzam, he’s a big fan of the product, and just has used it in our…
104 00:12:44.260 ⇒ 00:12:58.480 Jake Nathan: engagement, so I think, yeah, that’s why… because, yeah, my background’s in… on the content side, and so… so I was asking him, like, hey, I want to try to partner with tools that you really like, so…
105 00:12:58.480 ⇒ 00:12:59.070 Tamara John: Awesome.
106 00:12:59.070 ⇒ 00:13:00.389 Jake Nathan: Yeah, that’s how it kind of came about.
107 00:13:00.390 ⇒ 00:13:05.760 Tamara John: Awesome! Okay, so you’re in content. Where are you coming from? Are you new to, like, AI and data?
108 00:13:05.950 ⇒ 00:13:08.670 Tamara John: It’s… It’s a tough transition.
109 00:13:08.930 ⇒ 00:13:25.030 Jake Nathan: I am. I actually, funny enough, my content background’s more on the consumer side, so, like, before this, I had a cooking TikTok that I grew to, like, a million followers, and that was, like, my passion, but then before that, I worked at Deloitte doing, like, consulting, so I kind of have, like, a B2B and consumer background.
110 00:13:25.030 ⇒ 00:13:25.440 Tamara John: Okay.
111 00:13:25.900 ⇒ 00:13:30.689 Jake Nathan: I’m applying it here, so, it’s been fun. It’s definitely been challenging, but it’s been really fun.
112 00:13:30.690 ⇒ 00:13:40.840 Tamara John: Okay, oh my gosh, well, I mean, congrats, that’s a hard, that’s a hard change to make. I’ve just been in, like, data content for 10 years, so…
113 00:13:40.840 ⇒ 00:13:45.130 Jake Nathan: Awesome. Yeah, you said you were at Worker, and then another Maybe before this.
114 00:13:45.130 ⇒ 00:13:56.739 Tamara John: Yeah, so I was at Looker with, like, Jamie, and a lot of our… a lot of our company, a lot of us were at Looker before, was at their… there for a long time, then we were acquired by Google, was there for a bit, did another short stint, at, like.
115 00:13:56.740 ⇒ 00:14:06.189 Tamara John: another data company, but, like, right after I joined, they announced Omni, and I pretty much, like, had my eyes set on Omni as soon as it was announced, and as soon as
116 00:14:06.220 ⇒ 00:14:08.210 Tamara John: they were ready to market. I…
117 00:14:08.390 ⇒ 00:14:10.999 Tamara John: convince them to let me in.
118 00:14:11.000 ⇒ 00:14:12.320 Jake Nathan: That’s awesome, yeah.
119 00:14:12.320 ⇒ 00:14:16.320 Tamara John: I’ve just been following this team for 10 years, which is the TLDR, so…
120 00:14:16.960 ⇒ 00:14:22.470 Jake Nathan: I love it. I mean, that’s a good strategy. If you… if you like the team, then, like, why… yeah, why reinvent the wheel?
121 00:14:22.470 ⇒ 00:14:30.289 Tamara John: Totally. So yeah, I’m very… super happy to help with anything. I think… let me just see if I got the invite…
122 00:14:30.290 ⇒ 00:14:32.659 Jake Nathan: Oh, sure, let me… I can do that.
123 00:14:32.980 ⇒ 00:14:42.299 Tamara John: Oh my gosh, all good. I’ll, I’ll accept, and then I’ll just ping Jamie really quick, so he has context, and just if you need anything, just let me know,
124 00:14:42.490 ⇒ 00:14:44.120 Tamara John: And Slack, and we can go from there.
125 00:14:44.840 ⇒ 00:14:50.269 Jake Nathan: Sounds good. Alright, well, thanks a bunch, thanks again, and yeah, I’ll send that invite, like, right now.
126 00:14:50.270 ⇒ 00:14:51.959 Tamara John: Awesome, sounds good. Thank you.
127 00:14:51.960 ⇒ 00:14:52.890 Jake Nathan: Yeah, nice to meet you.
128 00:14:52.890 ⇒ 00:14:54.169 Tamara John: You too. Bye. Bye.