Meeting Title: Brainforge Monthly Hours Allocation Review Date: 2025-11-03 Meeting participants: Samuel Roberts, Henry Zhao, Amber Lin, Rico Rejoso, Uttam Kumaran, Demilade Agboola
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1 00:02:23.550 ⇒ 00:02:24.710 Uttam Kumaran: Hello.
2 00:02:27.040 ⇒ 00:02:27.890 Amber Lin: Hi there!
3 00:02:29.350 ⇒ 00:02:30.000 Samuel Roberts: Hmm.
4 00:02:30.670 ⇒ 00:02:31.640 Uttam Kumaran: Hello.
5 00:03:09.950 ⇒ 00:03:15.060 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, so we’re… I know Awash is out today,
6 00:03:17.580 ⇒ 00:03:23.789 Uttam Kumaran: Can we… I think we’re waiting on just Demolade, and then it’ll just be us. Robert won’t be joining today.
7 00:04:06.500 ⇒ 00:04:14.140 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let’s get started, maybe we can…
8 00:04:14.700 ⇒ 00:04:22.419 Uttam Kumaran: just begin, Amber, by going through hours for last month, and then just… I just want to kind of look at
9 00:04:22.760 ⇒ 00:04:25.380 Uttam Kumaran: Hours versus, like, what we allocated.
10 00:04:26.690 ⇒ 00:04:27.880 Amber Lin: Okay.
11 00:04:28.140 ⇒ 00:04:29.620 Amber Lin: Yeah, let me…
12 00:04:40.670 ⇒ 00:04:45.910 Amber Lin: So Let’s locate it… Right here.
13 00:04:47.360 ⇒ 00:04:52.370 Amber Lin: So this is our… all our client projects, and we’re looking at October.
14 00:04:53.080 ⇒ 00:04:59.959 Amber Lin: And this is our total hours versus our goal hours.
15 00:05:00.170 ⇒ 00:05:03.029 Amber Lin: The allocated hours is down here.
16 00:05:04.840 ⇒ 00:05:13.090 Amber Lin: So… Can we start by looking at the margins and the actual billable rate that we ended up with?
17 00:05:18.150 ⇒ 00:05:19.909 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so…
18 00:05:24.640 ⇒ 00:05:28.290 Uttam Kumaran: Can we sort this by, like, the number of hours worked?
19 00:05:28.960 ⇒ 00:05:30.060 Uttam Kumaran: for October.
20 00:05:58.390 ⇒ 00:05:58.930 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
21 00:06:05.700 ⇒ 00:06:08.609 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, great, yeah, so for hype and…
22 00:06:10.170 ⇒ 00:06:21.060 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so it looks like we did a pretty good job on… Remo… on… Default, there’s no… cost.
23 00:06:22.790 ⇒ 00:06:31.939 Uttam Kumaran: So… I guess… try to understand where the mar… oh, the… like, where’s the margin calculation coming from?
24 00:06:31.940 ⇒ 00:06:34.530 Amber Lin: Because we still log hours, and then…
25 00:06:34.790 ⇒ 00:06:38.559 Amber Lin: Like, we occur in a cause by logging with those hours.
26 00:06:38.560 ⇒ 00:06:39.650 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay.
27 00:06:39.650 ⇒ 00:06:41.240 Amber Lin: is hourly.
28 00:06:41.530 ⇒ 00:06:42.460 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
29 00:06:43.340 ⇒ 00:06:44.699 Uttam Kumaran: I see. Okay.
30 00:06:44.950 ⇒ 00:06:49.449 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, so… I think we did a… we did a better job on Eden.
31 00:06:49.570 ⇒ 00:06:54.529 Uttam Kumaran: And, like, overall, I feel like these… the margin calculations are good. I think kind of couple thing that…
32 00:06:54.900 ⇒ 00:07:01.390 Uttam Kumaran: Looks like for Ellie…
33 00:07:01.670 ⇒ 00:07:11.130 Uttam Kumaran: we… I know for Ellie, we didn’t have hours, because it’s mainly just, like, Robert, so that’s fine, but we can get a little bit better on tracking this month.
34 00:07:11.430 ⇒ 00:07:14.960 Uttam Kumaran: for Remo and README… Okay.
35 00:07:16.130 ⇒ 00:07:23.640 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I feel pretty good. Does anyone have any, like, comments? I think the biggest things that I look at when I see this is, like, for Eden Urban Stems.
36 00:07:23.780 ⇒ 00:07:29.610 Uttam Kumaran: Insomnia and ABC, like, those are the four that I’m actually, like, more concerned with.
37 00:07:29.820 ⇒ 00:07:35.220 Uttam Kumaran: In terms of making sure that we’re… Like, hitting our margin targets.
38 00:07:37.560 ⇒ 00:07:45.020 Uttam Kumaran: And so it looks like, I know last month there was… it was pretty heavy on Eden, but honestly not as heavy on the data modeling side.
39 00:07:45.140 ⇒ 00:07:49.450 Uttam Kumaran: So, I feel kind of pretty good, like, we seemingly did a…
40 00:07:50.680 ⇒ 00:07:55.550 Henry Zhao: Yeah, I think we did a good job of, like, prioritizing and pushing stuff out that didn’t need to be urgent.
41 00:07:56.130 ⇒ 00:07:56.880 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
42 00:07:58.790 ⇒ 00:08:06.059 Uttam Kumaran: I know we ended up doing a lot of work for Urban Stems, but this is where I’m gonna be meeting with them a little bit this month, and seeing, like, what we could do for an extension.
43 00:08:06.220 ⇒ 00:08:07.419 Uttam Kumaran: on the contract.
44 00:08:07.900 ⇒ 00:08:12.880 Uttam Kumaran: For ABC,
45 00:08:15.050 ⇒ 00:08:24.560 Uttam Kumaran: I, yeah, for ABC, I feel like still we’re probably spending too many hours overall, but our margin is good.
46 00:08:24.920 ⇒ 00:08:29.650 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s something that I want to tackle via, like, better triage, you know.
47 00:08:30.010 ⇒ 00:08:30.870 Uttam Kumaran: Not so.
48 00:08:30.870 ⇒ 00:08:33.289 Amber Lin: Yeah, that will be titled this week.
49 00:08:33.820 ⇒ 00:08:34.490 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
50 00:08:35.320 ⇒ 00:08:43.770 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, it seems like for Remo, we’re spending roughly, like, just a couple hours a week.
51 00:08:45.070 ⇒ 00:08:52.050 Amber Lin: Can I confirm if Surf is logging all of his hours? I know we talked to him about that.
52 00:08:53.170 ⇒ 00:08:56.479 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I guess, I mean, I would… I don’t… I’m not sure.
53 00:08:56.480 ⇒ 00:08:57.179 Amber Lin: I haven’t checked that.
54 00:09:18.060 ⇒ 00:09:18.770 Amber Lin: Hmm.
55 00:09:43.670 ⇒ 00:09:44.620 Amber Lin: Okay.
56 00:09:44.770 ⇒ 00:09:48.859 Amber Lin: Rico, can you help me check while we’re at this?
57 00:09:50.560 ⇒ 00:09:52.619 Amber Lin: Don’t wanna take up more time here.
58 00:09:52.620 ⇒ 00:09:53.190 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
59 00:09:53.520 ⇒ 00:09:54.140 Rico Rejoso: Yes.
60 00:09:55.220 ⇒ 00:10:03.090 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, and then can we review, like, are we able to see, like, versus allocation by chance, or not yet?
61 00:10:03.090 ⇒ 00:10:04.280 Amber Lin: Yeah, let me…
62 00:10:04.280 ⇒ 00:10:04.850 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
63 00:10:04.850 ⇒ 00:10:07.900 Amber Lin: Go here Alright.
64 00:10:08.110 ⇒ 00:10:09.500 Amber Lin: Do it…
65 00:10:12.940 ⇒ 00:10:14.330 Amber Lin: Bye.
66 00:10:14.960 ⇒ 00:10:21.209 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I guess I’m not so concerned about the week level, like, yeah, just, like, for overall month.
67 00:10:29.230 ⇒ 00:10:36.570 Amber Lin: So… So we’re monthly, on default, we’re 20…
68 00:10:37.140 ⇒ 00:10:38.580 Amber Lin: Let me see if I can…
69 00:10:53.300 ⇒ 00:10:59.470 Amber Lin: I’ll edit it later, but we can roughly look at the… for each project.
70 00:10:59.470 ⇒ 00:11:01.100 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. For default, we’re…
71 00:11:01.510 ⇒ 00:11:02.680 Amber Lin: Pretty good.
72 00:11:03.070 ⇒ 00:11:05.030 Amber Lin: Slightly under…
73 00:11:05.030 ⇒ 00:11:05.630 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
74 00:11:05.630 ⇒ 00:11:09.909 Amber Lin: our allocate… sorry, slightly over. This is our…
75 00:11:10.620 ⇒ 00:11:11.310 Uttam Kumaran: I see.
76 00:11:11.590 ⇒ 00:11:13.079 Amber Lin: It’s our actual duration.
77 00:11:13.270 ⇒ 00:11:23.370 Amber Lin: I think because I also got added on, I took a little bit more time. Okay. On Eden… Right.
78 00:11:23.510 ⇒ 00:11:25.919 Amber Lin: And Ian, I don’t know why this shows a bit.
79 00:11:25.920 ⇒ 00:11:27.329 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, Eden seems low.
80 00:11:27.700 ⇒ 00:11:35.909 Amber Lin: Yeah. Well, the other one showed… 200-something on the…
81 00:11:36.260 ⇒ 00:11:36.590 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
82 00:11:36.590 ⇒ 00:11:39.499 Amber Lin: Sorry, this is… this is a bit messy.
83 00:11:39.840 ⇒ 00:11:44.160 Amber Lin: And then, insomnia cookies are about the same, it seems.
84 00:11:44.720 ⇒ 00:11:49.749 Amber Lin: Okay. And interlude, we didn’t have much hours.
85 00:11:49.900 ⇒ 00:11:55.380 Amber Lin: On README, we’re a lot lower, and then our stems were slightly over.
86 00:11:56.580 ⇒ 00:12:00.599 Uttam Kumaran: So can we look at, like, for.
87 00:12:00.770 ⇒ 00:12:01.960 Amber Lin: Eden…
88 00:12:03.310 ⇒ 00:12:08.379 Uttam Kumaran: I could… I guess I can talk this week, but does this also include internal teams?
89 00:12:08.920 ⇒ 00:12:12.120 Amber Lin: It can, but right now, I’m not showing it.
90 00:12:12.450 ⇒ 00:12:23.650 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay And then, any chance we can look at, like, how… Like, July… September, October.
91 00:12:24.720 ⇒ 00:12:27.390 Uttam Kumaran: Just for, like, the top projects.
92 00:12:27.980 ⇒ 00:12:28.510 Amber Lin: Yeah.
93 00:12:36.410 ⇒ 00:12:38.480 Amber Lin: Okay, cool. So…
94 00:12:38.480 ⇒ 00:12:40.630 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, for ABC.
95 00:12:41.150 ⇒ 00:12:44.100 Amber Lin: We’ve improved from September quite a bit.
96 00:12:44.650 ⇒ 00:12:45.899 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, so…
97 00:12:45.970 ⇒ 00:12:47.819 Amber Lin: But we also fluctuate.
98 00:12:48.190 ⇒ 00:12:52.290 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I guess let me, if I’m just looking at this…
99 00:12:52.650 ⇒ 00:12:57.850 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let’s just look at ABC… First… So it looks like we…
100 00:12:58.840 ⇒ 00:13:02.340 Uttam Kumaran: Are doing better on doing less hours, for sure.
101 00:13:02.840 ⇒ 00:13:08.160 Uttam Kumaran: So I think for this month, again, like, we still… we want to continue to see, like, this…
102 00:13:09.040 ⇒ 00:13:10.170 Uttam Kumaran: Decrease.
103 00:13:10.450 ⇒ 00:13:11.580 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna be…
104 00:13:11.750 ⇒ 00:13:18.149 Uttam Kumaran: renegotiating sort of our agreement with them, so… we’ll see, but I’m gonna kind of explain to them that
105 00:13:18.310 ⇒ 00:13:22.669 Uttam Kumaran: It’s taken us roughly 100 to 150 hours to kind of.
106 00:13:23.530 ⇒ 00:13:26.830 Uttam Kumaran: Maintain the system with all the triage, so that’s fine.
107 00:13:27.230 ⇒ 00:13:31.220 Uttam Kumaran: I would say for default,
108 00:13:32.140 ⇒ 00:13:37.030 Uttam Kumaran: I would like us to be closer to, like, the 75, like, hour mark.
109 00:13:37.250 ⇒ 00:13:43.059 Uttam Kumaran: I think with your analysis, like, last month, I didn’t get… wasn’t able to… I wasn’t personally able to do a lot of work.
110 00:13:43.190 ⇒ 00:13:45.409 Amber Lin: And so, I’m hoping that this month.
111 00:13:45.410 ⇒ 00:13:52.209 Uttam Kumaran: It’s… it’s a lot of time from you, Amber, and Mustafa here on the analysis side.
112 00:13:52.780 ⇒ 00:13:58.930 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s talk about, Eden. So, we did a good job.
113 00:13:59.490 ⇒ 00:14:03.880 Uttam Kumaran: From… from moving down in hours.
114 00:14:03.980 ⇒ 00:14:05.570 Uttam Kumaran: I’m really happy about.
115 00:14:05.690 ⇒ 00:14:09.530 Uttam Kumaran: I want to make sure that we can stay around
116 00:14:09.790 ⇒ 00:14:17.219 Uttam Kumaran: Well, we’ll have a little bit of a bump, because we just got another 10 grand for Zoron’s Workstream.
117 00:14:17.390 ⇒ 00:14:23.470 Uttam Kumaran: So, one thing that I want to figure out is, like, what… How does that affect… our goal hours.
118 00:14:23.580 ⇒ 00:14:30.140 Uttam Kumaran: And then… I want to make sure that we kind of still hover around, probably, 250.
119 00:14:30.370 ⇒ 00:14:34.090 Uttam Kumaran: But hopefully, like, I think that’ll be…
120 00:14:34.620 ⇒ 00:14:41.370 Uttam Kumaran: I think that’ll be positive. But again, this is a pretty big client, but again, the margin opportunity is also pretty high here, so…
121 00:14:45.290 ⇒ 00:14:56.439 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, great. I know Ellie, like, we just don’t have the tracking that well. Hype… so hype, yeah, I mean, similarly, we’ll see how we can stick around, like, this many hours. It’s roughly 10 to 15 hours a week.
122 00:14:57.260 ⇒ 00:15:02.010 Uttam Kumaran: Insomnia… Okay.
123 00:15:06.700 ⇒ 00:15:13.870 Uttam Kumaran: We did okay. I guess, what is our, like, contract with Insomnia? Like a cat?
124 00:15:13.950 ⇒ 00:15:19.670 Amber Lin: 10… Otherwise, it’s not updated. I think we’re at 10K.
125 00:15:19.910 ⇒ 00:15:21.050 Uttam Kumaran: 10K a month.
126 00:15:21.290 ⇒ 00:15:23.080 Amber Lin: Yeah, this is not updated.
127 00:15:25.480 ⇒ 00:15:29.330 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, then the margin should be probably a lot worse, right?
128 00:15:29.890 ⇒ 00:15:35.080 Amber Lin: Hmm, so… Let’s see…
129 00:15:47.910 ⇒ 00:15:51.229 Amber Lin: And so I think it sounds like we… we spent about 5K.
130 00:15:51.360 ⇒ 00:15:52.250 Amber Lin: Ish?
131 00:15:52.590 ⇒ 00:15:55.200 Amber Lin: Margin’s probably closer to 50.
132 00:16:00.650 ⇒ 00:16:01.400 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
133 00:16:07.100 ⇒ 00:16:12.159 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I’m just looking at, like, what our contract is with them.
134 00:16:13.200 ⇒ 00:16:15.079 Amber Lin: Yeah, our margin’s, like, 59%.
135 00:16:15.080 ⇒ 00:16:16.080 Uttam Kumaran: a contract.
136 00:16:17.590 ⇒ 00:16:25.069 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so our contract with them is… 125 at 20 weekly hours.
137 00:16:26.080 ⇒ 00:16:28.190 Uttam Kumaran: So I don’t know what that.
138 00:16:29.260 ⇒ 00:16:30.390 Amber Lin: ends up being…
139 00:16:39.110 ⇒ 00:16:42.669 Uttam Kumaran: Well, it’s a monthly limit of 10K.
140 00:16:45.260 ⇒ 00:16:52.519 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s why I’m just trying to figure out, like, how this calculation happens, so I think that’s something for us to figure out, because I don’t know what the contract is.
141 00:16:52.860 ⇒ 00:16:58.879 Amber Lin: Oh, I see. I think this is still using the old… Like, as hourly. Okay.
142 00:16:59.190 ⇒ 00:17:02.009 Uttam Kumaran: Well, it is hourly, but we have a cap, and so I think that.
143 00:17:02.010 ⇒ 00:17:02.549 Amber Lin: That’s make friends.
144 00:17:02.550 ⇒ 00:17:04.160 Uttam Kumaran: me to… so…
145 00:17:04.160 ⇒ 00:17:04.980 Amber Lin: That’s something…
146 00:17:04.980 ⇒ 00:17:07.430 Uttam Kumaran: Rico, we should follow up with Robert on…
147 00:17:07.760 ⇒ 00:17:10.189 Uttam Kumaran: How we’re billing for the cap.
148 00:17:14.050 ⇒ 00:17:17.450 Uttam Kumaran: Because we’re starting to… we’re gonna… we’re starting to do more time for them.
149 00:17:19.420 ⇒ 00:17:31.050 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. That’s fine. Yeah, pool parts is fine. README… Okay, Remo…
150 00:17:33.010 ⇒ 00:17:39.070 Uttam Kumaran: And, yeah, Urban Stems is still up and down. I think, probably…
151 00:17:39.390 ⇒ 00:17:41.930 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I know I’ve been logging my time…
152 00:17:43.420 ⇒ 00:17:50.410 Uttam Kumaran: And so, we’re gonna probably see… like, as I get more accurate with my time, we should see some increases across the board in time, but…
153 00:17:50.520 ⇒ 00:17:56.499 Uttam Kumaran: I think what I’m kind of hoping for this month is that it’s really just,
154 00:17:57.050 ⇒ 00:18:01.430 Uttam Kumaran: a lot of focus from Awash and Demolati on getting revenue stuff out.
155 00:18:01.760 ⇒ 00:18:05.749 Uttam Kumaran: And then our time, Amber, is just on, like, coordinating, so…
156 00:18:06.100 ⇒ 00:18:08.119 Uttam Kumaran: I feel okay here, I think…
157 00:18:09.250 ⇒ 00:18:11.650 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I kinda need to see when Awish gets back.
158 00:18:12.920 ⇒ 00:18:15.110 Uttam Kumaran: What his time’s gonna be, but… okay.
159 00:18:15.110 ⇒ 00:18:19.040 Amber Lin: Okay, and the previous one’s probably inflated, because, like, we…
160 00:18:19.040 ⇒ 00:18:21.429 Uttam Kumaran: You were working in September. Yeah.
161 00:18:21.430 ⇒ 00:18:22.619 Amber Lin: Didn’t have that.
162 00:18:22.880 ⇒ 00:18:27.489 Amber Lin: Okay. So probably, like, we’re always around 50, 16.
163 00:18:27.490 ⇒ 00:18:27.890 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
164 00:18:27.950 ⇒ 00:18:29.040 Amber Lin: Here? Okay.
165 00:18:29.040 ⇒ 00:18:29.600 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
166 00:18:30.960 ⇒ 00:18:36.540 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so maybe I could share and talk about, like, allocations for this month. Yeah.
167 00:18:36.540 ⇒ 00:18:44.330 Amber Lin: I think I can keep this on the screen if you want. I have the allocations by project, weekly.
168 00:18:44.890 ⇒ 00:18:47.599 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, oh, and for November.
169 00:18:47.600 ⇒ 00:18:52.360 Amber Lin: Yeah, for… I just updated it, so if you want to use this to talk, that could also work.
170 00:18:52.360 ⇒ 00:18:58.489 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so… Oh, I see, perfect, okay. Well, one thing I’m gonna do…
171 00:18:58.850 ⇒ 00:19:02.109 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe keep sharing yours, and I’ll also share mine, and I can kind of…
172 00:19:02.110 ⇒ 00:19:02.530 Amber Lin: Okay.
173 00:19:02.530 ⇒ 00:19:06.230 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll just jump back and forth, because I want people to kind of be able to see…
174 00:19:06.770 ⇒ 00:19:13.300 Uttam Kumaran: How we’re sort of organizing this stuff and operating, so…
175 00:19:14.010 ⇒ 00:19:23.100 Uttam Kumaran: Kind of for everyone’s context, like, this is how we’re doing… Like, planning for… Each month, and so…
176 00:19:23.330 ⇒ 00:19:32.259 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll just kind of go through, you know, each person that’s on the call here, and kind of just share, like, where… where you’ll be allocated. Additionally, we have…
177 00:19:32.450 ⇒ 00:19:42.189 Uttam Kumaran: One client that’s, that just… another client that just signed today, so there… there isn’t a… there isn’t gonna be a slight adjustment.
178 00:19:43.720 ⇒ 00:19:51.840 Uttam Kumaran: So, on… For you, Henry, you’ll be primarily on Eden. We have another client starting called Honey Stinger.
179 00:19:52.100 ⇒ 00:19:53.980 Uttam Kumaran: And we…
180 00:19:54.590 ⇒ 00:20:00.659 Uttam Kumaran: Robert’s figuring out, sort of, what the next contract for README is, so we should have some more time there.
181 00:20:00.790 ⇒ 00:20:09.179 Uttam Kumaran: One thing that I have to figure out on your allocation with Eden is… is just, like, how your time is gonna be impacted by, like, Zoran’s work.
182 00:20:09.440 ⇒ 00:20:20.649 Uttam Kumaran: right now, again, we have, like, 40K budget to play with, and so what I’m trying to figure out is what are all the priorities? I think there’s gonna be also some opportunistic
183 00:20:20.970 ⇒ 00:20:23.719 Uttam Kumaran: analysis work on Eden as well.
184 00:20:23.940 ⇒ 00:20:28.940 Uttam Kumaran: But, yeah, I guess from your perspective, I would say…
185 00:20:29.220 ⇒ 00:20:34.629 Uttam Kumaran: like, I think you’re probably roughly spending, on average, 20 to 30 hours a week, right, on Eden.
186 00:20:34.630 ⇒ 00:20:35.159 Henry Zhao: Yeah, exactly.
187 00:20:35.160 ⇒ 00:20:43.690 Uttam Kumaran: So I feel like we can prob… I would like to get you on one more client, to fill that time, and then I think that’ll probably be…
188 00:20:44.600 ⇒ 00:20:51.400 Uttam Kumaran: what’s, you know, possible to handle. And so I think Honey Stinger will be that client. I’m just not sure. We just…
189 00:20:51.570 ⇒ 00:20:56.150 Uttam Kumaran: It just got closed today, so we’ll kind of figure out the roadmap there.
190 00:20:56.490 ⇒ 00:20:57.590 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
191 00:20:58.350 ⇒ 00:21:05.980 Uttam Kumaran: For Sam, so Sam, you’re still just on AI team and ABC. We’re about to…
192 00:21:06.150 ⇒ 00:21:11.340 Uttam Kumaran: It’s, like, kind of getting finalized. We’re about to sign a deal with, DTA.
193 00:21:11.600 ⇒ 00:21:14.190 Uttam Kumaran: For… they run CES.
194 00:21:14.760 ⇒ 00:21:21.950 Uttam Kumaran: And so, it primarily, it will start as, like, a lot of, like, solution architecture.
195 00:21:22.120 ⇒ 00:21:27.769 Uttam Kumaran: So, I… it’ll be me and you on, like, kind of thinking through their entire data architecture.
196 00:21:27.970 ⇒ 00:21:31.350 Uttam Kumaran: And that one is a completely…
197 00:21:31.540 ⇒ 00:21:35.920 Uttam Kumaran: We have a budget for this month and next month.
198 00:21:36.180 ⇒ 00:21:42.619 Uttam Kumaran: But I feel like, that should end up being at least a quarter, if not a third, of your time.
199 00:21:42.860 ⇒ 00:21:46.129 Uttam Kumaran: I think you still, at that point, will have,
200 00:21:46.980 ⇒ 00:21:50.080 Uttam Kumaran: More free time, like, to get you to 40.
201 00:21:50.180 ⇒ 00:21:53.430 Uttam Kumaran: But that’s probably where I’ll start.
202 00:21:53.560 ⇒ 00:22:00.060 Uttam Kumaran: There’s still gonna be work, I think, here and there on, like, solution architecture and other things, but…
203 00:22:00.190 ⇒ 00:22:04.499 Uttam Kumaran: The CES one is the… is the one that I really want to close, so I can…
204 00:22:04.990 ⇒ 00:22:06.270 Uttam Kumaran: Start to move you up.
205 00:22:07.130 ⇒ 00:22:07.909 Samuel Roberts: Sounds cool.
206 00:22:08.940 ⇒ 00:22:09.560 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
207 00:22:11.080 ⇒ 00:22:21.200 Uttam Kumaran: for Awash, in case he watches this, he’s kind of split between, Hype, on his time on Eden.
208 00:22:21.340 ⇒ 00:22:25.289 Uttam Kumaran: This time on Urban Stems, and this time on Remo, so he’s basically kind of…
209 00:22:26.440 ⇒ 00:22:28.279 Uttam Kumaran: at peak, I would say.
210 00:22:29.770 ⇒ 00:22:35.900 Uttam Kumaran: Zoran is mainly on Eden, so this is where I’m gonna kind of figure out, like, what his time availability is.
211 00:22:36.030 ⇒ 00:22:40.050 Uttam Kumaran: Not time availability, but, like, what are the… what are the key priorities here?
212 00:22:40.240 ⇒ 00:22:44.780 Uttam Kumaran: He’s roughly spending anywhere from 15 to 20 hours a week just on eat-in.
213 00:22:45.450 ⇒ 00:22:47.180 Uttam Kumaran: And then my job is to…
214 00:22:47.290 ⇒ 00:22:50.610 Uttam Kumaran: Kinda see where else he can… the port, so…
215 00:22:51.130 ⇒ 00:22:57.859 Uttam Kumaran: in terms of, like, I guess I’ll cover, like, what… we are expecting some deals to close here in the next 2 weeks, so…
216 00:22:58.280 ⇒ 00:23:06.529 Uttam Kumaran: some people, hopefully, I’m gonna be trying to push up as close to that 80-90. Basically, we like to get folks to 80% or 90%,
217 00:23:07.630 ⇒ 00:23:11.599 Uttam Kumaran: Like, expectation, because then it allows some gap.
218 00:23:11.900 ⇒ 00:23:14.290 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s, like, our typical goal.
219 00:23:15.560 ⇒ 00:23:27.190 Uttam Kumaran: And then, again, some people at the company are, like, fixed versus on hourly still. So our goal for the folks on hourly is we aim to kind of get to that 80-90% consistently.
220 00:23:27.360 ⇒ 00:23:38.530 Uttam Kumaran: For at least, like, a month or two, and then for the folks that are still hourly, I’m looking to get you guys up into that point for at least a month or two, and then we can ideally, at that point, work towards a more fixed-price contract.
221 00:23:38.690 ⇒ 00:23:45.370 Uttam Kumaran: Fixed-price contract for… for everybody, you know, I would say is a little bit win-win. One is…
222 00:23:45.880 ⇒ 00:23:55.670 Uttam Kumaran: once your fixed price at Brainforge, we… it is, it is a disincentive for us to not have you on a project, right? Because we would eat that cost.
223 00:23:55.880 ⇒ 00:24:02.210 Uttam Kumaran: I would say, to play devil’s advocate, you could say, well, I’m still hourly, and that… and…
224 00:24:02.400 ⇒ 00:24:20.089 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I still have the flexibility to be hourly, I’m not, like, fully committed, so there’s also that aspect. I think what you’ve seen for everybody at the companies, everybody started hourly. As we’ve gone people towards that 35 to 40 hour amount of work, we then sign something that’s fixed. I think
225 00:24:20.360 ⇒ 00:24:35.610 Uttam Kumaran: from what I know from everybody here, is everybody’s, like, kind of pushing towards that, so that’s still my goal. So, to kind of give you my mental math, is I think every day about getting more hours for, Sam, for Zoran, and for Henry.
226 00:24:35.750 ⇒ 00:24:40.109 Uttam Kumaran: And so that’s where I want to kind of push you guys towards that.
227 00:24:40.310 ⇒ 00:24:43.030 Uttam Kumaran: 80 to 100%.
228 00:24:43.130 ⇒ 00:24:45.540 Uttam Kumaran: You know, occupied range.
229 00:24:45.780 ⇒ 00:24:51.489 Uttam Kumaran: On my side, like, I’m sort of split between everything in terms of, doing project management.
230 00:24:51.930 ⇒ 00:24:53.940 Uttam Kumaran: And then I’m gonna be…
231 00:24:54.090 ⇒ 00:25:03.679 Uttam Kumaran: still, I’m gonna be kind of working closely with you, Sam, on CTA. Ideally, my time on CTA sort of goes to you, is my hope.
232 00:25:03.830 ⇒ 00:25:10.130 Uttam Kumaran: Meeting, so we’re gonna… as soon as that closes, we’ll take the first two weeks to sort of, like, figure out a roadmap.
233 00:25:10.230 ⇒ 00:25:24.410 Uttam Kumaran: and then ideally, more of my time is spent on project management, and then, like, in client meeting, and I can have as much of that time go to you. Because again, it’s fixed… it’s fixed, we’re billing hourly towards a budget, so it doesn’t matter…
234 00:25:24.990 ⇒ 00:25:29.049 Uttam Kumaran: for, Brain Forge, which one of us do it? And…
235 00:25:29.340 ⇒ 00:25:41.769 Uttam Kumaran: I want you to have that time, right? So, that’s what I… that’s what I would… that’s what I’m… our goal is. And similarly for… for Honey Stinger and for README, I think we’re figuring out between Robert and I,
236 00:25:42.270 ⇒ 00:25:46.590 Uttam Kumaran: Well, how much time we can spend versus how can we loop in either
237 00:25:46.720 ⇒ 00:25:49.949 Uttam Kumaran: Henry or Zoran to come… kind of go some support there.
238 00:25:51.330 ⇒ 00:26:00.100 Uttam Kumaran: But again, for the most part, I think this is a pretty fair system. I’m open to, you know, critique or thoughts, but it is a… it is…
239 00:26:00.530 ⇒ 00:26:10.860 Uttam Kumaran: it is people’s time, and so it’s not entirely, like, a simple math problem. But ultimately, I want everybody to go towards a fixed, sort of, environment where they know how much is coming in.
240 00:26:11.300 ⇒ 00:26:13.210 Uttam Kumaran: Our job is to then allocate
241 00:26:13.450 ⇒ 00:26:15.900 Uttam Kumaran: You know, to that 80% range, and so…
242 00:26:16.160 ⇒ 00:26:26.950 Uttam Kumaran: I think another 2 or 3 clients were basically there. Like, for example, Awash, I know Demolade, I know Amber, me, a couple people are sort of fully booked, and have been for a while, so…
243 00:26:27.970 ⇒ 00:26:37.990 Uttam Kumaran: And then, for Demolade, so you’re kind of gonna be split between, Insomnia and Urban Stems and Eden. I think,
244 00:26:38.560 ⇒ 00:26:46.950 Uttam Kumaran: Again, there’s gonna be potential for you to also help on Honey Stinger. Again, we don’t know yet how much modeling is gonna be involved.
245 00:26:47.260 ⇒ 00:26:51.500 Uttam Kumaran: So if there is significant modeling work,
246 00:26:51.800 ⇒ 00:26:53.600 Uttam Kumaran: you know, I’ll kind of loop you in there.
247 00:26:53.930 ⇒ 00:26:55.419 Uttam Kumaran: You know, between…
248 00:26:55.680 ⇒ 00:27:04.029 Uttam Kumaran: you and Awash, you guys are the core, you know, analytics engineers, so where there is core AE work, I’m looping you guys in.
249 00:27:04.160 ⇒ 00:27:09.170 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s just the FYI about this month, but otherwise…
250 00:27:09.370 ⇒ 00:27:16.270 Uttam Kumaran: I would say your time is going to be split between Eden, Insomnia, and Urban Stems. Just be a surprise.
251 00:27:21.310 ⇒ 00:27:29.250 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and then, Amber, I know you’re, on ABC, you’re also gonna help on Default, we’re gonna see this…
252 00:27:29.250 ⇒ 00:27:34.819 Amber Lin: This Eden work, I would like to be more focused on analysis, so we’re gonna see, sort of, what the opportunity is there.
253 00:27:35.070 ⇒ 00:27:37.289 Uttam Kumaran: Kind of similar to your work on insomnia.
254 00:27:37.690 ⇒ 00:27:44.200 Uttam Kumaran: And then I think my biggest point is to see, like, how much time, actually, you need to spend on urban stems.
255 00:27:44.540 ⇒ 00:27:48.599 Amber Lin: I spend very little time right now. I book meetings, and if we can…
256 00:27:48.940 ⇒ 00:27:57.740 Amber Lin: put our stand-ups in our batches, it’ll take me less time. Like, right now, like, 5 hours, but we could do, like, 2 or 3 to be more efficient.
257 00:27:58.420 ⇒ 00:27:58.960 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
258 00:28:02.730 ⇒ 00:28:03.480 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
259 00:28:05.200 ⇒ 00:28:12.020 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. Any questions on… allocations.
260 00:28:22.060 ⇒ 00:28:31.819 Uttam Kumaran: I think probably the only other piece that I’ll mention is I’m gonna continue to pair you guys, the folks on this call, with folks from marketing, like, Hannah.
261 00:28:31.930 ⇒ 00:28:39.900 Uttam Kumaran: and others to kind of get case studies. And so that’s something that we really, really want to continue to hammer out. So you guys know her process.
262 00:28:40.140 ⇒ 00:28:46.029 Uttam Kumaran: I think Sam eventually will… The process of extracting case studies will make it into the platform, too.
263 00:28:46.320 ⇒ 00:28:54.289 Uttam Kumaran: You know, but I think however you guys can support on extracting the wins we’re doing for clients into their hands is…
264 00:28:54.500 ⇒ 00:28:56.030 Uttam Kumaran: Would be really, really great.
265 00:28:56.580 ⇒ 00:29:06.359 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I guess, like, maybe we can jump back to just, like, our typical… so I just wanted to maybe grab… I know some people we have out of offices.
266 00:29:07.520 ⇒ 00:29:14.410 Uttam Kumaran: noted down here, but maybe I could just grab any… any sort of, like, any vacation or out of office that I can note down for the next…
267 00:29:15.270 ⇒ 00:29:16.469 Uttam Kumaran: Two weeks.
268 00:29:16.820 ⇒ 00:29:22.109 Uttam Kumaran: Or so… I know, Demolata, you’re off.
269 00:29:22.500 ⇒ 00:29:25.590 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, from the 18th till the 24th.
270 00:29:26.330 ⇒ 00:29:33.250 Uttam Kumaran: So, I think the biggest thing is just we’ll try to hammer out as much stuff for Urban Stems in the next 2 weeks.
271 00:29:33.470 ⇒ 00:29:37.190 Uttam Kumaran: And then next week, we can talk a little bit closer about,
272 00:29:37.750 ⇒ 00:29:41.779 Uttam Kumaran: Any other work for Insomnia that we need to potentially hand off?
273 00:29:42.930 ⇒ 00:29:44.170 Demilade Agboola: Okay, sounds good.
274 00:29:44.260 ⇒ 00:29:50.700 Uttam Kumaran: For our MSMs are really close, like, really, really close to, like, having everything online, so… Okay.
275 00:29:51.210 ⇒ 00:29:52.590 Demilade Agboola: Hopefully end of this week.
276 00:29:53.110 ⇒ 00:29:53.680 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
277 00:30:00.270 ⇒ 00:30:05.869 Uttam Kumaran: Anyone else have any… taking any time off, like, this week or next week?
278 00:30:06.700 ⇒ 00:30:09.250 Henry Zhao: Are we off for Thanksgiving?
279 00:30:09.250 ⇒ 00:30:10.010 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
280 00:30:11.100 ⇒ 00:30:16.390 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I should… I’ll make sure to send an announcement about that, but yes.
281 00:30:18.540 ⇒ 00:30:19.180 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I’ll…
282 00:30:19.180 ⇒ 00:30:20.569 Samuel Roberts: Put some time around then, too.
283 00:30:20.590 ⇒ 00:30:24.050 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. I haven’t hashed it out yet with my wife. Okay, cool.
284 00:30:26.300 ⇒ 00:30:27.259 Demilade Agboola: I just checked.
285 00:30:27.430 ⇒ 00:30:33.759 Amber Lin: I might be out… Monday the 17th, so next… like, 2 weeks from…
286 00:30:34.610 ⇒ 00:30:39.699 Amber Lin: Two to three weeks from now? I might be out for one day, but I’ll send in the request to make sure.
287 00:30:40.280 ⇒ 00:30:43.350 Henry Zhao: Yeah, Sam, I might be out November 21st, but I’ll send a request.
288 00:30:43.710 ⇒ 00:30:44.300 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
289 00:30:48.510 ⇒ 00:30:49.650 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you.
290 00:30:51.120 ⇒ 00:30:56.569 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, Rico, let’s make sure that we send…
291 00:30:56.770 ⇒ 00:31:01.429 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s… let’s decide on, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year.
292 00:31:02.150 ⇒ 00:31:05.709 Uttam Kumaran: We can just send a note to folks, this week.
293 00:31:06.480 ⇒ 00:31:07.170 Rico Rejoso: Got it.
294 00:31:08.350 ⇒ 00:31:10.650 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
295 00:31:10.790 ⇒ 00:31:15.259 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like that’s…
296 00:31:15.430 ⇒ 00:31:20.799 Uttam Kumaran: kind of the biggest thing. So in terms… let me talk to you guys a little bit about clients we’re hoping to…
297 00:31:21.060 ⇒ 00:31:25.920 Uttam Kumaran: Kick off this month, so we have, CES, I’m like.
298 00:31:26.850 ⇒ 00:31:30.039 Uttam Kumaran: Just sort of twiddling my thumbs, waiting on,
299 00:31:31.680 ⇒ 00:31:37.519 Uttam Kumaran: waiting on them to sort of sign, so… Sam, as soon as that happens, we can… we can go.
300 00:31:37.940 ⇒ 00:31:42.290 Uttam Kumaran: We have Honey Stinger, so that’s another, like.
301 00:31:42.510 ⇒ 00:31:44.889 Uttam Kumaran: 30 hours a month type of deal.
302 00:31:45.010 ⇒ 00:31:48.880 Uttam Kumaran: I think my goal, is basically to see
303 00:31:49.340 ⇒ 00:31:51.479 Uttam Kumaran: Robert and I may spend the first week
304 00:31:51.950 ⇒ 00:31:56.440 Uttam Kumaran: figure out, like, what the roadmap is, and then, I’ll loop
305 00:31:56.600 ⇒ 00:31:59.039 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll loop you and Henry, kind of, at that point.
306 00:31:59.360 ⇒ 00:32:03.370 Uttam Kumaran: Ideally to help there. I’m not yet sure 100%, like, what they need.
307 00:32:03.550 ⇒ 00:32:10.869 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, there’s a few other deals, like, Element is potentially starting this month.
308 00:32:11.700 ⇒ 00:32:17.699 Uttam Kumaran: And this week, me and Rob are gonna spend some time on Circle Back Campaigns.
309 00:32:17.880 ⇒ 00:32:22.090 Uttam Kumaran: To try to just drum off, like, a last… kind of push.
310 00:32:22.430 ⇒ 00:32:26.440 Uttam Kumaran: Because after, sort of, Thanksgiving, things will be a little bit slow.
311 00:32:28.610 ⇒ 00:32:34.069 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, and then for… for… I saw… I don’t really have much else for this week.
312 00:32:34.190 ⇒ 00:32:41.969 Uttam Kumaran: I think the biggest things we have are just to continue pushing. We did planning this morning, so I feel good about every… about most clients.
313 00:32:42.130 ⇒ 00:32:49.449 Uttam Kumaran: I think the biggest thing, and I think I’ll be kind of leaning, hopefully, on Henry, you, and Zoran, is just to help me build out the…
314 00:32:49.940 ⇒ 00:32:52.210 Uttam Kumaran: roadmap for, like, MarTech…
315 00:32:52.600 ⇒ 00:32:58.480 Uttam Kumaran: at Eden, and then also, I want to think about opportunistic analysis that we can run.
316 00:32:58.700 ⇒ 00:33:03.459 Uttam Kumaran: Stuff, so there’s stuff in the backlog and things like that, so… maybe,
317 00:33:04.040 ⇒ 00:33:09.989 Uttam Kumaran: I was gonna grab time with Zoran to talk to him tomorrow. Maybe, Henry, if you want to join me on that, three of us can talk.
318 00:33:10.500 ⇒ 00:33:13.999 Uttam Kumaran: I wanna… I wanna sort of build out, like, what that roadmap is.
319 00:33:14.280 ⇒ 00:33:19.720 Uttam Kumaran: So that we can pitch them on, like, okay, here’s, like, here’s where that extra budget’s going towards.
320 00:33:22.890 ⇒ 00:33:26.729 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, is there anything else on clients that anyone wants to flag?
321 00:33:35.570 ⇒ 00:33:38.110 Demilade Agboola: Nothing from me.
322 00:33:40.870 ⇒ 00:33:41.480 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
323 00:33:42.920 ⇒ 00:33:56.909 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think by, like, Robert’s out a little bit today, so anything that he’s touching will kind of be a little bit slow. But, yeah, it’s also a big, like, renewal month… renewal kind of month and a half for us.
324 00:33:57.060 ⇒ 00:34:01.880 Uttam Kumaran: But we’re going after Urban STEMS renewal, ABC Renewal,
325 00:34:02.390 ⇒ 00:34:16.810 Uttam Kumaran: README and LA Renewal. So, those are gonna kinda be, like, the key things. I don’t know, on… on Urban Stems, like, I’m gonna try to push for… to get more budget. For ABC, certainly, I think that has to be the case.
326 00:34:16.969 ⇒ 00:34:20.220 Uttam Kumaran: Or read me and Ellie, we’ll see what ends up happening.
327 00:34:20.320 ⇒ 00:34:25.710 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, again, like, my biggest thing that I think about is, like, how do I get
328 00:34:25.960 ⇒ 00:34:32.880 Uttam Kumaran: The three of y’all that are not fixed as close to 80% as possible, so…
329 00:34:33.380 ⇒ 00:34:45.629 Uttam Kumaran: The other thing that, we’ll continue to talk through on… on… in our meetings during the week and on Mondays is delivery source opportunities. So while we’re in clients.
330 00:34:45.739 ⇒ 00:34:59.519 Uttam Kumaran: we want to build this habit of, like, getting opportunities listed out, and say, like, hey, I noticed this thing over there, can we put together a pitch on it? And then the biggest thing, Amber, is just to kind of make sure that you have bandwidth to continue doing analysis.
331 00:34:59.890 ⇒ 00:35:07.240 Uttam Kumaran: Because you’ll start… you’ll basically continue… start to be the owner, Across defaults and,
332 00:35:07.870 ⇒ 00:35:12.330 Uttam Kumaran: and insomnia, and then we’re gonna… we’re gonna certainly need to find…
333 00:35:14.750 ⇒ 00:35:22.559 Uttam Kumaran: we’re… I… we’re gonna have to build some redundancy, so I think one thing that we’re gonna have to think about is who else on the team wants to supplement on the analysis side.
334 00:35:25.950 ⇒ 00:35:29.850 Uttam Kumaran: you know, I think that’s what we’re gonna have to think about, because we’re gonna have analysis for Eden.
335 00:35:30.350 ⇒ 00:35:35.830 Uttam Kumaran: potentially gonna have stuff for Honey Stinger, and we have also analysis work off for README, so…
336 00:35:38.080 ⇒ 00:35:42.249 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, I know nobody on the team is sort of like, I don’t want to do this.
337 00:35:42.470 ⇒ 00:35:45.220 Uttam Kumaran: But I do think that’s a different motion.
338 00:35:45.450 ⇒ 00:35:57.739 Uttam Kumaran: than typical work, but I don’t know, I mean, I think mainly I’ll be looking to the three of you guys, Sam, Henry, and Zoran, if, like, if you guys are interested in analysis work, I think that’s the next…
339 00:35:58.290 ⇒ 00:36:05.960 Uttam Kumaran: That opportunity may come up faster compared to… Morse, like, Deeper solution architecture work.
340 00:36:08.850 ⇒ 00:36:21.400 Uttam Kumaran: So if you guys are interested in that, I can… what I… what I’ll start to do is, once we have some scope around that, I can put what the requirements are. But you guys are seeing some of the analysis work that’s coming out of Amber’s camp, so hopefully it’s not too…
341 00:36:21.660 ⇒ 00:36:24.190 Uttam Kumaran: Hard to kind of get the grasp of, but…
342 00:36:24.430 ⇒ 00:36:33.719 Uttam Kumaran: again, like, I don’t… I’m not particularly… it’s up to you, like, I’m… I want to get you guys as many hours as I can get you, but we also don’t have, sometimes, the perfect
343 00:36:33.930 ⇒ 00:36:35.119 Uttam Kumaran: cut of work.
344 00:36:37.060 ⇒ 00:36:44.420 Uttam Kumaran: And I wouldn’t… I wouldn’t ask you guys if you weren’t capable. I think you’re totally capable of doing it. I think it’s up to you on, like, okay, do I wanna…
345 00:36:45.040 ⇒ 00:36:46.420 Uttam Kumaran: Help out there, so…
346 00:36:48.770 ⇒ 00:36:56.890 Uttam Kumaran: It’s something I think probably next Monday we can talk a little bit more concretely on, because we’ll have roadmap for Eden, and we’ll have roadmap for,
347 00:36:57.630 ⇒ 00:36:59.549 Uttam Kumaran: Honey Stinger.
348 00:36:59.700 ⇒ 00:37:02.590 Uttam Kumaran: So, I can bring it up on Monday for…
349 00:37:02.700 ⇒ 00:37:04.630 Uttam Kumaran: For the three of y’all,
350 00:37:04.750 ⇒ 00:37:06.530 Uttam Kumaran: On where we can take more time.
351 00:37:07.330 ⇒ 00:37:12.570 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, I mean, we’re not gonna end up talking much about internal teams,
352 00:37:12.710 ⇒ 00:37:20.230 Uttam Kumaran: But I think that’s something, Amber, maybe me and you and Mustafa can spend more time on doing an analysis. I do want to…
353 00:37:20.460 ⇒ 00:37:26.140 Uttam Kumaran: Have some understanding of, like, where we’re spending time internally, and if we were able to adhere to our
354 00:37:26.420 ⇒ 00:37:28.780 Uttam Kumaran: Allocations last month.
355 00:37:30.030 ⇒ 00:37:37.020 Uttam Kumaran: the… the lovely thing is Gabe is just shadowing, so Sam, I would use as much of Gabe’s time as possible. Those are free.
356 00:37:37.180 ⇒ 00:37:44.750 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s really great, so I would try to lean on him, if we can, for as much as possible for the internal AI team.
357 00:37:47.610 ⇒ 00:37:57.790 Uttam Kumaran: And then we’re… to kind of give you two other folks that are joining to do some support, we have one person, Joe, who’s going to be helping out, part-time on GoToMarket.
358 00:37:57.910 ⇒ 00:37:58.870 Amber Lin: Hmm.
359 00:37:59.490 ⇒ 00:38:12.389 Uttam Kumaran: And so, I think some of you may have talked to him before. We enjoyed our conversations with him, and I think he’s gonna come help us with a couple things. And then Lauren, who a couple of you have talked to, is gonna come help me and Reek on the operations side, which we are…
360 00:38:13.180 ⇒ 00:38:20.020 Uttam Kumaran: slammed on. So, she’s done operations and recruiting HR work for a while, so she’s gonna help
361 00:38:20.230 ⇒ 00:38:24.410 Uttam Kumaran: do things like clean up Notion, get organized,
362 00:38:24.680 ⇒ 00:38:30.580 Uttam Kumaran: sort of in Slack, put together, like, onboarding materials so that when people join.
363 00:38:30.690 ⇒ 00:38:36.660 Uttam Kumaran: They go through sort of a fixed onboarding process. I’m going to be talking to her a little bit about how to structure learning and development.
364 00:38:37.040 ⇒ 00:38:41.109 Uttam Kumaran: And that hopefully maybe she can come on and move some of that forward, so…
365 00:38:41.330 ⇒ 00:38:43.220 Uttam Kumaran: Some good stuff this month.
366 00:38:43.820 ⇒ 00:38:50.140 Uttam Kumaran: And yeah, that’s kind of all I had. Anything else from anybody?
367 00:38:52.880 ⇒ 00:38:57.089 Amber Lin: Cool. I’ll try to see if I have time to do internal stuff, today.
368 00:38:57.270 ⇒ 00:39:02.350 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, no pressure, we can do it later this week. I mean, I just want to get a rough estimate of, like, how we did compared to…
369 00:39:03.070 ⇒ 00:39:11.469 Uttam Kumaran: If you want to do… maybe me, you, and Mustafa, even later this week, can do a working session on Clockify, on reporting.
370 00:39:12.180 ⇒ 00:39:17.639 Amber Lin: Yeah, and I noted down the things I need to edit on the… OmniDash, I’ll send it. Okay.
371 00:39:18.390 ⇒ 00:39:18.940 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
372 00:39:19.270 ⇒ 00:39:20.590 Amber Lin: Cool, thank you.
373 00:39:20.590 ⇒ 00:39:21.999 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, thanks everyone.
374 00:39:22.230 ⇒ 00:39:23.400 Demilade Agboola: Thank you. Talk to you soon.
375 00:39:23.400 ⇒ 00:39:24.070 Samuel Roberts: Bye.
376 00:39:24.070 ⇒ 00:39:24.800 Uttam Kumaran: Bye.