Meeting Title: DE-AE-AI Standup Date: 2025-12-05 Meeting participants: Awaish Kumar, Surf’s iPhone, Gabriel Lam, Casie Aviles, Rico Rejoso, Mustafa Raja, Ashwini Sharma, Clarence Stone, Uttam Kumaran, Demilade Agboola
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1 00:02:53.620 ⇒ 00:02:54.769 Awaish Kumar: Hello, everyone.
2 00:02:58.250 ⇒ 00:02:59.100 Gabriel Lam: Morning.
3 00:03:00.220 ⇒ 00:03:01.690 Awaish Kumar: Morning, how’s it going?
4 00:03:01.920 ⇒ 00:03:03.049 Gabriel Lam: Good, how are you?
5 00:03:03.690 ⇒ 00:03:04.829 Awaish Kumar: I’m good as well.
6 00:03:07.680 ⇒ 00:03:09.830 Awaish Kumar: Fair enough.
7 00:03:30.670 ⇒ 00:03:33.850 Awaish Kumar: Hello. Yeah, I think we can dive in.
8 00:03:36.780 ⇒ 00:03:41.810 Awaish Kumar: And I can… Start discussing with,
9 00:03:42.480 ⇒ 00:03:47.180 Awaish Kumar: Eden stuff, since we are all here,
10 00:03:48.240 ⇒ 00:03:56.040 Awaish Kumar: So, like, like, Ashuni, do you have any… updates on Metaplane, or… Or maybe I’.
11 00:03:56.040 ⇒ 00:04:03.150 Ashwini Sharma: No updates, no updates on the metaplane. I had asked a question in the channels, and unfortunately, the consultant was…
12 00:04:03.600 ⇒ 00:04:07.140 Ashwini Sharma: Out of office, they have said that they would respond to it.
13 00:04:07.480 ⇒ 00:04:10.460 Ashwini Sharma: by today, I hope I’ll get something.
14 00:04:10.580 ⇒ 00:04:18.279 Ashwini Sharma: On the other thing, the… Facebook, what is that? CAPI.
15 00:04:18.450 ⇒ 00:04:19.240 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, metacon.
16 00:04:19.690 ⇒ 00:04:26.640 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, yeah, so that thing, I talked with Zoran today, and turns out, like, we need two models, not one.
17 00:04:26.750 ⇒ 00:04:30.350 Ashwini Sharma: One of them is slightly more restrictive than the other one.
18 00:04:31.430 ⇒ 00:04:32.769 Ashwini Sharma: No, it’s, it’s a…
19 00:04:33.150 ⇒ 00:04:41.790 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, we’ll have to do some refactoring with the existing one as well, and create a new model that complies with the other requirement.
20 00:04:42.210 ⇒ 00:04:45.869 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, both, like, kind of requirements, and
21 00:04:46.680 ⇒ 00:04:51.659 Awaish Kumar: But the change is really, small in terms of, like.
22 00:04:51.790 ⇒ 00:04:54.260 Awaish Kumar: What… what changes we have to make?
23 00:04:55.060 ⇒ 00:05:02.360 Ashwini Sharma: Right, yeah. These are quite small. I’ll refactor the model that you had shared earlier, and, you know,
24 00:05:02.670 ⇒ 00:05:04.580 Ashwini Sharma: But I’ll get it done.
25 00:05:05.160 ⇒ 00:05:07.430 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I will just create the ticket, so…
26 00:05:08.020 ⇒ 00:05:08.610 Ashwini Sharma: Sure.
27 00:05:08.610 ⇒ 00:05:13.849 Awaish Kumar: Then, for the reference. So, these are basically new tickets, so… And you can…
28 00:05:14.520 ⇒ 00:05:16.540 Awaish Kumar: Fill in the description if you want.
29 00:05:17.760 ⇒ 00:05:20.900 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, and on the… okay, it was the Eden, right?
30 00:05:21.420 ⇒ 00:05:22.130 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
31 00:05:29.190 ⇒ 00:05:29.940 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, that’s me.
32 00:05:29.940 ⇒ 00:05:36.940 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, so… and then, Casey, do you… have you… have you been working on… in Spike, or…
33 00:05:37.550 ⇒ 00:05:38.980 Awaish Kumar: Or any other tickets?
34 00:05:39.970 ⇒ 00:05:42.899 Casie Aviles: No, for Eden, I just have…
35 00:05:43.170 ⇒ 00:05:46.470 Casie Aviles: I don’t have, like, any updates on Eden, just…
36 00:05:46.670 ⇒ 00:05:51.309 Casie Aviles: Yeah, for that document, Spike, I also asked them a ladies review for that.
37 00:05:52.120 ⇒ 00:05:53.030 Casie Aviles: So…
38 00:05:53.950 ⇒ 00:05:55.210 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
39 00:05:55.750 ⇒ 00:06:01.090 Awaish Kumar: Where are we with this, cancellation analysis for Catalyst?
40 00:06:03.460 ⇒ 00:06:10.890 Casie Aviles: Cancellation? Oh, yeah, that one is, yeah, that one’s still under revision. I don’t have any updates there.
41 00:06:11.770 ⇒ 00:06:12.440 Awaish Kumar: Huh.
42 00:06:12.580 ⇒ 00:06:13.480 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
43 00:06:15.560 ⇒ 00:06:17.720 Awaish Kumar: Over 168.
44 00:06:19.860 ⇒ 00:06:23.950 Casie Aviles: Yeah, I think… These were deprioritized, but…
45 00:06:24.630 ⇒ 00:06:27.510 Casie Aviles: Yeah, I don’t have updates yet there.
46 00:06:28.060 ⇒ 00:06:28.700 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
47 00:06:29.500 ⇒ 00:06:34.100 Awaish Kumar: And then Damulare… Do… do you wanna go?
48 00:06:37.930 ⇒ 00:06:46.889 Demilade Agboola: So for the offluence data modeling, there’s a PR review for that, so the data is already in there.
49 00:06:47.500 ⇒ 00:06:56.220 Demilade Agboola: So we’re able to see the spend, and the… once the PR is merged, and we refresh the dashboard, it will reflect.
50 00:06:56.740 ⇒ 00:07:05.429 Demilade Agboola: For the recurring… asking for the CSV, I have asked. Zach hasn’t responded.
51 00:07:05.730 ⇒ 00:07:09.130 Demilade Agboola: I don’t know.
52 00:07:09.280 ⇒ 00:07:10.310 Demilade Agboola: Is that correct?
53 00:07:10.590 ⇒ 00:07:15.660 Demilade Agboola: is just… he tends to be like that at times. And then…
54 00:07:16.140 ⇒ 00:07:17.429 Awaish Kumar: Where should I put it?
55 00:07:19.080 ⇒ 00:07:22.019 Demilade Agboola: I don’t know, at this point, because I put the…
56 00:07:22.760 ⇒ 00:07:30.250 Demilade Agboola: I think it’s done, but he’s not, like, necessarily responding, so I don’t know how we would express that.
57 00:07:31.900 ⇒ 00:07:32.320 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
58 00:07:34.130 ⇒ 00:07:35.580 Awaish Kumar: Let’s move on.
59 00:07:35.880 ⇒ 00:07:40.130 Demilade Agboola: The new one will come up next week, so it would have duplicates.
60 00:07:41.520 ⇒ 00:07:47.809 Demilade Agboola: And then, for the reverse ETL, yeah, we’re just basically waiting for our points to…
61 00:07:48.440 ⇒ 00:07:50.510 Demilade Agboola: Give context on what they want to do.
62 00:07:50.680 ⇒ 00:08:00.610 Demilade Agboola: I was catching up in messages earlier this morning, and it appears, you… you and Zora are talking about using, like, the Pixel server-side data.
63 00:08:01.660 ⇒ 00:08:09.389 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, like… There are different ways we want to achieve this, accuracy in the…
64 00:08:09.590 ⇒ 00:08:14.820 Awaish Kumar: conversion orders, like, the orders we really want to pay to the client.
65 00:08:14.980 ⇒ 00:08:20.090 Awaish Kumar: And… for, like, I was just expressing how we have done in Catalyst.
66 00:08:20.640 ⇒ 00:08:21.210 Demilade Agboola: Okay.
67 00:08:21.210 ⇒ 00:08:26.069 Awaish Kumar: what is their approach for upfronts? And it doesn’t seem like
68 00:08:26.500 ⇒ 00:08:30.390 Awaish Kumar: we really can do what we have done for Catalyst, because.
69 00:08:30.390 ⇒ 00:08:31.070 Demilade Agboola: Andre.
70 00:08:31.070 ⇒ 00:08:37.739 Awaish Kumar: the way they are handling it. So, I… I was, like, I… I needed that confirmation, because
71 00:08:37.970 ⇒ 00:08:45.400 Awaish Kumar: Otherwise, there’s no point in working and pushing for reverse ETL until we know, like, what we really want to achieve.
72 00:08:46.840 ⇒ 00:08:47.840 Awaish Kumar: And, like…
73 00:08:47.840 ⇒ 00:08:48.430 Demilade Agboola: I don’t.
74 00:08:48.430 ⇒ 00:08:49.550 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, so…
75 00:08:50.240 ⇒ 00:09:07.739 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, so I’ve asked… I’ve, like, lubed in Zoran in that conversation. He might ask a friend directly if they can support, like, if we can send orders from server and Pixel, then can they reconcile? Can they internally do some reconciliation?
76 00:09:08.130 ⇒ 00:09:11.030 Awaish Kumar: then it’s useful. Otherwise, it’s… it’s not.
77 00:09:12.370 ⇒ 00:09:13.819 Demilade Agboola: Okay, fair enough, fair enough.
78 00:09:17.200 ⇒ 00:09:19.480 Awaish Kumar: Apart from that, like, we have…
79 00:09:20.270 ⇒ 00:09:26.920 Awaish Kumar: meeting today with Brad, so maybe he’s going to ask Questions related to COGS?
80 00:09:27.160 ⇒ 00:09:31.700 Awaish Kumar: Oh yeah, like… We might have to get prepared for that, maybe?
81 00:09:34.880 ⇒ 00:09:41.580 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I’m talking to, henry right now, about, like, the cogs.
82 00:09:42.050 ⇒ 00:09:46.090 Demilade Agboola: And I guess we’ll prepare for the meeting with Brad later today.
83 00:09:47.370 ⇒ 00:09:52.710 Awaish Kumar: Okay, and then we have,
84 00:09:54.370 ⇒ 00:09:59.030 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I think we are good for Aiden, so…
85 00:09:59.380 ⇒ 00:10:07.310 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, we might have some work coming up for Northbeam. So, like, previously we paused it because we might
86 00:10:07.450 ⇒ 00:10:13.120 Awaish Kumar: We were… we were thinking of changing, like, or moving off of the platform, but, like,
87 00:10:13.230 ⇒ 00:10:18.509 Awaish Kumar: Now, we are not moving off of North Beam, we might have to again figure out the API issue.
88 00:10:18.630 ⇒ 00:10:27.790 Awaish Kumar: That has been lingering before, and… Might have to… Do server-side integration.
89 00:10:28.050 ⇒ 00:10:29.140 Awaish Kumar: On our side.
90 00:10:31.050 ⇒ 00:10:34.740 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, that’s about it for Aiden.
91 00:10:34.840 ⇒ 00:10:42.209 Awaish Kumar: And, yeah, for default, any… updates, most of our…
92 00:10:45.280 ⇒ 00:10:49.349 Mustafa Raja: Yes, so,
93 00:10:50.860 ⇒ 00:11:01.339 Mustafa Raja: Caitlin asked, for, some, Omni Dashboard updates. So we have integrations data in workflows, but workflows are all JSON.
94 00:11:01.460 ⇒ 00:11:06.650 Mustafa Raja: So, I’ve… I have asked,
95 00:11:07.620 ⇒ 00:11:16.659 Mustafa Raja: Victor or, Thomas, if they could, tell me, if there is a better way, rather than passing
96 00:11:16.910 ⇒ 00:11:22.780 Mustafa Raja: the workflow JSON, and if they have
97 00:11:23.090 ⇒ 00:11:26.809 Mustafa Raja: Authoritative list of integrations that they have right now.
98 00:11:27.030 ⇒ 00:11:32.800 Mustafa Raja: So we can, you know, see, all of the… Integrations.
99 00:11:33.430 ⇒ 00:11:33.890 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
100 00:11:33.890 ⇒ 00:11:39.130 Mustafa Raja: Other than that, I want a review from you on the master list.
101 00:11:39.540 ⇒ 00:11:52.369 Mustafa Raja: For the fields, what I need only is for you to see if we can, you know, consolidate the fields even more, or if, those are looking good or not.
102 00:11:52.650 ⇒ 00:11:59.020 Mustafa Raja: Okay. And then for comparison, I’d want… To huddle with you again.
103 00:11:59.130 ⇒ 00:12:07.819 Mustafa Raja: I want to move it to, a Notion doc, and create a, executive-facing Notion Dock.
104 00:12:09.820 ⇒ 00:12:10.480 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
105 00:12:10.780 ⇒ 00:12:11.410 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
106 00:12:11.550 ⇒ 00:12:13.279 Mustafa Raja: That should be pretty much it.
107 00:12:14.020 ⇒ 00:12:21.179 Awaish Kumar: Okay, and regarding that, ETL part? Like, do we have any updates?
108 00:12:21.180 ⇒ 00:12:30.820 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so, we had a meeting yesterday with Caitlin, and she said that she will be following up with, Victor and Thomas.
109 00:12:31.130 ⇒ 00:12:32.590 Mustafa Raja: On that.
110 00:12:33.220 ⇒ 00:12:33.770 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
111 00:12:34.400 ⇒ 00:12:39.550 Mustafa Raja: Thomas did, tell her that, that, he is waiting for permission.
112 00:12:39.810 ⇒ 00:12:42.660 Mustafa Raja: from, Victor. So, yeah.
113 00:12:44.110 ⇒ 00:12:48.489 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah, and while it’s being done, we might maybe work
114 00:12:48.950 ⇒ 00:12:52.490 Awaish Kumar: on getting some tickets for AE work here.
115 00:12:52.810 ⇒ 00:12:53.500 Mustafa Raja: Yep.
116 00:12:55.750 ⇒ 00:13:00.439 Awaish Kumar: Like, so, like, if you know any, we can create now, otherwise we can create it later.
117 00:13:00.440 ⇒ 00:13:15.779 Mustafa Raja: So, what we would need to do is, we would just need to, do some data exploration and understand some KPIs that the, customer service, would need, or would be valuable for their customer service.
118 00:13:16.010 ⇒ 00:13:19.800 Mustafa Raja: And then, yeah, the modeling work should take care of that.
119 00:13:20.850 ⇒ 00:13:23.039 Mustafa Raja: So we would need a table with KPIs.
120 00:13:24.320 ⇒ 00:13:25.660 Awaish Kumar: Ovation for…
121 00:13:30.730 ⇒ 00:13:31.730 Awaish Kumar: Right.
122 00:13:34.720 ⇒ 00:13:36.890 Awaish Kumar: And then maybe also, like,
123 00:13:37.540 ⇒ 00:13:43.340 Awaish Kumar: data modeling, but I just… I’m just putting the placeholder. We might need to define these tickets.
124 00:13:44.470 ⇒ 00:13:48.550 Awaish Kumar: When we have more information on what kind of data is coming from there.
125 00:13:49.140 ⇒ 00:13:49.930 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
126 00:13:54.030 ⇒ 00:13:59.989 Awaish Kumar: And then we… Yeah, then we can move on to ABC,
127 00:14:00.960 ⇒ 00:14:04.720 Awaish Kumar: Casey, do you want to give updates on… on ABC stuff?
128 00:14:05.490 ⇒ 00:14:09.860 Casie Aviles: Yeah, so for ABC yesterday, I just focused on…
129 00:14:10.870 ⇒ 00:14:17.610 Casie Aviles: Yeah, getting the… getting the… updates that Janice wanted to…
130 00:14:18.310 ⇒ 00:14:23.429 Casie Aviles: do using the form, so I directly put that in the database.
131 00:14:24.370 ⇒ 00:14:26.639 Casie Aviles: And I’ve also tested it.
132 00:14:29.280 ⇒ 00:14:35.070 Casie Aviles: So I tried to test as much as I can there, so… There could still be some…
133 00:14:36.080 ⇒ 00:14:41.660 Casie Aviles: There could still be some areas that will… Still, but…
134 00:14:41.960 ⇒ 00:14:47.170 Casie Aviles: I’ve attached, like, screenshots. I’ve also asked Janice for some review if
135 00:14:47.730 ⇒ 00:14:53.280 Casie Aviles: Those were correct, so I attached those to some of the tickets and assigned it to her.
136 00:14:54.040 ⇒ 00:14:59.540 Casie Aviles: Yeah, that’s… that’s what I did. I’m also just…
137 00:14:59.950 ⇒ 00:15:05.130 Casie Aviles: continuously monitoring, and I plan to also collect all the
138 00:15:05.720 ⇒ 00:15:10.379 Casie Aviles: The feedback, and yeah, the tickets, the triage tickets, and…
139 00:15:11.710 ⇒ 00:15:15.189 Casie Aviles: Yeah, and just so we have, like, a clearer picture of…
140 00:15:15.910 ⇒ 00:15:20.649 Casie Aviles: What fails, where it fails, so we have something to review.
141 00:15:22.230 ⇒ 00:15:25.219 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, so I’m… like, we… I’ve been…
142 00:15:25.850 ⇒ 00:15:32.140 Awaish Kumar: Like, looking forward to that document, like, the logs and the… Analysis of the logs, like.
143 00:15:32.280 ⇒ 00:15:35.830 Awaish Kumar: Where… what are the common issues, and
144 00:15:36.040 ⇒ 00:15:40.810 Awaish Kumar: Which part of the system is failing, what… where are most failures coming from, and then…
145 00:15:41.580 ⇒ 00:15:45.059 Awaish Kumar: If you can bring that up, we can meet and, like.
146 00:15:45.930 ⇒ 00:15:48.930 Awaish Kumar: And work on it, like, to fix those issues.
147 00:15:49.940 ⇒ 00:15:52.159 Casie Aviles: Yes, yes, I’ll focus on that today.
148 00:15:54.450 ⇒ 00:16:02.540 Awaish Kumar: Okay, then we have… Albert Sams, I don’t think we have anything.
149 00:16:02.540 ⇒ 00:16:06.510 Uttam Kumaran: I had, I just had one question on ABC,
150 00:16:07.590 ⇒ 00:16:12.749 Uttam Kumaran: Another piece I flagged, Casey, is that I want to move to ABC-owned
151 00:16:12.910 ⇒ 00:16:15.170 Uttam Kumaran: Infrastructure, even on the data side.
152 00:16:15.740 ⇒ 00:16:24.180 Uttam Kumaran: So… As part of our discovery project, I’m going to pitch Mother Ducks.
153 00:16:24.430 ⇒ 00:16:28.760 Uttam Kumaran: Because we just have a few tables, right, for… like, reporting.
154 00:16:28.860 ⇒ 00:16:32.829 Uttam Kumaran: So I may go ahead and set that up, and then I’m…
155 00:16:33.030 ⇒ 00:16:39.170 Uttam Kumaran: like, I’m gonna use the free trial for a bit, because we need to load a bunch of data there for analysis, and then I can,
156 00:16:39.900 ⇒ 00:16:44.899 Uttam Kumaran: like, I’ll… I guess as part of your migration plan with,
157 00:16:45.110 ⇒ 00:16:49.690 Uttam Kumaran: Tim, can you note down that… We want to do that.
158 00:16:50.360 ⇒ 00:16:54.299 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, if you’re already talking to him, you can get his
159 00:16:54.620 ⇒ 00:16:58.710 Uttam Kumaran: approval or feedback on a data warehouse. I don’t believe they have anything.
160 00:16:58.910 ⇒ 00:17:03.719 Uttam Kumaran: But also, I can handle that conversation if you want.
161 00:17:04.650 ⇒ 00:17:13.729 Casie Aviles: I mean, what I did tell is… what we did talk about is to just have it in a Google environment, and then so I… I…
162 00:17:14.460 ⇒ 00:17:17.760 Casie Aviles: Kind of said, I mean…
163 00:17:18.250 ⇒ 00:17:19.690 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay, okay.
164 00:17:19.839 ⇒ 00:17:21.880 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, yeah, ask… what did he say?
165 00:17:22.760 ⇒ 00:17:29.439 Casie Aviles: Yeah, he was… he was, good with that, because he wants it as much as possible in, like, a Google environment.
166 00:17:29.440 ⇒ 00:17:32.350 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, perfect, okay. Are you gonna get,
167 00:17:32.600 ⇒ 00:17:34.380 Uttam Kumaran: Are you gonna get access to someone?
168 00:17:35.670 ⇒ 00:17:38.420 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I did… He’s gonna set it off?
169 00:17:38.870 ⇒ 00:17:45.389 Casie Aviles: Yeah, he was supposed to set it up, like, you know, at different environments as well. I can follow up with him.
170 00:17:45.840 ⇒ 00:17:47.220 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, great, okay, okay.
171 00:17:47.540 ⇒ 00:17:50.779 Casie Aviles: Should I still, like, pitch Mother Duck, though, or…
172 00:17:50.930 ⇒ 00:17:53.370 Uttam Kumaran: No, no, no, no, no, yeah, let’s just do the BigQuery.
173 00:17:54.020 ⇒ 00:17:54.650 Casie Aviles: Okay.
174 00:17:54.970 ⇒ 00:18:04.599 Uttam Kumaran: That’s a good call-out, sorry, I totally forgot. Yeah, let’s do BigQuery, and I will push on my side, too, because I’m going to send a follow-up today on, like, access that we need for everything.
175 00:18:04.740 ⇒ 00:18:14.249 Uttam Kumaran: And so I’ll also mention that, hey, we’re gonna start to centralize data and things in BigQuery. So I wish they’re also using GA for everything, so that’ll make it easier there.
176 00:18:14.390 ⇒ 00:18:22.679 Uttam Kumaran: And I’m just learning about all the other sources. But Amber and I need a place to do analysis, so we’ll run with BigQuery for them.
177 00:18:23.190 ⇒ 00:18:24.170 Uttam Kumaran: Don’t miss.
178 00:18:24.450 ⇒ 00:18:31.660 Awaish Kumar: Okay, and like, but other data, like, we are looking to store the logs, or what? Like that.
179 00:18:31.660 ⇒ 00:18:36.080 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, on the Andy side, it’s all logs.
180 00:18:37.140 ⇒ 00:18:41.760 Uttam Kumaran: logs and usage data. On my side, like, for our discovery engagement.
181 00:18:42.020 ⇒ 00:18:48.259 Uttam Kumaran: It’s, like, normal stuff, like ad platforms, sales data, CRM data.
182 00:18:49.250 ⇒ 00:18:54.209 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, we’re like, we’re just gonna run through The works, basically.
183 00:18:55.560 ⇒ 00:19:00.379 Awaish Kumar: Okay, but are we bringing any sales data into… like, we are not yet bringing in sales.
184 00:19:00.380 ⇒ 00:19:01.779 Uttam Kumaran: Not for Andy, no.
185 00:19:02.370 ⇒ 00:19:06.370 Uttam Kumaran: But this is where, like, if… once I get it into the system.
186 00:19:06.790 ⇒ 00:19:11.129 Uttam Kumaran: like, this is something that the Andy team can start to think about, is…
187 00:19:11.380 ⇒ 00:19:23.859 Uttam Kumaran: Like, could Andy potentially use this? So basically, for everybody’s context, we’re moving all of the ABC infrastructure from NADN and our system onto ANDI… onto GCP.
188 00:19:25.130 ⇒ 00:19:27.380 Uttam Kumaran: So… Yeah, we’ll see.
189 00:19:28.610 ⇒ 00:19:34.139 Awaish Kumar: Okay, and then we are… are we still using internal Superbase for that database?
190 00:19:35.180 ⇒ 00:19:36.330 Awaish Kumar: Oh, exciting.
191 00:19:36.330 ⇒ 00:19:39.820 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I feel like even that needs to probably go, right? Or what’s the plan?
192 00:19:40.390 ⇒ 00:19:45.330 Casie Aviles: We also talked about, like, I think Google has Cloud SQL.
193 00:19:45.330 ⇒ 00:19:46.130 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, okay.
194 00:19:46.130 ⇒ 00:19:50.130 Casie Aviles: So, that’s for more like a relational database.
195 00:19:50.680 ⇒ 00:19:52.730 Casie Aviles: kind of purpose, so…
196 00:19:52.730 ⇒ 00:19:56.460 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, we can use both ways, which is the same as server-based.
197 00:19:57.520 ⇒ 00:19:59.230 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, this is music, yeah.
198 00:20:00.680 ⇒ 00:20:01.320 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
199 00:20:04.720 ⇒ 00:20:10.029 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, and then we can move forward, to BreedMe.
200 00:20:10.710 ⇒ 00:20:14.480 Awaish Kumar: And… yeah, Muswall, do you wanna go?
201 00:20:16.300 ⇒ 00:20:19.490 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so,
202 00:20:20.230 ⇒ 00:20:33.560 Mustafa Raja: I had a working session with, Robert yesterday, and, we needed to do some cleanup, for the dashboard that I had built. I did that, and I have, linked alone in README channel.
203 00:20:34.070 ⇒ 00:20:41.349 Mustafa Raja: I guess we’re going to talk about, talk, talk about it more… more in detail, in the next meeting with Robert.
204 00:20:42.730 ⇒ 00:20:45.790 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so did you have a meeting with Robert today?
205 00:20:47.030 ⇒ 00:20:49.810 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, the next strategy meeting, right after this one.
206 00:20:50.440 ⇒ 00:20:54.250 Awaish Kumar: Oh, okay, yeah, okay. Then we are going to have more tickets.
207 00:20:54.510 ⇒ 00:20:55.650 Awaish Kumar: on Readway.
208 00:20:56.330 ⇒ 00:20:57.050 Mustafa Raja: Hmm.
209 00:20:57.470 ⇒ 00:21:06.950 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah, then I can… yeah, for Element, like, we got, access to almost
210 00:21:07.180 ⇒ 00:21:12.030 Awaish Kumar: All of their critical platforms, sales platforms,
211 00:21:13.710 ⇒ 00:21:17.779 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, and I can now work on the…
212 00:21:18.290 ⇒ 00:21:25.469 Awaish Kumar: Profiling the data and figuring out the volume of the data, hours, revenue, And then…
213 00:21:26.230 ⇒ 00:21:32.209 Awaish Kumar: And come up with a comparative analysis between tools to decide, like, to…
214 00:21:32.630 ⇒ 00:21:39.769 Awaish Kumar: to show them that, like, what we did, and why we arrived to using one of the ETL tools.
215 00:21:40.000 ⇒ 00:21:43.579 Awaish Kumar: And then that we can share them with them, like, maybe on Monday or so.
216 00:21:43.680 ⇒ 00:21:44.920 Awaish Kumar: Sometime next week.
217 00:21:50.260 ⇒ 00:21:54.069 Awaish Kumar: And that’s basically, like, she wanted, like, we want to have…
218 00:21:54.210 ⇒ 00:21:59.160 Awaish Kumar: decisions on ETL and data warehouse, as soon as possible.
219 00:22:04.450 ⇒ 00:22:11.790 Awaish Kumar: on… Okay, yeah, then for… Cta.
220 00:22:12.160 ⇒ 00:22:16.110 Awaish Kumar: Yeah. Have you worked on anything, actually, for CTA?
221 00:22:16.700 ⇒ 00:22:22.120 Ashwini Sharma: The CTA, I’m working on create… modeling, the remembers data.
222 00:22:23.340 ⇒ 00:22:29.989 Ashwini Sharma: A few days back, Catherine, listed down some of the relationships. I was trying to figure out that.
223 00:22:30.490 ⇒ 00:22:33.160 Ashwini Sharma: I think I might have to ask her a few questions.
224 00:22:34.270 ⇒ 00:22:39.660 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so we initialize the dbt project, and then do we…
225 00:22:39.660 ⇒ 00:22:44.139 Ashwini Sharma: initialize the snowflake, initialize the dbt, I raise the PR tool.
226 00:22:45.430 ⇒ 00:22:47.670 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so, and we, we…
227 00:22:47.670 ⇒ 00:22:51.829 Ashwini Sharma: Sorry, sorry, I have caught flu, and I’m coughing a lot, so…
228 00:22:53.120 ⇒ 00:22:53.600 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
229 00:22:53.600 ⇒ 00:22:55.610 Ashwini Sharma: Sticking in between, but yeah.
230 00:22:55.850 ⇒ 00:23:00.960 Ashwini Sharma: I created a PR, and that contains the dbt project and a basic model.
231 00:23:01.090 ⇒ 00:23:05.840 Ashwini Sharma: Today, I have some more models that I’ve added to it. I’m going to upload that as well.
232 00:23:06.660 ⇒ 00:23:08.170 Awaish Kumar: Okay, sure.
233 00:23:08.440 ⇒ 00:23:08.980 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah.
234 00:23:11.460 ⇒ 00:23:20.749 Awaish Kumar: So… Okay, and yeah, for he… Hedra, like, we… We are, maybe?
235 00:23:20.930 ⇒ 00:23:23.740 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, we are maybe going to work.
236 00:23:24.300 ⇒ 00:23:28.560 Awaish Kumar: With them, but, like, it’s on the final decision, maybe Utham can…
237 00:23:28.820 ⇒ 00:23:31.469 Awaish Kumar: If you wanna give some updates on that.
238 00:23:31.470 ⇒ 00:23:35.689 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m gonna… I’m gonna… yeah, I’m gonna pitch a renewal for 10K.
239 00:23:35.880 ⇒ 00:23:37.750 Uttam Kumaran: For 10 hours a week.
240 00:23:37.970 ⇒ 00:23:42.860 Uttam Kumaran: I think… them a lot of… if you’re comfortable with that, then I’ll probably just…
241 00:23:43.020 ⇒ 00:23:45.790 Uttam Kumaran: Leave you as a primary, and then a waitress back up.
242 00:23:46.040 ⇒ 00:23:55.010 Uttam Kumaran: Basically… We’re kind of making a decision, but we’re probably gonna start to ditch clients less than…
243 00:23:55.130 ⇒ 00:23:56.890 Uttam Kumaran: like, 10K.
244 00:23:57.800 ⇒ 00:24:12.580 Uttam Kumaran: And less… and, like, some of the clients that are just, like, we’re not growing with. So we’re kind of gonna come up with a little bit of a strategy. But right now, to give everybody a sense here, elements…
245 00:24:12.670 ⇒ 00:24:19.229 Uttam Kumaran: CTA, Eden, ABC are all our biggest clients.
246 00:24:19.330 ⇒ 00:24:26.139 Uttam Kumaran: And we are… Getting dragged towards smaller clients who clearly
247 00:24:26.710 ⇒ 00:24:37.159 Uttam Kumaran: for one reason or another, just, like, don’t think we’re worth it. And we’re just gonna… we’re now at the point where we’re gonna start to shift our resources as much as possible to the ones that
248 00:24:37.250 ⇒ 00:24:49.039 Uttam Kumaran: are growing, and we can help grow faster. I know everybody here is a little bit split between, like, 3 or 4 clients, some of which are big, small, some of which care, don’t, and so we’re starting to think a lot more about, like.
249 00:24:49.530 ⇒ 00:25:01.529 Uttam Kumaran: leaning into the folks that the growth potential is larger, and for the folks that demonstrate… like, Readme is a good example where we’ve been on them for, like, 5K a month for, like, 3-4 months.
250 00:25:01.750 ⇒ 00:25:02.910 Uttam Kumaran: they…
251 00:25:03.120 ⇒ 00:25:08.349 Uttam Kumaran: Their chief product officer left, a bunch of other people left. They didn’t want to give us Mongo access.
252 00:25:08.460 ⇒ 00:25:13.470 Uttam Kumaran: they were kind of rude to Robert in a meeting yesterday, like, and they’re paying us, like, 5K a month.
253 00:25:13.940 ⇒ 00:25:15.610 Uttam Kumaran: And their products, like.
254 00:25:16.500 ⇒ 00:25:30.540 Uttam Kumaran: like, stuff. Like, it’s not growing, and we’re trying to help them grow, and so that’s, like, a good example of a client where we’re debating, like, should we even support these people? And so we’re deciding on, like, okay, what is the option there? Either we tell them, hey, our new minimums are 10,
255 00:25:31.230 ⇒ 00:25:42.799 Uttam Kumaran: and what is… what is, like, what does 10 give us is really… that’s, like, the minimum amount we would need to actually staff, like, a pod, right? A reasonable pod of, like, me or Robert.
256 00:25:42.840 ⇒ 00:25:57.730 Uttam Kumaran: like, a lead, and then one person from the team. At 5K, it’s an incredible… we don’t… we just don’t make any money, and so we’re starting to go ahead that direction. We also have, like, 2 or 3 other clients that may close
257 00:25:57.900 ⇒ 00:25:59.759 Uttam Kumaran: Today or Monday?
258 00:26:00.190 ⇒ 00:26:02.530 Uttam Kumaran: That are also pretty large.
259 00:26:02.720 ⇒ 00:26:07.730 Uttam Kumaran: So, we’re just trying to, like, change a little bit of, like, our model, but…
260 00:26:08.370 ⇒ 00:26:13.610 Uttam Kumaran: long-winded answer about, like, heat trial. So, I’m gonna be pitching them on a renewal.
261 00:26:14.270 ⇒ 00:26:14.990 Awaish Kumar: Pardon.
262 00:26:16.990 ⇒ 00:26:24.269 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, for Honey Stringer, I maybe join next call to figure out if there are any needs for data engineering.
263 00:26:24.560 ⇒ 00:26:27.400 Awaish Kumar: So, yeah, I think there’s no one here.
264 00:26:28.240 ⇒ 00:26:30.879 Awaish Kumar: Who works… who’s working on this client?
265 00:26:32.190 ⇒ 00:26:35.240 Mustafa Raja: I sent you a DM regarding that.
266 00:26:36.290 ⇒ 00:26:37.239 Awaish Kumar: Sorry?
267 00:26:38.200 ⇒ 00:26:52.410 Mustafa Raja: I, I sent you a DM regarding that, regarding the script to add, the Excel files in there. A few of the tabs, they are structured a little, weird, so we would need
268 00:26:52.510 ⇒ 00:27:00.359 Mustafa Raja: to restructure those tabs only, and then rerun the script. I’ve done the script, but we need to restructure some tabs, and then…
269 00:27:01.550 ⇒ 00:27:01.890 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
270 00:27:01.890 ⇒ 00:27:02.430 Mustafa Raja: Just…
271 00:27:02.430 ⇒ 00:27:04.340 Awaish Kumar: Look at that, right?
272 00:27:04.710 ⇒ 00:27:11.310 Awaish Kumar: And yeah, I’ll see if I need your help. I’m going to ping you, but otherwise…
273 00:27:11.690 ⇒ 00:27:14.000 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, we are good here.
274 00:27:16.610 ⇒ 00:27:20.520 Awaish Kumar: Apart from that, yeah, now the projects…
275 00:27:21.140 ⇒ 00:27:26.489 Awaish Kumar: For backend engineering. Yeah, sir, do you want to give an update on… Lilo…
276 00:27:36.330 ⇒ 00:27:39.030 Awaish Kumar: Okay, Sir, are you there?
277 00:27:43.630 ⇒ 00:27:44.619 Surf’s iPhone: Can you guys hear me?
278 00:27:45.280 ⇒ 00:27:47.240 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, yeah, we can.
279 00:27:47.490 ⇒ 00:27:49.110 Surf’s iPhone: Oh, awesome. Alright, what’s the question?
280 00:27:49.770 ⇒ 00:27:53.609 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I was… just wanted, like, if you have any update for Lilo.
281 00:27:54.790 ⇒ 00:28:08.729 Surf’s iPhone: We got access yesterday, set up the railway, like, admin and all of that sort of stuff. I actually had a question for Utam. We have a demo with them on… at 1. Is there anything specifically we wanted to demo with them?
282 00:28:08.940 ⇒ 00:28:10.819 Surf’s iPhone: Since we kind of just started with them.
283 00:28:14.520 ⇒ 00:28:15.599 Surf’s iPhone: Is this what I’m here?
284 00:28:17.610 ⇒ 00:28:20.219 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, no, not right now.
285 00:28:20.620 ⇒ 00:28:35.440 Surf’s iPhone: Oh, he just left. Yeah, but we got access and stuff like that, so the setup is gonna start, today, and then we are talking with, another engineer that we’re thinking of bringing on the team, to work potentially primarily on this project, so…
286 00:28:36.650 ⇒ 00:28:40.359 Awaish Kumar: Okay, and… Is that coming from your team? Like…
287 00:28:40.940 ⇒ 00:28:45.029 Surf’s iPhone: No, he’s gonna be a new Brainforge, engineer.
288 00:28:45.630 ⇒ 00:28:46.290 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
289 00:28:46.870 ⇒ 00:28:51.909 Awaish Kumar: And this one, this ticket, like, dedupliant platform, is it done? Like, can I move it to done?
290 00:28:52.080 ⇒ 00:28:53.989 Surf’s iPhone: No, it’s not done. No, no, it’s not done.
291 00:28:55.730 ⇒ 00:28:58.990 Surf’s iPhone: And none of those tickets are finished, you can put them both in. Are they in to-do?
292 00:28:59.270 ⇒ 00:29:01.840 Awaish Kumar: I mean, are they in progress? Okay.
293 00:29:02.230 ⇒ 00:29:04.330 Surf’s iPhone: Alright, but yeah, put them both in progress.
294 00:29:07.560 ⇒ 00:29:08.520 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
295 00:29:08.520 ⇒ 00:29:09.240 Surf’s iPhone: Oops.
296 00:29:09.840 ⇒ 00:29:12.560 Awaish Kumar: And… and… anything on Remo?
297 00:29:13.400 ⇒ 00:29:16.240 Surf’s iPhone: On the remote front,
298 00:29:16.380 ⇒ 00:29:35.940 Surf’s iPhone: talking with them all day, every day. I have a hiring meeting with them later today, because we’re bringing on resources and we’re staffing up, and we are in a back-and-forth conversation, with Cameron on getting the actual codebase from Remo. So…
299 00:29:36.240 ⇒ 00:29:38.769 Surf’s iPhone: A lot going on there.
300 00:29:40.280 ⇒ 00:29:42.130 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I saw…
301 00:29:42.130 ⇒ 00:29:43.970 Surf’s iPhone: God break.
302 00:29:44.120 ⇒ 00:29:44.830 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
303 00:29:46.130 ⇒ 00:29:52.040 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I saw some Slack messages where he says, like, he’s going to work with you to deploy the platform. I don’t…
304 00:29:52.040 ⇒ 00:29:54.769 Surf’s iPhone: Yeah, so… there’s some other stuff.
305 00:29:55.310 ⇒ 00:30:08.690 Surf’s iPhone: That everyone might not be privy to, so I’m… I’ve been talking with Adam again, Adam and Josh from ETL, like, via text, phone call, all sorts of stuff for the last, like, 3 days.
306 00:30:08.720 ⇒ 00:30:17.730 Surf’s iPhone: I mean, like, until, like, 9pm, so it’s actually a tenuous situation, that might get legal. So, yeah, there’s a lot going on there.
307 00:30:18.020 ⇒ 00:30:27.899 Surf’s iPhone: Because again, there’s a whole struggle around who owns the codebase, that sort of thing. And it is a preemptive blocker to our execution.
308 00:30:28.190 ⇒ 00:30:35.270 Surf’s iPhone: So, I’ll leave it as it is, but… stuff is moving, it’s just not moving the way I would want it to be moving.
309 00:30:36.700 ⇒ 00:30:37.410 Awaish Kumar: Okay.
310 00:30:38.960 ⇒ 00:30:43.060 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah, that’s it from… On my side?
311 00:30:43.060 ⇒ 00:30:43.630 Surf’s iPhone: everyone.
312 00:30:44.420 ⇒ 00:30:51.469 Awaish Kumar: Thank you. Gab, like, do you have… do you wanna give… Updates on internal AI work.
313 00:30:51.940 ⇒ 00:30:59.149 Gabriel Lam: Yeah, I think for internal, we’re gonna… Push things back, because…
314 00:30:59.740 ⇒ 00:31:13.509 Gabriel Lam: Utam had mentioned that this week is a pretty critical week for some of our clients. So, no real updates there. I’ve got a couple PRDs to talk with him about. Basically, there’s, like, a contextual AI partnership going on.
315 00:31:13.660 ⇒ 00:31:18.769 Gabriel Lam: But that… that… I’ll figure it out with him. So, no updates, really, on the internal side.
316 00:31:19.270 ⇒ 00:31:24.460 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah, I went, went, through Mustafa and KC for, like,
317 00:31:25.340 ⇒ 00:31:28.470 Awaish Kumar: For allocation, for the internal work, like, we…
318 00:31:28.750 ⇒ 00:31:39.019 Awaish Kumar: do have, for now, like, until we decide to make any other changes, they have, like, maybe 5-7 hours per week to work on internals, so…
319 00:31:39.550 ⇒ 00:31:52.429 Gabriel Lam: Okay, okay, yeah, there’s definitely stuff to work on, it’s just I want to make sure that client work gets pushed out first, and so… if there’s time, I’ll always ping them and let them know. Otherwise, I want them to focus on clients.
320 00:31:52.780 ⇒ 00:31:53.410 Awaish Kumar: Yeah.
321 00:31:54.400 ⇒ 00:31:55.419 Gabriel Lam: Awesome, thank you.
322 00:31:55.640 ⇒ 00:31:56.770 Awaish Kumar: Okay, thanks.
323 00:31:58.110 ⇒ 00:32:04.150 Awaish Kumar: So, is there anything else anybody wanna share, or is there any blocker we can discuss?
324 00:32:09.990 ⇒ 00:32:12.359 Awaish Kumar: I think we’re good. Sorry.
325 00:32:13.060 ⇒ 00:32:15.029 Gabriel Lam: No, no, no, we’re gone on our end.
326 00:32:15.220 ⇒ 00:32:21.219 Awaish Kumar: Okay, so actually, like, are we good with CTA stuff? Like, you know what to do and everything?
327 00:32:21.550 ⇒ 00:32:27.880 Ashwini Sharma: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will have some questions for Catherine directly, right? I’ll raise that to her.
328 00:32:28.260 ⇒ 00:32:29.950 Ashwini Sharma: But other than that, I’m good.
329 00:32:31.880 ⇒ 00:32:38.319 Awaish Kumar: Okay, and Devilare, what about, like, help for, Henry?
330 00:32:38.620 ⇒ 00:32:43.750 Awaish Kumar: I don’t know if… if you’re looking at their script, or… to help him?
331 00:32:44.260 ⇒ 00:32:46.479 Demilade Agboola: So for the script, I haven’t yet.
332 00:32:46.960 ⇒ 00:32:54.870 Demilade Agboola: It appears Descript is a plugin for some portal, so he has said he’ll reach out to the team to, like, figure out where to use it on.
333 00:32:55.120 ⇒ 00:33:04.840 Demilade Agboola: Because it’s… if you look at the scripts, it’s just trying to get data from somewhere, but, like, there’s no context to it, so he said he’ll get back to the team, and then get back to me.
334 00:33:05.190 ⇒ 00:33:10.239 Awaish Kumar: So, so there is no kind of URL hitting, like, or anything in the script?
335 00:33:10.240 ⇒ 00:33:19.950 Demilade Agboola: No, no, it’s just… there’s nothing that I can see. I’ll look through it again just to be sure, but there’s nothing I can see to that effect. It just appears to be JSON and JavaScript.
336 00:33:20.250 ⇒ 00:33:30.079 Demilade Agboola: About where to hit and how to handle, like, just functions, basically, and how to handle data, but there’s no actual plugin or, like, way it should be used.
337 00:33:30.360 ⇒ 00:33:31.460 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, okay.
338 00:33:33.360 ⇒ 00:33:40.070 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah, maybe you can, if you want, you can directly… Ping the team, like…
339 00:33:41.790 ⇒ 00:33:47.199 Awaish Kumar: This is for… Yeah, sure. You can maybe also can directly talk to them, like,
340 00:33:48.910 ⇒ 00:33:59.869 Awaish Kumar: Yeah, I’ll look at that today. To make it, like, fast, like, instead of, like, layers between us, like, we can just go in and ask them, like, what are the…
341 00:34:00.410 ⇒ 00:34:04.650 Awaish Kumar: ask there why we need that data, and, like, how can I get it?
342 00:34:06.040 ⇒ 00:34:09.300 Demilade Agboola: Okay, sounds good. I will reach out to the team.
343 00:34:11.420 ⇒ 00:34:13.080 Awaish Kumar: Okay, yeah, thank you.
344 00:34:15.719 ⇒ 00:34:18.970 Awaish Kumar: Okay, thank you everyone. See you in the next call. Thank you.
345 00:34:19.409 ⇒ 00:34:20.859 Demilade Agboola: Thank you. Bye.