Meeting Title: Brainforged Q1 Planning and Ops Sync Date: 2026-01-05 Meeting participants: Elizah Joy, Rico Rejoso, Uttam Kumaran, Clarence Stone


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1 00:03:00.220 00:03:03.970 Uttam Kumaran: Hi guys, sorry, just, finishing this note I’m gonna send out.

2 00:03:05.200 00:03:06.490 Uttam Kumaran: Happy New Year!

3 00:03:06.520 00:03:09.170 Rico Rejoso: Happy New Year, guys.

4 00:03:09.760 00:03:14.820 Uttam Kumaran: How was it? Tell me, what’s the… what was the, what was the highlight?

5 00:03:15.700 00:03:16.880 Rico Rejoso: It was loud.

6 00:03:18.070 00:03:19.680 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah?

7 00:03:20.700 00:03:23.340 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, we find ways to make it loud every new year.

8 00:03:25.270 00:03:26.150 Uttam Kumaran: Amazing.

9 00:03:29.360 00:03:42.339 Elizah Joy: Yeah, it’s the same for us, and my dog was really scared over the New Year, because there was a lot of, fireworks, so I had to spend, like, the entire New Year’s evening,

10 00:03:42.700 00:03:44.789 Elizah Joy: Like, calming her.

11 00:03:45.270 00:03:46.070 Uttam Kumaran: Hmm…

12 00:03:50.620 00:03:53.350 Uttam Kumaran: Nice. What else? You spend time with family?

13 00:03:56.240 00:03:57.360 Rico Rejoso: Yeah,

14 00:03:57.990 00:04:08.740 Rico Rejoso: I mean, it’s a tradition for us, I mean, for us, for everyone in the family to, like, you know, cook a dish that they’re, you know, they’re good at, and present it at the table for New Year’s Eve.

15 00:04:09.010 00:04:10.739 Uttam Kumaran: Really? What’d you… what did you make?

16 00:04:11.200 00:04:15.520 Rico Rejoso: for Christmas, I made lasagna and,

17 00:04:16.390 00:04:23.660 Rico Rejoso: What’s the other one? Mango Greyhound, kind of dessert, and the other, for New Year, I made lechon.

18 00:04:24.070 00:04:28.000 Rico Rejoso: And… Beef broccoli, yeah.

19 00:04:30.420 00:04:32.779 Uttam Kumaran: Amazing. Okay, beef broccoli is great.

20 00:04:33.740 00:04:36.169 Rico Rejoso: It is, yeah. That’s the Filipino version.

21 00:04:36.580 00:04:37.480 Rico Rejoso: Basically.

22 00:04:37.670 00:04:38.770 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.

23 00:04:42.410 00:04:44.449 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, what about you? Yeah, Eliza?

24 00:04:45.420 00:04:54.759 Elizah Joy: Oh, I only cooked spaghetti and also mango gray ham, because… I don’t know, I think it’s very popular here in the Philippines. Mmm.

25 00:04:54.990 00:04:57.980 Elizah Joy: For dessert, but mine tasted, like.

26 00:04:58.260 00:05:03.820 Elizah Joy: It’s not sweet, like I intended it to, so… felt like it’s so…

27 00:05:04.580 00:05:07.910 Elizah Joy: Put in a lot of, like, cream in there, so…

28 00:05:08.250 00:05:09.030 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

29 00:05:09.210 00:05:10.810 Elizah Joy: Hi, baby.

30 00:05:11.660 00:05:12.730 Uttam Kumaran: Hmm, okay.

31 00:05:16.460 00:05:21.220 Rico Rejoso: How about yours? How’s the New Year celebrated in… the U.S.

32 00:05:21.930 00:05:31.230 Uttam Kumaran: It was good! I need to send out some pictures, but I went skiing, spent some time with my girlfriend’s family for Christmas.

33 00:05:31.540 00:05:33.869 Uttam Kumaran: It was good.

34 00:05:34.210 00:05:36.560 Rico Rejoso: Really? So you… Okay, please.

35 00:05:37.140 00:05:42.869 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, but as you… I think I… this is actually… I didn’t work as much at all, which was good.

36 00:05:43.050 00:05:48.080 Uttam Kumaran: As you guys know, like, it was really, really kind of crazy.

37 00:05:48.280 00:06:06.089 Uttam Kumaran: to end the year, right? So, I’m… I was glad to take some time off, but… you guys are gonna see today, like, we have some pretty ambitious goals, and so I, I’m really, really excited. I mean, in particular, I’m excited for a lot of the new people that we have on the team, like you, Eliza.

38 00:06:06.230 00:06:15.330 Uttam Kumaran: You know, we’re working further with Greg, with Henry, we have some people we’re gonna recruit, so I’m super, super excited.

39 00:06:15.430 00:06:19.800 Uttam Kumaran: We have a really… we have a chance to double the company again this quarter.

40 00:06:20.160 00:06:36.360 Uttam Kumaran: And so I… I’m super, super amped to sort of make that a reality. I’m also very excited to pay everyone more money, and take that value that we generate and give it back to everyone here, and so…

41 00:06:36.510 00:06:44.730 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, maybe we can just jump in. Like, I think today, you know, there’s a lot of, you know, ops backlog to sort of take care of.

42 00:06:45.820 00:06:56.360 Uttam Kumaran: But the main thing I want to start by discussing is this, Forging the Future document. Have both of you guys seen this doc yet? I don’t know if I ended up sending this to you over the break.

43 00:06:57.820 00:07:00.390 Rico Rejoso: I just saw it now. I mean, a while ago.

44 00:07:01.840 00:07:03.799 Uttam Kumaran: Eliza, have you seen this yet?

45 00:07:04.110 00:07:13.090 Elizah Joy: I think, the ones that we’ve… Remember our meeting last year, so I was able to review that, but I think this to-do section is new.

46 00:07:13.330 00:07:14.869 Elizah Joy: So the one that… Correct.

47 00:07:15.150 00:07:19.739 Elizah Joy: So yeah, I’ve just reviewed it when you sent over the link earlier.

48 00:07:20.520 00:07:25.490 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, maybe, Rico, I can give you, like, maybe if you wanted to give… take, like, 5-6 minutes to read it.

49 00:07:25.620 00:07:27.810 Uttam Kumaran: This is gonna really dictate

50 00:07:28.460 00:07:33.989 Uttam Kumaran: A lot of our structure of, like, how things go over the next,

51 00:07:34.590 00:07:37.170 Uttam Kumaran: Sort of quarter here, at least, so…

52 00:07:37.230 00:07:38.510 Rico Rejoso: Maybe have a…

53 00:07:38.640 00:07:40.289 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe, Rico, I can have you…

54 00:07:40.800 00:07:51.740 Uttam Kumaran: do a quick read. Maybe in the meanwhile, Eliza, I’m just… I just wanted to sort of take notes in this Notion doc, with, like, just, like, immediate, like.

55 00:07:52.000 00:08:08.989 Uttam Kumaran: to-dos. I have, like, a hundred things that I’ve been waiting to slack about, so that I can just write it… I can just write some stuff down. Like, I know we had our… our operations planning, but I know there’s some immediate, like, to-dos today for, like, contracts and things like that.

56 00:08:09.150 00:08:14.409 Uttam Kumaran: So maybe if we want to also write that here, we can turn these into… into tickets.

57 00:08:14.960 00:08:21.370 Uttam Kumaran: So I’m just kind of thinking about any other categories of things that we…

58 00:08:21.510 00:08:26.709 Uttam Kumaran: we have to do today. Let me also just… I created a list last week.

59 00:08:29.540 00:08:37.299 Uttam Kumaran: And feel free, you can add anything, if there’s anything on your to-do list, if you want to add it here. I think today and tomorrow is going to be a lot of just catch-up.

60 00:08:37.539 00:08:42.030 Uttam Kumaran: And then, I think probably by the end of the week, we can get back into, like,

61 00:08:42.659 00:08:44.010 Uttam Kumaran: normal backlog.

62 00:08:53.500 00:09:01.809 Uttam Kumaran: And then, Clarence, I’m about to send out a note to everybody, and then I’m gonna go ahead and do a couple things. So I’m gonna work through down our…

63 00:09:02.700 00:09:07.519 Uttam Kumaran: So I’m gonna create a Slack channel for the EMs, the CSOs, the SLs.

64 00:09:07.800 00:09:12.379 Uttam Kumaran: I’m not gonna create a… I’m not gonna create a separate channel for all of the…

65 00:09:13.330 00:09:16.729 Uttam Kumaran: Are you calling them Project Leads? Is that, like, a good name?

66 00:09:17.990 00:09:20.209 Clarence Stone: Which ones? Which role?

67 00:09:20.210 00:09:22.619 Uttam Kumaran: like, CSO, like, just those in general.

68 00:09:22.620 00:09:35.729 Clarence Stone: Oh, like, I guess it’s all your leads. Okay, leads, great. It’s interesting, because there’s 3 of them, there’s probably some fun name that we could put together from here.

69 00:09:36.550 00:09:39.760 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, you’re now… you’re… you’re now head of naming, so…

70 00:09:39.760 00:09:40.570 Clarence Stone: I think you crushed it.

71 00:09:40.570 00:09:42.370 Uttam Kumaran: name, so you’re the best.

72 00:09:42.370 00:09:44.159 Clarence Stone: This is not something that I’m good at at all.

73 00:09:44.160 00:09:50.930 Uttam Kumaran: If you ask me to think about being creative, like, I’m not… I will waste… I will procrastinate, so…

74 00:09:53.600 00:09:54.570 Clarence Stone: You got it.

75 00:09:55.380 00:10:00.640 Uttam Kumaran: So, yeah, I’m gonna… I’m gonna go ahead and send a note. Basically, I’m saying… I’m saying if you’re on this list.

76 00:10:00.860 00:10:02.719 Uttam Kumaran: You’re assigned a leadership role.

77 00:10:02.840 00:10:06.249 Clarence Stone: I have time booked at 9.30 to review this with everybody.

78 00:10:06.400 00:10:10.879 Uttam Kumaran: Are you on that? Did I add you there?

79 00:10:11.750 00:10:13.640 Clarence Stone: I can’t make that one.

80 00:10:13.640 00:10:14.010 Uttam Kumaran: That’s fine.

81 00:10:14.350 00:10:19.889 Clarence Stone: I have a weird standing EUI call on Monday, Wednesday at the same exact time as y’all stand up.

82 00:10:19.890 00:10:24.229 Uttam Kumaran: That’s fine, it’s just the earliest time I know the West Coast people, Amber, will be up, so…

83 00:10:24.230 00:10:24.920 Clarence Stone: Yeah.

84 00:10:25.230 00:10:27.909 Uttam Kumaran: I just wanted to do that,

85 00:10:32.510 00:10:34.270 Uttam Kumaran: But, no worries, everybody.

86 00:10:34.270 00:10:37.339 Clarence Stone: Just, like, get feedback from them, right?

87 00:10:38.250 00:10:47.919 Uttam Kumaran: I’m… I’m not gonna… I’m… yeah, I’m mainly gonna send a doc now, I’m gonna say you have basically an hour to go through and leave comments, but this is it. Like, we’re gonna run with this.

88 00:10:48.080 00:10:59.380 Uttam Kumaran: And then I’m gonna walk through… I mean, I’m gonna start with the highlights, which is money, and then work kind of to the, like, okay, now this is all the things you’re doing.

89 00:11:01.030 00:11:02.889 Uttam Kumaran: So let me just shoot this…

90 00:11:42.170 00:11:46.470 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, maybe I’ll have you take a look at this message really quick, you tell me if I’m missing anything.

91 00:11:49.870 00:11:55.370 Clarence Stone: I don’t know who on the document is messaging as Magic Spoon. Is that you?

92 00:11:55.500 00:11:57.749 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, it is me, sorry, sorry, sorry.

93 00:11:57.750 00:12:02.200 Clarence Stone: I was just like, okay, like, it’s… Oh yeah, I’m like, logged in, let me log.

94 00:12:03.030 00:12:03.690 Clarence Stone: Dude, I…

95 00:12:03.690 00:12:06.550 Uttam Kumaran: I have so many… I have so many Gmails, yeah, let me log.

96 00:12:06.550 00:12:12.760 Clarence Stone: Yeah, I know, when I try to at you, it’s like… 17 different options.

97 00:12:12.760 00:12:17.590 Uttam Kumaran: It’s, yeah, it’s, we’ll fix it in post.

98 00:12:19.720 00:12:27.649 Clarence Stone: I would just flip the script to say, like, if you’re on this list, we’re happy to announce that.

99 00:12:28.340 00:12:29.210 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

100 00:12:29.210 00:12:34.100 Clarence Stone: where we want to make you a leader, something to that effect, right? Like.

101 00:12:42.090 00:12:45.729 Clarence Stone: yeah, I would like to promote you.

102 00:12:46.530 00:12:47.230 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

103 00:12:48.390 00:12:48.990 Clarence Stone: Yep.

104 00:12:54.030 00:12:54.990 Clarence Stone: Yeah.

105 00:12:59.830 00:13:00.510 Clarence Stone: Here.

106 00:13:01.520 00:13:02.200 Clarence Stone: Oop.

107 00:13:26.240 00:13:26.790 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

108 00:13:29.670 00:13:34.930 Uttam Kumaran: Great. And then, some changes to Q1 staffing.

109 00:13:35.160 00:13:38.070 Uttam Kumaran: So Jasmine is most likely out.

110 00:13:43.020 00:13:47.260 Uttam Kumaran: Gabe is still on the table.

111 00:13:49.240 00:13:50.290 Clarence Stone: Demi’s good.

112 00:13:51.920 00:13:56.210 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know if Demi’s gonna be able to do more than 3.

113 00:13:58.210 00:14:01.760 Clarence Stone: Yeah, but every 10 doesn’t really count, right?

114 00:14:01.760 00:14:04.609 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, Urban Stems doesn’t count. Okay, you’re right, fair, fair, fair.

115 00:14:04.610 00:14:06.160 Clarence Stone: 2020, yeah.

116 00:14:08.580 00:14:12.260 Uttam Kumaran: So, we should loop in him into Element today.

117 00:14:13.190 00:14:16.759 Uttam Kumaran: And I’ll… I’ll talk about… I’ll… I’ll basically…

118 00:14:22.450 00:14:25.370 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll basically walk through this with everybody today.

119 00:14:37.030 00:14:45.980 Uttam Kumaran: So, in particular, I’m gonna mark the things I want to discuss today, because some of these are not going to be immediate, so I want to discuss

120 00:14:46.630 00:14:56.199 Uttam Kumaran: Mustafa coming on here, I want to discuss… Demi on Element.

121 00:14:58.080 00:15:04.360 Uttam Kumaran: I want to discuss… Greg on here…

122 00:15:04.660 00:15:07.480 Uttam Kumaran: I want to discuss Zoron here.

123 00:15:08.730 00:15:12.740 Uttam Kumaran: I want to discuss…

124 00:15:26.490 00:15:28.060 Uttam Kumaran: AC here…

125 00:15:46.370 00:15:48.230 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s probably fair.

126 00:15:51.650 00:15:52.880 Uttam Kumaran: And then, did I…

127 00:15:54.590 00:15:57.029 Uttam Kumaran: Rico, you have a chance to read through?

128 00:15:59.440 00:16:00.970 Rico Rejoso: Yep, just a quick scan.

129 00:16:01.910 00:16:02.470 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

130 00:16:03.200 00:16:09.220 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, guys, I mean, that’s basically what we’re gonna try to put into place. Any, like…

131 00:16:09.930 00:16:11.660 Uttam Kumaran: Any questions?

132 00:16:12.300 00:16:17.960 Uttam Kumaran: Or… any thoughts? I guess today, what I want to just walk with you guys through is…

133 00:16:18.230 00:16:21.409 Uttam Kumaran: Is kind of, like, starting to execute some of the to-dos.

134 00:16:31.140 00:16:36.410 Uttam Kumaran: If no questions, then we can just start walking through…

135 00:16:36.970 00:16:45.030 Uttam Kumaran: you know, basically to do, so I’m gonna share… My Notion screen…

136 00:16:45.450 00:16:50.239 Uttam Kumaran: So what are some of the things we have to do? So we have to send out a new meeting structure, send out individual letters.

137 00:16:50.740 00:16:59.340 Uttam Kumaran: Black channels, one-on-ones with each proj… with each… New leader…

138 00:17:01.490 00:17:03.289 Uttam Kumaran: What other to-dos do we have?

139 00:17:24.910 00:17:27.979 Clarence Stone: this is not an immediate thing with Tom, but I think…

140 00:17:28.250 00:17:34.899 Clarence Stone: we should formalize everything that’s in that Google Doc at some point into the Notion, find a home for it.

141 00:17:35.860 00:17:39.990 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so, basically move this into Notion.

142 00:17:40.660 00:17:41.230 Clarence Stone: Yep.

143 00:17:58.010 00:18:10.000 Uttam Kumaran: So I’m also gonna do this… I’m gonna say… Non-negotiables… Put this here… Oops.

144 00:18:11.290 00:18:15.460 Uttam Kumaran: this here… Great.

145 00:18:20.180 00:18:23.050 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, anything else?

146 00:18:24.120 00:18:29.259 Uttam Kumaran: So, I think, Clarence, can you walk, Eliza and Rico through…

147 00:18:29.490 00:18:33.259 Uttam Kumaran: The letters we want to write, and maybe they can…

148 00:18:33.730 00:18:37.899 Uttam Kumaran: start to work on those. I’m gonna go ahead and send out the new…

149 00:18:39.430 00:18:45.099 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna send out new meetings, and I’m going to, create the Slack channels right now.

150 00:18:45.650 00:18:54.549 Clarence Stone: Sure, yeah, so, Utam, like, what did you think about the letter layout? Like, did you have any thoughts about it before we kind of commit to the format?

151 00:18:54.750 00:18:56.300 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

152 00:18:59.610 00:19:01.970 Clarence Stone: Let me bring it up, just give me a second.

153 00:19:08.780 00:19:10.370 Clarence Stone: Come on…

154 00:19:19.020 00:19:21.210 Clarence Stone: Oh, there you go, you’re in it.

155 00:19:25.210 00:19:37.739 Clarence Stone: So, team, the whole point of this agreement is to get acknowledgement from all the new leaders in their roles about what their expectations are going to be.

156 00:19:37.770 00:19:56.069 Clarence Stone: what demands are going to be out of their role, like behaviors, and, also give them clear directions on what needs to happen within the next week or two, right? So you’ll see that it’s laid out as, hey, this is your leadership opportunity, and,

157 00:19:56.220 00:20:11.090 Clarence Stone: And an invitation to make this transition to leadership. And then there’s, you know, different messages based on their leadership role, so, I would just clean up these bullets to match the one that is gonna go out to that person.

158 00:20:11.090 00:20:27.859 Clarence Stone: This section gives clear expectations of what the leader should do next, and this is just what we’re refining real quick right now. And this is behaviors and standards for what we want every leader to have, so this stays the same. And then, Lutam, I don’t know if you want to put in, like.

159 00:20:27.880 00:20:44.430 Clarence Stone: actual numbers here, but this is, you know, the comp structure that’s now available to the leadership role. And really, this is an acknowledgement to say, hey, I understand I’m gonna be a leader, this is what’s demanded of me as a leader, these are the things I need to do immediately, and this is, you know, the rewards of being a leader.

160 00:20:53.250 00:20:54.550 Uttam Kumaran: Does that make sense, guys?

161 00:20:55.970 00:21:00.160 Rico Rejoso: So you’re gonna send this out individually for the role you’re given to?

162 00:21:00.950 00:21:03.140 Uttam Kumaran: That is correct.

163 00:21:03.430 00:21:08.749 Uttam Kumaran: So, one thing I want to do as part of this benefits is I want to turn this into…

164 00:21:08.870 00:21:14.390 Uttam Kumaran: A small, like, basically spreadsheet for each person.

165 00:21:14.570 00:21:16.949 Uttam Kumaran: Where we can calculate what this is.

166 00:21:17.510 00:21:20.699 Uttam Kumaran: So, for example, everybody who gets this letter will get

167 00:21:21.220 00:21:26.629 Uttam Kumaran: An immediate 5% bonus, it should say what that number means for that person.

168 00:21:29.480 00:21:30.780 Uttam Kumaran: Does that make sense?

169 00:21:30.950 00:21:31.520 Rico Rejoso: Okay.

170 00:21:31.840 00:21:32.510 Rico Rejoso: Yep.

171 00:21:33.700 00:21:40.119 Uttam Kumaran: So what we need help with is basically drafting a version of this for each of those people that I sent that note for.

172 00:21:40.260 00:21:42.539 Uttam Kumaran: With this portion filled out.

173 00:21:46.520 00:21:50.810 Uttam Kumaran: And then that way, we can… we can basically send this to each person.

174 00:21:51.540 00:21:53.480 Uttam Kumaran: Today, and kind of get the signature.

175 00:21:58.410 00:22:03.829 Uttam Kumaran: And we can use the Google Docs signature, we don’t have to send it through Documents, though, necessarily, but…

176 00:22:04.340 00:22:07.170 Uttam Kumaran: That’s sort of the ask. I’m good with all the content, though.

177 00:22:12.670 00:22:13.440 Rico Rejoso: Gotcha.

178 00:22:36.440 00:22:39.400 Rico Rejoso: For the new client bonus, how does that work?

179 00:22:42.450 00:22:45.479 Rico Rejoso: Is that when there’s a new client that we signed to?

180 00:22:46.530 00:22:55.310 Uttam Kumaran: Yes. So, this is, like, new client, which is, like, net new logo. Like, a brand new client. New deal is, like.

181 00:22:55.460 00:22:59.159 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s say we’re within a client, and we sign another project with them.

182 00:22:59.620 00:23:03.449 Rico Rejoso: So once they’re assigned to that new client, they immediately get a 10%.

183 00:23:03.760 00:23:06.130 Rico Rejoso: Over the first 6 months of the contract.

184 00:23:06.750 00:23:09.380 Uttam Kumaran: Well, they’re gonna get it after the…

185 00:23:09.920 00:23:12.219 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay. After we end up collecting it.

186 00:23:13.240 00:23:13.790 Rico Rejoso: Okay.

187 00:23:14.410 00:23:14.920 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

188 00:23:46.790 00:23:49.250 Uttam Kumaran: Alright, give me one second, let me just grab my laptop.

189 00:23:59.880 00:24:01.549 Rico Rejoso: And for the New Deal bonus.

190 00:24:01.670 00:24:04.370 Rico Rejoso: 5% will be given to all…

191 00:24:04.830 00:24:07.509 Rico Rejoso: project leaders, CSO, EP, and SL, right?

192 00:24:08.890 00:24:10.519 Clarence Stone: Can you repeat that? Sorry.

193 00:24:10.520 00:24:15.800 Rico Rejoso: I mean, for the New Deal bonus, the 5% will be given to all project leaders, which are the.

194 00:24:15.800 00:24:28.460 Clarence Stone: Oh, no, no, it’s… this is an individual basis, so, like, if one person helps with securing that new deal, that’s what they’re getting, right? These are individual comp structures.

195 00:24:28.810 00:24:29.360 Rico Rejoso: Okay.

196 00:24:29.760 00:24:36.460 Uttam Kumaran: So this is just gonna be mainly, like, the numbers on the bottom are just gonna be examples of, like, what you could earn, basically.

197 00:24:56.080 00:24:58.350 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I’m good. I don’t have any questions so far.

198 00:24:58.880 00:25:01.139 Rico Rejoso: I’ll look deeper into this later.

199 00:25:33.830 00:25:40.440 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so that’s probably one big item, anything else?

200 00:25:52.150 00:25:52.870 Rico Rejoso: on…

201 00:25:53.680 00:25:57.139 Uttam Kumaran: I think I’ll probably end up owning the…

202 00:25:57.830 00:26:03.550 Uttam Kumaran: Like, meetings for now, and then we can transition them, just so there’s not, like, confusion.

203 00:26:04.290 00:26:07.790 Uttam Kumaran: So the other meeting I’m gonna book…

204 00:26:08.130 00:26:14.210 Uttam Kumaran: So the kind of the meetings we have are going to be…

205 00:26:17.080 00:26:19.899 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so there’s gonna be the CSO meeting…

206 00:26:39.800 00:26:45.550 Rico Rejoso: So that’ll be, like, one per week. How do we, book those meetings? Do we need to do it, like…

207 00:26:45.770 00:26:46.679 Rico Rejoso: Every day.

208 00:26:47.320 00:26:50.860 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so, I’m gonna go ahead and,

209 00:26:52.150 00:26:56.859 Uttam Kumaran: Well, I’m gonna book just one per week with each of the core leads.

210 00:26:56.860 00:26:57.420 Rico Rejoso: Okay.

211 00:26:57.420 00:26:58.279 Uttam Kumaran: and me.

212 00:26:59.280 00:27:05.279 Uttam Kumaran: And you guys can feel free to join as many as you want.

213 00:27:05.700 00:27:12.470 Uttam Kumaran: And then, also on Wednesday, we’re gonna do, like, a meeting with the CSOs,

214 00:27:12.790 00:27:24.910 Uttam Kumaran: Regarding, like, presentations. So this will be, like, CSO, client, Presentation… Like, dry run, basically?

215 00:27:26.390 00:27:32.010 Uttam Kumaran: And then bi-weekly, we’re gonna book one for sales and delivery.

216 00:27:32.240 00:27:35.890 Uttam Kumaran: So, I’m going to go ahead and, and,

217 00:27:40.310 00:27:42.879 Uttam Kumaran: message Luke to sort of set that up?

218 00:27:49.700 00:28:00.820 Clarence Stone: So, Utam, for that dry run, if we divide and conquer, it’ll be easier. So, like, just depending on who’s free, we can split up that dry run.

219 00:28:02.760 00:28:06.380 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean… I’m… I’m down for that, too.

220 00:28:08.390 00:28:11.090 Uttam Kumaran: Like, what are you thinking?

221 00:28:12.530 00:28:19.720 Clarence Stone: like, if we’re doing 6 rock runs, and you and I are free, just split the meeting in two. We’ll do 3, do 3.

222 00:28:19.720 00:28:20.670 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.

223 00:28:20.670 00:28:21.290 Clarence Stone: freak, you know.

224 00:28:21.290 00:28:24.210 Uttam Kumaran: Well, we can just join, and then do a breakout room, too.

225 00:28:24.630 00:28:30.760 Clarence Stone: Yeah, yeah, we can figure that out, like, as it happens, I think, like,

226 00:28:32.140 00:28:35.970 Clarence Stone: Yeah, cause it’s gonna be 6 presentations, right? At least.

227 00:28:36.530 00:28:40.419 Clarence Stone: Yeah. It’s gonna be rough for one person to sit through all that.

228 00:28:40.910 00:28:41.520 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

229 00:28:55.140 00:29:01.259 Uttam Kumaran: And then, so for the sales and delivery meeting, is that just gonna be sales and the CSOs?

230 00:29:04.260 00:29:05.660 Uttam Kumaran: Like, bi-weekly?

231 00:29:11.880 00:29:12.980 Uttam Kumaran: What do you think?

232 00:29:15.260 00:29:16.900 Clarence Stone: I think that’s fine.

233 00:29:17.510 00:29:18.150 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

234 00:29:19.610 00:29:26.020 Clarence Stone: Because Robert’s implementing his new system, too, it looks pretty awesome, so… .

235 00:29:26.020 00:29:26.840 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

236 00:29:27.500 00:29:30.889 Uttam Kumaran: So I guess I’m just gonna have sales plus delivery, CSOs…

237 00:29:31.510 00:29:33.329 Uttam Kumaran: And then plus the service leads.

238 00:29:33.850 00:29:34.380 Clarence Stone: Yup.

239 00:29:46.440 00:29:54.079 Clarence Stone: Also, Alex, expressed interest in helping out with those dry runs, too, so… Toss them in there.

240 00:29:55.670 00:29:57.980 Clarence Stone: I don’t know if that timing works for him, though.

241 00:30:59.340 00:31:07.730 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so I’m gonna also… I’ll have, robert… and Sam…

242 00:31:07.930 00:31:11.229 Uttam Kumaran: Go ahead and send out invites for the other two services.

243 00:31:12.290 00:31:17.310 Uttam Kumaran: I booked all of the four meetings, except EM and ops.

244 00:31:19.250 00:31:22.349 Uttam Kumaran: So maybe this is something, Eliza, I can ask you to own?

245 00:31:23.220 00:31:27.050 Uttam Kumaran: Which is… This meeting.

246 00:31:27.050 00:31:27.790 Elizah Joy: Yeah.

247 00:31:27.790 00:31:30.800 Uttam Kumaran: So, like, all the engagement managers and ops.

248 00:31:32.230 00:31:36.640 Uttam Kumaran: So they’re gonna come with questions about resourcing, And…

249 00:31:37.240 00:31:39.579 Uttam Kumaran: Like, tool selection and things like that.

250 00:31:41.300 00:31:41.840 Elizah Joy: Okay.

251 00:31:46.600 00:31:47.730 Uttam Kumaran: Okay…

252 00:32:19.570 00:32:22.680 Uttam Kumaran: Thanks, Rico. Yeah, check marks, there would be helpful.

253 00:33:50.290 00:33:53.100 Clarence Stone: Did you want to do an All Hands this Friday, too?

254 00:33:53.230 00:33:54.560 Clarence Stone: Sawa, you were…

255 00:33:56.010 00:33:59.039 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, we already have one scheduled for Friday.

256 00:33:59.340 00:34:00.460 Clarence Stone: Okay, perfect.

257 00:34:10.330 00:34:14.159 Clarence Stone: I think the only thing that’s on my mind is…

258 00:34:16.310 00:34:25.460 Clarence Stone: Whether or not there’s good references and write-ups on how to create those Gantts, And… project documentation.

259 00:34:25.889 00:34:35.290 Clarence Stone: If there aren’t standards, like, we should whip some up together and put them in Notion so that the EPs have some guidance on formatting.

260 00:34:40.449 00:34:42.039 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah, okay, yeah.

261 00:34:43.109 00:34:45.609 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I don’t think any of that exists right now.

262 00:34:46.000 00:34:54.729 Clarence Stone: Okay, then I ask you one thing. Can you give me some great examples of, like, what’s… what right looks like? And I’ll… I’ll put together a.

263 00:34:54.739 00:34:58.229 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so all of that is actually… there are a bunch in the vault.

264 00:34:58.929 00:35:00.739 Uttam Kumaran: So the brain, not in the…

265 00:35:00.740 00:35:02.890 Clarence Stone: Where the heck is the vault?

266 00:35:02.890 00:35:07.010 Uttam Kumaran: Sorry, not in Vault, in… there’s Vault, and there’s Playbooks. Vault is, like…

267 00:35:07.350 00:35:13.299 Uttam Kumaran: meeting transcripts and things like that. Playbooks has all the examples. So if you’re in GitHub.

268 00:35:15.300 00:35:15.760 Clarence Stone: Oh.

269 00:35:15.760 00:35:16.440 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t think I’m.

270 00:35:16.550 00:35:17.670 Clarence Stone: We did.

271 00:35:18.800 00:35:24.370 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, or send me your, send me your, your username.

272 00:35:24.890 00:35:26.840 Clarence Stone: Sure, yeah, I’ll ping you right now.

273 00:36:13.490 00:36:17.369 Clarence Stone: Okay, I made sure to have an account, so I should be good to go.

274 00:36:19.210 00:36:20.200 Uttam Kumaran: Okay…

275 00:39:58.710 00:40:05.389 Uttam Kumaran: Also, now that it’s… now that I’m, like, CSO on some projects, it actually makes it really easy for me, because I’ll just go do my job, you know?

276 00:40:07.730 00:40:10.509 Uttam Kumaran: It’s great, like, I’m not, like, asking other people to, like, step in.

277 00:40:14.780 00:40:17.439 Clarence Stone: It’s nice to just have the boundaries and understand.

278 00:40:17.440 00:40:17.960 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.

279 00:40:20.170 00:40:38.800 Clarence Stone: Essentially, like, that’s all we’re doing. This is for the ops team, by the way, like, that’s what we’ve done in this transition, is give clear guidelines on who’s responsible for what. In terms of, like, project function, I want everyone to know that, like, we haven’t changed anything fundamental to the way

280 00:40:38.930 00:40:40.710 Clarence Stone: Projects are… are done.

281 00:40:58.080 00:41:02.029 Clarence Stone: I gotta hop to another call soon. You need anything else right now?

282 00:41:02.390 00:41:03.810 Uttam Kumaran: No, I think that’s it, yeah.

283 00:41:04.040 00:41:07.360 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. We can stay on Eliza, Rico, if you guys are still working on stuff.

284 00:41:09.170 00:41:16.439 Clarence Stone: Yeah, and tonight, I guess, well, I’ll knock out, you know, some guidance on work products for EPs.

285 00:41:18.390 00:41:20.070 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, perfect, okay.

286 00:41:21.010 00:41:22.600 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, then I’ll see you in a bit, too.

287 00:41:22.920 00:41:24.230 Clarence Stone: Yeah, talk to you soon.

288 00:41:24.230 00:41:25.339 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, alright, bye.

289 00:44:08.330 00:44:08.880 Rico Rejoso: Dude.

290 00:45:38.430 00:45:43.840 Rico Rejoso: You want us to book the end-of-week check-ins for the first… 4 weeks.

291 00:45:44.540 00:45:47.390 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, that would be great.

292 00:45:47.860 00:45:50.559 Rico Rejoso: We can just do this crew…

293 00:45:50.720 00:45:54.780 Uttam Kumaran: and Robert, on Fridays.

294 00:45:57.140 00:46:02.290 Uttam Kumaran: So, me, ops… Robert is probably best for now.

295 00:46:03.990 00:46:04.600 Rico Rejoso: Gotcha.

296 00:46:06.240 00:46:07.660 Uttam Kumaran: Just 4 weeks is okay.

297 00:46:15.480 00:46:18.090 Rico Rejoso: Also include Clarence on that meeting, okay?

298 00:46:18.960 00:46:19.640 Uttam Kumaran: Sorry?

299 00:46:19.760 00:46:21.580 Rico Rejoso: Should we also include Clarence?

300 00:46:22.110 00:46:24.070 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, yes, please include Clarence, yeah.

301 00:46:24.310 00:46:24.940 Rico Rejoso: Okay.

302 00:46:27.610 00:46:28.270 Rico Rejoso: Thank you.

303 00:46:33.610 00:46:40.440 Rico Rejoso: And by one-on-ones, should that be you speaking to them one-on-one? So each… CSO, or project leads.

304 00:46:40.440 00:46:48.940 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, basically, I like to book a one-on-one with every project lead over the next… Two weeks.

305 00:46:49.420 00:46:55.399 Uttam Kumaran: So… you can either book in the morning, like, any time after 6 AM Central.

306 00:46:56.090 00:46:59.710 Uttam Kumaran: Or whenever you find time, basically.

307 00:47:00.440 00:47:07.480 Uttam Kumaran: I’d like to end up… and that could be… that’s basically… you can include me, Ian Clarence there.

308 00:47:09.070 00:47:10.310 Rico Rejoso: Gotcha.

309 00:47:10.310 00:47:11.000 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you.

310 00:48:37.190 00:48:40.830 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, so, also, Eliza, maybe you and I can chat.

311 00:48:40.940 00:48:45.220 Rico Rejoso: Later, just a few catch-up for the op… on the operations as well.

312 00:48:45.430 00:48:46.930 Rico Rejoso: The fee discussion.

313 00:49:00.560 00:49:06.639 Rico Rejoso: With them also, I’ll be sending Zarin’s, amendment contract for your signature. Okay.

314 00:49:07.030 00:49:07.870 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

315 00:49:13.390 00:49:18.260 Rico Rejoso: I mean, we’re good with the implementation of the amendment, since Zoran is the one who edited this.

316 00:49:18.730 00:49:20.010 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s fine.

317 00:50:23.840 00:50:26.240 Uttam Kumaran: I also added two docs here, guys.

318 00:50:26.500 00:50:29.730 Uttam Kumaran: For you guys to review.

319 00:50:30.110 00:50:31.240 Uttam Kumaran: This is one.

320 00:50:31.370 00:50:34.999 Uttam Kumaran: Brainforged Total Rewards, something me and Clarence worked on.

321 00:50:35.210 00:50:35.610 Rico Rejoso: Okay.

322 00:50:35.610 00:50:39.360 Uttam Kumaran: as well as… A recruiting doc here.

323 00:50:40.140 00:50:45.620 Uttam Kumaran: The other thing that we’re gonna need help with after today is also updating operating.

324 00:50:52.880 00:50:56.989 Uttam Kumaran: basically based on, the Q1 assignments.

325 00:50:57.500 00:50:58.780 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s here.

326 00:51:00.540 00:51:01.210 Rico Rejoso: Okay.

327 00:51:02.360 00:51:07.209 Uttam Kumaran: So, mainly that’ll be, like, yeah, putting everybody into the right roles, into operating.

328 00:51:07.420 00:51:09.830 Uttam Kumaran: Not… not… not the highest priority.

329 00:51:13.300 00:51:15.200 Uttam Kumaran: Gotcha, we’ll probably get it done.

330 00:51:15.540 00:51:16.709 Rico Rejoso: After this period.

331 00:51:17.310 00:51:17.840 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

332 00:56:14.980 00:56:23.260 Uttam Kumaran: The other thing, Rico, I think we’re gonna change, title for… Henry?

333 00:56:26.190 00:56:28.469 Rico Rejoso: Okay. Let me.

334 00:56:43.600 00:56:52.450 Uttam Kumaran: So, this is, like, how we’re gonna start doing… Basically, like, salary ranges?

335 00:56:52.870 00:56:56.359 Uttam Kumaran: This is another item that I would like you guys to…

336 00:56:56.690 00:57:03.880 Uttam Kumaran: to take a look at when you have a chance, but Clarence and I worked on this. Basically, this is how we’re gonna start doing,

337 00:57:04.640 00:57:05.880 Uttam Kumaran: like, leveling?

338 00:57:07.160 00:57:12.400 Uttam Kumaran: So, for example, Previously, we sort of hire, and we kind of…

339 00:57:12.530 00:57:21.329 Uttam Kumaran: arrive at ranges. Now, basically what we decided to do is we’re gonna… we’re gonna cement what the junior, mid, and senior level ranges are.

340 00:57:21.720 00:57:25.419 Uttam Kumaran: We basically put in, like, what we estimate, like, the bonuses to be.

341 00:57:25.660 00:57:31.820 Uttam Kumaran: And this is sort of, like, where we want to end up longer term, once we layer on healthcare and other…

342 00:57:32.040 00:57:34.019 Uttam Kumaran: Other benefits?

343 00:57:34.190 00:57:40.380 Uttam Kumaran: So this is probably gonna end up being, like, future, which is, like… Q3, maybe.

344 00:57:40.800 00:57:45.899 Uttam Kumaran: And so what this shows is basically how, when we go to make an offer to somebody.

345 00:57:46.050 00:57:57.450 Uttam Kumaran: how we’re gonna line them up to, a rank, like, junior, mid-senior, and a title, which is, like, analyst, or data engineer, or analytics engineer.

346 00:57:57.710 00:58:00.970 Uttam Kumaran: So this is sort of, like, how we’re going to…

347 00:58:01.320 00:58:06.340 Uttam Kumaran: arrive at these. That way, what we’re gonna start doing is when we go to recruit candidates.

348 00:58:06.490 00:58:15.339 Uttam Kumaran: we’re not gonna debate… we’re not gonna, like, wait till the end to be like, okay, well, how much do you want? It’s gonna be… it’s gonna be a lot more upfront on, like, what our budgets are.

349 00:58:15.460 00:58:22.960 Uttam Kumaran: And we’re actually gonna share this with everybody, and be much more transparent about how we do payments, and, like, how people get paid.

350 00:58:23.090 00:58:27.360 Uttam Kumaran: So this, along with a total rewards document, is gonna be…

351 00:58:27.720 00:58:31.790 Uttam Kumaran: Basically, up front, we’re gonna share this with candidates, like, here’s how we do…

352 00:58:32.170 00:58:34.840 Uttam Kumaran: salary, and because I actually think…

353 00:58:35.040 00:58:39.150 Uttam Kumaran: And this is where, like, I’m interested in what you guys think about this and the total rewards doc.

354 00:58:39.360 00:58:41.809 Uttam Kumaran: But I feel like this is actually…

355 00:58:42.020 00:58:46.110 Uttam Kumaran: like, very, very fair. I think we… Clarence and I looked, and we’re…

356 00:58:46.370 00:58:58.570 Uttam Kumaran: we’re paying, like, typically above range, and this doesn’t include bonuses and the rest of, like, the total rewards. So I want you guys to take a look at this, because this will be a big part of, like, how we…

357 00:58:59.330 00:59:02.109 Uttam Kumaran: End up doing, you know, compensation.

358 00:59:02.390 00:59:09.130 Uttam Kumaran: But one thing, Rico, is if we could change Henry’s title, if we could just change to,

359 00:59:09.830 00:59:14.490 Uttam Kumaran: We can just say… I don’t even know…

360 00:59:14.600 00:59:19.639 Uttam Kumaran: Let me see if there’s a right word for this, hold on one second. Basically, we want to move him to mid-level.

361 00:59:19.960 00:59:26.950 Uttam Kumaran: Analyst, but I don’t know what the… If there’s a right word.

362 00:59:32.410 00:59:35.770 Rico Rejoso: Currently, he’s at Senior CDP Solutions, right?

363 00:59:39.340 00:59:40.020 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.

364 00:59:59.060 01:00:01.769 Uttam Kumaran: I would… it would be great for,

365 01:00:01.960 01:00:07.470 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so we can just put, mid-level analyst.

366 01:00:09.860 01:00:13.069 Uttam Kumaran: As his… as the new role for him.

367 01:00:14.470 01:00:16.249 Rico Rejoso: Mid-level data analyst.

368 01:00:22.080 01:00:34.360 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, and then let me… let’s go ahead and hop to the other meeting, but you guys kind of get a sense of, like, what we’re trying to do today, so just keep slacking me as you need things. The other thing that’s important is,

369 01:00:34.590 01:00:40.480 Uttam Kumaran: Deshu, who I put in the Notion, he’s interviewing for the ops lead role.

370 01:00:41.020 01:00:52.739 Uttam Kumaran: I think you guys will really like him. He’s based here in Austin, so I would love for him to start to meet some people on the team, so if you guys can help get that scheduled as well, I put some of the notes in that document, too.

371 01:00:53.260 01:00:55.999 Rico Rejoso: Okay, we’ll review that and get back to you if we have any questions.

372 01:00:56.260 01:01:00.369 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, thanks guys. I know it’s a little bit all over the place, so just keep pinging me with some questions.

373 01:01:00.370 01:01:03.550 Rico Rejoso: Whether you want to get all the notes in the forging doc or here.

374 01:01:03.550 01:01:15.780 Uttam Kumaran: as to-dos, but yeah, I think we’re just gonna have some backlog today, so just keep track of things and get them in the tickets. There’s still… also, there’s a bunch of things on the finance side that we need to take care of. I’ll start to send you guys that as well.

375 01:01:16.110 01:01:20.910 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, we’ll probably end up reviewing a lot of stuff today, and maybe get back to you with any questions that we have.

376 01:01:21.430 01:01:22.639 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, great.

377 01:01:23.170 01:01:25.080 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, thanks guys, I’ll hop to another meeting.

378 01:01:25.390 01:01:26.359 Rico Rejoso: Thank you, guys.

379 01:01:27.150 01:01:28.220 Elizah Joy: You’re funny.