Meeting Title: Brainforge Strategy and Engineering Sync Date: 2026-01-29 Meeting participants: Mustafa Raja, Amber Lin, Robert Tseng, Uttam Kumaran


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1 00:03:19.490 00:03:20.340 Mustafa Raja: Hey.

2 00:03:22.450 00:03:23.500 Robert Tseng: Hey, everyone.

3 00:03:23.710 00:03:24.690 Mustafa Raja: Hey, how are you?

4 00:03:26.170 00:03:27.840 Robert Tseng: I’m good.

5 00:03:29.370 00:03:35.120 Robert Tseng: Running into some… cursor… Challenges…

6 00:03:42.380 00:03:44.120 Mustafa Raja: Have you been actively using it, or…

7 00:03:44.310 00:03:45.040 Mustafa Raja: Ig.

8 00:03:45.040 00:03:48.359 Robert Tseng: Yeah, yeah, I have been. I just,

9 00:03:49.220 00:04:01.990 Robert Tseng: I think the way that Utam was envisioning, like, using Brainforge playbooks versus the Brainforge vaults, like, I just did not really… we’re just not on the same page, so…

10 00:04:03.070 00:04:07.040 Robert Tseng: Like, he likes to put examples into…

11 00:04:07.870 00:04:12.529 Robert Tseng: Vault, and I’ve been writing playbooks into Vault, so I think I just, like.

12 00:04:13.210 00:04:14.850 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I think we… I just…

13 00:04:15.310 00:04:26.660 Robert Tseng: I mean, I’ve been spending, like, the past, like, 30 minutes, like, trying to, like, figure out how to reconcile, like, the differences, and to merge what I’ve been doing locally into…

14 00:04:27.440 00:04:36.609 Robert Tseng: the Brainforge platform, anyway, like, it’s just some random engineering stuff, so…

15 00:04:38.490 00:04:45.430 Robert Tseng: Okay, but anyway, I’m gonna try to switch gears for now, and just, we can… we can talk about the strat… we can talk about strategy.

16 00:04:52.260 00:05:10.969 Mustafa Raja: I was wondering if I could grab some time with you? What I would need that for is, we have this Gantt chart for product analytics for default, and I need to estimate hours for these tasks. So, Greg told me that you might be the best point of contact for that.

17 00:05:11.730 00:05:12.569 Robert Tseng: Yeah, sure.

18 00:05:13.310 00:05:16.630 Mustafa Raja: Okay, I’ll grab some time for Lisa today, if that’s okay.

19 00:05:17.120 00:05:18.309 Robert Tseng: Yeah, today’s great.

20 00:05:18.310 00:05:18.900 Mustafa Raja: Okay.

21 00:05:25.800 00:05:29.660 Robert Tseng: Alright, and then, Amber, you wanna… Go through your piece.

22 00:05:31.330 00:05:38.020 Amber Lin: I know we have a meeting… on-site for ABC Discovery today?

23 00:05:38.140 00:05:43.419 Amber Lin: It overlaps with my meeting with Yvette, and…

24 00:05:45.380 00:05:50.119 Uttam Kumaran: ask if we can move that. I was gonna talk to you as soon as you were on, basically.

25 00:05:52.980 00:05:56.190 Amber Lin: I can ask them if they can adjust.

26 00:05:57.240 00:06:10.339 Amber Lin: I mean, if I… if I can do it in 30 minutes, can I hop onto the other one in 30 minutes? That’s fine. Okay, so I’ll just… I’ll shorten that, and then I’ll hop over.

27 00:06:10.560 00:06:15.549 Amber Lin: After it’s done, because I think on-site usually takes a bit to start.

28 00:06:16.120 00:06:16.700 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

29 00:06:17.100 00:06:17.910 Amber Lin: Okay.

30 00:06:18.920 00:06:24.369 Amber Lin: Do you have a slide deck that you’re using today, if I can add to that?

31 00:06:25.510 00:06:33.249 Uttam Kumaran: I… I just have Zorons, so we can attach any of your stuff anywhere, basically.

32 00:06:33.570 00:06:37.720 Amber Lin: Okay, okay. Alright.

33 00:06:40.610 00:06:44.630 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, and if you want me to help, I have time between now and then, so…

34 00:06:45.510 00:06:54.149 Uttam Kumaran: just let me know where I can be helpful. So the plan today is, like, to go through, like, the kind of a lot of the services piece and the commercial piece, right?

35 00:06:55.480 00:07:13.009 Amber Lin: Okay, okay. I can go through what I have from Evolve. I don’t have too much from Dream yet. Do you think it’s possible to land Dream data in there today? I can spin up a little bit of stuff.

36 00:07:13.400 00:07:15.050 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, she sent something.

37 00:07:15.970 00:07:26.240 Amber Lin: I have the… I have the files, it’ll just be a lot easier to reference, if it’s in BigQuery. If not, I’ll download them and see what I can do.

38 00:07:26.520 00:07:31.119 Uttam Kumaran: Did Mustafa or other folks land that already to you, or no?

39 00:07:31.390 00:07:34.150 Amber Lin: In BigQuery? No, I don’t see it there.

40 00:07:34.580 00:07:36.560 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, then, yeah, I can,

41 00:07:37.190 00:07:39.019 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll… I’ll try to push this out.

42 00:07:39.390 00:07:40.600 Amber Lin: Okay, cool.

43 00:07:40.600 00:07:44.689 Uttam Kumaran: Is it… can you… do you have a sense of, like, what… you almost want all of it in there?

44 00:07:45.970 00:07:53.580 Amber Lin: That would be the easiest, but if… let’s start with,

45 00:07:53.770 00:07:59.589 Amber Lin: The sales summary report, and then… let me see if they have added other stuff.

46 00:08:01.890 00:08:08.520 Amber Lin: Because ideally, I want the lead details, and I think sales summary, and then the activities.

47 00:08:09.340 00:08:11.790 Amber Lin: So, I will… I’ll send the…

48 00:08:12.460 00:08:14.930 Amber Lin: I think I can send the table names to you.

49 00:08:16.020 00:08:16.620 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.

50 00:08:17.270 00:08:17.810 Amber Lin: Okay.

51 00:08:30.270 00:08:32.409 Robert Tseng: Okay, anything else?

52 00:08:35.090 00:08:39.289 Uttam Kumaran: I’m starting to need some… like…

53 00:08:40.010 00:08:43.059 Uttam Kumaran: Google Sheet Reporting Help for Element.

54 00:08:44.330 00:08:44.960 Robert Tseng: Okay.

55 00:08:45.200 00:08:55.610 Uttam Kumaran: So… Yeah, I don’t know, Robert, if maybe that’s just, like… Probably, maybe just you.

56 00:08:57.380 00:08:58.619 Robert Tseng: Yeah, sure, I can, I can do that.

57 00:09:00.080 00:09:01.489 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, she’s just, like.

58 00:09:01.810 00:09:07.080 Robert Tseng: I’m chunking out some time for Google Sheets stuff for even anyway, so I might as well just do it all together.

59 00:09:07.420 00:09:13.170 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, she’s just getting… she’s just, like, needs help, sort of, like, on metrics and kind of reporting, so…

60 00:09:13.550 00:09:19.549 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know if you’re… do you have time to come to the… weekly review today.

61 00:09:20.280 00:09:21.640 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I’ll probably come.

62 00:09:21.780 00:09:29.099 Robert Tseng: What’s annoying is the… I don’t even want to get on this README call, but, it’s like, there’s a complex. I mean, I’ll come to the element first.

63 00:09:29.310 00:09:32.240 Robert Tseng: I mean, I might just jump off to go and take the README.

64 00:09:32.240 00:09:36.879 Uttam Kumaran: I can also, I can also move it, like, to next week, to a better time.

65 00:09:37.100 00:09:42.899 Uttam Kumaran: Because I think I’m just… I need to start having you there. It’s starting to get a little bit more intense.

66 00:09:43.480 00:09:44.180 Robert Tseng: Okay.

67 00:09:45.060 00:09:49.669 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I mean, if we can delay it a bit, I think that’d probably be ideal, but…

68 00:09:50.930 00:09:56.610 Robert Tseng: But if it’s like, if this isn’t a blocker, then we should just do it. I’ll move the README thing, I don’t really care.

69 00:09:57.120 00:10:05.459 Uttam Kumaran: No, the… it’s not… there’s no blocker today, it’s just, like, she… she… she herself is not good at Google Sheets and reporting, and she’s, like.

70 00:10:05.780 00:10:12.459 Uttam Kumaran: supposed to be, and so now she just wants someone to, like, brainstorm with her, like, how to set up, like.

71 00:10:12.760 00:10:16.230 Uttam Kumaran: The best spreadsheets for reporting on the business.

72 00:10:16.590 00:10:17.819 Robert Tseng: Yeah. It’s like…

73 00:10:17.970 00:10:27.010 Uttam Kumaran: mind-numbing work, and, like, totally… I can do it, but, like, it’s just, like, I would really love some help, because I feel like…

74 00:10:27.280 00:10:29.619 Uttam Kumaran: You can speak to exactly, like, the…

75 00:10:30.260 00:10:37.850 Uttam Kumaran: I’m just a little bit losing patience, because she’s, like, doesn’t even know how to do half the things, and then she’s yelling at us, so it’s… it’s getting annoying.

76 00:10:38.460 00:10:39.290 Robert Tseng: Yeah, that’s fine.

77 00:10:40.540 00:10:48.530 Uttam Kumaran: So come to as much as you can, and then, maybe we can… we can… I think probably the best is that you and her set up some time to just

78 00:10:48.640 00:10:53.379 Uttam Kumaran: go through, like… she has some ideas for how she wants metrics displayed in Google Sheets, and yeah.

79 00:10:54.020 00:11:00.189 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I remember her, like, kind of… at the last call I joined, it was last week or something, and she mentioned some things.

80 00:11:01.680 00:11:08.009 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, she basically, like, wants my time to, like, oh, like, should we measure it this way, should I set up the sheet this way, and then…

81 00:11:08.350 00:11:15.239 Uttam Kumaran: I think you’re much more equipped to, like, help on, like, how to format the sheet and, like, give a… give an accurate review of KPIs.

82 00:11:15.500 00:11:16.590 Robert Tseng: Okay, sure.

83 00:11:18.360 00:11:19.020 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

84 00:11:23.690 00:11:33.250 Robert Tseng: Okay, cool. I mean, I… if I can get a few minutes to ask Utam about cursor stuff, I think I would like that. Cool.

85 00:11:33.850 00:11:34.719 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, let’s go ahead.

86 00:11:35.320 00:11:36.170 Robert Tseng: Okay.

87 00:11:37.180 00:11:38.379 Robert Tseng: Alright, see y’all.

88 00:11:38.700 00:11:45.579 Robert Tseng: Okay, so basically, like, yeah, I guess the biggest difference was, like, I didn’t realize

89 00:11:46.260 00:12:01.519 Robert Tseng: your intention for, like, the… I mean, I’ve only been using Brainforge Vault, so, like, I didn’t really look at Brainforge playbooks before, so… Okay. Now I’m in a situation where, like, yeah, even in, like, sales, for example, I kind of build out this SOP framework kind of situation.

90 00:12:01.520 00:12:08.140 Robert Tseng: similar idea, I basically took your examples, but I annotated them. Like, I kind of just went over, like, I cherry-picked a few, and I…

91 00:12:08.140 00:12:13.719 Robert Tseng: And then, I don’t know, there’s just, you know, there’s just, like… I also built out this whole pricing module thing that’s, like… Cool.

92 00:12:13.910 00:12:23.710 Robert Tseng: You know, there’s, like, the rate… our rate card is in there now, with the $300 blended rate, some scenarios for, like, when we increase or are willing to discount.

93 00:12:23.740 00:12:35.779 Robert Tseng: And, like, I don’t know, I just, like, I ran it on, like, the README scenario, and I thought it was… I thought it was great. So, now I’m, like, trying to, like, consolidate to make sure… well, now you’re saying, don’t put playbooks involved, so then I was just like.

94 00:12:35.780 00:12:47.470 Uttam Kumaran: Well, like, I would say, like, I don’t… I don’t… like, you’re a big contributor to Vault. I don’t want you to worry about where to put it. Don’t worry about where to put it. But, like, for now, everybody’s gonna have both of those open.

95 00:12:47.700 00:12:51.740 Uttam Kumaran: Playbooks should be, like, more of, like, policies, right? So, like.

96 00:12:52.010 00:13:08.430 Uttam Kumaran: Vault is gonna be, like, more… tons of resources. Don’t… I just say don’t worry about it. Looks like you’re having GitHub issues, so let’s just clear that. So one thing I’m gonna see if you can do is, can you, go to this link that I sent and just install, or, like, basically take this link and tell Cursor

97 00:13:08.710 00:13:11.069 Uttam Kumaran: to install the Git CLI.

98 00:13:11.910 00:13:12.570 Robert Tseng: Okay.

99 00:13:13.090 00:13:19.950 Uttam Kumaran: And if you can… yeah, if you don’t mind, keep sharing, I’ll just get you through, because, yeah, a lot of people are gonna have these GitHub issues. I’ll just show you how to, like.

100 00:13:20.420 00:13:21.810 Uttam Kumaran: Bus past these.

101 00:13:23.300 00:13:24.020 Robert Tseng: Okay.

102 00:13:25.380 00:13:27.159 Uttam Kumaran: So just have cursor…

103 00:13:27.160 00:13:28.850 Robert Tseng: Bruins, Bruins stall it.

104 00:13:28.850 00:13:33.099 Uttam Kumaran: Well, no, no, just don’t even do that. I’m telling you, just get… tell Kurtz, just put the link in.

105 00:13:33.710 00:13:34.309 Robert Tseng: Oh, I see.

106 00:13:34.470 00:13:36.909 Uttam Kumaran: Copy the link and say, install this.

107 00:13:37.360 00:13:37.730 Robert Tseng: Yeah, yeah.

108 00:13:37.730 00:13:40.030 Uttam Kumaran: install the CLI.

109 00:13:41.420 00:13:42.820 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

110 00:13:44.050 00:13:46.780 Uttam Kumaran: Install the GitHub, yeah. CLI.

111 00:13:48.100 00:13:48.980 Uttam Kumaran: Perfect.

112 00:13:59.770 00:14:01.709 Uttam Kumaran: Damn, why is it taking mad long?

113 00:14:03.240 00:14:06.969 Robert Tseng: This is my laptop, bro. Everything’s slow.

114 00:14:06.970 00:14:09.649 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, shit. Really? Fuck, this is horrible.

115 00:14:09.650 00:14:10.290 Robert Tseng: Yeah.

116 00:14:11.030 00:14:13.879 Robert Tseng: Why is it… why’s it got to plan? Can you.

117 00:14:15.270 00:14:17.410 Uttam Kumaran: Can you close and reopen cursor?

118 00:14:17.660 00:14:20.059 Uttam Kumaran: Sorry, sorry to have to make you do this.

119 00:14:20.730 00:14:21.649 Robert Tseng: You’re good.

120 00:14:21.960 00:14:26.470 Uttam Kumaran: I’m just, like, so knee-deep in this that there’s, like, a couple of hiccups that always happen here.

121 00:14:27.310 00:14:27.860 Robert Tseng: Yeah.

122 00:14:30.170 00:14:34.920 Robert Tseng: Okay, it might not… I can’t… I usually can’t have both Cursor and Slack open.

123 00:14:41.120 00:14:42.690 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah, just, like…

124 00:14:48.980 00:14:49.980 Robert Tseng: Gosh.

125 00:14:54.650 00:14:57.299 Robert Tseng: any amount of memory I can… I can carve out.

126 00:14:58.250 00:14:59.610 Robert Tseng: is delete everything.

127 00:15:04.930 00:15:06.290 Uttam Kumaran: Is it letting you click in?

128 00:15:06.770 00:15:07.879 Robert Tseng: Yeah, yeah, now it is.

129 00:15:07.880 00:15:11.829 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, just, yeah, just tell… just tell it to continue.

130 00:15:13.680 00:15:20.190 Robert Tseng: It’s like, it’s like, I have the rainbow, rainbow thing, you can’t see it on the screen. It looks like a regular mouse, but…

131 00:15:20.310 00:15:22.380 Robert Tseng: I have the rainbow wheel of death.

132 00:15:22.910 00:15:24.180 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.

133 00:15:26.750 00:15:31.890 Uttam Kumaran: Did you, okay.

134 00:15:32.900 00:15:36.790 Robert Tseng: Dude, it’s not… I mean, this… this is what happens.

135 00:15:36.890 00:15:37.730 Robert Tseng: That’s just my opinion.

136 00:15:37.730 00:15:41.600 Uttam Kumaran: I know. I’m trying to get you… I’m trying to get… I’m getting you the laptop.

137 00:15:41.600 00:15:45.200 Robert Tseng: No, I don’t care, I’m just gonna order one, I don’t…

138 00:15:45.200 00:15:50.180 Uttam Kumaran: No, alright, dude, don’t, if you’re gonna order one, then we’re gonna get it, we’re just gonna do it. Like…

139 00:15:51.220 00:15:53.720 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll just get it from Costco and have it sent to you.

140 00:15:53.720 00:15:55.189 Robert Tseng: Damn it! Okay, it’s so…

141 00:15:55.190 00:15:55.590 Uttam Kumaran: life is.

142 00:15:55.590 00:16:04.269 Robert Tseng: rainbow… rainbow wheeling. Yes, I mean, this’ll happen for me, like, 15 minutes a day. Like, I just, like, it’ll eventually… okay, it’ll settle down eventually, but…

143 00:16:10.510 00:16:12.859 Uttam Kumaran: So, even to narrate, like, one…

144 00:16:13.110 00:16:27.140 Uttam Kumaran: have it installed as CLI. Second, always when I’m working, I tell it two things. I said, one, I talked to it about a task I want to do, and I said, first, create… create a ticket for it, update the ticket description with whatever’s

145 00:16:27.390 00:16:28.889 Uttam Kumaran: Like we just talked about?

146 00:16:29.060 00:16:32.180 Uttam Kumaran: Check out the branch for that ticket.

147 00:16:32.310 00:16:41.299 Uttam Kumaran: And then go ahead and work. And then once it works, and it’s done, I’m like, create the PR, add the description, and open the PR.

148 00:16:42.220 00:16:46.899 Uttam Kumaran: And then it just does it. Like, I don’t even run… I don’t touch the terminal anymore.

149 00:16:47.900 00:16:53.209 Robert Tseng: I see Okay, here we go. Install.

150 00:16:53.960 00:16:55.269 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, install this.

151 00:17:00.500 00:17:04.790 Robert Tseng: Why is it still doing all these things? Like, how do I cut this?

152 00:17:13.839 00:17:18.409 Uttam Kumaran: You can also try to open another… Chat.

153 00:17:18.410 00:17:18.990 Robert Tseng: One tab.

154 00:17:18.990 00:17:19.680 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

155 00:17:19.910 00:17:20.460 Robert Tseng: Yeah.

156 00:17:21.160 00:17:22.780 Robert Tseng: Dang it. I should…

157 00:17:25.700 00:17:28.240 Uttam Kumaran: This is, like, damn slow, I don’t know what the fuck.

158 00:17:36.840 00:17:40.829 Robert Tseng: Alright, if it doesn’t work in the next, like, minute or two, I’ll get around to it, but it’s just…

159 00:17:40.830 00:17:53.750 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, but my… that’s my… that’s my instruction, which is, like, install the CLI, then tell it to go create a ticket, check out the branch, and then just don’t… don’t type anything to terminal. Like, it may tell you to type it, tell it, okay, here it’s going.

160 00:17:53.970 00:17:56.710 Uttam Kumaran: Tell it to just rip the terminal.

161 00:17:57.340 00:17:58.440 Robert Tseng: Okay. Yeah.

162 00:17:59.850 00:18:03.119 Uttam Kumaran: And then, like, yeah.

163 00:18:03.810 00:18:11.420 Uttam Kumaran: So it’ll… it’s just gonna figure this out, it’ll just keep spinning until… at some point, it’s gonna ask you to, like, log in.

164 00:18:13.250 00:18:15.390 Uttam Kumaran: Yikes.

165 00:18:15.680 00:18:19.159 Uttam Kumaran: Tell it to run… tell it to run these commands, so say, like, run them.

166 00:18:33.150 00:18:35.380 Uttam Kumaran: And then, can you hover over Sandbox?

167 00:18:37.610 00:18:38.780 Uttam Kumaran: Click on that.

168 00:18:40.170 00:18:41.580 Uttam Kumaran: Do you run everything.

169 00:18:43.090 00:18:43.910 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.

170 00:18:46.110 00:18:49.129 Uttam Kumaran: Just tell… no, just say try again.

171 00:18:49.940 00:18:50.530 Robert Tseng: Yeah.

172 00:19:17.560 00:19:18.610 Uttam Kumaran: Yay.

173 00:19:23.620 00:19:29.810 Robert Tseng: Nice. Okay. Well, yeah, so point is, like, I mean, I’m just gonna… I’m gonna put… I’m probably just gonna…

174 00:19:29.810 00:19:36.160 Uttam Kumaran: Take the PR and push it, and don’t worry about the Vault. Just, like, try to have playbooks and Vault open, is all I’m trying to say. Yeah.

175 00:19:36.160 00:19:39.050 Robert Tseng: I didn’t know you could have two things open at the same time, so…

176 00:19:39.910 00:19:40.985 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.

177 00:19:42.550 00:19:47.390 Robert Tseng: I thought you could… Dude, and I’m using… bro, I’m using Claude for Excel, it’s sick.

178 00:19:47.880 00:19:49.440 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll have to show you later.

179 00:19:49.930 00:19:50.630 Robert Tseng: Okay.

180 00:19:51.380 00:19:53.269 Uttam Kumaran: It’s really nice.

181 00:19:53.270 00:19:58.580 Robert Tseng: Okay, wait, alright, this is the last question. Like, how do I open two at the same time? Like, I thought whenever I opened.

182 00:19:58.580 00:20:00.160 Uttam Kumaran: Go to, go to File.

183 00:20:01.170 00:20:03.119 Uttam Kumaran: Do Add Folder to workspace.

184 00:20:03.730 00:20:06.259 Robert Tseng: Oh, that’s… okay, that’s it. And then you can just… I mean.

185 00:20:06.260 00:20:11.200 Uttam Kumaran: So I have literally… I have literally every major repo open at all times.

186 00:20:11.600 00:20:11.980 Robert Tseng: Yeah.

187 00:20:11.980 00:20:16.569 Uttam Kumaran: I’m usually like, do this for Element, do this for CTA, do this for this, and I, like, it knows.

188 00:20:16.760 00:20:17.800 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so…

189 00:20:17.800 00:20:22.270 Robert Tseng: Okay, yeah, I don’t have, Brain Forge playbooks or whatever, I only have Vault, so…

190 00:20:22.270 00:20:28.360 Uttam Kumaran: Tell it, so once you log in with GitHub, tell it to pull it down. It’ll pull it down. Yeah, yeah, it will, I will.

191 00:20:28.360 00:20:28.800 Robert Tseng: Okay.

192 00:20:28.800 00:20:29.590 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.

193 00:20:30.620 00:20:31.520 Robert Tseng: Thank you.

194 00:20:32.000 00:20:32.570 Uttam Kumaran: Bye.

195 00:20:33.770 00:20:34.310 Robert Tseng: But…

196 00:20:39.530 00:20:41.150 Robert Tseng: Frickin’ A!