Meeting Title: Brainforge Weekly Team Sync Date: 2026-02-13 Meeting participants: Brylle Girang, Robert Tseng, Amber Lin, Rico Rejoso, Mustafa Raja
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1 00:00:21.980 ⇒ 00:00:23.000 Brylle Girang: Hello?
2 00:00:23.490 ⇒ 00:00:24.750 Robert Tseng: Hey, Bryle.
3 00:00:26.360 ⇒ 00:00:27.330 Brylle Girang: How’s it going?
4 00:00:27.850 ⇒ 00:00:28.900 Robert Tseng: Good, how are you?
5 00:00:29.570 ⇒ 00:00:32.840 Brylle Girang: Doing great… doing great… doing… great.
6 00:00:33.190 ⇒ 00:00:36.469 Brylle Girang: It’s colder out here than normal, so…
7 00:00:37.100 ⇒ 00:00:39.490 Brylle Girang: I’m enjoying the… I’m enjoying the breeze.
8 00:00:40.140 ⇒ 00:00:40.980 Robert Tseng: That’s good.
9 00:00:42.630 ⇒ 00:00:45.849 Robert Tseng: I’m just gonna take a few more bites while people come in.
10 00:00:54.560 ⇒ 00:01:00.640 Robert Tseng: Utom tells me you’re… you’re picking up how we do things here very, very quickly, so…
11 00:01:01.750 ⇒ 00:01:06.450 Robert Tseng: I mean, it sounds like you helped put together a deck and case study and everything, too?
12 00:01:06.810 ⇒ 00:01:12.379 Brylle Girang: Yeah, I’m trying to absorb everything that I can. One thing that I can say for sure.
13 00:01:12.770 ⇒ 00:01:21.390 Brylle Girang: I think Brainforge right now has been the company with the richest context that I can… that I can see up front, so that’s amazing.
14 00:01:21.540 ⇒ 00:01:26.719 Brylle Girang: Although, rich context means that everything’s coming in at once, so I’m just.
15 00:01:26.720 ⇒ 00:01:27.050 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
16 00:01:27.050 ⇒ 00:01:32.290 Brylle Girang: Make sure that… I try to absorb everything that I can. But yeah.
17 00:01:32.700 ⇒ 00:01:35.370 Brylle Girang: Pretty amazing internal knowledge bases.
18 00:01:35.760 ⇒ 00:01:37.079 Brylle Girang: Which helps me a lot.
19 00:01:39.460 ⇒ 00:01:49.890 Robert Tseng: it’s good that you’re AI fluent, because you’ve been able to come in and use our tooling very effectively, and… yeah, I was very surprised that you put together
20 00:01:50.180 ⇒ 00:01:58.679 Robert Tseng: the full parts case study without having any context on it, just relying on what we have internally. So, I think that’s been super cool to see.
21 00:01:59.030 ⇒ 00:02:14.700 Brylle Girang: Yeah, thanks. And, you know, majority of it is because of the foundations that the team has built over the past few years. Like, everything’s in GitHub, everything’s documented. I think that is what most companies are missing.
22 00:02:14.700 ⇒ 00:02:23.670 Brylle Girang: And that is why they’re not able to do the same things. My previous company didn’t have that structured data in the back end, so…
23 00:02:24.340 ⇒ 00:02:26.269 Brylle Girang: I mean, it’s… it is amazing.
24 00:02:26.910 ⇒ 00:02:35.630 Robert Tseng: That’s what we’ve been saying, everyone, and it’s good to see somebody new come in and say that without us telling you to say that.
25 00:02:35.630 ⇒ 00:02:47.740 Brylle Girang: I am wishing that before I left my previous company, they were able to do the same thing. It would have been a lot easier for our teams.
26 00:02:49.640 ⇒ 00:02:50.310 Robert Tseng: Great.
27 00:02:51.470 ⇒ 00:03:02.489 Robert Tseng: I don’t know if Greg’s gonna join, so maybe we’ll just jump into it, and I guess, Amber, I know you’re working on some stuff in Fly With Elements, so we can… you want to start there?
28 00:03:04.310 ⇒ 00:03:07.800 Amber Lin: Yeah, yesterday I sent her the updated
29 00:03:08.030 ⇒ 00:03:19.980 Amber Lin: summary tab with the dates in the format she wanted, and then I’ve worked on reconciliation. So I’ve been able to drill it down by…
30 00:03:20.710 ⇒ 00:03:32.429 Amber Lin: product SKU for each category, and then I’ve been able to find some stuff. So right now, I’m trying to pull, the exact line items
31 00:03:32.650 ⇒ 00:03:37.450 Amber Lin: there, and then hopefully in the meeting, I want to see what finance can…
32 00:03:37.590 ⇒ 00:03:41.310 Amber Lin: what they can give me to compare.
33 00:03:42.220 ⇒ 00:03:53.909 Amber Lin: But essentially, I think we have… in our database, we have more prices that they’ve listed in their finance sheet, so that’s one reason. And I think we…
34 00:03:54.750 ⇒ 00:04:03.550 Amber Lin: the number of items is slightly different, so I’m… this is what I’m trying to figure out, if certain things are not counted.
35 00:04:06.660 ⇒ 00:04:07.410 Robert Tseng: Got it.
36 00:04:08.740 ⇒ 00:04:15.079 Amber Lin: Meeting with them, 12 o’clock my time, so that’s my main focus today.
37 00:04:15.760 ⇒ 00:04:16.430 Robert Tseng: Okay.
38 00:04:16.890 ⇒ 00:04:23.920 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I met with Awash for, like, 30 minutes before this call, on Element stuff, so…
39 00:04:24.080 ⇒ 00:04:30.159 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I just… I… I think… I will be able to…
40 00:04:31.180 ⇒ 00:04:39.489 Robert Tseng: speak more to the specific discrepancies and definitions once I, like, onboard myself more. So, I… I’m gonna do that later today.
41 00:04:39.800 ⇒ 00:04:43.880 Robert Tseng: Oh, I need to… I need to have it ready by the time I’m gonna spend 2 hours with…
42 00:04:44.040 ⇒ 00:04:46.909 Robert Tseng: Shivani on Monday, which is gonna be crazy, like, I don’t…
43 00:04:46.910 ⇒ 00:04:47.430 Amber Lin: Oh, my…
44 00:04:47.430 ⇒ 00:04:47.890 Robert Tseng: But,
45 00:04:48.700 ⇒ 00:04:54.580 Robert Tseng: Yeah, so I basically need to learn everything I can about Element before I have that call, before I do that meeting with her.
46 00:04:55.190 ⇒ 00:05:02.059 Amber Lin: Sounds good. Let me know if I can help, although I am also… have very minimal context.
47 00:05:02.060 ⇒ 00:05:02.690 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
48 00:05:02.980 ⇒ 00:05:06.139 Robert Tseng: We’ll help each other out as we’re learning it. Yeah.
49 00:05:06.140 ⇒ 00:05:08.619 Amber Lin: Yeah. Awesome. Okay.
50 00:05:10.320 ⇒ 00:05:16.990 Robert Tseng: So, Mustafa, you want to give… I know you just jumped in, but we just, you want to give your updates?
51 00:05:17.740 ⇒ 00:05:36.339 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, we’re pretty much on track for default, and Nandika is going to take over the, instrumentation of, events, and then, we’ll be sitting behind, double-checking if everything is correct instrumented or not. That’s pretty much it.
52 00:05:38.080 ⇒ 00:05:49.649 Robert Tseng: Okay, and then, like, kind of what’s… what’s the next… what’s the next phase now? Like, just gonna do the instrumentation. Are you helping QA? Are you, like, kind of, what’s the… what are you and Greg doing after that?
53 00:05:50.540 ⇒ 00:06:05.839 Mustafa Raja: I, I believe next step is, you know, so we have, we, next one, next task, next, next task that we have in, the Instagant is, funnel definitions, and then,
54 00:06:05.960 ⇒ 00:06:19.189 Mustafa Raja: I believe Craig will be guiding her on, on some of these instrumentations for, posthog, and then I’ll be sitting behind, double-checking if everything is instrumented correctly or not.
55 00:06:20.430 ⇒ 00:06:21.030 Robert Tseng: Okay.
56 00:06:21.250 ⇒ 00:06:30.439 Mustafa Raja: Yeah. Also, I’m going to meet with Greg today by end of day, so we can align ourselves better on what we need to deliver next week.
57 00:06:31.960 ⇒ 00:06:33.400 Robert Tseng: You’re meeting with who, sorry?
58 00:06:33.800 ⇒ 00:06:34.560 Mustafa Raja: Greg.
59 00:06:35.040 ⇒ 00:06:36.619 Robert Tseng: Great, okay, got it.
60 00:06:38.470 ⇒ 00:06:39.519 Mustafa Raja: And that’s pretty much it.
61 00:06:41.170 ⇒ 00:06:45.730 Robert Tseng: Okay, sounds good. Yeah, I mean, this was,
62 00:06:47.300 ⇒ 00:06:55.760 Robert Tseng: I guess we still have some open-ended things for the week, but generally pretty quiet week on the strategy side. So, I guess just, like, for context.
63 00:06:57.260 ⇒ 00:07:03.319 Robert Tseng: I want… Jasmine probably won’t join all these calls, but I probably want her to start joining at least two of these a week.
64 00:07:04.050 ⇒ 00:07:09.370 Robert Tseng: And then, for any work that you guys are doing.
65 00:07:09.750 ⇒ 00:07:15.779 Robert Tseng: want her to be, like, another reviewer. So, the goal is to really kind of get me more out of
66 00:07:16.150 ⇒ 00:07:18.109 Robert Tseng: Out of this, and
67 00:07:19.050 ⇒ 00:07:27.230 Robert Tseng: Well, yeah, I think… I think she should jump into doing some of the work eventually, but I don’t think that’ll happen in the next two weeks. So, I did ask her to schedule time with both of you.
68 00:07:27.490 ⇒ 00:07:31.579 Robert Tseng: meaning Amber and Mustafa over the next week, so if you could just…
69 00:07:32.870 ⇒ 00:07:39.209 Robert Tseng: kind of catch her up on, you know, the projects that you’re working on. Don’t worry about the infrastructure. She doesn’t really understand, like.
70 00:07:40.760 ⇒ 00:07:47.810 Robert Tseng: we’re tooling the stuff we use. That’ll be separate. I might actually have Bryl help her with that.
71 00:07:48.150 ⇒ 00:07:49.880 Robert Tseng: Yeah, I’m sure she’s just not…
72 00:07:50.350 ⇒ 00:07:56.590 Robert Tseng: Yeah, just doesn’t fully, like, grasp That we’re doing,
73 00:07:57.280 ⇒ 00:08:08.649 Robert Tseng: everything from, like, data ingestion to modeling to reporting. Like, I think she’s more… she’s used to being more downstream, so I’m not expecting her to become a data engineer or anything, but at least I want her to know, like.
74 00:08:08.750 ⇒ 00:08:11.999 Robert Tseng: Who she should be going to if she needs to
75 00:08:12.270 ⇒ 00:08:14.740 Robert Tseng: learn more about our capabilities, so…
76 00:08:15.080 ⇒ 00:08:19.070 Robert Tseng: Yeah, just kinda wanted to give you guys a heads up so you…
77 00:08:19.330 ⇒ 00:08:33.939 Robert Tseng: Can give her some of your time. Yeah, she’s just on a trial with us for the next, we said, two to four weeks, so, the goal is to see if she can really be, like, a senior, analyst, strategist, kind of for this group.
78 00:08:34.049 ⇒ 00:08:39.020 Robert Tseng: And, yeah, so I, you know, want… don’t hesitate to…
79 00:08:39.720 ⇒ 00:08:43.569 Robert Tseng: ping… ping her with questions. I want her to get… to… to…
80 00:08:43.780 ⇒ 00:08:49.849 Robert Tseng: To take… to try to field some of the harder questions and, really demonstrate her expertise and…
81 00:08:49.890 ⇒ 00:09:08.690 Robert Tseng: show how she can guide both of you in the product analytics, kind of deployment side. I think she’s… she came from that world, I worked with her before on that. And then, I think she’s just good general analyst skill, overall, so if we need to do anything like spreadsheets, or kind of…
82 00:09:10.230 ⇒ 00:09:24.670 Robert Tseng: kind of coming up with new analysis, which I know we haven’t been discussing here. It’s been a while since we’ve, like, kind of gone through an analysis outline, but hopefully we’ll, transition more back to that moving forward, after we get past this kind of, like, formatting, like.
83 00:09:25.890 ⇒ 00:09:27.739 Robert Tseng: stuff with, with Element.
84 00:09:30.040 ⇒ 00:09:30.800 Robert Tseng: Yeah.
85 00:09:31.060 ⇒ 00:09:36.829 Robert Tseng: Okay, well, that’s all I got. If that’s all good, then I’ll let you guys go and…
86 00:09:37.160 ⇒ 00:09:38.609 Robert Tseng: Yeah, we’ll see you later.
87 00:09:39.270 ⇒ 00:09:41.049 Mustafa Raja: Thank you, have a good day. Thanks, bye.