Meeting Title: Brainforge EP Leads Weekly Sync Date: 2026-02-24 Meeting participants: Brylle Girang, Mustafa Raja, Uttam Kumaran, Amber Lin
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1 00:00:10.900 ⇒ 00:00:11.910 Mustafa Raja: Hey.
2 00:00:15.140 ⇒ 00:00:16.149 Brylle Girang: Hey, sir!
3 00:00:16.930 ⇒ 00:00:17.700 Mustafa Raja: How are you?
4 00:00:18.250 ⇒ 00:00:22.090 Brylle Girang: I am doing good, just finalizing the day.
5 00:00:22.500 ⇒ 00:00:23.180 Brylle Girang: infinite.
6 00:00:23.180 ⇒ 00:00:24.000 Mustafa Raja: Oh.
7 00:00:24.000 ⇒ 00:00:25.150 Brylle Girang: We can finish up.
8 00:00:26.390 ⇒ 00:00:27.800 Mustafa Raja: When do you end your day, usually?
9 00:00:28.570 ⇒ 00:00:36.340 Brylle Girang: I’m in the Philippines, so it is actually… 5.30am right now. Oh.
10 00:00:37.100 ⇒ 00:00:38.670 Mustafa Raja: Oh yeah, it’s super late.
11 00:00:39.930 ⇒ 00:00:42.930 Mustafa Raja: I’m in Pakistan, it’s 2.30 right now.
12 00:00:43.260 ⇒ 00:00:44.440 Brylle Girang: 2.30pm.
13 00:00:45.220 ⇒ 00:00:47.430 Mustafa Raja: M, yeah, in…
14 00:00:49.270 ⇒ 00:00:50.530 Brylle Girang: Gotcha.
15 00:00:50.830 ⇒ 00:00:53.070 Brylle Girang: Where are you based at, Mustafa?
16 00:00:53.480 ⇒ 00:00:54.450 Mustafa Raja: Pakistan.
17 00:00:54.660 ⇒ 00:00:56.530 Brylle Girang: Pakistan, okay, gotcha.
18 00:00:59.070 ⇒ 00:01:00.649 Mustafa Raja: Awashi’s also from here.
19 00:01:01.220 ⇒ 00:01:03.709 Brylle Girang: Mmm! Okay, okay.
20 00:01:04.349 ⇒ 00:01:05.519 Mustafa Raja: Have you met Casey?
21 00:01:06.650 ⇒ 00:01:17.170 Brylle Girang: Not yet! I met Casey once in the AI service stand-up, but I haven’t talked to him, like, personally, but I know that he is from the Philippines, too.
22 00:01:17.470 ⇒ 00:01:17.850 Mustafa Raja: No.
23 00:01:17.850 ⇒ 00:01:20.800 Brylle Girang: So, I think Rico, Eliza, They’re…
24 00:01:20.800 ⇒ 00:01:23.210 Mustafa Raja: Oh yeah, they’re also from Philippines.
25 00:01:26.690 ⇒ 00:01:33.790 Brylle Girang: So, Mustafa, how does the EP Leads Meeting go? I think this is, like, the first time again, after two weeks.
26 00:01:33.790 ⇒ 00:01:34.860 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah.
27 00:01:35.760 ⇒ 00:01:39.610 Mustafa Raja: So, we have a checklist that we, we’ve been, you know, working on.
28 00:01:40.060 ⇒ 00:01:45.079 Mustafa Raja: You can see that in the EP channel, it should be a…
29 00:01:45.430 ⇒ 00:01:53.370 Mustafa Raja: I think it is a Google Doc, either a Google Talk or a… Or… a Word document.
30 00:01:54.660 ⇒ 00:02:03.580 Mustafa Raja: So it has a… it has a checklist that we’ve been working on, making sure that we have that for all of the clients we are EP on. That’s just it.
31 00:02:05.340 ⇒ 00:02:11.940 Mustafa Raja: And then… and then we try to brainstorm ideas to, you know, support us… to support each other, you know?
32 00:02:12.890 ⇒ 00:02:15.359 Brylle Girang: Gotcha, I am trying to…
33 00:02:15.530 ⇒ 00:02:19.889 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah, let me know if you find it, if not, then I can just, you know, DM you that.
34 00:02:20.210 ⇒ 00:02:21.900 Brylle Girang: Yeah, can you DM me that?
35 00:02:21.900 ⇒ 00:02:22.770 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah.
36 00:02:23.100 ⇒ 00:02:24.450 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, let me do that.
37 00:02:36.810 ⇒ 00:02:42.310 Mustafa Raja: Let me dog, you have… Indeed.
38 00:02:44.020 ⇒ 00:02:44.900 Brylle Girang: Hey, Sarah!
39 00:02:45.130 ⇒ 00:02:46.060 Uttam Kumaran: Hi, how are you?
40 00:02:46.070 ⇒ 00:02:47.560 Mustafa Raja: Mr. 1.
41 00:02:47.560 ⇒ 00:02:53.850 Brylle Girang: Great, so Mustafa is just running me through the EP meetings for the last… 3V.
42 00:02:55.700 ⇒ 00:02:56.469 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, dude.
43 00:03:00.820 ⇒ 00:03:02.530 Brylle Girang: Okay, this is the cheapest.
44 00:03:02.530 ⇒ 00:03:07.270 Mustafa Raja: And the dog has a good… Good mask today.
45 00:03:10.780 ⇒ 00:03:11.180 Brylle Girang: And…
46 00:03:11.180 ⇒ 00:03:12.280 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, he’s the main character.
47 00:03:12.280 ⇒ 00:03:14.270 Uttam Kumaran: He’s like, he saw and noticed him, like…
48 00:03:14.470 ⇒ 00:03:15.010 Mustafa Raja: It’s kind of.
49 00:03:15.010 ⇒ 00:03:16.320 Uttam Kumaran: Am I gonna check on me?
50 00:03:17.330 ⇒ 00:03:21.419 Mustafa Raja: Go outside, go do your job, go do your job.
51 00:03:27.500 ⇒ 00:03:28.680 Amber Lin: Hi, dear!
52 00:03:29.490 ⇒ 00:03:33.129 Brylle Girang: or… Congrats on the shoutout!
53 00:03:34.000 ⇒ 00:03:37.209 Amber Lin: Oh, thank you. That was nice.
54 00:03:37.890 ⇒ 00:03:40.050 Uttam Kumaran: Who was that, who was that on Eden?
55 00:03:40.350 ⇒ 00:03:46.820 Amber Lin: That’s so neat, and he’s handling, he took over for Rebecca, so he’s handling farm ops, so…
56 00:03:47.500 ⇒ 00:03:47.970 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah.
57 00:03:47.970 ⇒ 00:03:52.670 Amber Lin: Operations, COGS, margins, all that.
58 00:03:54.470 ⇒ 00:03:55.440 Uttam Kumaran: Amazing.
59 00:04:01.850 ⇒ 00:04:07.640 Brylle Girang: I don’t know if Clarence will be joining. He initially accepted the invite, but…
60 00:04:08.870 ⇒ 00:04:14.219 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, let’s just… let’s just get started, I can… Yeah, let’s just get started.
61 00:04:14.220 ⇒ 00:04:16.560 Brylle Girang: Okay, gotcha. So,
62 00:04:16.839 ⇒ 00:04:30.089 Brylle Girang: I’m also going to take this opportunity to, like, catch up with the previous EP leads, and Mustafa mentioned that for the previous sessions, the EPs have this checklist that you’re trying to keep track of.
63 00:04:30.340 ⇒ 00:04:40.299 Brylle Girang: And I just wanted to revive this conversation. I think we can start with Mustafa. Have you been, like, monitoring, and have you been maintaining your own checklist?
64 00:04:40.980 ⇒ 00:04:49.780 Mustafa Raja: last week I was just busy, in a lot of client work, so, I need to catch up with this, on that.
65 00:04:51.570 ⇒ 00:04:53.660 Brylle Girang: Gotcha. How about your app?
66 00:04:53.660 ⇒ 00:05:00.519 Amber Lin: Same for me, I have not been on top of this. Granted, I am only EP for…
67 00:05:00.710 ⇒ 00:05:06.409 Amber Lin: The only active client that I’m EP for is ABC4Andy.
68 00:05:06.580 ⇒ 00:05:12.139 Amber Lin: So… like, I… I also had some questions about…
69 00:05:12.340 ⇒ 00:05:30.100 Amber Lin: I saw that I was assigned EP on, I think, Element, and then I know that was undecided, and also it seems that I was assigned on Eden Strategy, but I also don’t… haven’t heard anything about it, so wanted to ask in this meeting.
70 00:05:30.210 ⇒ 00:05:31.260 Amber Lin: as well.
71 00:05:31.630 ⇒ 00:05:39.199 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I don’t know, Bea, if it’s best first, let’s just… if we can… can we see a view of, like, everybody’s client in the assignments?
72 00:05:39.530 ⇒ 00:05:45.140 Uttam Kumaran: And, yeah, I just want to make sure that, like, among the four of us, we know like…
73 00:05:45.710 ⇒ 00:06:00.049 Uttam Kumaran: which clients we’re covering for EP. Also, I mean, guys, you’ve been probably meeting with… with B, so he’s kind of covering a lot of the clients alongside me as well. So, what you’ll see here is, like, we have…
74 00:06:00.210 ⇒ 00:06:10.970 Uttam Kumaran: you know, all of our… basically all of our clients listed right here. Anything that I’m on, that previously was uncovered, B has stepped into.
75 00:06:11.020 ⇒ 00:06:28.019 Uttam Kumaran: And so one thing, so that’s why you’ll kind of see his name in yellow. V is basically coming on to help, like, across delivery, like, overall, so he may not… he may not end up as permanent EP on these, but as a way to just, like, basically learn
76 00:06:28.210 ⇒ 00:06:45.939 Uttam Kumaran: how we do delivery, we’re starting with the EP role as the first role that we basically focus on as part of, like, delivery enablement, which is, like, all of the tasks that you guys are doing, how do I turn what… what… how do I turn the fact that you guys are in this meeting, like, hey, I’m still, like, bogged down with things, we can’t…
77 00:06:45.950 ⇒ 00:06:58.459 Uttam Kumaran: we didn’t get all the tasks done to, like, hey, everything’s been done, right? And I… that’s where I want to challenge first, like, have we set up all the tools and given you guys the resources to actually do that first?
78 00:06:58.760 ⇒ 00:07:09.610 Uttam Kumaran: And so, if we talk about assignments, so, like, let’s confirm, Mustafa, you’re on both the default work streams, you’re on the Eden BI workstream, and…
79 00:07:09.790 ⇒ 00:07:13.290 Uttam Kumaran: That is basically it right now, right?
80 00:07:13.570 ⇒ 00:07:14.220 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
81 00:07:14.810 ⇒ 00:07:20.019 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, what, like, what is… how do you feel like your capacity is as, like.
82 00:07:20.560 ⇒ 00:07:24.150 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, basically, well, how do you feel your capacity is right now?
83 00:07:24.550 ⇒ 00:07:33.499 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so for last week, it was a lot because, you know, we had to migrate everything in the week.
84 00:07:33.600 ⇒ 00:07:41.370 Mustafa Raja: But apart from that, since the migration is, almost done, I feel I have,
85 00:07:42.270 ⇒ 00:07:45.919 Mustafa Raja: I feel I have enough time to, you know, EP.
86 00:07:46.030 ⇒ 00:07:47.370 Mustafa Raja: EPD scans.
87 00:07:48.220 ⇒ 00:07:48.850 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
88 00:07:48.970 ⇒ 00:08:01.959 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. And then, Amber, you’re on the element, so right now, you’re listed under both APC Andy and ABC Strategy. ABC Strategy, of course, is sort of, like, inactive right now, right?
89 00:08:03.120 ⇒ 00:08:09.040 Uttam Kumaran: At least for the time being. And then Eden Strategy and Element Analytics Strategy. So…
90 00:08:09.380 ⇒ 00:08:21.619 Uttam Kumaran: there’s kind of two… two work streams that I want to call out, so we can talk about, is, like, Eden’s strategy. So right now, we have… we can kind of consider four… four work streams on Eden. It’s, like, Oasis data engineering work.
91 00:08:21.870 ⇒ 00:08:36.310 Uttam Kumaran: Which he’s working on with Ashwini. It’s the Remo work, which is Cerf and Robert. It’s the MarTech work, which is Zoran. It’s the BI work, which is Greg, and then it’s sort of like analysis and strategy, which is you.
92 00:08:36.840 ⇒ 00:08:41.149 Uttam Kumaran: Does that make sense? On how, like, we’re kind of carving that out as, like, a separate work stream?
93 00:08:41.159 ⇒ 00:08:49.799 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah, I understand the work streams, I was just never notified when I got assigned, so I don’t even know that I was supposed to do this.
94 00:08:50.060 ⇒ 00:09:02.940 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, okay, okay, fair. So, I think that’s one thing we can call out. B is, like, one thing I think… I wasn’t… as you guys know, I’ve been mainly spending time on, like, the CSO call, just getting that team ramped up, so I’ll… I’m gonna try to attendees.
95 00:09:02.940 ⇒ 00:09:07.290 Amber Lin: But, B, I’d like for us to think of this meeting and come to the table.
96 00:09:07.290 ⇒ 00:09:25.849 Uttam Kumaran: With, like, a plan on how we’re running this, and how, at least in the beginning, we start by understanding, like, hey, are we happy with all of our assignments? Are we aware of all the assignments? Are we happy with them? And do we feel like we’re able to accomplish all the EP tasks for them? So, I think now, Amber, you’re kind of aware that you’re on the element
97 00:09:25.850 ⇒ 00:09:32.850 Uttam Kumaran: You’re in the Elements Strategy Workstream, and the Eden Strategy Workstream, in addition to the ABC Strategy Workstream.
98 00:09:33.000 ⇒ 00:09:33.750 Uttam Kumaran: as EP.
99 00:09:33.750 ⇒ 00:09:34.150 Amber Lin: Mmm.
100 00:09:34.150 ⇒ 00:09:35.229 Uttam Kumaran: Does that make sense?
101 00:09:36.140 ⇒ 00:09:51.339 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. ABC Strategy, of course, we don’t have anything. And then for Andy, this is where, like, I actually think that we can have a discussion on, like, whether you’re gonna remain as EP here, or whether you’re just gonna remain as, like.
102 00:09:51.590 ⇒ 00:09:57.630 Uttam Kumaran: a helping hand, and someone else slots in this EP, but, like, this is a forum for us to just discuss
103 00:09:57.900 ⇒ 00:09:59.460 Uttam Kumaran: What we want to do.
104 00:10:02.000 ⇒ 00:10:08.159 Amber Lin: Okay, I hear that. I think on Element, I’m essentially already doing…
105 00:10:08.700 ⇒ 00:10:12.019 Amber Lin: The EP work for my work stream.
106 00:10:12.020 ⇒ 00:10:12.620 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
107 00:10:12.990 ⇒ 00:10:14.560 Amber Lin: So, I think…
108 00:10:15.150 ⇒ 00:10:25.499 Amber Lin: there… the thing that we need to do is be… I think we need to divide what you’re responsible for and what I’m responsible for, because my
109 00:10:25.920 ⇒ 00:10:37.640 Amber Lin: work also latches on to Oasis work sometimes, so, would like to discuss that there. Yeah. In terms of… Yeah, go ahead.
110 00:10:37.640 ⇒ 00:10:54.490 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, let me just answer that briefly. So, we are, we’re basically putting in front of Element 4 SOWs that we’re going to be running. And so, they’re going to be basically covering, both, like.
111 00:10:55.020 ⇒ 00:11:01.670 Uttam Kumaran: data platform, right? So this is, like, ETL, dbt modeling, commercial.
112 00:11:02.100 ⇒ 00:11:05.370 Uttam Kumaran: reporting, supply chain reporting, and then BI.
113 00:11:06.020 ⇒ 00:11:16.720 Uttam Kumaran: And so these are the four items that we’re putting together. In terms of matching to our services, right, internally, it’s gonna be, one, this is gonna be really focused on, like.
114 00:11:16.840 ⇒ 00:11:29.990 Uttam Kumaran: our data service, all 3 of these are gonna be strategy, and more than likely, it’s… it’s gonna be Greg is gonna take on the BI, and then it’s gonna be a mix of you and Jasmine on the other two.
115 00:11:30.380 ⇒ 00:11:36.250 Uttam Kumaran: Which means we have… we only have 3 services, right? So, if we’re talking about 3 work streams.
116 00:11:36.250 ⇒ 00:11:52.290 Uttam Kumaran: And right, every work stream is matched to a service, this is how it’s going to get split. I know now you sort of got thrown in, and it’s a little bit all over, but that’s why I want to share with you how this is going to end up. So, it would be, like, me, kind of, as a CSO and a Wish on, like, this stuff.
117 00:11:52.330 ⇒ 00:12:01.659 Uttam Kumaran: potentially Demi may lead this, too. It’s gonna be sort of you, Robert, Jasmine, on anything that’s strategy analytics, and then…
118 00:12:01.980 ⇒ 00:12:04.509 Uttam Kumaran: PI is gonna be most likely
119 00:12:04.710 ⇒ 00:12:09.960 Uttam Kumaran: most likely Greg as, like, the CSO, and then we’ll kind of Fill it out from there.
120 00:12:11.510 ⇒ 00:12:12.890 Amber Lin: Gotcha, okay.
121 00:12:13.000 ⇒ 00:12:23.660 Amber Lin: I can do that. For Eden, like, I don’t really know, other than my workstream, what we’re doing on strategy. It doesn’t seem like there’s.
122 00:12:23.660 ⇒ 00:12:26.239 Uttam Kumaran: It’s just… it’s just your work stream.
123 00:12:26.400 ⇒ 00:12:27.569 Amber Lin: Okay, okay, that…
124 00:12:27.570 ⇒ 00:12:40.399 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. To my knowledge. So, this is also where, like, to my knowledge, it’s just the work that you’re doing as an analyst. That’s not saying that that may be it, but I feel like that’s also what we probably have capacity for right now.
125 00:12:40.630 ⇒ 00:12:44.140 Uttam Kumaran: So what I, what I expect to happen is, like.
126 00:12:44.450 ⇒ 00:12:54.109 Uttam Kumaran: if, like, for example, if Jasmine comes on, or if we bring on another analyst, one, I probably expect someone to also come with you to Element and to Eden, probably, and, like, help.
127 00:12:55.040 ⇒ 00:13:05.950 Uttam Kumaran: you’re able to run Eden alone, so there’s some redundancy. And then, basically, like, I think… I think still, like, if ABC’s strategy kicks up, you’re probably tapped, right? You’re probably, like, maxed.
128 00:13:06.480 ⇒ 00:13:09.910 Amber Lin: Yeah. Yeah, that’s true. Like, with…
129 00:13:10.210 ⇒ 00:13:18.229 Amber Lin: for example, last week, I wouldn’t be able to EP on Eden. Like, last week, I was completely on Element.
130 00:13:18.390 ⇒ 00:13:20.919 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Until, say, the last day, so…
131 00:13:20.920 ⇒ 00:13:37.349 Amber Lin: Like, I’m… right now, my only thing is I am not sure if the workload on Element. My hours have varied from taking up to the whole week to maybe half a week, sometimes. Yeah. I would like some more clarification on that.
132 00:13:37.430 ⇒ 00:13:44.089 Amber Lin: So I can for sure say, like, hey, I can take on EP for both
133 00:13:44.320 ⇒ 00:13:48.199 Amber Lin: Eden, and then for, Element.
134 00:13:49.630 ⇒ 00:13:50.310 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
135 00:13:50.650 ⇒ 00:13:51.200 Amber Lin: Yeah.
136 00:13:51.200 ⇒ 00:13:53.599 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s something I think we need to…
137 00:13:54.300 ⇒ 00:14:11.130 Uttam Kumaran: probably discuss, like, I don’t… I don’t think there is necessarily, like, a strategy service… I don’t know… I mean, this is what… this is something that I would like to bring up in front of all the strategy people. Like, this is… this is a question that we should bring up in the morning strategy meeting, or book a call for. Basically, like, hey.
138 00:14:11.650 ⇒ 00:14:17.020 Uttam Kumaran: I’m now on… I’m basically working across these… these 3 clients.
139 00:14:17.280 ⇒ 00:14:19.789 Uttam Kumaran: If ABC’s strategy kicks up.
140 00:14:20.010 ⇒ 00:14:37.890 Uttam Kumaran: I’m super jammed, but kind of basically already kind of super jammed. So what’s the plan? So for my side, I can tell you, like, okay, we… if… we need to probably ramp up at least one more analyst, so Jasmine is… we’re basically trialing with now. We’re also thinking about potentially one other person.
141 00:14:37.960 ⇒ 00:14:53.719 Uttam Kumaran: that way I can move you off of potentially ABC strategy, or move you off of Eden, and then you can focus on 2. I still think, though, that we’re gonna expect you to at least be able to EP 2, if that seems fair, but of course, like.
142 00:14:53.970 ⇒ 00:14:59.420 Uttam Kumaran: If one client ends up occupying 40 hours a week, then… then you’re… it’s gonna be difficult.
143 00:15:01.240 ⇒ 00:15:06.109 Uttam Kumaran: But it’s not my… it’s not my expectation at this time that Element takes up
144 00:15:06.380 ⇒ 00:15:17.999 Uttam Kumaran: like, an entire week. Like, I think we came in and we just had you take over some things, but we’re gonna put the budget and put the team in place for there to be actually, like, more space. You’re not gonna be the only analyst staffed here.
145 00:15:18.350 ⇒ 00:15:22.140 Amber Lin: On that clock. It’s gonna end up closer to an Eden-sized thing.
146 00:15:22.790 ⇒ 00:15:29.839 Amber Lin: Okay, okay, that’s nice, because most of the requests, the old, I mean, all of the reporting requests funnels to me right now.
147 00:15:30.430 ⇒ 00:15:31.070 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
148 00:15:31.650 ⇒ 00:15:36.959 Amber Lin: Yeah, okay. Great. Then I… I need to start…
149 00:15:37.150 ⇒ 00:15:49.769 Amber Lin: I need to start the initiation for these two clients, and then I will have questions on allocations. I know we’re having a new contract for Elements, so I’m gonna ask for that next week, when we have more set hours.
150 00:15:49.930 ⇒ 00:16:08.029 Amber Lin: So that’s what I’ll do there. And I think… last question I have on my side, is on the ABC Andy workstream, I know we said Pranam was gonna take over CSO. I know he was super busy. I also looked at his allocations.
151 00:16:08.030 ⇒ 00:16:11.519 Amber Lin: he does not have time, like, I… and…
152 00:16:11.520 ⇒ 00:16:12.890 Uttam Kumaran: But that’s also where I’m, like.
153 00:16:12.890 ⇒ 00:16:16.349 Amber Lin: also out, so I don’t… I don’t know when that transition’s happening.
154 00:16:16.820 ⇒ 00:16:26.069 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, but that’s also where I’m like, where is his… where is the rest of his time going? Because I… I’ve informed him that he should… he should have… he should be budgeting
155 00:16:26.360 ⇒ 00:16:33.190 Uttam Kumaran: for enough time for ABC and Lilo. So, how have the conversations between you and him gone, and, like.
156 00:16:33.500 ⇒ 00:16:42.259 Uttam Kumaran: I guess my initial recommendation is that me and Brile need to get looped in to help you make that transition, if it’s not already… if it’s not… if it’s not happening already.
157 00:16:42.260 ⇒ 00:16:44.560 Amber Lin: Sure, I think that would be helpful,
158 00:16:44.560 ⇒ 00:16:45.250 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
159 00:16:45.250 ⇒ 00:17:01.259 Amber Lin: Because, like, I have context. I think the first time we sang, he said he would take over the next week’s presentation, but then I think he was too busy, and then I had to lead that presentation again, so I was hoping that… I think…
160 00:17:01.720 ⇒ 00:17:07.439 Amber Lin: like, I don’t have capacity to keep reminding him to do that, so I would like some help for both of us.
161 00:17:07.690 ⇒ 00:17:10.890 Amber Lin: Because there’s a lot of context to transfer.
162 00:17:11.190 ⇒ 00:17:16.689 Amber Lin: And right now, I don’t know where my responsibilities lie.
163 00:17:17.310 ⇒ 00:17:28.649 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. So, so, B, I think we need to work with Pranav on a plan. I’ve already… Amber, to give you… I know Pranav’s side, like, the Lilo client, there’s some craziness going on, but I told him that.
164 00:17:28.650 ⇒ 00:17:30.950 Amber Lin: Yeah, I thought so, yeah.
165 00:17:30.950 ⇒ 00:17:46.749 Uttam Kumaran: But we are over budget on that client, so I made it really clear to him this week, and this week is a bit tough because he’s in and out, but, like, I made it clear to him that he needs to budget to take over ABC as CSO, and he gave me the verbal confirmation that he’s going to drive towards that.
166 00:17:46.750 ⇒ 00:17:52.560 Uttam Kumaran: So, B, I think what would be helpful is, like, if we can collaborate on, like, literally a transition memo.
167 00:17:52.560 ⇒ 00:18:09.049 Uttam Kumaran: like, what are the things that Amber is doing, like, as CSO, and what needs to get handed off to Pranav, by what time, and, like, what it, like, basically, like, a transition. I think, Amber, my point to you is that, like, I would still appreciate if you could stay on
168 00:18:09.190 ⇒ 00:18:13.650 Uttam Kumaran: as… Well, I guess this is… this is maybe off for debate, like…
169 00:18:13.930 ⇒ 00:18:28.980 Uttam Kumaran: one is, I think, as we discussed, I think it is helpful for you to stay on, like, either to continue to guide Pranav as, like, hey, I’ve worked on this client for a while, but two, like, either coming to the presentations, or…
170 00:18:29.390 ⇒ 00:18:35.529 Uttam Kumaran: again, like, there is still some analysis work for that client, right? So, like, I think still that would fall under strategy work.
171 00:18:35.730 ⇒ 00:18:39.920 Uttam Kumaran: So, like, maybe I’ll pause there. Does that kind of make sense as, like, where I think.
172 00:18:39.920 ⇒ 00:18:40.350 Amber Lin: It’ll be able to.
173 00:18:40.350 ⇒ 00:18:42.240 Uttam Kumaran: involved? On the work side? Okay.
174 00:18:43.020 ⇒ 00:18:54.259 Amber Lin: Yeah, and I… and I like the client, like, I… until I see Pranav can lead this client well, and they’re happy with… with that, I would like to stay on.
175 00:18:54.700 ⇒ 00:18:55.980 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, okay.
176 00:18:56.550 ⇒ 00:19:02.219 Uttam Kumaran: And then, on the EP side, I think this is where I can also ask you, like, would you want to…
177 00:19:02.520 ⇒ 00:19:05.569 Uttam Kumaran: Like, have someone take that over?
178 00:19:06.720 ⇒ 00:19:09.349 Amber Lin: Yeah, I think the same thing, if…
179 00:19:09.620 ⇒ 00:19:31.099 Amber Lin: I want to first ensure Pranav’s good, so I think that will take, about a month or so, because I want to transfer the context to him, and I want to make sure he feels supported throughout the first period of time. Okay. So, after that period of time, I would like to transition the EP off, because it’s hard for me to continue getting context if I’m not working there anymore.
180 00:19:31.860 ⇒ 00:19:38.820 Uttam Kumaran: So I think this is where, B, you read my mind, is like, we need to turn that green and figure out who’s gonna take that.
181 00:19:39.490 ⇒ 00:19:43.030 Uttam Kumaran: As of now, We, like, so…
182 00:19:43.140 ⇒ 00:19:46.150 Uttam Kumaran: As of now, it may have to be…
183 00:19:47.140 ⇒ 00:19:49.309 Uttam Kumaran: It may just have to be Mustafa.
184 00:19:51.520 ⇒ 00:19:58.229 Uttam Kumaran: Until we basically on… the next AI engineer we onboard will start to fill in EP slots that are empty.
185 00:19:58.510 ⇒ 00:20:02.100 Uttam Kumaran: But that would… this… that would be my…
186 00:20:02.800 ⇒ 00:20:17.529 Uttam Kumaran: take away now, so I think, Bea, I can maybe pass it to you on, like, I would like to work on that transition guide, I would like to see how fast we can do this transition, but ultimately, Amber’s stamp is… is my stamp, so if she doesn’t feel comfortable.
187 00:20:17.630 ⇒ 00:20:29.279 Uttam Kumaran: then I’m, like, I’m also gonna be, like… and at this point, I’m not comfortable, because it’s clear Pranav hasn’t spent enough time doing it. Pranav’s also… this is his first switch from one client to two.
188 00:20:29.510 ⇒ 00:20:33.210 Uttam Kumaran: And so, Amber, you know how tough that kind of was, which is like…
189 00:20:33.580 ⇒ 00:20:43.429 Uttam Kumaran: you go from just working on one thing to now, like, there’s two, and then, of course, he’s then gonna switch to more, so, like, keep him… like, that’s… I would give… have some empathy in that, like, that’s how.
190 00:20:43.430 ⇒ 00:20:47.800 Amber Lin: Yeah, I understand. I just think, like, I also haven’t booked meetings
191 00:20:47.920 ⇒ 00:21:01.260 Amber Lin: with him, like, now that I have that context, I can help book the meetings for us, so I think we need a push on pushing that work forward, because we’re both comfortable in our current state.
192 00:21:02.240 ⇒ 00:21:02.830 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
193 00:21:03.660 ⇒ 00:21:04.430 Uttam Kumaran: Great.
194 00:21:07.140 ⇒ 00:21:07.950 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
195 00:21:08.290 ⇒ 00:21:18.810 Uttam Kumaran: So I think on the rest of the clients, and maybe one thing we can do while we’re here is let’s also go ahead, Bryle, and mark Hydra as inactive.
196 00:21:20.770 ⇒ 00:21:23.469 Uttam Kumaran: To line 13.
197 00:21:23.920 ⇒ 00:21:28.000 Uttam Kumaran: And then let’s also mark ABC’s strategy as inactive.
198 00:21:29.730 ⇒ 00:21:34.970 Uttam Kumaran: And then, can we drag those down, just so they’re out of the fray a little bit?
199 00:21:36.720 ⇒ 00:21:38.459 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I have one question.
200 00:21:38.460 ⇒ 00:21:39.150 Uttam Kumaran: Sure.
201 00:21:39.450 ⇒ 00:21:50.250 Mustafa Raja: When we started the, Eden BI, work stream, it was only for migration. Is it only… is it going to stay like that? Like, after migration, is it going to be concluded?
202 00:21:50.670 ⇒ 00:21:57.359 Uttam Kumaran: I’m not sure yet, so I think this is a… it’s a question that we need to ask Robert, is like, what is… what is…
203 00:21:57.670 ⇒ 00:21:59.220 Uttam Kumaran: Greg.
204 00:21:59.220 ⇒ 00:21:59.650 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, what else?
205 00:21:59.650 ⇒ 00:22:02.440 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, needs after.
206 00:22:03.330 ⇒ 00:22:04.670 Mustafa Raja: Okay.
207 00:22:06.570 ⇒ 00:22:07.210 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
208 00:22:24.020 ⇒ 00:22:24.850 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
209 00:22:26.600 ⇒ 00:22:27.250 Brylle Girang: Okay.
210 00:22:29.150 ⇒ 00:22:38.390 Brylle Girang: I think we’re good with the assignments. But, Amber, how do you feel, or how are your EP tasks right now with APC?
211 00:22:39.270 ⇒ 00:22:40.900 Brylle Girang: Do you have any challenges?
212 00:22:41.440 ⇒ 00:22:50.550 Amber Lin: Let’s see… I think for… for EP, my challenge would be that…
213 00:22:50.960 ⇒ 00:22:55.520 Amber Lin: because we’re handling a few work streams under ABC,
214 00:22:55.670 ⇒ 00:22:57.749 Amber Lin: Like, I don’t think I’m using…
215 00:22:57.980 ⇒ 00:23:06.900 Amber Lin: I’m not in linear as much, like, every time I have to send a Slack update to organize my thoughts and organize thoughts for the team.
216 00:23:07.050 ⇒ 00:23:11.029 Amber Lin: So, I’ll probably use linear a little bit more.
217 00:23:11.290 ⇒ 00:23:16.169 Amber Lin: like, tagging it in Slack, just to make sure we have records somewhere.
218 00:23:16.450 ⇒ 00:23:23.579 Amber Lin: But other than that, my… I think the only thing was that the triage tickets also need
219 00:23:24.050 ⇒ 00:23:26.129 Amber Lin: Some more attention.
220 00:23:28.410 ⇒ 00:23:29.720 Brylle Girang: Okay, gotcha.
221 00:23:29.720 ⇒ 00:23:36.879 Amber Lin: Yeah. Question, Utam, are we on the next tier of the contract for ABC? Do I have more hours to work with?
222 00:23:38.960 ⇒ 00:23:43.250 Uttam Kumaran: You do have more hours, but I think we’re already, like, pretty high on hours.
223 00:23:43.760 ⇒ 00:23:45.069 Amber Lin: I see, I see, okay.
224 00:23:45.070 ⇒ 00:23:46.170 Uttam Kumaran: See what I mean?
225 00:23:46.170 ⇒ 00:23:53.190 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah, I think just previously, I didn’t schedule Mustafa for that many, but I think it’s under what…
226 00:23:53.390 ⇒ 00:23:55.980 Amber Lin: I scheduled him for under what he was…
227 00:23:56.170 ⇒ 00:24:00.299 Amber Lin: he needed, so I’m just gonna update that to whoever he is working right now.
228 00:24:01.390 ⇒ 00:24:08.709 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I think… yeah, so I think, Bea, I want to kind of transition to… can we talk about allocations and, like.
229 00:24:08.970 ⇒ 00:24:20.719 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know where we are on operating, but I think this is where, again, it’s just us, right? So I want to make sure that we’re able to at least have some insight into, like, February and March.
230 00:24:20.970 ⇒ 00:24:25.240 Uttam Kumaran: And then, as we start to roll more EPs, like, we can start to…
231 00:24:25.400 ⇒ 00:24:28.089 Uttam Kumaran: Basically, start to work on those allocations.
232 00:24:45.900 ⇒ 00:24:54.300 Brylle Girang: Actually, Mustafa, can I ask you to share your screen? Because I think you’re better with navigating operating right now.
233 00:24:54.630 ⇒ 00:24:55.310 Mustafa Raja: Okay.
234 00:24:55.590 ⇒ 00:24:56.910 Mustafa Raja: Little vulnerable.
235 00:25:19.630 ⇒ 00:25:24.610 Mustafa Raja: Okay… So do you want to look at, individual deals?
236 00:25:30.450 ⇒ 00:25:31.360 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
237 00:25:31.510 ⇒ 00:25:34.619 Uttam Kumaran: So this is something, like, I guess my question to you.
238 00:25:35.120 ⇒ 00:25:46.799 Uttam Kumaran: I was like, do we want… we want people to come do this ahead of this meeting? Like, how do we want to handle this? Ideally, the goal should be that this is done basically coming into the… into the month.
239 00:25:46.860 ⇒ 00:25:56.309 Uttam Kumaran: And then ideally, like, we can… me and you can look through and review, like, I don’t know if it’s the most efficient time for us to do this now together, or like, what do you think?
240 00:25:56.480 ⇒ 00:26:08.329 Uttam Kumaran: like, me and you can also go through operating and clean things up, because, for example, ABC Discovery Deal 1, like, this has been closed, right? So I still feel like maybe we need to close some things, I’m not sure.
241 00:26:09.700 ⇒ 00:26:13.009 Brylle Girang: Yeah, I think it’s going to be a lot better if we work on this.
242 00:26:13.320 ⇒ 00:26:15.430 Brylle Girang: Outside this meeting, and then just.
243 00:26:15.430 ⇒ 00:26:15.950 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
244 00:26:17.090 ⇒ 00:26:17.860 Brylle Girang: Next week.
245 00:26:18.490 ⇒ 00:26:23.340 Uttam Kumaran: So do you guys, Amber and Mustafa, have a pretty good sense of, like, the…
246 00:26:24.030 ⇒ 00:26:30.099 Uttam Kumaran: Like, what’s… what’s required on, like, who’s… how many people are working what hours on your active clients?
247 00:26:32.160 ⇒ 00:26:38.609 Amber Lin: I know for ABC, I would need to ask for Element, and then Eden.
248 00:26:40.870 ⇒ 00:26:48.389 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I’m also… I did add, these hours, but I’m also going to confirm this with my CSOs.
249 00:26:50.420 ⇒ 00:26:58.199 Mustafa Raja: And for SLs, I just added, I think, 2-3 hours, per week, since they are just SL on that.
250 00:26:58.410 ⇒ 00:27:01.059 Mustafa Raja: And they might need to support somewhere over the week.
251 00:27:06.250 ⇒ 00:27:06.890 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
252 00:27:08.030 ⇒ 00:27:08.940 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
253 00:27:09.810 ⇒ 00:27:14.280 Uttam Kumaran: So, I mean, one thing I think, Brian, what we can do is, like, I would prefer if maybe, like.
254 00:27:15.190 ⇒ 00:27:20.330 Uttam Kumaran: We can… me and you can go through and just make sure that we have all the current, like, positions
255 00:27:20.760 ⇒ 00:27:28.429 Uttam Kumaran: in operating setup the right way. All of the active work streams are in operating, kind of named the same way.
256 00:27:28.550 ⇒ 00:27:32.280 Uttam Kumaran: And then we go through and can just assign people to the right roles.
257 00:27:32.450 ⇒ 00:27:41.739 Uttam Kumaran: Right? So, for example, every client is going to have a CSO, EP, and SL, but may additionally have people that work on the client.
258 00:27:41.780 ⇒ 00:27:53.479 Uttam Kumaran: Right? So we need to kind of go through and make sure of that, and then we can come back to this team and say, hey, operating’s in a place for you to log in to see your clients, and then go make those updates.
259 00:27:53.570 ⇒ 00:28:02.560 Uttam Kumaran: The other thing is not everybody now needs to see everything, so I think we can add some filters, so people, when they… when you open it, you just see the clients that you’re on.
260 00:28:02.850 ⇒ 00:28:10.389 Uttam Kumaran: And then what we can do is basically have every EP, you can work with whoever your CSO is, and then…
261 00:28:10.670 ⇒ 00:28:28.600 Uttam Kumaran: like, basically make sure that what your… what your expectation is for each client is there. And then on the delivery leadership side, me and Brile will go through and just make sure that it lines up with how many hours we have per person. No one is overloaded. If they are, then we’re aware of that.
262 00:28:28.600 ⇒ 00:28:34.630 Uttam Kumaran: Things like that. Does that sound like a good plan? Like, I don’t know what… what you guys planned last week.
263 00:28:34.690 ⇒ 00:28:37.280 Uttam Kumaran: Mustafa and Amber, but, like, I feel like that’s…
264 00:28:37.460 ⇒ 00:28:40.710 Uttam Kumaran: Probably what we need to do to come back to you with something.
265 00:28:42.170 ⇒ 00:28:42.540 Amber Lin: Yeah.
266 00:28:42.540 ⇒ 00:28:46.960 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, that sounds… yeah, that sounds good. I’m also wondering,
267 00:28:47.100 ⇒ 00:29:00.659 Mustafa Raja: So, for, like, for this default workstream, I may be working on some of this stuff, outside as EP. So, do I need to assign me… assign myself twice, first as EP, and the other, as.
268 00:29:00.660 ⇒ 00:29:09.729 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m kinda… I don’t know, I’m like, that’s what I’m thinking, because I don’t… I, I mean, what do you guys think? Because… otherwise, the roles…
269 00:29:12.030 ⇒ 00:29:20.449 Uttam Kumaran: we’re not gonna… we have to do EP dash, like, AI engineer, EP something, like, I think it’s better just to have Engagement Planner as a role.
270 00:29:20.720 ⇒ 00:29:23.539 Uttam Kumaran: And then, You can also have your project role.
271 00:29:24.070 ⇒ 00:29:27.210 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I’m wondering if I can just add myself twice.
272 00:29:27.210 ⇒ 00:29:31.329 Uttam Kumaran: No, you can, you can. As long as there are two roles in there, you can add yourself twice.
273 00:29:31.540 ⇒ 00:29:35.400 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, that might just be, you know, the way to go.
274 00:29:36.530 ⇒ 00:29:40.389 Uttam Kumaran: And then that way, like, one thing I think maybe to ask you guys.
275 00:29:40.640 ⇒ 00:29:48.980 Uttam Kumaran: and maybe we can go around the horn, like, Amber, how much time do you think EP on an average client takes per week?
276 00:29:50.480 ⇒ 00:29:53.049 Uttam Kumaran: Given all… everything you know about the requirements.
277 00:29:53.680 ⇒ 00:29:56.420 Amber Lin: Let’s see…
278 00:29:57.490 ⇒ 00:30:00.249 Uttam Kumaran: It’s a tough question, but, like, I don’t know…
279 00:30:00.250 ⇒ 00:30:04.399 Amber Lin: Some clients have work streams, some clients are just a client, though.
280 00:30:04.400 ⇒ 00:30:04.860 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
281 00:30:04.860 ⇒ 00:30:12.649 Amber Lin: like, work streams are, I feel like, on average, are slightly smaller. I would say if it’s a work stream, it would take probably
282 00:30:13.150 ⇒ 00:30:14.160 Amber Lin: Lynx.
283 00:30:14.510 ⇒ 00:30:16.620 Amber Lin: 3 to 5?
284 00:30:16.960 ⇒ 00:30:21.069 Amber Lin: I’d say 5, because then there’s stand-ups, there’s a Gantt, there’s.
285 00:30:21.070 ⇒ 00:30:21.690 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I agree.
286 00:30:21.690 ⇒ 00:30:22.739 Amber Lin: with the team.
287 00:30:22.890 ⇒ 00:30:26.469 Amber Lin: And then, if it’s a whole client, then I would say…
288 00:30:27.270 ⇒ 00:30:34.769 Amber Lin: Give another hour or two on… on more… Packed days.
289 00:30:35.730 ⇒ 00:30:36.200 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
290 00:30:36.200 ⇒ 00:30:36.660 Amber Lin: impact.
291 00:30:36.660 ⇒ 00:30:40.130 Mustafa Raja: Also, yeah, I also like to meet my CSOs.
292 00:30:40.420 ⇒ 00:30:45.030 Mustafa Raja: In the start of the week, to make sure that we are all aligned.
293 00:30:46.660 ⇒ 00:30:47.330 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
294 00:30:48.370 ⇒ 00:30:56.580 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I think… I think that’s… I think, Brian, like, what is your feedback now, given, like, you’ve been doing the EP work, like…
295 00:30:56.880 ⇒ 00:31:05.260 Uttam Kumaran: How long do you think it’s, like, given your new systems, like, how long do you think it would take? Like, is that about in line with what you expect?
296 00:31:05.260 ⇒ 00:31:11.999 Brylle Girang: Yeah, I think Amber’s… estimate is in line with what I’m currently experiencing.
297 00:31:15.020 ⇒ 00:31:16.350 Brylle Girang: Yeah, yeah.
298 00:31:17.520 ⇒ 00:31:30.799 Brylle Girang: But with the planned improvements that were… planned, I mean planned, it should be reduced, especially when it comes to the presentations, the GANTs, the…
299 00:31:30.850 ⇒ 00:31:41.820 Brylle Girang: the notes that we’re sending out, so that should be reduced to from 5 hours to, let’s say, 3 or 4 hours per day. But right now, I would say that that’s…
300 00:31:41.820 ⇒ 00:31:49.939 Amber Lin: Sorry, interjection, but the messages and the presentations are mostly CSO work, so…
301 00:31:53.130 ⇒ 00:31:57.440 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, well, I think the EP right now is helping to put some of those together.
302 00:31:57.440 ⇒ 00:32:01.609 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, I build the presentations for my clients.
303 00:32:02.000 ⇒ 00:32:04.590 Amber Lin: Okay, valid. Sorry, go ahead.
304 00:32:04.590 ⇒ 00:32:09.209 Brylle Girang: No worries. But yeah, I would say that right now, that’s a pretty.
305 00:32:09.210 ⇒ 00:32:15.389 Uttam Kumaran: So even, like, that’s also, even Amber, if, like, I don’t mind if you’re, like, actually, shit, it takes 10 hours per client.
306 00:32:15.740 ⇒ 00:32:25.860 Uttam Kumaran: Cause… because what… what Bryle and I are doing is we’re gonna show you guys how we’re starting, because both of us now are, like, running across 5 clients.
307 00:32:25.930 ⇒ 00:32:43.160 Uttam Kumaran: And we’re doing it. And so we want to show you both how we’re using Cursor to do a few things. I don’t know, Byle, do you have, like, the EP, like, doc that you’re working on with, like, the tasks and, like, how we’re trying to help build, sort of, automations for stuff?
308 00:32:43.160 ⇒ 00:32:49.130 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’ll just show… give some clarity to Mustaf and Amber on that, like, we’re… every day, we’re working on, like.
309 00:32:49.180 ⇒ 00:33:05.210 Uttam Kumaran: building tools for you guys. We haven’t shared a lot of it yet, but Brile will be doing that this week, on, like, how you guys can create tickets, decks, things a lot faster from the transcripts, which will hopefully should cut your time on EP in 50%.
310 00:33:05.520 ⇒ 00:33:14.819 Uttam Kumaran: And, like, I mean that sincerely, because we’re doing it right now. And so that’s kind of, like, what I want to share, in that, like, okay, how are… how am I gonna…
311 00:33:14.870 ⇒ 00:33:26.950 Uttam Kumaran: kind of am I gonna fulfill my promise in that, like, the BrainForge platform is gonna work for you? One thing that we did is we basically went through and looked at every single daily, weekly, and monthly task.
312 00:33:27.070 ⇒ 00:33:37.290 Uttam Kumaran: And we are… we are mapping it out, and then also figuring out ways to build cursor shortcuts for you to actually do a lot of these things.
313 00:33:37.350 ⇒ 00:33:46.769 Uttam Kumaran: A lot quicker. Because most of what the job is, is going from transcript to ticket, from transcript to closing tickets, updating, creating.
314 00:33:46.770 ⇒ 00:33:57.569 Uttam Kumaran: project plans, and so we’re working on ways to… to do that. I don’t know, Byle, if you want to kind of walk them through this doc, and I would love to even just get feedback on the call from these folks.
315 00:33:58.050 ⇒ 00:34:12.139 Brylle Girang: Yeah, definitely. So right now, what we have done so far, and what we have completed, mainly, is the ticket audit, because I feel like this is one of the main friction points that we have, especially if tickets are not updated.
316 00:34:12.139 ⇒ 00:34:19.079 Brylle Girang: we’re missing tickets from linear, etc. So I have created a cursor command here that I’m going to be sharing with you.
317 00:34:19.130 ⇒ 00:34:27.149 Brylle Girang: But aside from that, most of these are also, synchronous checks. So the priority syncs, the stand-ups.
318 00:34:27.210 ⇒ 00:34:31.240 Brylle Girang: The answer preps, etc, which should be also…
319 00:34:31.310 ⇒ 00:34:35.050 Brylle Girang: We should also be able to at least
320 00:34:35.510 ⇒ 00:34:40.919 Brylle Girang: be answered by the linear ticket audits, because the stand-ups are going to be mainly…
321 00:34:41.060 ⇒ 00:34:44.750 Brylle Girang: About what the current state of our linear boards are.
322 00:34:45.170 ⇒ 00:34:47.380 Brylle Girang: For the weekly tasks.
323 00:34:47.920 ⇒ 00:35:01.650 Brylle Girang: again, as Mustafa mentioned, this revolves around the presentations, the summaries, the preps, and we have… we are also experimenting on creating cursor commands for this. Right now, it’s mostly
324 00:35:01.730 ⇒ 00:35:10.890 Brylle Girang: Experimentation, where we gather talking points, we do the standard cursor commands, etc, but
325 00:35:11.050 ⇒ 00:35:13.969 Brylle Girang: In the next few weeks, we should be able to launch.
326 00:35:15.040 ⇒ 00:35:23.269 Brylle Girang: templated messages that you can send over to Cursor, and it should do everything that it needs, as long as you give it enough context about what you want.
327 00:35:23.630 ⇒ 00:35:31.670 Brylle Girang: So, for a more concrete example, I’m also going to be sharing, like, demo?
328 00:35:31.970 ⇒ 00:35:35.450 Brylle Girang: about this through the Engagement Planners group chat, but…
329 00:35:35.550 ⇒ 00:35:39.819 Brylle Girang: Just to get you hyped up, and just to show you
330 00:35:39.930 ⇒ 00:35:45.650 Brylle Girang: that it works. This is a sample… oops… this is a sample
331 00:35:46.250 ⇒ 00:35:49.550 Brylle Girang: linear audit that I just did using the command.
332 00:35:49.660 ⇒ 00:35:56.959 Brylle Girang: So, we have this linear, or we have this cursor command, where I could just tell cursor, do a linear audit.
333 00:35:58.890 ⇒ 00:36:14.329 Brylle Girang: it asks you which clients you want to focus on, it asks you the type of audit that you want to do, and then it basically does these 8 steps for you from linear. So step one is… step three, rather, is that it creates missing 8…
334 00:36:14.330 ⇒ 00:36:22.979 Brylle Girang: issues from action items that are discussed via meetings. Step 4 is it makes sure that the tickets, or the linear tasks.
335 00:36:23.590 ⇒ 00:36:26.999 Brylle Girang: Enough context for it to be workable.
336 00:36:27.450 ⇒ 00:36:39.509 Brylle Girang: The next steps are about basically grooming the tickets, where it assigns the tickets to their most relevant assignees, it assigns a ticket to the most relevant projects.
337 00:36:39.620 ⇒ 00:36:48.989 Brylle Girang: And then the last steps are basically just a summary of whatever happened, so that if you want to, you know, push the messages to your group chats, you’ll be able to do that.
338 00:36:49.510 ⇒ 00:36:51.830 Brylle Girang: Using just one cursor command.
339 00:36:52.360 ⇒ 00:37:06.709 Brylle Girang: And, we’re also doing some improvements when it comes to managing cursor. Just recently, we pushed, linear and GitHub integration, where GitHub PRs will be linked to linear requests.
340 00:37:06.710 ⇒ 00:37:15.950 Brylle Girang: So that also reduces at least, you know, seconds out of our day, just making sure that the PRs and the linear tasks are merged.
341 00:37:16.430 ⇒ 00:37:23.129 Brylle Girang: But yeah, so those are the things that we’re trying to do, basically. We’re trying to make sure that we take away
342 00:37:23.240 ⇒ 00:37:30.100 Brylle Girang: The recurring, the redundant tasks that you’re doing day by day, so that you can focus on the…
343 00:37:30.780 ⇒ 00:37:41.289 Brylle Girang: I wouldn’t say higher impacting, but allows you to focus on the more critical, the more important tasks that actually requires your raw brain power.
344 00:37:41.550 ⇒ 00:37:52.810 Brylle Girang: So, I will be working with you closely here, Mustafa and Amber. I had a one-on-one with Mustafa earlier, so we have an upcoming one-on-one, Amber, so I’m more than excited to collaborate.
345 00:37:52.950 ⇒ 00:38:00.909 Brylle Girang: Here, but first step is that we need to make sure that we treat cursor as our second brain.
346 00:38:01.160 ⇒ 00:38:03.540 Brylle Girang: Here, and not just, you know, a tool that
347 00:38:03.850 ⇒ 00:38:09.250 Brylle Girang: We’re just going to use whenever we want, so it would be really helpful if
348 00:38:09.980 ⇒ 00:38:15.209 Brylle Girang: we utilize Cursor as much as possible for everything that we’re…
349 00:38:15.300 ⇒ 00:38:31.129 Brylle Girang: Really, especially with the power of our vault, the power of our repo, I was able to create SOWs within 4 days of joining Brainforge, so that just shows the information that we can get using Cursor.
350 00:38:33.780 ⇒ 00:38:34.870 Amber Lin: Very cool.
351 00:38:35.640 ⇒ 00:38:36.840 Uttam Kumaran: What do you guys think, seeing it?
352 00:38:36.840 ⇒ 00:38:37.750 Amber Lin: Look forward.
353 00:38:37.750 ⇒ 00:38:38.070 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
354 00:38:38.070 ⇒ 00:38:43.230 Amber Lin: I would like to try it out, because I like the example, I just…
355 00:38:43.390 ⇒ 00:38:51.489 Amber Lin: want to see how much context or how accurate this can be, for me to trust using this. So, would love…
356 00:38:51.490 ⇒ 00:38:51.870 Uttam Kumaran: Totally.
357 00:38:51.870 ⇒ 00:38:53.720 Amber Lin: experiment.
358 00:38:53.830 ⇒ 00:38:58.970 Amber Lin: Maybe… well, we’re meeting in… To… in a day, so…
359 00:38:59.630 ⇒ 00:39:01.499 Amber Lin: We can talk about it there.
360 00:39:01.820 ⇒ 00:39:14.559 Brylle Girang: Yeah, and I think the best thing that we can do right now is to try and build that trust with your Syncursor, so if you feel like it’s not working, I would love to get that feedback so we can improve.
361 00:39:14.560 ⇒ 00:39:23.189 Brylle Girang: the command, because, you know, this is not the final version, I’m pretty sure that we will re… we will iterate as we go along, but at least we know that
362 00:39:23.190 ⇒ 00:39:25.820 Brylle Girang: This is going to be one of the best
363 00:39:25.920 ⇒ 00:39:28.219 Brylle Girang: Automated processes that we can have.
364 00:39:29.610 ⇒ 00:39:30.910 Amber Lin: Cool, awesome.
365 00:39:32.340 ⇒ 00:39:34.630 Brylle Girang: I’m also going to be sharing
366 00:39:35.360 ⇒ 00:39:44.870 Brylle Girang: the step-by-step and anything that you need via our Engagement Planner group chat, so that, you know, we have documentation and that you have reference.
367 00:39:47.310 ⇒ 00:39:48.120 Amber Lin: Okay.
368 00:39:49.170 ⇒ 00:39:56.949 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s, like, that’s just a little, like, insight into, like, how we’re thinking about it, guys, is, like, what I want to accomplish is what we’ve always talked about, which is, like.
369 00:39:57.010 ⇒ 00:40:09.580 Uttam Kumaran: give the power, so, like, we have all these transcripts coming in, we’re doing all this work. I want to make it easy for things, again, to linear, for linear to get updated, easier for you guys to EP your projects, so that you can spend less time, like.
370 00:40:09.640 ⇒ 00:40:11.949 Uttam Kumaran: Thinking about, oh, is everything in linear?
371 00:40:11.980 ⇒ 00:40:29.840 Uttam Kumaran: and, like, what should go into the Gantt, and more time actually, like, delivering on clients, and then basically coming… coming, like, not always on the back foot, right? And so, this is just one way in which we’ve tackled several things in, like, one command, but we’re going systematically through it and trying to tackle. So, like.
372 00:40:29.840 ⇒ 00:40:42.160 Uttam Kumaran: Amber and Mustafa, when you meet with Bea, and you try it, tell him the things that are annoying about it. Like, tell him the things that are not working. Like, we… I really need you guys to be like, this is a paper-cut thing.
373 00:40:42.160 ⇒ 00:40:57.120 Uttam Kumaran: And, like, I need help, like, this is not exactly what I wanted, because what we built is just based on working on my clients with me. So now it’s to the point where B is actively working as EP across several clients, using these every day, and so now I want to roll it out to you guys.
374 00:40:57.270 ⇒ 00:41:10.949 Uttam Kumaran: And then now we’ll start to work on the other tasks. Like, we’re gonna talk about how do we produce a Gantt faster? How do we… how do we, like, do the weekly tasks, right? And so I want this meeting to be talking about, like, how is the delivery leadership team supporting
375 00:41:11.030 ⇒ 00:41:20.419 Uttam Kumaran: the engagement planners, through automations, through making tough decisions, like we did on allocations, to making sure you have right resourcing, right? So, like, that’s how I want
376 00:41:20.590 ⇒ 00:41:28.999 Uttam Kumaran: like, our teams to be working together, right? It’s like, we work for you in that manner. But we do need you guys to adopt this stuff for it to work.
377 00:41:29.440 ⇒ 00:41:30.060 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
378 00:41:34.060 ⇒ 00:41:34.660 Amber Lin: Cool.
379 00:41:36.510 ⇒ 00:41:43.810 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I think that’s all we had then. So, B, I think we have some homework. We have the transition doc for ABC, we have,
380 00:41:44.260 ⇒ 00:41:57.799 Uttam Kumaran: us working on operating, so we can… we can get those out the door. And then, yeah, I mean, I would love to see you guys start to use these linear automations daily, you know, as fast as possible. And then hopefully in our next week call.
381 00:41:57.930 ⇒ 00:42:02.839 Uttam Kumaran: It’s gonna be more about, like, we’ve… these are the fixes we need, etc, etc, you know?
382 00:42:05.940 ⇒ 00:42:06.290 Mustafa Raja: Nope.
383 00:42:06.290 ⇒ 00:42:12.790 Amber Lin: Nice. Awesome. Yeah, I’m meeting with, B this week, so hopefully get that set up this week.
384 00:42:12.970 ⇒ 00:42:20.999 Amber Lin: I think on my to-do, so by end of week, I would like to set up my operating for the new two projects that I’m EPing.
385 00:42:21.160 ⇒ 00:42:27.780 Amber Lin: We’ll also need some time to go through Notion, and then go through documentation to make sure those things are set up.
386 00:42:30.550 ⇒ 00:42:35.159 Brylle Girang: Utem, before we end, I just wanted to check on the Slack.
387 00:42:35.460 ⇒ 00:42:39.339 Brylle Girang: How do you call that? The Slack vault that we were talking about?
388 00:42:42.060 ⇒ 00:42:55.290 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, wait, say that again? Oh, the… oh, Slack, yes, yes, so let’s talk about that today, I can get that for you. Actually, Mustafa is probably the best… we can… I can work to show you where that is. I think you pinged me today, I didn’t get back to you, so just… if you just nudge me again, I’ll show you where to get it.
389 00:42:55.290 ⇒ 00:43:01.960 Brylle Girang: Yeah, that’s also going to be really helpful for us here. So, Amber, Mustafa, we’re basically trying to…
390 00:43:02.580 ⇒ 00:43:12.300 Brylle Girang: do the same treatment as we do with the meeting transcripts, the Slack messages, so that cursor can also be used to ensure that we don’t miss anything in Slack.
391 00:43:13.490 ⇒ 00:43:14.230 Mustafa Raja: Okay.
392 00:43:15.840 ⇒ 00:43:17.510 Brylle Girang: Alright, thank you everyone!
393 00:43:18.480 ⇒ 00:43:20.340 Amber Lin: Cool. Thank you. Thanks.
394 00:43:21.020 ⇒ 00:43:22.260 Uttam Kumaran: participant by…
395 00:43:22.260 ⇒ 00:43:23.100 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, bye.