Meeting Title: Nico <> Uttam - Weekly-Check-Ins Date: 2024-07-29 Meeting participants: Nicolas Sucari, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:03:57.060 ⇒ 00:03:57.870 Uttam Kumaran: And hiccup.
2 00:03:59.760 ⇒ 00:04:00.780 Nicolas Sucari: How you done.
3 00:04:01.450 ⇒ 00:04:02.510 Nicolas Sucari: are you.
4 00:04:02.920 ⇒ 00:04:04.249 Uttam Kumaran: Good? How’s everything?
5 00:04:05.350 ⇒ 00:04:07.479 Nicolas Sucari: Oh, good! Oh, good! Here!
6 00:04:08.380 ⇒ 00:04:09.439 Uttam Kumaran: How’s the weekend.
7 00:04:10.520 ⇒ 00:04:11.670 Nicolas Sucari: Was nice.
8 00:04:12.000 ⇒ 00:04:20.021 Nicolas Sucari: and play some golf yesterday. I will. I didn’t play it in a while, so it was kind of a shitty round, but it was nice.
9 00:04:21.870 ⇒ 00:04:22.270 Nicolas Sucari: Hi!
10 00:04:22.270 ⇒ 00:04:22.730 Uttam Kumaran: So many.
11 00:04:22.730 ⇒ 00:04:23.190 Nicolas Sucari: People.
12 00:04:23.190 ⇒ 00:04:25.149 Uttam Kumaran: They’re asking me to play golf.
13 00:04:26.950 ⇒ 00:04:27.330 Nicolas Sucari: Sorry.
14 00:04:27.700 ⇒ 00:04:30.479 Uttam Kumaran: A lot of people here. A lot of my friends here are asking.
15 00:04:30.480 ⇒ 00:04:30.960 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
16 00:04:31.450 ⇒ 00:04:33.520 Uttam Kumaran: Learn how to play golf, but
17 00:04:34.100 ⇒ 00:04:39.439 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know. It’s I’m not like that interested. I I watch some golf like on a TV, but
18 00:04:40.298 ⇒ 00:04:45.090 Uttam Kumaran: seems kind of boring, but at so many of my friends are getting
19 00:04:45.410 ⇒ 00:04:47.029 Uttam Kumaran: are starting to play.
20 00:04:47.350 ⇒ 00:04:48.430 Nicolas Sucari: No, you have a degree, and then.
21 00:04:48.430 ⇒ 00:04:54.799 Uttam Kumaran: And they’re like they’re like you should play. It’s good for business. And I’m like, nobody in business has asked me to play.
22 00:04:55.160 ⇒ 00:04:55.650 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
23 00:04:56.540 ⇒ 00:04:58.359 Uttam Kumaran: I, someone does, I’ll learn.
24 00:04:58.440 ⇒ 00:05:03.452 Uttam Kumaran: But actually, it’s just you guys, you guys aren’t doing anything.
25 00:05:04.290 ⇒ 00:05:11.559 Nicolas Sucari: No, it’s it’s a fun sport. I think it’s funnier to play than to watch. But yeah, it’s difficult.
26 00:05:11.970 ⇒ 00:05:16.760 Nicolas Sucari: You get frustrated a lot, because you think it’s gonna be easy, and it’s not easy.
27 00:05:17.640 ⇒ 00:05:20.290 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And I don’t know. I just like.
28 00:05:20.970 ⇒ 00:05:27.789 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t. I don’t know whether I could. Yeah, I think it’s I like the driving range. It’s fun to hit the balls like that. So.
29 00:05:27.790 ⇒ 00:05:28.400 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
30 00:05:29.500 ⇒ 00:05:36.840 Nicolas Sucari: yeah, yeah. So yeah, I I played again after kind of 4 months. I’ve not been playing.
31 00:05:37.230 ⇒ 00:05:41.610 Nicolas Sucari: and it was difficult. I played well, I played well, but it’s difficult.
32 00:05:44.210 ⇒ 00:05:44.990 Nicolas Sucari: Yes.
33 00:05:45.580 ⇒ 00:05:47.210 Nicolas Sucari: How was your weekend?
34 00:05:47.640 ⇒ 00:05:50.479 Uttam Kumaran: This weekend was good. We went to like a small town.
35 00:05:51.180 ⇒ 00:05:52.870 Uttam Kumaran: and South Texas
36 00:05:52.900 ⇒ 00:06:01.009 Uttam Kumaran: called Green, and there’s like a little river, and we have a friend that that has a lake house, or like a river house there
37 00:06:01.050 ⇒ 00:06:06.458 Uttam Kumaran: right on the river. So he stayed there for one night, and it’s his birthday.
38 00:06:08.050 ⇒ 00:06:11.850 Uttam Kumaran: and yeah, like, that’s that’s mostly it. Friday.
39 00:06:13.286 ⇒ 00:06:17.499 Uttam Kumaran: Alright, I don’t even know what I did. I don’t think I did anything Friday really
40 00:06:17.890 ⇒ 00:06:19.190 Uttam Kumaran: just like a
41 00:06:20.410 ⇒ 00:06:23.200 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s it. Just add dinner here and
42 00:06:23.330 ⇒ 00:06:24.640 Uttam Kumaran: relax. So.
43 00:06:26.220 ⇒ 00:06:26.990 Nicolas Sucari: Nice.
44 00:06:27.460 ⇒ 00:06:28.660 Nicolas Sucari: chill, weekend.
45 00:06:29.410 ⇒ 00:06:30.680 Uttam Kumaran: The actual weekend.
46 00:06:32.450 ⇒ 00:06:32.960 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
47 00:06:34.110 ⇒ 00:06:40.049 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. So I think this week, I think kind of like I said some notes yesterday. I just like recorded some more.
48 00:06:40.050 ⇒ 00:06:40.400 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
49 00:06:40.400 ⇒ 00:06:42.849 Uttam Kumaran: Kind of use AI to translate it. But
50 00:06:42.900 ⇒ 00:06:44.899 Uttam Kumaran: like a bunch of thoughts I think
51 00:06:44.960 ⇒ 00:06:49.689 Uttam Kumaran: overall this week is gonna kind of be a crazy sales week.
52 00:06:50.640 ⇒ 00:06:51.150 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
53 00:06:51.150 ⇒ 00:06:57.560 Uttam Kumaran: I think last week I did a pretty good job of like focusing on sales, probably until like Wednesday.
54 00:06:57.740 ⇒ 00:06:58.740 Uttam Kumaran: and then
55 00:06:59.330 ⇒ 00:07:04.439 Uttam Kumaran: Thursday, you know, I was working with Patrick on that stuff, and and same with kind of Friday. So.
56 00:07:05.130 ⇒ 00:07:08.489 Uttam Kumaran: but I think this week, like today, I have an In person meeting
57 00:07:10.370 ⇒ 00:07:16.180 Uttam Kumaran: and we’re starting to send off emails today. So it’s gonna just be a little bit hectic for me.
58 00:07:16.260 ⇒ 00:07:19.520 Uttam Kumaran: But I think the biggest thing is, I think. Actually.
59 00:07:20.470 ⇒ 00:07:26.650 Uttam Kumaran: I know there’s a lot of notes there, I think, on Stella and pool parts. I think from the client perspective, we’re doing great job.
60 00:07:27.060 ⇒ 00:07:32.950 Uttam Kumaran: I think for me, the the only, the biggest kind of like frustration is just like
61 00:07:32.990 ⇒ 00:07:36.060 Uttam Kumaran: understanding when things are gonna get done.
62 00:07:36.880 ⇒ 00:07:42.370 Uttam Kumaran: And that’s that’s me. That’s just a little bit across the board. I think the kind of the
63 00:07:42.600 ⇒ 00:07:44.249 Uttam Kumaran: the big things is like
64 00:07:44.360 ⇒ 00:07:52.509 Uttam Kumaran: that’s kind of what I thought is gonna happen, which is like the email stuff is now like week 4. The sequel stuff is like week 3.
65 00:07:52.660 ⇒ 00:07:56.719 Uttam Kumaran: The error catching stuff is on week 3,
66 00:07:56.860 ⇒ 00:08:00.519 Uttam Kumaran: right? And so like, you know, it’s just like the weeks go by.
67 00:08:02.380 ⇒ 00:08:04.120 Uttam Kumaran: so we need some
68 00:08:04.290 ⇒ 00:08:08.060 Uttam Kumaran: way of just making sure that stuff is getting done.
69 00:08:08.080 ⇒ 00:08:10.220 Uttam Kumaran: And then the thing that I can
70 00:08:10.490 ⇒ 00:08:12.100 Uttam Kumaran: guarantee is like
71 00:08:13.460 ⇒ 00:08:22.450 Uttam Kumaran: if we’re not. If, for example, like, here’s a good example. If Brian isn’t doing a good job being like, hey, I can get this done, or I can hop on meetings and stuff. Then
72 00:08:22.680 ⇒ 00:08:32.200 Uttam Kumaran: I can basically go to them and say, Hey, we can’t succeed on this, if you’re not able to do that, so you need to either do that or you can’t work on this client. But that’s that’s what I.
73 00:08:32.200 ⇒ 00:08:33.090 Nicolas Sucari: Acclaimed.
74 00:08:33.938 ⇒ 00:08:37.050 Uttam Kumaran: And so that’s kind of the information like
75 00:08:37.490 ⇒ 00:08:40.250 Uttam Kumaran: I need from you.
76 00:08:40.289 ⇒ 00:08:41.990 Uttam Kumaran: which is mainly
77 00:08:42.419 ⇒ 00:08:48.819 Uttam Kumaran: which is mainly like, Okay, hey? We set these deadlines and these deadlines are getting missed. And then it’s like, Okay, what next?
78 00:08:49.120 ⇒ 00:08:54.709 Uttam Kumaran: And like in terms of what next the options are, you know, I speak with people, or we switch people out.
79 00:08:56.470 ⇒ 00:08:59.960 Uttam Kumaran: you know. And I think for the most part, I think everybody
80 00:08:59.980 ⇒ 00:09:02.339 Uttam Kumaran: can get all their stuff done. It’s just
81 00:09:02.630 ⇒ 00:09:11.630 Uttam Kumaran: I just think stuff’s stuff is sliding, and we’re losing one or 2 dates here which pushes us over, you know, one or 2 weeks.
82 00:09:12.040 ⇒ 00:09:12.675 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah,
83 00:09:13.960 ⇒ 00:09:16.379 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I agree. I agree, totally.
84 00:09:18.240 ⇒ 00:09:19.159 Uttam Kumaran: I think I’m
85 00:09:19.796 ⇒ 00:09:20.980 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.
86 00:09:20.980 ⇒ 00:09:23.317 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, no, no, I I think that’s fine.
87 00:09:23.740 ⇒ 00:09:31.970 Nicolas Sucari: there is. There is progress, as you said, like we met last week with Patrick and atar on these equal fluff stuff.
88 00:09:31.980 ⇒ 00:09:53.650 Nicolas Sucari: He’s making some progress. And he also was asking the right questions to Patrick, so he he probably is able to finish that that up this week. I’m gonna set the deadlines with everyone on each of the meetings. I mean with the analysis team like we need to set deadlines for this week for the evidence stuff
89 00:09:53.650 ⇒ 00:10:02.590 Nicolas Sucari: with Patrick and atar with the sequel and the email project like, try to set some deadlines and see if we can like set meetings
90 00:10:02.660 ⇒ 00:10:07.549 Nicolas Sucari: for this week to just like, go through what they’ve been doing, so that they can like
91 00:10:07.650 ⇒ 00:10:10.290 Nicolas Sucari: finish up the the desks right.
92 00:10:10.820 ⇒ 00:10:11.390 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
93 00:10:11.390 ⇒ 00:10:40.020 Nicolas Sucari: What I’m gonna ask is, yeah, have that have a meeting, for example, with Jacob on Wednesday to see the actual evidence page on the pro versus consumers, and probably the the other one center of gravity one, and see if he can make it. I’m gonna try him to to to tell me which is like the correct deadline for each of those pages, and just generate a meeting so that he can show us on that meeting what is done, and close that up.
94 00:10:40.020 ⇒ 00:10:41.000 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, right?
95 00:10:42.070 ⇒ 00:10:58.289 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s perfect. And the the again, here’s the, here’s the way, like, I’m gonna and all this is like, I’m trying to find out where I fit. And so here’s kind of how I’ll and we’ll end up doing it like in case in case things don’t get done.
96 00:10:58.420 ⇒ 00:11:03.050 Uttam Kumaran: I’m happy to come in, and I’ll just get it done right. But I don’t want to do that until like Thursday.
97 00:11:03.380 ⇒ 00:11:03.960 Uttam Kumaran: so.
98 00:11:04.133 ⇒ 00:11:04.479 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah. Yeah.
99 00:11:04.480 ⇒ 00:11:09.900 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s leave that as like the ultimate. Let’s leave that as like the ultimate backup plan.
100 00:11:09.960 ⇒ 00:11:14.590 Uttam Kumaran: But I’m gonna really, really try to not touch anything until then.
101 00:11:16.510 ⇒ 00:11:24.219 Uttam Kumaran: and basically, just this week, I I really need like a lot of time to focus because I’m gonna be sending up, probably like a couple of 100 emails
102 00:11:24.540 ⇒ 00:11:27.870 Uttam Kumaran: and and a bunch of stuff on Linkedin. So
103 00:11:28.160 ⇒ 00:11:36.880 Uttam Kumaran: that’s let’s just keep that as a plan. The other thing is, I think overall. We’ve been probably work. We’ve been definitely working over
104 00:11:36.970 ⇒ 00:11:46.919 Uttam Kumaran: the amount of hours for pull parts. So the couple of things I wanna now think about little a little bit about like what we’re working on one. I think the biggest stuff they need is the stuff for the
105 00:11:47.000 ⇒ 00:11:48.350 Uttam Kumaran: investors.
106 00:11:48.720 ⇒ 00:11:54.330 Uttam Kumaran: I think the stuff for eunice is also important.
107 00:11:54.540 ⇒ 00:11:55.405 Uttam Kumaran: right?
108 00:11:56.680 ⇒ 00:12:03.730 Uttam Kumaran: so those are the 2 things that I think we should continue to drive. There’s stuff for Kim, and there’s stuff for Chuck that
109 00:12:03.770 ⇒ 00:12:06.390 Uttam Kumaran: we just. We just don’t have the time to
110 00:12:06.440 ⇒ 00:12:08.449 Uttam Kumaran: balance everything right.
111 00:12:08.610 ⇒ 00:12:14.679 Uttam Kumaran: And so that’s also some of the things I’m going to start to translate over to
112 00:12:15.752 ⇒ 00:12:17.169 Uttam Kumaran: Ben and Dan.
113 00:12:17.220 ⇒ 00:12:22.629 Uttam Kumaran: it’s basically like, Hey, we’re basically hitting our upper cap on ours.
114 00:12:24.320 ⇒ 00:12:29.389 Uttam Kumaran: you know. So let’s let’s leave all the data engineering stuff kind of out of it. But
115 00:12:29.878 ⇒ 00:12:31.590 Uttam Kumaran: I basically want to
116 00:12:31.740 ⇒ 00:12:35.139 Uttam Kumaran: mentioned to them that, hey? We are a little bit above
117 00:12:35.390 ⇒ 00:12:42.380 Uttam Kumaran: ours. And so we’re gonna prioritize what the most important needs are, which at the moment are the Unis stuff
118 00:12:42.480 ⇒ 00:12:49.150 Uttam Kumaran: and the stuff for the and like the investor
119 00:12:49.320 ⇒ 00:12:51.320 Uttam Kumaran: meetings. So
120 00:12:52.160 ⇒ 00:12:56.680 Uttam Kumaran: let’s just make sure. Like, if we go with that, then I’m really content. And then
121 00:12:57.040 ⇒ 00:13:00.609 Uttam Kumaran: that way also this week I can have that conversation, saying, Hey, we’re
122 00:13:00.790 ⇒ 00:13:03.390 Uttam Kumaran: we have this long backlog of stuff, and
123 00:13:03.720 ⇒ 00:13:05.300 Uttam Kumaran: not able to.
124 00:13:06.420 ⇒ 00:13:10.010 Uttam Kumaran: you know. We could only handle, probably like 2 major priorities at a time.
125 00:13:10.768 ⇒ 00:13:16.030 Uttam Kumaran: But that doesn’t change. Kind of like anything. What we’re what we talked about, anyways. But
126 00:13:16.070 ⇒ 00:13:20.860 Uttam Kumaran: I wanna kind of also relieve some pressure and just say, like anything around
127 00:13:21.310 ⇒ 00:13:24.190 Uttam Kumaran: anything around working with Kim on the pool
128 00:13:24.250 ⇒ 00:13:27.200 Uttam Kumaran: pro stuff, and then anything around
129 00:13:27.598 ⇒ 00:13:31.350 Uttam Kumaran: Chuck’s work for unleashed and things like that. We just need to push
130 00:13:31.730 ⇒ 00:13:33.019 Uttam Kumaran: off for now.
131 00:13:40.885 ⇒ 00:13:42.850 Uttam Kumaran: You’re on! You’re on mute if you’re talking.
132 00:13:45.270 ⇒ 00:13:55.569 Nicolas Sucari: Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. It’s okay. I think that’s fine. The only thing about units is that they are still working on the stuff right? So
133 00:13:56.110 ⇒ 00:14:11.490 Nicolas Sucari: like, on the California warehouse, they are setting up that new technology that they were talking about for order tags. So that’s not ready yet. And yeah, that last one. I don’t know the status, but I don’t know if they send the contract
134 00:14:11.800 ⇒ 00:14:12.760 Nicolas Sucari: 2.
135 00:14:13.130 ⇒ 00:14:18.190 Uttam Kumaran: It is so the contract is signed. But yeah, I I just, I just think like, in terms of overall.
136 00:14:18.670 ⇒ 00:14:21.339 Uttam Kumaran: it’s still taking time from your day to go.
137 00:14:21.440 ⇒ 00:14:22.130 Uttam Kumaran: Follow up.
138 00:14:22.130 ⇒ 00:14:22.540 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
139 00:14:22.540 ⇒ 00:14:23.270 Uttam Kumaran: That.
140 00:14:23.990 ⇒ 00:14:26.010 Uttam Kumaran: So it is what it is like.
141 00:14:26.310 ⇒ 00:14:30.349 Uttam Kumaran: We could only handle what we could handle. So I just wanna make sure that
142 00:14:30.630 ⇒ 00:14:35.200 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t wanna say like, Oh, we have like 8 things going on cause. Then it makes your life impossible.
143 00:14:35.630 ⇒ 00:14:36.210 Nicolas Sucari: So, yeah, like.
144 00:14:36.210 ⇒ 00:14:39.589 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s just reduce. Reduce the scope a little bit, and
145 00:14:39.800 ⇒ 00:14:45.870 Uttam Kumaran: and we’ll just say we have Unis Ca, and anything that needs to go with that, and we have the analysis.
146 00:14:46.420 ⇒ 00:15:00.090 Uttam Kumaran: And then the unfortunately, the alerts is something we’ve been working on for a long time, right? And we already promised them from a while ago. So that is just to clear out at that point, you know, honestly, like, we’re we’re mainly going to be focused on
147 00:15:00.250 ⇒ 00:15:03.889 Uttam Kumaran: analysis, related things ideally. So.
148 00:15:05.023 ⇒ 00:15:18.609 Uttam Kumaran: And even on the data jury site, you notice that the the backlog is getting smaller and smaller. So I have some ideas about what the kind of the future of cool parts is gonna look like. But a lot of it hinges on us getting new clients.
149 00:15:18.970 ⇒ 00:15:24.140 Uttam Kumaran: Because basically, what I’m thinking, is that pool parts is probably gonna be the most
150 00:15:25.282 ⇒ 00:15:32.520 Uttam Kumaran: complicated client that we will probably deal with, mainly because I probably won’t take a client
151 00:15:32.820 ⇒ 00:15:34.930 Uttam Kumaran: similar to that, unless we’re
152 00:15:35.110 ⇒ 00:15:36.729 Uttam Kumaran: we have a lot more budgets.
153 00:15:36.800 ⇒ 00:15:42.239 Uttam Kumaran: So and ideally, what ends up happening is it’s probably ends up being like a mix of
154 00:15:42.400 ⇒ 00:15:51.240 Uttam Kumaran: me and somebody on the analysis side running pool parts and the rest of the folks like I’m hopefully gonna try to switch off to new clients.
155 00:15:51.630 ⇒ 00:15:51.960 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
156 00:15:51.960 ⇒ 00:15:58.980 Uttam Kumaran: That’s like that being said like that. Nothing has happened yet. But I was just like thinking about this last night, about like how
157 00:15:59.050 ⇒ 00:16:01.489 Uttam Kumaran: Disney’s end up shaking up so.
158 00:16:02.458 ⇒ 00:16:10.110 Uttam Kumaran: That’s why the stuff on the sales side is really really important, because I don’t think having this many people involved in pool parts.
159 00:16:10.130 ⇒ 00:16:11.909 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’s just a complicated
160 00:16:12.180 ⇒ 00:16:14.450 Uttam Kumaran: situation. So
161 00:16:14.700 ⇒ 00:16:18.040 Uttam Kumaran: I want to try to move some people onto some things that are more stable.
162 00:16:18.120 ⇒ 00:16:22.319 Uttam Kumaran: But again, all that hinges on this sales stuff kind of kicking off. So
163 00:16:23.005 ⇒ 00:16:24.580 Uttam Kumaran: I just want to be
164 00:16:24.920 ⇒ 00:16:27.339 Uttam Kumaran: just wanna like, push towards that. So
165 00:16:27.710 ⇒ 00:16:28.490 Uttam Kumaran: yeah.
166 00:16:29.650 ⇒ 00:16:30.560 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect.
167 00:16:30.720 ⇒ 00:16:32.049 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I think that’s fine.
168 00:16:33.135 ⇒ 00:16:34.220 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool.
169 00:16:34.390 ⇒ 00:16:35.989 Uttam Kumaran: So I have.
170 00:16:36.330 ⇒ 00:16:39.289 Uttam Kumaran: I have an in person meeting. So
171 00:16:39.330 ⇒ 00:16:45.649 Uttam Kumaran: unless you need me at the Ae and de planning, I may just skip.
172 00:16:45.710 ⇒ 00:16:47.850 Uttam Kumaran: So I need to do some preparation.
173 00:16:48.270 ⇒ 00:16:48.870 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
174 00:16:48.870 ⇒ 00:16:49.350 Nicolas Sucari: That’s fine!
175 00:16:49.350 ⇒ 00:16:49.770 Uttam Kumaran: What do you.
176 00:16:49.770 ⇒ 00:16:51.700 Nicolas Sucari: The only thing. Yeah, yeah, I think.
177 00:16:51.700 ⇒ 00:16:53.280 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll do the analysis.
178 00:16:54.020 ⇒ 00:17:11.270 Nicolas Sucari: Wanted to ask you about the A meeting. I’m going through the back to through backlog. And yeah on the board. Is there anything like super priority for Brian. I know that we have that snowflake cleanup task that I don’t know if he’s been working on, and he or he was going to work it with you.
179 00:17:13.380 ⇒ 00:17:16.900 Nicolas Sucari: And then Ryan probably is gonna be back today right.
180 00:17:18.380 ⇒ 00:17:21.360 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, the biggest thing is
181 00:17:21.800 ⇒ 00:17:24.050 Uttam Kumaran: is the Snowflake cleanup.
182 00:17:24.720 ⇒ 00:17:25.339 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah.
183 00:17:25.349 ⇒ 00:17:26.849 Uttam Kumaran: And the
184 00:17:28.989 ⇒ 00:17:31.739 Uttam Kumaran: the issues that are the
185 00:17:32.849 ⇒ 00:17:38.429 Uttam Kumaran: elementary issues. I don’t know whether we had one for that or that’s
186 00:17:38.659 ⇒ 00:17:40.809 Uttam Kumaran: but yeah, that’s gonna be the biggest thing.
187 00:17:41.390 ⇒ 00:17:49.400 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, okay, okay, I’m gonna talk with Brian and Ryan and see how they can handle all of that. And if they need you
188 00:17:49.854 ⇒ 00:17:59.219 Nicolas Sucari: I’ll probably ask them to start working without you, and if just they need you, let’s hope for Wednesday with you or Thursday with you. Something like that.
189 00:17:59.440 ⇒ 00:18:03.030 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I just want them to
190 00:18:03.520 ⇒ 00:18:08.799 Uttam Kumaran: just focus and get these done. I don’t even know what. If anything was closed out.
191 00:18:11.110 ⇒ 00:18:12.240 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, I’m not sure.
192 00:18:12.940 ⇒ 00:18:14.049 Uttam Kumaran: Last week.
193 00:18:14.970 ⇒ 00:18:15.510 Uttam Kumaran: I’m not.
194 00:18:15.510 ⇒ 00:18:15.970 Nicolas Sucari: Trash.
195 00:18:15.970 ⇒ 00:18:22.880 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s 1 thing I would mention is like, I basically be like what happened because Ryan was completely on. I don’t think we did anything on the Ae. Side.
196 00:18:22.950 ⇒ 00:18:34.240 Uttam Kumaran: so just need to ask. And then again, tell me if it’s like, if you’re not getting like, and you know you can ask the money different ways. You’re not getting the answers you expect. Just let me know, and I’ll figure it out.
197 00:18:35.410 ⇒ 00:18:36.010 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
198 00:18:36.140 ⇒ 00:18:36.870 Nicolas Sucari: Yep.
199 00:18:38.020 ⇒ 00:18:38.810 Nicolas Sucari: Alright. Thank you.
200 00:18:38.810 ⇒ 00:18:39.740 Uttam Kumaran: Should be.
201 00:18:39.910 ⇒ 00:18:41.860 Uttam Kumaran: I think you should be able to
202 00:18:42.030 ⇒ 00:18:45.290 Uttam Kumaran: kind of isolate and understand what’s going on.
203 00:18:48.000 ⇒ 00:18:49.440 Uttam Kumaran: and.
204 00:18:52.380 ⇒ 00:18:53.000 Nicolas Sucari: Yep.
205 00:18:54.120 ⇒ 00:18:55.350 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, perfect.
206 00:18:56.910 ⇒ 00:19:07.739 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect. Yeah, on the side, I think we’re okay. I think we still have to close those 2 things that they are working on at Harvard and Patrick. So I think we’re fine.
207 00:19:07.870 ⇒ 00:19:13.480 Nicolas Sucari: And yeah, on the analysis, I know we have to work on all of the evidence stuff so that we can deliver this week.
208 00:19:15.610 ⇒ 00:19:18.019 Uttam Kumaran: And then is
209 00:19:18.730 ⇒ 00:19:21.819 Uttam Kumaran: so. How do we end up going with lightesh.
210 00:19:23.320 ⇒ 00:19:28.269 Nicolas Sucari: So I I asked them to just close it for this week.
211 00:19:28.790 ⇒ 00:19:38.829 Nicolas Sucari: and they told me it was okay. But they they didn’t send me anything else yet, I don’t know how it’s called this guy. Ian.
212 00:19:38.850 ⇒ 00:19:50.340 Nicolas Sucari: Ask me if we wanna have like a meeting in order to have to discuss why they are trying to close that but I don’t know if we need to have that meeting. I mean, we just
213 00:19:50.690 ⇒ 00:20:04.010 Nicolas Sucari: told them that. Yeah, they were just leaning for more. I don’t know. Fast paced and other tools explore the data, and that was cheaper, and that’s it. I mean, I don’t know if we need to have that meeting.
214 00:20:04.320 ⇒ 00:20:09.650 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think I don’t think we need it like to close this out. I think if if you’ve
215 00:20:09.660 ⇒ 00:20:12.120 Uttam Kumaran: you know, if you wanna give them some feedback.
216 00:20:12.150 ⇒ 00:20:15.369 Uttam Kumaran: maybe 5 min that may have be helped. That helps them.
217 00:20:15.510 ⇒ 00:20:20.779 Uttam Kumaran: Like we, we originally started using them. And then, yeah, I found real. And it’s it’s quite better.
218 00:20:21.422 ⇒ 00:20:24.460 Uttam Kumaran: But yeah, either way, like, let’s just confirm that that’s done.
219 00:20:24.610 ⇒ 00:20:30.739 Uttam Kumaran: Cause I’m gonna kind of, we’re also gonna begin to turn some stuff off internally around my dash. So.
220 00:20:31.690 ⇒ 00:20:32.290 Nicolas Sucari: Okay?
221 00:20:32.690 ⇒ 00:20:34.299 Nicolas Sucari: And then asks.
222 00:20:34.300 ⇒ 00:20:36.800 Uttam Kumaran: What do you need for this for the stand up
223 00:20:38.320 ⇒ 00:20:44.139 Nicolas Sucari: For the Standard Board, I mean. We need to start paying for the amount of users.
224 00:20:45.000 ⇒ 00:20:49.299 Nicolas Sucari: I think we can. I can show you. We have it open here.
225 00:20:49.800 ⇒ 00:20:50.520 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
226 00:20:51.170 ⇒ 00:20:52.190 Nicolas Sucari: Me see
227 00:20:54.320 ⇒ 00:20:56.669 Nicolas Sucari: billing. Okay, sure.
228 00:20:59.940 ⇒ 00:21:08.110 Nicolas Sucari: So we’re actually, we are in the starter plan. But if we go to change plan, we have like these I can go monthly if you want. And per user
229 00:21:08.320 ⇒ 00:21:14.059 Nicolas Sucari: cause flat, free. It’s like, kind of super ex expensive. I don’t think it’s useful.
230 00:21:14.070 ⇒ 00:21:24.270 Nicolas Sucari: as we are like some few users right now, and probably we should be like 7 or 8 users approximately, and it would be like 25 bucks a month.
231 00:21:25.580 ⇒ 00:21:32.940 Nicolas Sucari: I think with these? we’re gonna be okay. I can like, have a meeting with one of their sales
232 00:21:33.210 ⇒ 00:21:38.029 Nicolas Sucari: people to see if this is the plan that fit for us, and let you know.
233 00:21:39.710 ⇒ 00:21:44.960 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And it looks like there’s some integrations with github and stuff like that. But yeah, I think we should just do it.
234 00:21:45.080 ⇒ 00:21:48.189 Uttam Kumaran: And then over time, we’ll figure out, get how to like.
235 00:21:48.310 ⇒ 00:21:50.360 Uttam Kumaran: do this ourselves. Basically. But
236 00:21:51.500 ⇒ 00:21:52.260 Uttam Kumaran: okay.
237 00:21:52.260 ⇒ 00:22:00.660 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, yeah, I think it’s I. I mean, I think it’s something that we can do ourselves if we have some time. And someone like dedicated to work on it. But yeah, for now.
238 00:22:00.660 ⇒ 00:22:02.776 Uttam Kumaran: Automate around automations. But yeah.
239 00:22:03.200 ⇒ 00:22:03.900 Nicolas Sucari: Exactly.
240 00:22:04.600 ⇒ 00:22:05.270 Nicolas Sucari: Yep.
241 00:22:05.620 ⇒ 00:22:06.430 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
242 00:22:07.080 ⇒ 00:22:11.410 Nicolas Sucari: I’m gonna ask to have a meeting with one of their salesperson to see
243 00:22:11.600 ⇒ 00:22:13.013 Nicolas Sucari: if this
244 00:22:13.910 ⇒ 00:22:17.630 Nicolas Sucari: How can they help us with this and let you know if you want. Okay.
245 00:22:19.470 ⇒ 00:22:25.590 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, that’s fine. So yeah, let’s let’s yeah. Let me know I can. I’m sure I can hand you the credit card or
246 00:22:26.870 ⇒ 00:22:29.999 Uttam Kumaran: we can. Just I can go in and login and do that
247 00:22:30.916 ⇒ 00:22:32.390 Uttam Kumaran: and then
248 00:22:32.780 ⇒ 00:22:34.180 Uttam Kumaran: else.
249 00:22:34.970 ⇒ 00:22:35.730 Uttam Kumaran: man.
250 00:22:37.207 ⇒ 00:22:47.009 Uttam Kumaran: yeah. So the other thing I’m gonna do is I’m gonna start. I I built this little automation that puts all the Github issues into Markdown in the repo.
251 00:22:47.010 ⇒ 00:22:47.460 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
252 00:22:47.460 ⇒ 00:22:52.820 Uttam Kumaran: So what we can do also is what we can begin to use that. And the AI to basically
253 00:22:52.980 ⇒ 00:22:56.779 Uttam Kumaran: understand what’s been done. Basically just looking at the closed issues.
254 00:22:57.100 ⇒ 00:22:58.130 Uttam Kumaran: Okay?
255 00:22:58.870 ⇒ 00:23:02.339 Uttam Kumaran: And then again, everything is driving towards
256 00:23:02.500 ⇒ 00:23:04.329 Uttam Kumaran: accountability with everyone.
257 00:23:04.370 ⇒ 00:23:14.950 Uttam Kumaran: And so that easily will show. I mean easily. I I’m gonna use that to share with the Ae team that like it’s progress has been pretty slow except for rail
258 00:23:15.807 ⇒ 00:23:21.479 Uttam Kumaran: and then for the de stuff as well, like, I’m just gonna we’re just gonna use that as like the
259 00:23:21.770 ⇒ 00:23:27.460 Uttam Kumaran: key way of looking. And then even in my one on ones with people, I’m gonna use that to
260 00:23:27.550 ⇒ 00:23:29.980 Uttam Kumaran: talk through what people have been working on?
261 00:23:30.715 ⇒ 00:23:39.740 Uttam Kumaran: So that should make it really easy. Basically, what what it does is it takes all the issues puts into one file, and then we could use it. Just copy that file into the
262 00:23:39.760 ⇒ 00:23:41.120 Uttam Kumaran: Claude. So.
263 00:23:41.820 ⇒ 00:23:47.759 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, perfect. What? Where is that like repo? Do you have it? It’s it’s open or.
264 00:23:47.790 ⇒ 00:23:55.229 Uttam Kumaran: I’m no, it’s what it’s gonna do is I have it running locally. But I’m gonna create a github action that basically every
265 00:23:55.300 ⇒ 00:24:00.559 Uttam Kumaran: day takes all the issues and puts it into one markdown file.
266 00:24:00.870 ⇒ 00:24:01.330 Nicolas Sucari: Okay.
267 00:24:01.330 ⇒ 00:24:02.020 Uttam Kumaran: In the reaper.
268 00:24:02.020 ⇒ 00:24:02.760 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect.
269 00:24:03.150 ⇒ 00:24:03.680 Nicolas Sucari: perfect.
270 00:24:03.680 ⇒ 00:24:08.089 Uttam Kumaran: And then what we can do is you basically just go in there, copy it, put it into
271 00:24:08.640 ⇒ 00:24:10.620 Uttam Kumaran: Gpt or whatever. And then
272 00:24:11.200 ⇒ 00:24:15.650 Uttam Kumaran: and then the nice thing is, all those issues have dates and all the metadata. So you can just say, Tell me what?
273 00:24:16.140 ⇒ 00:24:19.100 Uttam Kumaran: Tell me what was done this week or summarize everything.
274 00:24:19.500 ⇒ 00:24:23.379 Uttam Kumaran: So overall things are, gonna it’ll be nice because
275 00:24:23.530 ⇒ 00:24:28.659 Uttam Kumaran: things will start. We can. Things will start to be like the better the requirements we have and the issues.
276 00:24:28.750 ⇒ 00:24:31.810 Uttam Kumaran: then they’re better the tracking. And then the tracking actually
277 00:24:31.970 ⇒ 00:24:38.099 Uttam Kumaran: go somewhere. You know. So and then, ideally, what what we’ll end up doing is like
278 00:24:38.390 ⇒ 00:24:40.610 Uttam Kumaran: we will get some sort of updates.
279 00:24:41.128 ⇒ 00:24:49.929 Uttam Kumaran: About what’s been done, what’s not been done, and then that that hopefully will take care of some of the stand up bought stuff eventually. So
280 00:24:50.140 ⇒ 00:24:52.830 Uttam Kumaran: just like making one or 2%
281 00:24:52.940 ⇒ 00:24:55.569 Uttam Kumaran: improvements on process every week. So.
282 00:24:57.130 ⇒ 00:24:58.290 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, great.
283 00:24:59.000 ⇒ 00:25:00.153 Nicolas Sucari: It’s fine.
284 00:25:00.730 ⇒ 00:25:05.070 Uttam Kumaran: And then the web flow stuff. I think we should be
285 00:25:07.070 ⇒ 00:25:13.450 Uttam Kumaran: okay, on, I mean, I found a guy I emailed some other people. But this guy that I talked to is pretty good. I’m just gonna have him
286 00:25:13.460 ⇒ 00:25:18.069 Uttam Kumaran: do a couple of the things that we needed, and just see kind of how his processes.
287 00:25:18.920 ⇒ 00:25:33.770 Nicolas Sucari: Let let me know if you want me to like open a meeting with him, or if you are like, I I know we have that notion page to just write down what we need. Probably I can add there some stuff so that we have, like a nice backlog, to see if he can manage it. Okay.
288 00:25:34.460 ⇒ 00:25:37.512 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. I wonder if we should do it in notion or.
289 00:25:38.170 ⇒ 00:25:39.719 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, or on the board. I don’t know.
290 00:25:40.270 ⇒ 00:25:45.039 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’ll I’ll think about it today. But yeah, I’m gonna try to close that out and get him started today.
291 00:25:45.770 ⇒ 00:25:47.150 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, perfect.
292 00:25:49.740 ⇒ 00:25:53.250 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. Alright. It’s gonna be great great week. I’m pumped.
293 00:25:53.250 ⇒ 00:25:53.970 Nicolas Sucari: Yeah, started, like.
294 00:25:53.970 ⇒ 00:25:56.630 Uttam Kumaran: Really pushing out stuff on the sales side. So.
295 00:25:58.060 ⇒ 00:25:59.520 Nicolas Sucari: Perfect, nice.
296 00:25:59.520 ⇒ 00:26:00.870 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. Should be good.
297 00:26:02.750 ⇒ 00:26:06.149 Nicolas Sucari: Okay, okay, you, Tom. I’ll talk to you later. Okay.
298 00:26:06.620 ⇒ 00:26:08.120 Uttam Kumaran: Thanks, nicer. I’ll talk to you soon.
299 00:26:08.840 ⇒ 00:26:09.460 Nicolas Sucari: And Ray.