Meeting Title: Uttam <> Ryan-Weekly Date: 2024-09-25 Meeting participants: Ryan Luke Daque, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:02:50.270 ⇒ 00:02:51.100 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, Ryan.
2 00:02:52.520 ⇒ 00:02:53.745 Ryan Luke Daque: Hey, Utam! How’s it going.
3 00:02:54.270 ⇒ 00:02:55.345 Uttam Kumaran: Very good. How are you?
4 00:02:56.290 ⇒ 00:02:57.452 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah. Doing. Great.
5 00:02:58.860 ⇒ 00:02:59.890 Uttam Kumaran: How’s the week been.
6 00:03:00.910 ⇒ 00:03:07.220 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah, it’s I think it’s doing well, like we’ve we’ve done a couple of changes in real
7 00:03:07.390 ⇒ 00:03:12.930 Ryan Luke Daque: and like the I I was pumped up with the AI o open.
8 00:03:12.930 ⇒ 00:03:13.740 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
9 00:03:14.070 ⇒ 00:03:16.389 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah, working. So yeah, I think we can
10 00:03:16.640 ⇒ 00:03:21.400 Ryan Luke Daque: continue like working on that like trying to see what else we can
11 00:03:22.601 ⇒ 00:03:26.389 Ryan Luke Daque: utilize it for? Right? So yeah, that’s pretty cool.
12 00:03:26.790 ⇒ 00:03:29.619 Uttam Kumaran: That’s sick. I’m glad that was like really cool to see.
13 00:03:30.150 ⇒ 00:03:30.930 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah.
14 00:03:32.640 ⇒ 00:03:37.659 Ryan Luke Daque: yeah, we were like, in different seminars, or like meetings and stuff conferences.
15 00:03:37.980 ⇒ 00:03:52.359 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, this week has been busy, you know. Wednesday, I usually keep pretty free. So it’s a gives me some time to plan. And then, yeah, my week has been mostly like kicking stuff off on Monday. And then yesterday was all mostly around like marketing stuff. So
16 00:03:52.720 ⇒ 00:04:06.649 Uttam Kumaran: I wanted to make sure that everybody on the team on the marketing side we were able to push that content out. You know the blog post and the tweets and everything. So that’s our like first, st that’s our 1st time. We basically
17 00:04:06.820 ⇒ 00:04:12.164 Uttam Kumaran: did the entire process. Where we write a blog post. We
18 00:04:12.770 ⇒ 00:04:17.230 Uttam Kumaran: we write a blog post. We write some like social media content associated with it.
19 00:04:17.641 ⇒ 00:04:26.938 Uttam Kumaran: We publish the blog post. We publish that content. There’s design, so it says, takes a whole team right? Like I wrote the original one.
20 00:04:27.630 ⇒ 00:04:34.419 Uttam Kumaran: Ryan B. He edited it. Nico did some publishing. Jp. Did some publishing and did some design.
21 00:04:34.480 ⇒ 00:04:37.129 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, it kind of takes a coordinated effort.
22 00:04:37.180 ⇒ 00:04:47.580 Uttam Kumaran: So I knew there was gonna be some mistakes here and there which is fine. So the main thing is, I didn’t. I wanted just to see push everything through once. And then basically.
23 00:04:47.921 ⇒ 00:04:54.849 Uttam Kumaran: kind of find out where we’re gonna have issues. You know, we’re starting to meet with the design and marketing team more often.
24 00:04:54.860 ⇒ 00:05:03.390 Uttam Kumaran: So I’m just gonna have more meetings with them. So we can continue to push more stuff out. So yeah, it’s been a lot of stuff on the sales side. It’s been good.
25 00:05:03.700 ⇒ 00:05:07.930 Uttam Kumaran: That’s kind of like what I what I kind of wanted to see happen anyway. So it’s been really great.
26 00:05:08.120 ⇒ 00:05:10.380 Ryan Luke Daque: Nice. Yeah. Sounds. Great.
27 00:05:11.310 ⇒ 00:05:12.585 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, what about
28 00:05:13.130 ⇒ 00:05:17.910 Uttam Kumaran: What do you think about for the rest of the week? I know we have 5 meetings with
29 00:05:18.080 ⇒ 00:05:20.209 Uttam Kumaran: finds tomorrow. So.
30 00:05:21.984 ⇒ 00:05:26.819 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah, I think like, for the rest of the week, I can like continue working on the
31 00:05:26.970 ⇒ 00:05:34.439 Ryan Luke Daque: AI stuff unless anything comes up. related to like the real models, or like any data issues.
32 00:05:34.470 ⇒ 00:05:38.891 Ryan Luke Daque: But so far, like the pipelines have been doing great. Nothing’s failing.
33 00:05:40.070 ⇒ 00:05:47.699 Ryan Luke Daque: oh, yeah. And the the 5 trying costs. Also, like, I think we, we should be good on that moving forward. But
34 00:05:48.430 ⇒ 00:05:53.199 Ryan Luke Daque: yeah, if there’s nothing else I can continue working. Maybe I can
35 00:05:53.240 ⇒ 00:05:55.520 Ryan Luke Daque: try playing around with
36 00:05:55.870 ⇒ 00:06:00.980 Ryan Luke Daque: having open AI, look into the Dbt runs workflow.
37 00:06:02.570 ⇒ 00:06:04.290 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah, and and see if, like.
38 00:06:05.020 ⇒ 00:06:06.699 Ryan Luke Daque: I don’t know, I have to
39 00:06:06.790 ⇒ 00:06:08.890 Ryan Luke Daque: figure out like how it can.
40 00:06:09.450 ⇒ 00:06:14.160 Ryan Luke Daque: you know, help us out with that and stuff like in case like there are any
41 00:06:15.780 ⇒ 00:06:17.549 Ryan Luke Daque: failures to
42 00:06:18.390 ⇒ 00:06:19.959 Ryan Luke Daque: the elementary
43 00:06:20.020 ⇒ 00:06:24.709 Ryan Luke Daque: stuff going on because we we didn’t re remove those right? We just set them.
44 00:06:26.490 ⇒ 00:06:29.710 Ryan Luke Daque: So yeah, that’d be probably a great place to start.
45 00:06:30.820 ⇒ 00:06:39.069 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think couple of things. So one, yeah, I just, I’m gonna I’ll check with Nico and see like, if there’s anything else. I know Kim was having
46 00:06:39.210 ⇒ 00:06:49.059 Uttam Kumaran: Kim had a bunch of the dashboard requests, so I want to make sure that they’re able to review the dashboards. So if you’re done with stuff, and if stuff is pushed through, just message them on slack
47 00:06:49.498 ⇒ 00:06:53.789 Uttam Kumaran: like. Don’t don’t wait for an Eco. Just message and say, hey, I made these updates.
48 00:06:53.810 ⇒ 00:06:54.419 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah,
49 00:06:55.220 ⇒ 00:07:03.929 Uttam Kumaran: So maybe go ahead and try that this morning that way. And if you made updates to stuff for chuck, just like, list the things you did, and then have them review because.
50 00:07:03.930 ⇒ 00:07:04.460 Ryan Luke Daque: Okay.
51 00:07:04.460 ⇒ 00:07:08.790 Uttam Kumaran: Again, it helps to have a direct line between them and you. Because.
52 00:07:08.800 ⇒ 00:07:16.549 Uttam Kumaran: again, what Nico, all Nico does is summarize your work, get their feedback. So it’s it’s actually not that complicated.
53 00:07:16.640 ⇒ 00:07:21.291 Uttam Kumaran: So that would be helpful if you could do that this morning. And then the second thing is,
54 00:07:22.020 ⇒ 00:07:31.769 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I’m gonna I’m gonna see? We? I thought we had a couple of more things like pool parts around getting the po number and stuff like that for warehouses.
55 00:07:31.940 ⇒ 00:07:36.760 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s why I just want to keep following up on until we’re able to get all the warehouse data in there.
56 00:07:36.990 ⇒ 00:07:37.550 Ryan Luke Daque: Right.
57 00:07:38.920 ⇒ 00:07:46.700 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah, I think that’s still being worked on. Yeah, I can check with Nicholas on that, because I think there was like some updates from Chuck’s side
58 00:07:46.740 ⇒ 00:07:50.250 Ryan Luke Daque: on on that. So yeah, I’ll I’ll
59 00:07:50.300 ⇒ 00:07:53.950 Ryan Luke Daque: I’ll check with him on that as well, because probably they had some other
60 00:07:54.585 ⇒ 00:07:58.139 Ryan Luke Daque: information or something that Nico has, that I don’t.
61 00:07:58.140 ⇒ 00:07:58.560 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
62 00:07:58.560 ⇒ 00:08:00.099 Ryan Luke Daque: Know about yeah.
63 00:08:00.880 ⇒ 00:08:02.328 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And then maybe
64 00:08:03.280 ⇒ 00:08:11.519 Uttam Kumaran: I I want you to start. I want you to see what this AI stuff to see if you can end up sharing this with Miguel at some point.
65 00:08:11.849 ⇒ 00:08:19.519 Uttam Kumaran: But basically, like I we if you look in, there’s a in notion, if you go go there, you’ll see there’s an AI Wiki
66 00:08:19.969 ⇒ 00:08:24.560 Uttam Kumaran: and you can kind of see all the tasks that we wanted to try to automate on the engineering side.
67 00:08:25.980 ⇒ 00:08:31.190 Uttam Kumaran: I think between Pat and Miguel, we can start to build a little bit of like a roadmap around
68 00:08:31.250 ⇒ 00:08:43.195 Uttam Kumaran: some of the stuff we want to do. Basically, I think a lot of the stuff we’ll be able to do is to automate some of the really basic like, basically automate pr reviews. But also automate.
69 00:08:43.610 ⇒ 00:08:47.589 Uttam Kumaran: maybe even like, suggested Prs, or suggested code changes.
70 00:08:48.138 ⇒ 00:08:56.989 Uttam Kumaran: So that would be like very interesting to do, I think, for me, if you’re if you’re in the middle of doing the Pr review stuff, then I want to basically finalize that.
71 00:08:57.100 ⇒ 00:09:00.540 Uttam Kumaran: So maybe what you can do is and finalize meaning
72 00:09:00.837 ⇒ 00:09:10.009 Uttam Kumaran: it’s gonna require a couple of things. One is like, get it to a place where you’re confident in it. And then if you can write some documentation, and then host a meeting.
73 00:09:10.622 ⇒ 00:09:14.510 Uttam Kumaran: That way. Everyone can provide their feedback on it.
74 00:09:16.120 ⇒ 00:09:19.430 Uttam Kumaran: you know. I especially want to get feedback from me and Patrick.
75 00:09:19.450 ⇒ 00:09:23.240 Uttam Kumaran: and ideally, Brian, if he’s also able to join.
76 00:09:23.830 ⇒ 00:09:24.590 Ryan Luke Daque: Okay.
77 00:09:25.010 ⇒ 00:09:33.370 Uttam Kumaran: So if you feel confident in it, or if you feel you’re at a good place where you’re like, okay, I need feedback, because I’m not sure what else to add. Then go ahead and like, post that meeting.
78 00:09:35.220 ⇒ 00:09:45.089 Uttam Kumaran: I just message everyone and ask like when we want to do it. You can message in the brain porch team. But go ahead and host that meeting, and then let’s just have a discussion about what we want to see what each of us want to see. There.
79 00:09:45.660 ⇒ 00:09:47.000 Ryan Luke Daque: Okay. Sounds good.
80 00:09:48.160 ⇒ 00:09:49.439 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool?
81 00:09:50.310 ⇒ 00:09:53.700 Uttam Kumaran: yeah. Otherwise, I think you know, I’m I’m mainly like.
82 00:09:53.740 ⇒ 00:09:59.080 Uttam Kumaran: ideally, I think hopefully, pool parts ends up, being consistently like.
83 00:09:59.350 ⇒ 00:10:08.629 Uttam Kumaran: you know, 10 to 20 h of work, and then there’s a mix of other client work that as we as we’re growing into more stuff, I can add you on.
84 00:10:09.120 ⇒ 00:10:09.420 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah.
85 00:10:09.420 ⇒ 00:10:12.089 Uttam Kumaran: And the the pool part stuff has gotten a little bit more
86 00:10:12.210 ⇒ 00:10:13.390 Uttam Kumaran: consistent.
87 00:10:13.580 ⇒ 00:10:13.920 Ryan Luke Daque: Right.
88 00:10:14.176 ⇒ 00:10:24.690 Uttam Kumaran: But it’s still like there’s still stuff to do every week, I believe. So I’m gonna have Nico just like start to build out a roadmap there, but I kind of want to make sure that that stays in that, like.
89 00:10:24.820 ⇒ 00:10:29.229 Uttam Kumaran: you know, anywhere from like 10 to 30 h I’m comfortable with. I don’t wanna spending like
90 00:10:29.460 ⇒ 00:10:34.380 Uttam Kumaran: full time there because we’re not getting. We’re not billing for full time.
91 00:10:34.410 ⇒ 00:10:37.869 Uttam Kumaran: And then any leftover time. I think I want to have you.
92 00:10:37.890 ⇒ 00:10:44.670 Uttam Kumaran: I think, work on this AI stuff is great. And then I’m basically gonna go. We’re we’re gonna likely sign another client very soon.
93 00:10:44.850 ⇒ 00:10:47.870 Uttam Kumaran: So I’ll have you, you know. Take that work on.
94 00:10:48.000 ⇒ 00:10:50.110 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so that’ll be great.
95 00:10:51.400 ⇒ 00:10:52.010 Ryan Luke Daque: Cool.
96 00:10:53.550 ⇒ 00:10:55.010 Ryan Luke Daque: sounds good, then.
97 00:10:55.700 ⇒ 00:10:56.370 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
98 00:10:57.430 ⇒ 00:11:09.309 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah. So I think a couple of things on your plate. But yeah, just shoot off a bunch of messages. And then, yeah, if you if you’re able to get that stuff to Kim or chuck, it’ll give them some time to give us feedback. And then.
99 00:11:09.380 ⇒ 00:11:13.469 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I kind of want to get everybody’s feedback on the AI full request
100 00:11:13.828 ⇒ 00:11:18.589 Uttam Kumaran: before we before we move on, because this is the 1st time we’ve done anything on the engineering side. So.
101 00:11:19.970 ⇒ 00:11:21.984 Ryan Luke Daque: Sounds good. I think I can.
102 00:11:24.230 ⇒ 00:11:29.369 Ryan Luke Daque: yeah, yeah, I’ll do that. I’ll I’ll create maybe a thread in brain forge
103 00:11:29.935 ⇒ 00:11:35.560 Ryan Luke Daque: team. So we can like, discuss, and maybe find a time where everybody’s can
104 00:11:36.210 ⇒ 00:11:39.600 Ryan Luke Daque: like available. And like Brian, Pat and you.
105 00:11:39.700 ⇒ 00:11:42.400 Ryan Luke Daque: So we can discuss about like, what, what, what we can.
106 00:11:43.290 ⇒ 00:11:46.769 Ryan Luke Daque: what, what other things we can probably use AI for.
107 00:11:47.520 ⇒ 00:11:50.965 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. Yeah. See if we can maybe do that like
108 00:11:51.830 ⇒ 00:11:52.975 Uttam Kumaran: tomorrow,
109 00:11:54.610 ⇒ 00:11:57.209 Uttam Kumaran: tomorrow, maybe sometime Friday. But
110 00:11:57.350 ⇒ 00:11:59.589 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, I think everybody should be free. So.
111 00:12:00.220 ⇒ 00:12:01.410 Ryan Luke Daque: Cool sounds, good.
112 00:12:02.580 ⇒ 00:12:05.019 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, man. Anything else I can help with.
113 00:12:06.849 ⇒ 00:12:08.559 Ryan Luke Daque: Maybe just the
114 00:12:09.910 ⇒ 00:12:12.130 Ryan Luke Daque: I think the payroll for August. I haven’t.
115 00:12:12.130 ⇒ 00:12:13.160 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
116 00:12:13.160 ⇒ 00:12:15.410 Ryan Luke Daque: Yeah. Aside from that, everything should be good.
117 00:12:15.860 ⇒ 00:12:20.939 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, let me double check on that. We have a new accounting team. So everything is kind of going through them.
118 00:12:21.080 ⇒ 00:12:23.750 Uttam Kumaran: So let me confirm with them again.
119 00:12:23.990 ⇒ 00:12:24.819 Ryan Luke Daque: Sounds good.
120 00:12:26.850 ⇒ 00:12:33.689 Ryan Luke Daque: Thanks. If anything else, I’ll just message you in slack if there’s anything I need. But yeah, I can work with Nicholas on
121 00:12:34.150 ⇒ 00:12:37.300 Ryan Luke Daque: Chuck’s stuff. And and yeah can go from there.
122 00:12:37.810 ⇒ 00:12:40.099 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Perfect. Alright. Thanks. Nico.
123 00:12:40.570 ⇒ 00:12:43.330 Ryan Luke Daque: Sounds good. Thanks them. Have a nice rest of your day.
124 00:12:43.410 ⇒ 00:12:44.589 Ryan Luke Daque: Thank you. Bye.