Meeting Title: Onboarding Call <> Annie, Patrik, & James Date: 2025-03-19 Meeting participants: Mariane Cequina, Annie Yu, Patrik


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1 00:03:42.090 00:03:43.590 Annie Yu: Hello! Everyone.

2 00:03:44.340 00:03:48.280 Mariane Cequina: Hello! Just wait for let’s wait for James.

3 00:03:49.100 00:03:50.170 Annie Yu: Awesome.

4 00:04:05.010 00:04:11.080 Annie Yu: Where are you both? Located? I guess you 3 wait. Is that is that you, Marian?

5 00:04:11.690 00:04:13.060 Annie Yu: Yeah. Hello. Yeah.

6 00:04:13.060 00:04:13.450 Annie Yu: Okay.

7 00:04:13.450 00:04:14.340 Mariane Cequina: Hey?

8 00:04:14.680 00:04:16.620 Mariane Cequina: I’m actually from the Philippines.

9 00:04:18.110 00:04:22.639 Annie Yu: Awesome. I’ve never been but heard great things about the beaches

10 00:04:23.150 00:04:25.850 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, and there are a lot of mountains and beaches here

11 00:04:27.370 00:04:29.770 Patrik: What’s the time? What’s the time over there?

12 00:04:30.680 00:04:32.300 Mariane Cequina: Scared. 11 Pm.

13 00:04:32.300 00:04:32.735 Annie Yu: Oh!

14 00:04:33.170 00:04:35.149 Patrik: Oh, my lord!

15 00:04:37.658 00:04:40.129 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, you. You’re both in the Us. Right?

16 00:04:41.660 00:04:42.700 Mariane Cequina: Okay?

17 00:04:42.850 00:04:43.310 Annie Yu: Which time.

18 00:04:43.310 00:04:49.740 Patrik: I’m on the yeah. I’m on the east coast. I’m I’m right outside of New York City in Hoboken.

19 00:04:50.330 00:04:54.150 Annie Yu: Oh, love it! I I have a few still live there

20 00:04:54.380 00:04:56.590 Patrik: Oh, nice, nice, very cool!

21 00:04:56.880 00:04:58.500 Patrik: Have you spent time out here, or

22 00:04:59.931 00:05:02.059 Annie Yu: I do know. Rockers

23 00:05:02.630 00:05:03.900 Patrik: Yes. Yeah, yeah, definitely.

24 00:05:03.900 00:05:05.199 Annie Yu: There’s there! That’s why

25 00:05:05.200 00:05:06.750 Patrik: Oh, no way! Oh, cool

26 00:05:06.750 00:05:09.380 Annie Yu: People that still live around the area

27 00:05:09.380 00:05:17.289 Patrik: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I grew up north of Philadelphia. I went to school in in Jersey and and Pennington. So.

28 00:05:18.520 00:05:21.750 Patrik: But the area yeah. Rutgers is close.

29 00:05:25.390 00:05:26.410 Patrik: and where are you now?

30 00:05:26.880 00:05:28.830 Annie Yu: Portland, Oregon.

31 00:05:29.740 00:05:32.720 Patrik: Nice nice! What brought what brought you out there

32 00:05:33.325 00:05:34.535 Annie Yu: Yeah, it’s

33 00:05:35.450 00:05:42.512 Annie Yu: It’s been so rainy, and I think it’s the spring is finally around the corner. So wish me luck.

34 00:05:43.553 00:05:44.840 Patrik: Yeah. Yeah.

35 00:05:51.135 00:05:53.129 Patrik: yeah, rut, curses.

36 00:05:55.745 00:06:00.110 Mariane Cequina: Think we should start if he was late for 5 min. We can actually start

37 00:06:00.110 00:06:00.710 Annie Yu: Yeah.

38 00:06:01.020 00:06:01.450 Mariane Cequina: Okay.

39 00:06:01.450 00:06:02.300 Patrik: Perfect.

40 00:06:08.350 00:06:09.160 Patrik: see.

41 00:06:13.260 00:06:13.975 Mariane Cequina: Hold on

42 00:06:14.990 00:06:17.020 Mariane Cequina: Usually Nico will be here.

43 00:06:17.150 00:06:23.320 Mariane Cequina: so he’s more talkative than I’ve. But for some reason he has other meetings. So I was just me

44 00:06:23.810 00:06:24.700 Patrik: Yes.

45 00:06:24.700 00:06:25.580 Annie Yu: Awesome.

46 00:06:25.740 00:06:28.770 Mariane Cequina: Okay, just wait for let’s wait for 5 more minutes.

47 00:06:29.320 00:06:29.750 Patrik: Okay.

48 00:07:46.800 00:07:48.579 Mariane Cequina: Okay, cool. I think we should start.

49 00:07:48.770 00:07:50.500 Mariane Cequina: or maybe you won’t be training us.

50 00:07:50.700 00:07:51.730 Mariane Cequina: So I’ll just

51 00:07:53.700 00:08:01.210 Mariane Cequina: okay. So welcome again, Patrick and Annie. I’m Marian. So usually in operation, it was me and Nico.

52 00:08:01.320 00:08:03.830 Mariane Cequina: So for now it won’t be.

53 00:08:04.200 00:08:24.880 Mariane Cequina: He won’t be joining us because he have other meetings today. And yeah, so about the brain forge. So brain forge AI, Llc. Llc. Established on July 2120 23. So it was actually a boutique data analytics consulting base in Austin, Texas. So, as you all know, we don’t have the

54 00:08:25.110 00:08:26.140 Mariane Cequina: they go.

55 00:08:26.710 00:08:53.169 Mariane Cequina: I mean, this is just a remote job for now, and the company specializes in transforming raw data into actionable, actionable insights, and which enables businesses to make smarter, faster decisions that drive meaningful change. So the CEO is utamaran. And yeah. So he was actually the founder of Brainforge. So last year I was hired here last year 2024. We’re just around less than 10

56 00:08:53.460 00:09:00.060 Mariane Cequina: members. And it’s kind of crazy because most of us are actually Filipino back then. But right now we are

57 00:09:00.560 00:09:08.089 Mariane Cequina: quickly expanding. It’s really crazy. Because if I’m not mistaken. We’re currently 25 active members right now. So

58 00:09:08.780 00:09:09.569 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, so.

59 00:09:09.570 00:09:12.858 Patrik: How many? How many are full? Time versus

60 00:09:14.170 00:09:14.680 Mariane Cequina: Part time.

61 00:09:14.680 00:09:16.330 Patrik: Hourly. Yeah, part time.

62 00:09:17.180 00:09:21.000 Mariane Cequina: To be honest, I don’t have the information without yet.

63 00:09:21.270 00:09:21.870 Patrik: Yeah.

64 00:09:21.870 00:09:22.850 Mariane Cequina: Regarding that.

65 00:09:23.650 00:09:31.020 Mariane Cequina: So yeah, as you can see, we have a managing partner, which is Robert. He started joining us this year.

66 00:09:31.150 00:09:33.380 Mariane Cequina: If I’m not mistake. It’s around January.

67 00:09:33.620 00:09:37.160 Mariane Cequina: So he actually he was the owner of

68 00:09:37.440 00:09:40.100 Mariane Cequina: pinpoint. Is that correct? I’m sorry.

69 00:09:40.280 00:09:41.500 Mariane Cequina: What’s the

70 00:09:42.663 00:09:43.809 Patrik: Which one?

71 00:09:43.810 00:09:45.569 Mariane Cequina: Something like the like the emerge

72 00:09:49.140 00:09:50.460 Patrik: Little insights. Yeah.

73 00:09:50.460 00:09:50.900 Patrik: Yeah.

74 00:09:50.900 00:09:54.590 Mariane Cequina: Your your pronunciation is as good as mine, so I’m sorry

75 00:09:54.590 00:09:56.829 Patrik: That one’s that one’s tough, that one’s tough

76 00:09:57.236 00:10:02.919 Mariane Cequina: So so they actually merge. So they are actually friends and something like that.

77 00:10:05.340 00:10:11.250 Mariane Cequina: And then for me, the team I’m gonna share with you the screen here? Hold on.

78 00:10:12.160 00:10:13.420 Mariane Cequina: Hmm, yeah.

79 00:10:14.110 00:10:34.550 Mariane Cequina: So some of this are not updated. So I haven’t added the new members. But yeah, so we have Michael for the data architect and advisor, and Stephen as a lead project manager, and then Akash as a project manager and amber as a junior project manager, and Annie is a project manager as well correct

80 00:10:37.620 00:10:41.020 Annie Yu: Oh, I was muted. No, I’m a data analyst

81 00:10:41.020 00:10:59.010 Mariane Cequina: Oh, sorry, I’m sorry about that. And then for the operation, Nico and I and Robert will be recruiter. And then for the data team. It was Ryan. So Ryan is actually Philippine as well. And then we also have Payas, and then Sahana, who

82 00:10:59.220 00:11:06.340 Mariane Cequina: Kyle and the male lead, and for the AI. We have Miguel Cassie, Jonah.

83 00:11:06.790 00:11:12.150 Mariane Cequina: And we have the new. Yeah, Patrick, you’ll be part of the AI as well. Yeah.

84 00:11:12.330 00:11:12.870 Mariane Cequina: Yeah.

85 00:11:12.870 00:11:28.899 Mariane Cequina: And Annie will be part of the data, and for the design team was Anne Hannah. Hannah actually is not totally a designer. He she’s more in like the head of the marketing so, and then Ryan is the content writer. So that’s our team.

86 00:11:29.310 00:11:32.214 Patrik: I don’t think I’ve met jonna yet.

87 00:11:33.230 00:11:36.509 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, she’s she’s not really active in joining meetings.

88 00:11:37.650 00:11:38.789 Mariane Cequina: She’s actually a partner.

89 00:11:38.790 00:11:39.320 Mariane Cequina: M.

90 00:11:39.470 00:11:41.650 Patrik: She’s part time, but she’s still working on stuff

91 00:11:42.150 00:11:42.940 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, yeah.

92 00:11:44.810 00:11:45.740 Patrik: Good to know

93 00:11:47.700 00:11:50.259 Mariane Cequina: Kazi, I think, is full time as well as Miguel

94 00:11:50.260 00:11:54.596 Patrik: Yeah, I’ve I’ve I met Cassie and and Miguel

95 00:11:55.800 00:12:00.310 Patrik: made like a 1 on one call. Got up to speed with, you know a couple of the projects.

96 00:12:00.901 00:12:03.709 Patrik: But yeah, haven’t. Haven’t talked to China yet.

97 00:12:04.560 00:12:10.749 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, maybe maybe I will tell him to. I tell her to join some meetings, because she’s not really active even in

98 00:12:10.910 00:12:14.050 Mariane Cequina: sometimes in kickoff meetings. And yeah, so

99 00:12:14.050 00:12:14.850 Patrik: Yeah, yeah.

100 00:12:14.850 00:12:15.500 Mariane Cequina: That one.

101 00:12:16.320 00:12:29.720 Mariane Cequina: That’s the expectation. So so, Patrick and Annie, as you’ll be collaborating with different the members, and then.

102 00:12:29.820 00:12:33.550 Mariane Cequina: if I’m not mistaken. They are trying to organize the

103 00:12:33.690 00:12:54.269 Mariane Cequina: assignee, because before the data analyst, for example, they’re all over the place. So sometimes they will tell them to to work in different clients. But if I’m not mistaken, autumn is trying to organize those things. So, for example, if Annie will be assigned in Eden, for example. And that was all it because before they’re trying to

104 00:12:54.380 00:13:03.420 Mariane Cequina: assign team members from different or to different clients, so they’re trying to be more organized on that one, and also to have different project manager

105 00:13:04.404 00:13:11.639 Mariane Cequina: in a certain clients, because before we only have one project manager in which is Nico in the

106 00:13:11.760 00:13:15.109 Mariane Cequina: right now he’s working more on operations.

107 00:13:15.950 00:13:28.109 Mariane Cequina: and then for the tools we use slack as a form of communication, and we have notion. So before we use notion as a task data management tool. But we are migrating now in linear

108 00:13:28.320 00:13:29.000 Mariane Cequina: so

109 00:13:29.800 00:13:38.010 Mariane Cequina: the one that will on board you on that one is actually the project manager. So if I’m not mistaken, it was actually Amber who’s trying to organize those things

110 00:13:38.305 00:13:40.959 Patrik: Yeah, yeah, she’s she’s been on top of it.

111 00:13:41.726 00:13:51.380 Mariane Cequina: And then but we’re keeping the notion for documentation processes, so if you need to look for some okay, i’m gonna show it with you.

112 00:13:52.716 00:13:53.990 Mariane Cequina: Hold on

113 00:13:55.020 00:14:01.810 Mariane Cequina: here, if you can, you can. You can see me so you can go here in the home page and then for the documentation here.

114 00:14:03.340 00:14:08.450 Mariane Cequina: So yeah, so if you need anything, you can see it here in the documentation.

115 00:14:08.600 00:14:10.130 Mariane Cequina: And then

116 00:14:13.850 00:14:19.100 Mariane Cequina: we track the time using clockify. So I’m gonna show you the clockify. So we don’t.

117 00:14:19.760 00:14:25.100 Mariane Cequina: We don’t screenshot or anything like that. So and you also have a

118 00:14:26.880 00:14:30.249 Mariane Cequina: hold on. I’m gonna share my screen.

119 00:14:30.970 00:14:31.660 Mariane Cequina: Okay.

120 00:14:33.290 00:14:33.930 Patrik: See.

121 00:14:40.840 00:14:47.019 Mariane Cequina: So you’re in the clock. If I you can go here in the don’t go here in the time sheet, but here

122 00:14:47.220 00:14:53.350 Mariane Cequina: and then I assign you with project or with the clients that you’re assigned to, and then you can click it.

123 00:14:53.610 00:14:54.790 Mariane Cequina: and then

124 00:14:55.080 00:15:04.769 Mariane Cequina: you have the option to have a timer. But you can also, for example, here you can also do the manual mode just in case you need to change something

125 00:15:06.150 00:15:08.839 Mariane Cequina: Okay, so that’s for the clock. If I and

126 00:15:08.840 00:15:10.529 Patrik: That would be good. Yeah.

127 00:15:10.530 00:15:16.159 Mariane Cequina: Yeah. And then we use gusto. As for the payment.

128 00:15:16.690 00:15:21.199 Mariane Cequina: so I’ll be sending you some invite for gusto, and then

129 00:15:21.310 00:15:23.450 Mariane Cequina: and then you need to fill up your bank there

130 00:15:23.700 00:15:32.609 Mariane Cequina: and then for the engineer. So both of both of you, Patrick and Annie, is part of the engineering team. You will be paid once a month. Are you aware of that

131 00:15:33.540 00:15:34.040 Mariane Cequina: at

132 00:15:35.730 00:15:39.790 Patrik: Yeah, yeah, I wasn’t aware of that. But that sounds good.

133 00:15:40.310 00:15:46.260 Mariane Cequina: Okay, so you’ll be paid once a month in the 1st week of

134 00:15:46.530 00:15:50.530 Mariane Cequina: the month, like, for example, here in March, you will be paid on April

135 00:15:51.410 00:15:58.559 Patrik: Yeah, that’s good. And it’s all connected to clockify like we don’t have to put anything into

136 00:15:58.850 00:16:03.049 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, so make sure to always update the your time.

137 00:16:03.160 00:16:05.050 Mariane Cequina: Ow, no.

138 00:16:05.050 00:16:15.510 Mariane Cequina: And then we also have one password. So I’m sure you’re aware of that, how to use those things. And then we have Github. I’m not quite sure if I invited both of you, because

139 00:16:15.510 00:16:15.840 Patrik: Yes.

140 00:16:15.840 00:16:23.879 Mariane Cequina: We’re having a problem in the Github, and we’re trying to just invite, invite the project manager or something like that. So I will keep you posted about that.

141 00:16:24.040 00:16:25.310 Mariane Cequina: So yeah, so that’s the

142 00:16:25.310 00:16:29.310 Patrik: I’m all set. I’m all set with github maybe any

143 00:16:29.520 00:16:32.249 Annie Yu: I’m also on the company ones

144 00:16:32.990 00:16:33.580 Mariane Cequina: Okay?

145 00:16:34.090 00:16:47.159 Mariane Cequina: So yeah, so that’s the tool that we use the slack notion clock. If I have one password and gusto expect the project manager will on board you on linear. So you’re trying to finalize those things.

146 00:16:49.280 00:16:50.600 Mariane Cequina: So I, yeah.

147 00:16:50.770 00:16:56.389 Mariane Cequina: yeah. So that was all. It. If you have any question. Let me know. Do you have any

148 00:17:02.650 00:17:04.170 Patrik: Let’s see.

149 00:17:06.319 00:17:15.490 Patrik: Oh, yeah, I need, I think I need access to our Gct instance, Google Google Cloud project this

150 00:17:15.490 00:17:16.969 Mariane Cequina: Okay, Google, cloud, okay.

151 00:17:18.099 00:17:19.369 Patrik: And

152 00:17:22.849 00:17:27.809 Patrik: yeah, I think that should be good. What’s the 3rd one from the right? I don’t recognize that logo.

153 00:17:28.529 00:17:29.869 Patrik: Annie. Maybe you know

154 00:17:29.870 00:17:30.630 Annie Yu: Data break

155 00:17:30.630 00:17:31.290 Mariane Cequina: Fine.

156 00:17:31.770 00:17:40.729 Mariane Cequina: Oh, I’m not really quite sure about that, like the real whatsoever from like in the engineering. So actually, the Google Cloud, I was not the one who invite people there. But I will

157 00:17:40.730 00:17:43.564 Patrik: I can ask. I can ask amber.

158 00:17:44.270 00:17:48.339 Patrik: yeah. The 3rd from the right, not the databricks, one the one to the right of the row.

159 00:17:48.340 00:17:49.070 Annie Yu: Awesome.

160 00:17:49.430 00:17:51.419 Patrik: Oh, that’s tableau. Okay?

161 00:17:52.840 00:17:56.339 Annie Yu: Okay, we have access to all these

162 00:17:58.460 00:18:01.480 Annie Yu: Oh, and yeah, I believe

163 00:18:01.480 00:18:05.790 Mariane Cequina: Oh, I’m not really quite sure about that, because usually they will invite you about it. Yeah.

164 00:18:07.020 00:18:09.429 Annie Yu: Yeah, cause I think I only have

165 00:18:10.410 00:18:15.830 Annie Yu: probably Snowflake, as of now. And the real real data

166 00:18:16.160 00:18:16.710 Mariane Cequina: Okay.

167 00:18:16.710 00:18:18.250 Patrik: Yeah, real? Yeah, real?

168 00:18:20.910 00:18:24.160 Mariane Cequina: I’m surprised they’re using tableau if they

169 00:18:24.750 00:18:26.100 Patrik: Pushing, real.

170 00:18:26.100 00:18:35.400 Annie Yu: I might be wrong, but the at least the dashboards I’m taking over now are all on Meta base instead of tableau.

171 00:18:36.750 00:18:40.612 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, I’m not really. I’m not also sure of that. So I’ll ask him about

172 00:18:41.330 00:18:44.550 Patrik: Yeah, it’s probably like a per by by client as well. So

173 00:18:44.550 00:18:59.989 Mariane Cequina: Yeah. So I was actually thinking, it’s actually based on the client as well. Yeah. So for the linear. So before we use notion. So it’s much easier to tell like this or the task that you need today. But for now we are migrating in linear, so they will be the one who are assigned

174 00:19:00.120 00:19:04.759 Mariane Cequina: you with that and onboard you and help you how to use linear. So are you familiar with linear, though.

175 00:19:05.210 00:19:07.029 Mariane Cequina: But it’s actually straightforward

176 00:19:07.030 00:19:09.500 Patrik: Yeah, I, I use, I use linear my current.

177 00:19:09.950 00:19:10.880 Patrik: So, okay.

178 00:19:11.430 00:19:12.660 Mariane Cequina: Okay, cool.

179 00:19:12.890 00:19:17.070 Mariane Cequina: So I think that’s it. I’ll be sending you an invite in Github.

180 00:19:17.390 00:19:20.399 Mariane Cequina: I mean in gusto for payment.

181 00:19:21.060 00:19:25.570 Patrik: I think that’s the last, the last piece on my end at least.

182 00:19:26.460 00:19:35.728 Annie Yu: I did have one more question about clockify. So I’m I’m starting like these 2 weeks as a a part Timer,

183 00:19:37.110 00:19:41.280 Annie Yu: and I know that our agreement was 20 HA week.

184 00:19:41.630 00:19:48.170 Annie Yu: and I think the same question as a part timer and like full timer, do we always try to, I guess.

185 00:19:48.570 00:19:54.000 Annie Yu: Stay on the 20 h versus also, like the 40 h for for full time

186 00:19:55.290 00:19:58.060 Mariane Cequina: Over time is that

187 00:19:58.420 00:19:58.890 Annie Yu: The.

188 00:19:58.890 00:20:01.639 Mariane Cequina: No, actually, yeah, is that

189 00:20:01.800 00:20:11.119 Mariane Cequina: I might be wrong. So I will confirm with them first.st But the reason why we’re using clockify to ensure that if you you’ll be having like an overtime, you can actually put it there

190 00:20:11.930 00:20:12.900 Annie Yu: Got it. Got it

191 00:20:12.900 00:20:13.420 Mariane Cequina: Yeah.

192 00:20:14.050 00:20:17.449 Patrik: I think it’s probably just like a like a target.

193 00:20:17.580 00:20:22.940 Patrik: Oh, so like if you go a little more, a little less like, you know.

194 00:20:22.940 00:20:23.890 Mariane Cequina: Yeah.

195 00:20:23.890 00:20:24.340 Patrik: So.

196 00:20:24.340 00:20:24.780 Mariane Cequina: Yeah.

197 00:20:24.780 00:20:29.327 Patrik: I think I think what’s more important is getting getting the work done or wrapping up the project

198 00:20:29.580 00:20:30.650 Mariane Cequina: Yeah, definitely.

199 00:20:30.650 00:20:34.060 Annie Yu: Makes sense all right good deal

200 00:20:34.420 00:20:35.140 Mariane Cequina: Okay?

201 00:20:35.290 00:20:43.550 Mariane Cequina: So any more questions. And if you have any questions about operations, let us know. Like, for example, if in the slack channel whatever.

202 00:20:43.720 00:20:46.999 Mariane Cequina: So yeah, you can PIN us either me or Nico

203 00:20:48.000 00:20:50.909 Patrik: Perfect. Yeah, you guys have been super helpful. So thank you.

204 00:20:51.620 00:20:52.440 Mariane Cequina: Okay.

205 00:20:52.630 00:20:53.939 Annie Yu: Thank you so much

206 00:20:54.190 00:20:59.120 Mariane Cequina: Okay, I think that’s it. Thank you. And welcome again. Patrick and Annie, yeah, have a great weekend

207 00:20:59.480 00:21:00.509 Patrik: Alright. You, too. Yeah.

208 00:21:01.140 00:21:01.920 Mariane Cequina: Thank you.