Meeting Title: US x BF | Standup Date: 2025-09-24 Meeting participants: Uttam Kumaran, Demilade Agboola, Amber Lin
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1 00:02:31.980 ⇒ 00:02:32.880 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, dude.
2 00:02:35.690 ⇒ 00:02:37.130 Demilade Agboola: Hello, Tom, how are you?
3 00:02:38.640 ⇒ 00:02:40.110 Uttam Kumaran: I am good.
4 00:02:41.300 ⇒ 00:02:42.750 Uttam Kumaran: Back home. Having a good week.
5 00:02:44.650 ⇒ 00:02:51.249 Uttam Kumaran: We… are just making good moves on sales this week, so we have, like,
6 00:02:52.190 ⇒ 00:02:59.290 Uttam Kumaran: We have almost, like, 4 or 5 clients sort of at the finish line. We got a renewal for Insomnia Cookies, like.
7 00:02:59.980 ⇒ 00:03:05.319 Uttam Kumaran: stuff’s going well, I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to meet,
8 00:03:05.920 ⇒ 00:03:11.769 Uttam Kumaran: Justin yet, but Justin is also starting on our project management team, and it’s been nice having him.
9 00:03:12.230 ⇒ 00:03:14.580 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, things are getting better, slowly.
10 00:03:15.800 ⇒ 00:03:16.760 Demilade Agboola: That’s great to hear.
11 00:03:16.760 ⇒ 00:03:17.600 Uttam Kumaran: That’s great to hear.
12 00:03:19.030 ⇒ 00:03:20.020 Uttam Kumaran: How about you?
13 00:03:22.640 ⇒ 00:03:27.459 Demilade Agboola: I’m fine, just… I went to Nigeria for a couple weeks, I got in on Sunday.
14 00:03:29.020 ⇒ 00:03:29.740 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, that’s right.
15 00:03:30.490 ⇒ 00:03:33.579 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I was the best one at my friend’s wedding.
16 00:03:34.330 ⇒ 00:03:45.289 Demilade Agboola: Both and them, like, fine, work’s coming along. I’m ready to, like, ramp up on urban stems, kind of get us at the finish line, at least get some prototype of some of the numbers we need out.
17 00:03:46.510 ⇒ 00:03:48.180 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, so far can’t complain.
18 00:03:49.520 ⇒ 00:03:50.250 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
19 00:03:50.510 ⇒ 00:03:51.690 Amber Lin: Hello.
20 00:03:52.310 ⇒ 00:03:53.070 Uttam Kumaran: Hello.
21 00:03:54.020 ⇒ 00:03:54.740 Demilade Agboola: Come, bro.
22 00:03:55.220 ⇒ 00:04:05.019 Amber Lin: Hi, I changed it to one week sprints, so, the cycle would end this Friday, and hopefully it makes more sense.
23 00:04:05.020 ⇒ 00:04:17.959 Amber Lin: That way, because I think ending on Tuesdays makes it a little bit hard to calculate. Any updates here, and any tickets that we haven’t captured that you guys have been working on?
24 00:04:19.550 ⇒ 00:04:30.329 Uttam Kumaran: I’ve updated my tickets to the latest. I just, put two things. So, one, I added a ticket. Amber, if, like, we can get back to Zach with the follow-up he wanted.
25 00:04:31.930 ⇒ 00:04:34.989 Amber Lin: Yeah, huh?
26 00:04:35.160 ⇒ 00:04:38.230 Uttam Kumaran: I put a ticket on… assigned to you for that.
27 00:04:38.700 ⇒ 00:04:44.390 Amber Lin: I think it’s gonna be somewhere… You know? Hmm.
28 00:04:45.930 ⇒ 00:04:48.190 Amber Lin: Let’s see, because I don’t see it in the sire.
29 00:04:48.190 ⇒ 00:04:49.909 Uttam Kumaran: It’s on 356.
30 00:04:50.290 ⇒ 00:04:51.270 Amber Lin: Okay.
31 00:04:51.710 ⇒ 00:04:54.600 Amber Lin: It’s right at the bottom there, yeah. Oh, okay.
32 00:04:59.070 ⇒ 00:05:02.620 Uttam Kumaran: So I just want to get him this as a follow-up from our project review.
33 00:05:05.330 ⇒ 00:05:08.660 Uttam Kumaran: So, whatever he asks for, that would be great.
34 00:05:08.660 ⇒ 00:05:15.670 Amber Lin: Yeah, sounds good. So, I know he wants the direct wins, and now we can look at PK’s tickets.
35 00:05:18.740 ⇒ 00:05:27.580 Amber Lin: I think tomorrow… okay, we don’t have the meeting with them tomorrow. Are any of these that we can’t complete this week and we’ll have to move out?
36 00:05:29.940 ⇒ 00:05:35.019 Amber Lin: We have… Quite a bit. A point.
37 00:05:36.170 ⇒ 00:05:39.010 Amber Lin: I don’t think you have 16 hours.
38 00:05:39.380 ⇒ 00:05:40.349 Amber Lin: Burp and stuff.
39 00:05:40.350 ⇒ 00:05:45.840 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, but the dbt test and fax subscriptions is almost done. I just haven’t, like, we just haven’t…
40 00:05:45.970 ⇒ 00:05:52.419 Uttam Kumaran: Like, I don’t think we’ve gotten help scheduling the meeting with Perry, so, like, I think both me and Demolade, like, really need to meet.
41 00:05:52.930 ⇒ 00:05:54.050 Uttam Kumaran: with them.
42 00:05:54.160 ⇒ 00:06:00.890 Uttam Kumaran: to be able to demo, like, our work, so I really need you to try to find a way to get us scheduled.
43 00:06:01.010 ⇒ 00:06:01.589 Uttam Kumaran: With that.
44 00:06:01.590 ⇒ 00:06:02.260 Amber Lin: Huh.
45 00:06:02.590 ⇒ 00:06:05.560 Amber Lin: I know Delan already messaged Perry.
46 00:06:05.760 ⇒ 00:06:15.089 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, so on that note, Perry has said she’s not available till next week, or she asked if we can do next week, but she has two projects she’s…
47 00:06:15.780 ⇒ 00:06:17.719 Demilade Agboola: In the weeds on right now.
48 00:06:19.870 ⇒ 00:06:21.919 Demilade Agboola: I don’t know, she said that, like, 30 minutes ago.
49 00:06:22.600 ⇒ 00:06:23.290 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
50 00:06:24.300 ⇒ 00:06:29.980 Uttam Kumaran: So, I mean, like, all the revenue work is gonna kind of be blocked by us getting to get her review on stuff, so…
51 00:06:31.640 ⇒ 00:06:36.989 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I was actually trying to meet with her so we can start to have an idea of
52 00:06:37.690 ⇒ 00:06:45.009 Demilade Agboola: How to aggregate the numbers daily, and if there are any edge cases to watch out for, in case, like, how they…
53 00:06:45.200 ⇒ 00:06:46.430 Demilade Agboola: to the revenue.
54 00:06:49.020 ⇒ 00:06:53.900 Demilade Agboola: But we can at least start rolling up the numbers, even if we don’t have subscriptions fully rolled out yet.
55 00:06:54.060 ⇒ 00:07:05.169 Demilade Agboola: I was hoping to get some numbers out, let’s demo it, let’s compare it to what they have, see where the disparities are, and just keep fine-tuning it, like, it’s an iterative process, basically.
56 00:07:09.420 ⇒ 00:07:22.470 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, I guess, like, my… I don’t know, I just think, Amber, like, I would love for you to own just, like, getting us on the phone with her, because it’s just… I don’t know, we’re kind of completely blocked. Like, my… even my last work that I did, like, nobody’s reviewed it yet, and…
57 00:07:22.790 ⇒ 00:07:25.450 Uttam Kumaran: And I can’t, like, we can’t get anything out until…
58 00:07:25.710 ⇒ 00:07:28.779 Uttam Kumaran: Perry sort of takes a look and starts to leverage it, so…
59 00:07:29.680 ⇒ 00:07:34.790 Uttam Kumaran: I just… I think we both, like, really need help here, just getting scheduled with the client on that. And then similarly, like.
60 00:07:35.050 ⇒ 00:07:36.720 Uttam Kumaran: There’s…
61 00:07:37.210 ⇒ 00:07:44.150 Uttam Kumaran: Zach mentioned, like, looping and PK for stuff from our last meeting, so I just want to see, like, what the progress is.
62 00:07:44.410 ⇒ 00:07:44.900 Uttam Kumaran: On that.
63 00:07:47.350 ⇒ 00:07:49.110 Amber Lin: Okay. Gotcha.
64 00:07:49.360 ⇒ 00:08:07.269 Demilade Agboola: Great question. I know Perry’s our point of contact, but, like, people like Dean, I know we have people like Dean who also, like, work in finance, or who work in finance. Will they also be useful? Will they be a good replacement? Because if we’re going to have to wait till next week.
65 00:08:08.150 ⇒ 00:08:10.049 Demilade Agboola: They just kind of delay everything.
66 00:08:14.000 ⇒ 00:08:14.569 Amber Lin: Oh, yeah.
67 00:08:14.570 ⇒ 00:08:28.399 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, Amber, I think this is all kind of questions for you, like, I just think I want you to kind of understand, like, who is the… who are the points of contacts, and, like, you should be working directly with Zach to find out, like, who we can get this to, given everybody’s busy.
68 00:08:28.550 ⇒ 00:08:29.900 Amber Lin: Yeah.
69 00:08:30.200 ⇒ 00:08:34.299 Amber Lin: I see, what are the tickets that’s… what are the work that is blocked?
70 00:08:36.960 ⇒ 00:08:38.050 Demilade Agboola: Only every team.
71 00:08:38.059 ⇒ 00:08:39.499 Uttam Kumaran: everything on Revenue Mart.
72 00:08:39.909 ⇒ 00:08:41.239 Amber Lin: Okay.
73 00:08:41.339 ⇒ 00:08:49.209 Amber Lin: okay… I’ll go ask that, and I’ll go confirm PK’s involvement.
74 00:08:49.319 ⇒ 00:08:54.529 Amber Lin: I think sim… I still have the question of what… what should we…
75 00:08:54.919 ⇒ 00:09:00.629 Amber Lin: push out, because I don’t think we can complete all of this this week, even if we get Perry’s review.
76 00:09:03.480 ⇒ 00:09:09.419 Uttam Kumaran: So, I guess my question back is, like, what’s… what… what do you think is the priority, like, of these tickets to get done?
77 00:09:12.550 ⇒ 00:09:20.270 Amber Lin: Let’s see… for this one, what’s added by Emily, is this something what we need to do right now, or is it already done?
78 00:09:21.860 ⇒ 00:09:25.540 Uttam Kumaran: I have not looked at this ticket, so I don’t know…
79 00:09:25.890 ⇒ 00:09:29.830 Uttam Kumaran: What, like, what this is, or what the priority is.
80 00:09:29.830 ⇒ 00:09:30.870 Amber Lin: Okay.
81 00:09:35.350 ⇒ 00:09:38.579 Demilade Agboola: Also, I just wanted to point out that the ad hoc…
82 00:09:40.390 ⇒ 00:09:43.160 Demilade Agboola: Eric brought up, it’s been resolved now.
83 00:09:43.870 ⇒ 00:09:47.080 Demilade Agboola: She confirmed today, or dashboard is fine.
84 00:09:47.520 ⇒ 00:09:50.509 Amber Lin: Ad hoc for… Was there a ticket created for that?
85 00:09:50.800 ⇒ 00:09:55.719 Demilade Agboola: No, there wasn’t. I did… well, to be fair, the production update has been 355.
86 00:09:56.920 ⇒ 00:09:57.880 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
87 00:09:58.510 ⇒ 00:09:58.950 Demilade Agboola: Damn.
88 00:09:58.950 ⇒ 00:09:59.550 Uttam Kumaran: Cool.
89 00:09:59.700 ⇒ 00:10:00.390 Amber Lin: Okay.
90 00:10:00.720 ⇒ 00:10:06.120 Uttam Kumaran: And then I have an ad hoc one that’s coming from that team as well. They pinged me about something today, so…
91 00:10:06.120 ⇒ 00:10:10.319 Amber Lin: Okay, I’ll go add that. I think these two, we can move out.
92 00:10:12.610 ⇒ 00:10:19.449 Amber Lin: Because we want to get subscriptions done, and then finish off what we have here. Maybe this one we can move out as well.
93 00:10:28.260 ⇒ 00:10:33.649 Amber Lin: Anything here on North Beam? Is that done, or is it still…
94 00:10:35.360 ⇒ 00:10:39.750 Uttam Kumaran: But you were in the meeting on Monday, too, right? Like, we talked about Northbeam.
95 00:10:42.950 ⇒ 00:10:45.720 Uttam Kumaran: Do you remember what we… what we discussed with Zach?
96 00:10:47.540 ⇒ 00:10:51.569 Amber Lin: Nope, I wrote the… I wrote the notes, I don’t remember, it’s too early.
97 00:10:51.760 ⇒ 00:10:53.070 Amber Lin: I’ll go check.
98 00:10:53.560 ⇒ 00:11:00.030 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, yeah. I mean, we discussed in the meeting before, like, kind of what the follow-ups there are, so…
99 00:11:00.780 ⇒ 00:11:11.189 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, I just want you to… I think you just really need to have a good understanding of, like, what all the tickets are. Like, it’s not… I don’t think this is enough for it to be, like, are these tickets done? Like, I think…
100 00:11:11.850 ⇒ 00:11:31.389 Uttam Kumaran: USPM really have to understand, like, what are all… what is the scope of the things that we’re working on right now? So, for North Beam, I mentioned to Zach in that project review, right, that, like, we were blocked here, and he said that he would put me in touch with an internal stakeholder, and there was a bunch of follow-ups, so all of that kind of needs to get ticketed out, probably, and… and…
101 00:11:31.860 ⇒ 00:11:35.900 Uttam Kumaran: You know, kind of tracked for, like, next steps here.
102 00:11:36.290 ⇒ 00:11:37.010 Amber Lin: Huh.
103 00:11:38.030 ⇒ 00:11:38.940 Amber Lin: Okay.
104 00:11:39.140 ⇒ 00:11:43.669 Amber Lin: I see. Okay. I’ll go ask on these things, and I’ll check the…
105 00:11:44.160 ⇒ 00:11:47.120 Amber Lin: Action items from that… from Monday.
106 00:11:48.130 ⇒ 00:11:48.670 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
107 00:11:49.410 ⇒ 00:11:49.850 Amber Lin: Right.
108 00:11:49.850 ⇒ 00:11:53.590 Demilade Agboola: just… I just would like to flag that, ideally, this should be…
109 00:11:53.740 ⇒ 00:12:02.669 Demilade Agboola: urgent priority, because that blocks fact subscriptions. Fact subscriptions means when we’re building our revenue model, yes.
110 00:12:03.680 ⇒ 00:12:10.540 Demilade Agboola: Well, fact subscriptions means when we’re building a revenue model, we won’t be able to factor in subscriptions, which plays, obviously, an importance in that.
111 00:12:11.280 ⇒ 00:12:15.210 Demilade Agboola: So, ideally, the sooner we can get this done.
112 00:12:16.380 ⇒ 00:12:18.640 Demilade Agboola: Much, much better for everyone.
113 00:12:33.970 ⇒ 00:12:35.250 Amber Lin: Alright.
114 00:12:36.160 ⇒ 00:12:36.859 Amber Lin: Oh…
115 00:12:43.180 ⇒ 00:12:50.580 Amber Lin: I think it’s… it’s already Wednesday. How close are we from completing back sub orders?
116 00:12:53.610 ⇒ 00:13:02.150 Demilade Agboola: So, Fractal borders, so, because I don’t fact orders, facts orders isn’t necessarily the highest priority.
117 00:13:03.200 ⇒ 00:13:07.720 Demilade Agboola: And I’m still trying to… Find, like, a workaround.
118 00:13:08.760 ⇒ 00:13:17.309 Demilade Agboola: Let’s see if we don’t have to use the OMS data. It appears we’ll have to, so I will just build out the facts or borders with OMS data instead.
119 00:13:17.310 ⇒ 00:13:18.220 Amber Lin: Oh, okay.
120 00:13:18.550 ⇒ 00:13:19.520 Demilade Agboola: Yeah.
121 00:13:20.090 ⇒ 00:13:27.000 Demilade Agboola: we’re trying to avoid it and rely on Shopify as much as possible, but, like, it’s going to be hard to do that.
122 00:13:27.280 ⇒ 00:13:31.779 Demilade Agboola: the way Shopify breaks down the suborders data can’t be tied back to
123 00:13:32.270 ⇒ 00:13:38.790 Demilade Agboola: orders are viewed in OMS and every other system that fits across the company.
124 00:13:41.220 ⇒ 00:13:45.040 Amber Lin: Gotcha. Okay. You have…
125 00:13:46.690 ⇒ 00:13:47.320 Demilade Agboola: Cool.
126 00:13:47.320 ⇒ 00:13:49.560 Amber Lin: Seems like… 15 points left.
127 00:13:49.560 ⇒ 00:13:55.760 Demilade Agboola: So things like 2612260, are, like, blocked by the meeting pair.
128 00:13:56.080 ⇒ 00:14:03.050 Demilade Agboola: Because that’s part of why I want to have a conversation with her, so that we can get context on how revenue is calculated.
129 00:14:03.460 ⇒ 00:14:07.510 Demilade Agboola: Fully, integrated into a summary table.
130 00:14:07.800 ⇒ 00:14:14.219 Amber Lin: Gotcha, okay. I’ll go… I’ll go nudge there, I’ll loop in Zach and see if he can get Perry or someone else.
131 00:14:15.830 ⇒ 00:14:21.329 Amber Lin: Alright, any other questions or any items, concerns?
132 00:14:23.320 ⇒ 00:14:24.950 Demilade Agboola: Nothing for me.
133 00:14:25.390 ⇒ 00:14:31.440 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, nothing for me. I just want to make sure we action on everything from the project review meetings, mainly.
134 00:14:36.420 ⇒ 00:14:37.270 Amber Lin: Alright.
135 00:14:37.680 ⇒ 00:14:40.640 Amber Lin: Sounds good, I have… let’s see…
136 00:14:40.910 ⇒ 00:14:44.259 Amber Lin: I have a bit of time later to do that today.
137 00:14:47.460 ⇒ 00:14:48.340 Amber Lin: Alright.
138 00:14:48.630 ⇒ 00:14:49.780 Amber Lin: Thanks, everyone.
139 00:14:50.220 ⇒ 00:14:51.439 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, thank you.
140 00:14:51.440 ⇒ 00:14:52.480 Amber Lin: Bye, bye.