Meeting Title: Client Project Weekly Sync Date: 2026-02-12 Meeting participants: Uttam Kumaran, Brylle Girang
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1 00:10:02.000 ⇒ 00:10:02.690 Uttam Kumaran: Right.
2 00:13:22.090 ⇒ 00:13:22.800 Brylle Girang: Hey!
3 00:13:23.510 ⇒ 00:13:24.750 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, dude, how are you?
4 00:13:25.360 ⇒ 00:13:30.789 Brylle Girang: Doing fine, just hopped off the off-boarding call with Rico, it was amazing.
5 00:13:31.190 ⇒ 00:13:32.819 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. Yeah, how’d it go?
6 00:13:33.570 ⇒ 00:13:43.150 Brylle Girang: It was nice, I love how it was simple, and at the same time, it made me better understand how this is the right company for me, so…
7 00:13:43.150 ⇒ 00:13:44.480 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
8 00:13:44.480 ⇒ 00:13:45.950 Brylle Girang: It is amazing.
9 00:13:45.950 ⇒ 00:13:47.319 Uttam Kumaran: Why? Tell me why.
10 00:13:48.040 ⇒ 00:13:54.610 Brylle Girang: It’s mainly because of the values, the mission, vision, And…
11 00:13:54.900 ⇒ 00:13:58.769 Brylle Girang: how do you call that section? Where we talk about…
12 00:14:00.010 ⇒ 00:14:04.240 Brylle Girang: Well, everybody eats, you know, how we operate like giants.
13 00:14:05.800 ⇒ 00:14:17.119 Brylle Girang: I’m speechless, really, so… it resonates really deeply with me, because one of the main things why I wanted to be in a startup is because
14 00:14:17.580 ⇒ 00:14:31.380 Brylle Girang: aside from it has the best… it has the biggest opportunity for growth, right? Because if you’re already 6 feet tall, you’re going to be 6 feet tall for your whole life, but startups have
15 00:14:32.660 ⇒ 00:14:39.900 Brylle Girang: this wonderful opportunity for growth, where I can grow alongside the company, and at the same time, I love
16 00:14:40.040 ⇒ 00:14:41.659 Brylle Girang: How everybody will eat.
17 00:14:42.070 ⇒ 00:14:42.680 Brylle Girang: Meaty.
18 00:14:42.680 ⇒ 00:14:43.360 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
19 00:14:44.280 ⇒ 00:14:47.300 Uttam Kumaran: No, I agree. I feel like we spend a lot of time thinking about
20 00:14:47.650 ⇒ 00:14:54.820 Uttam Kumaran: those values and that doc, and so I’m glad that it’s, it makes sense, so…
21 00:14:55.370 ⇒ 00:15:00.740 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, I mean, yeah, I read… I’m reading through these slides. We… I know kind of the meeting in
22 00:15:00.950 ⇒ 00:15:05.229 Uttam Kumaran: is in just a few minutes, so I just wanted to kind of, like, finish up what we can.
23 00:15:05.360 ⇒ 00:15:13.019 Uttam Kumaran: I left some comments… I’m just gonna pull up, like, one more doc, but maybe you could just take a look at some of those comments. I’m just gonna grab this.
24 00:15:13.270 ⇒ 00:15:13.970 Brylle Girang: Yeah.
25 00:15:13.970 ⇒ 00:15:16.530 Uttam Kumaran: Where?
26 00:15:24.970 ⇒ 00:15:28.909 Brylle Girang: looking at it now, our North Star is not going to change, right?
27 00:15:28.910 ⇒ 00:15:29.630 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, no.
28 00:15:29.630 ⇒ 00:15:30.380 Brylle Girang: and for…
29 00:15:30.480 ⇒ 00:15:35.129 Brylle Girang: It’s just meant for us to ensure that when we talk with the client, we’re on the same page.
30 00:15:35.130 ⇒ 00:15:36.369 Uttam Kumaran: That’s correct, yeah.
31 00:15:36.370 ⇒ 00:15:37.000 Brylle Girang: Okay.
32 00:15:39.210 ⇒ 00:15:40.879 Brylle Girang: Agenda slide, okay.
33 00:16:18.950 ⇒ 00:16:20.559 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I think after…
34 00:16:22.810 ⇒ 00:16:30.350 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m sort of in meetings, but, like, we’ll catch up before the end of the day on this, but this is great. I appreciate the help, and I’m glad you’re, like, sort of getting a sense of…
35 00:16:31.110 ⇒ 00:16:32.570 Uttam Kumaran: Fence of this, so…
36 00:16:33.800 ⇒ 00:16:38.840 Brylle Girang: My main challenge, sure, I think, this… is strictly…
37 00:16:39.190 ⇒ 00:16:46.060 Brylle Girang: relevant element. My main challenge was that there are little to no transcripts, so it was really.
38 00:16:46.060 ⇒ 00:16:46.590 Uttam Kumaran: Really?
39 00:16:46.600 ⇒ 00:16:47.639 Brylle Girang: Thank you to catch up.
40 00:16:47.640 ⇒ 00:16:48.640 Uttam Kumaran: Should be a ton.
41 00:16:49.450 ⇒ 00:16:54.990 Brylle Girang: Well, the most recent transcript that I had was last January 30th.
42 00:16:55.910 ⇒ 00:17:00.720 Brylle Girang: January 14. Oh, wait. So I’m using platform?
43 00:17:00.720 ⇒ 00:17:08.340 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, maybe it’s something we’ll… maybe it’s something we’ll have to check, because you should have probably 2 months of transcripts there, but that’s something we can talk about, like, yeah.
44 00:17:10.160 ⇒ 00:17:18.009 Brylle Girang: Yeah, and is it normal for us to, like, prepare these weekly updates minutes before the actual meeting?
45 00:17:18.010 ⇒ 00:17:20.160 Uttam Kumaran: No, no, no, but, like, this is…
46 00:17:20.300 ⇒ 00:17:29.230 Uttam Kumaran: This is sort of the jam that I’m in, so… Yeah, typically we take time. I mean, I talk to this client every day, so it’s not like…
47 00:17:30.130 ⇒ 00:17:36.049 Uttam Kumaran: it’s not… I don’t know, I think we… we just have, like… it’s gonna be more of a working session with them, but…
48 00:17:36.180 ⇒ 00:17:36.990 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
49 00:17:38.210 ⇒ 00:17:39.890 Brylle Girang: Okay, gotcha.
50 00:18:13.980 ⇒ 00:18:19.460 Brylle Girang: First question. I saw that Ashwini was the EP for this client.
51 00:18:19.700 ⇒ 00:18:21.100 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, no longer.
52 00:18:21.560 ⇒ 00:18:26.919 Uttam Kumaran: No longer, yeah. So… Really, there’s no EP on this client right now.
53 00:18:27.470 ⇒ 00:18:28.620 Brylle Girang: Gotcha, okay.
54 00:18:28.620 ⇒ 00:18:29.290 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
55 00:18:33.670 ⇒ 00:18:36.219 Brylle Girang: Data ingestion, data model report category.
56 00:19:33.800 ⇒ 00:19:36.150 Uttam Kumaran: Is it… are you in an office, or what’s your setup?
57 00:19:37.120 ⇒ 00:19:45.569 Brylle Girang: This is my office slash bedroom, so my bed is beside me, and I’m trying to get a divider so that I don’t see it when I’m working.
58 00:19:45.570 ⇒ 00:19:47.789 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, so you don’t see that because you get sleepy.
59 00:19:47.790 ⇒ 00:19:56.869 Brylle Girang: Trying to get the mental separation in place, but this is basically my office ever since I started working remotely.
60 00:19:57.130 ⇒ 00:19:57.680 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
61 00:20:27.050 ⇒ 00:20:34.419 Brylle Girang: Okay, one thing that I also want to maybe improve next time is how
62 00:20:37.660 ⇒ 00:20:43.970 Brylle Girang: how we… Structure the progress within one client into one place.
63 00:20:43.970 ⇒ 00:20:44.330 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
64 00:20:44.330 ⇒ 00:20:51.860 Brylle Girang: I find it hard that we… I don’t have a document, I don’t have a dashboard where I can look at it and see where we currently are at.
65 00:20:51.860 ⇒ 00:20:54.800 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, no, I agree. I agree, yeah.
66 00:20:56.140 ⇒ 00:20:56.920 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
67 00:20:57.840 ⇒ 00:21:00.700 Brylle Girang: So, for someone new, let’s say… let’s say we shift…
68 00:21:00.820 ⇒ 00:21:04.840 Brylle Girang: EPs, we shift CSOs, we shift SLs.
69 00:21:04.840 ⇒ 00:21:13.079 Uttam Kumaran: Greg had the same thing. He was like, he had to hop on some clients, he’s like, I don’t know one place where I can go to see the state. I was like, you’re right, you’re right, we need to do that.
70 00:21:13.080 ⇒ 00:21:13.820 Brylle Girang: Yeah.
71 00:21:14.240 ⇒ 00:21:14.830 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
72 00:21:16.560 ⇒ 00:21:21.719 Brylle Girang: And Notion is currently not connected with, like, GitHub or our cursor, right?
73 00:21:21.720 ⇒ 00:21:25.900 Uttam Kumaran: No, no, and we’re moving as much as we can into there as possible.
74 00:21:26.750 ⇒ 00:21:29.819 Uttam Kumaran: But, yeah.
75 00:21:30.030 ⇒ 00:21:34.509 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I’m gonna go hop to this call, so I feel like this deck is fine, I think…
76 00:21:34.730 ⇒ 00:21:38.999 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna sort of lead kind of conversations on each of these.
77 00:21:39.140 ⇒ 00:21:44.039 Uttam Kumaran: And then I’m gonna be kind of filling out the deck with them as we go. I think,
78 00:21:45.570 ⇒ 00:21:50.219 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I feel like it’s actually not gonna be, like, super heavy. We’re gonna talk about BI,
79 00:21:50.750 ⇒ 00:21:58.180 Uttam Kumaran: We’re gonna… we’ll review the Gantt, talk about BI, talk about 2026 planning,
80 00:22:24.760 ⇒ 00:22:28.100 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so because you’re using January, it said next month.
81 00:22:28.390 ⇒ 00:22:31.839 Brylle Girang: That’s probably why. Oh, it’s supposed to be this month, okay.
82 00:22:31.840 ⇒ 00:22:32.850 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah.
83 00:22:33.480 ⇒ 00:22:43.840 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I’m gonna hop to that. I’ll Slack you during it, depending on how it’s going, but if you can take notes on your SOP for how you did it.
84 00:22:44.300 ⇒ 00:22:47.379 Uttam Kumaran: And then before end of the day today, we’ll… we’ll review, so…
85 00:22:47.900 ⇒ 00:22:54.050 Brylle Girang: Yeah, okay, so I use Cursor, basically, I just created one AI agent to help me out with this.
86 00:22:54.300 ⇒ 00:23:03.460 Brylle Girang: It’s all planned there, so I just ask it to, like, convert my thought process into an SOP, and then I’ll have you review that one.
87 00:23:03.460 ⇒ 00:23:04.650 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, perfect.
88 00:23:04.840 ⇒ 00:23:06.220 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I’ll sock you.
89 00:23:06.690 ⇒ 00:23:07.339 Brylle Girang: Thanks, man.
90 00:23:07.340 ⇒ 00:23:08.219 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, thank you.