Meeting Title: Uttam - Brylle - Operating Sync Date: 2026-02-26 Meeting participants: Brylle Girang, Uttam Kumaran
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1 00:01:44.540 ⇒ 00:01:45.300 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, dude.
2 00:01:48.340 ⇒ 00:01:51.950 Brylle Girang: Hello! Sorry I wasn’t able to answer the call earlier.
3 00:01:52.290 ⇒ 00:01:54.810 Uttam Kumaran: No, no, no, you’re good, you’re good. How’s the day going?
4 00:01:55.330 ⇒ 00:02:01.420 Brylle Girang: It has been pretty busy, I think I am catching up to Remo.
5 00:02:01.470 ⇒ 00:02:19.189 Brylle Girang: So, I asked Robert, why the hell don’t we have any documentation for repo, and it turns out that there’s a different PM who’s handling that, and we have little to no documentation, so that was my main challenge, but, we’re pretty much good, just…
6 00:02:19.340 ⇒ 00:02:23.610 Brylle Girang: the last deliverable is the doc or the SOW.
7 00:02:24.380 ⇒ 00:02:32.400 Brylle Girang: And have been trying to improve things, especially when it comes to the linear audit command, which I just pushed.
8 00:02:33.070 ⇒ 00:02:45.109 Brylle Girang: And… yeah, so I have quite a lot of tasks in line, and it’s mostly just me trying to create rules and commands in cursor that everyone can use.
9 00:02:45.320 ⇒ 00:02:48.459 Brylle Girang: And I’m also checking out the… the…
10 00:02:48.680 ⇒ 00:02:54.539 Brylle Girang: PRs that Gabe has been sending out, I think? Gabe is basically just doing…
11 00:02:54.930 ⇒ 00:03:01.820 Brylle Girang: Gabe is in the same path as me when it comes to, like, improving how Courser is used, is that right?
12 00:03:02.940 ⇒ 00:03:03.660 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
13 00:03:04.340 ⇒ 00:03:18.970 Brylle Girang: Okay, gotcha. Yeah, so I’m trying to check out his PRs, just making sure that, you know, we don’t work on the same thing, and I’m just trying to see if there’s something that I can add to his improvements. Are you driving?
14 00:03:20.120 ⇒ 00:03:21.039 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, I am driving.
15 00:03:21.040 ⇒ 00:03:22.750 Brylle Girang: Okay, gotcha.
16 00:03:23.100 ⇒ 00:03:24.159 Uttam Kumaran: Why is it loud?
17 00:03:24.400 ⇒ 00:03:30.400 Brylle Girang: No, no, no, it’s not, it’s not. I just noticed that your camera is off, and it looks like you’re driving. Oh, yeah, yeah.
18 00:03:30.400 ⇒ 00:03:36.889 Uttam Kumaran: I had a meeting with Clarence today, so he lives, like… I was actually… I stayed at Clarence’s house.
19 00:03:36.890 ⇒ 00:03:38.110 Brylle Girang: Driving home.
20 00:03:38.180 ⇒ 00:03:40.730 Uttam Kumaran: About, like, 45 minutes away, so…
21 00:03:42.180 ⇒ 00:03:47.780 Brylle Girang: Are you, like, have you been friends with Clarence before Breakforge?
22 00:03:48.120 ⇒ 00:03:56.130 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, yeah, we were friends, we’ve been friends maybe for, like, a year and a half or so? And then he started helping us out maybe, like, 3 months ago.
23 00:03:56.940 ⇒ 00:03:59.950 Brylle Girang: Oh, really? Three months.
24 00:04:00.140 ⇒ 00:04:05.459 Brylle Girang: Okay, gotcha. So, you’re going home now, right?
25 00:04:05.770 ⇒ 00:04:06.890 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
26 00:04:06.890 ⇒ 00:04:17.200 Brylle Girang: Okay. Yeah, so, I have one question when it comes to CTA. Do you want me to, like, send out the updates through the external chat, and…
27 00:04:17.200 ⇒ 00:04:21.930 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, why not? Okay. I feel, I think, I think, I think you’re fine, you could just say, hey, I want to send…
28 00:04:22.170 ⇒ 00:04:26.749 Uttam Kumaran: I want to send our plan for the modeling, like, you can have Kirscher help you draft the message if you want.
29 00:04:26.750 ⇒ 00:04:28.509 Brylle Girang: I think that’s good. I would like…
30 00:04:28.510 ⇒ 00:04:29.910 Uttam Kumaran: I would like you to tag…
31 00:04:30.050 ⇒ 00:04:33.389 Uttam Kumaran: You can just do at here and tag everybody, and send it.
32 00:04:34.340 ⇒ 00:04:41.770 Brylle Girang: Okay, okay, gotcha. So I’ll also try to look for opportunities where I can communicate with the clients in some.
33 00:04:41.770 ⇒ 00:04:42.389 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34 00:04:42.390 ⇒ 00:04:44.360 Brylle Girang: this, but yeah, that’s good.
35 00:04:44.820 ⇒ 00:04:50.930 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so, and then I think as soon as the element thing goes through, I’m gonna add you to that channel as well.
36 00:04:50.930 ⇒ 00:04:51.260 Brylle Girang: Okay.
37 00:04:51.260 ⇒ 00:04:58.230 Uttam Kumaran: So, are you connecting… are you also chatting directly with the Minute MD, the AMBO folks, or no?
38 00:04:58.670 ⇒ 00:05:08.469 Brylle Girang: I am in the channel, but Zoran’s doing most of the communications, but I have the capability to message them.
39 00:05:09.580 ⇒ 00:05:10.769 Uttam Kumaran: Cool, cool, cool, okay, good, okay.
40 00:05:11.000 ⇒ 00:05:15.269 Brylle Girang: Okay, is there anything that you want me to focus on, or you want me to prioritize today?
41 00:05:15.270 ⇒ 00:05:19.780 Uttam Kumaran: No, I mean, like, let’s walk through. So, each of the clients, Element, CTA, Magic Spoon.
42 00:05:20.400 ⇒ 00:05:23.380 Uttam Kumaran: what else? Like, we’re all sort of set there, right?
43 00:05:23.550 ⇒ 00:05:26.480 Brylle Girang: Yeah, so, Element, I just…
44 00:05:26.840 ⇒ 00:05:39.279 Brylle Girang: talk with Awage, and we have the priorities set for next week, so we’re mostly good there. Wholesale has been completed, so the client is happy, and then retail is mostly in the latter phases, it’s just…
45 00:05:39.280 ⇒ 00:05:39.670 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
46 00:05:39.670 ⇒ 00:05:53.349 Brylle Girang: Amber and Awish are just communicating and iterating the reports. So next is e-commerce, and we’re pretty much on track there. For CTA, all tasks have been logged, and then it’s mostly just
47 00:05:53.350 ⇒ 00:06:00.430 Brylle Girang: under a wish, to deliver the test that we log, and then for Magic Spoon, we’re mostly blocked.
48 00:06:00.430 ⇒ 00:06:06.670 Brylle Girang: Because of the SOW, but I’m just letting Demi know that I’m here, just in case he needs anything.
49 00:06:06.920 ⇒ 00:06:17.420 Brylle Girang: For… for Amble, yeah, we’re also on track, Zora has been communicating with them directly, and we don’t have any risks or escalations for now, so that’s good.
50 00:06:18.240 ⇒ 00:06:23.660 Brylle Girang: And then for Eden OS, I’m just trying to help Awash with the documentation part.
51 00:06:25.080 ⇒ 00:06:26.110 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay, good.
52 00:06:28.150 ⇒ 00:06:30.879 Brylle Girang: Yeah, yeah, I’m just trying to…
53 00:06:30.950 ⇒ 00:06:45.869 Brylle Girang: really push everyone to use Cursor, and that starts with, I’m creating, like, a newbie guide to cursor, where my idea and my hope is that there’s one command that they can run, and then it will do everything.
54 00:06:45.870 ⇒ 00:06:55.300 Brylle Girang: that they want, it will give them the steps on how to use things, etc. I saw that Gabe already has, like, an initial setup PR, but…
55 00:06:55.570 ⇒ 00:06:56.090 Uttam Kumaran: Absolutely.
56 00:06:56.090 ⇒ 00:06:58.760 Brylle Girang: I’m going to add more things into that.
57 00:06:59.400 ⇒ 00:07:02.930 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’d like to… I actually want to te… do you want testing that? Like…
58 00:07:03.200 ⇒ 00:07:07.629 Uttam Kumaran: You know, one way you can test it is you can delete everything, and just try to…
59 00:07:08.040 ⇒ 00:07:12.249 Uttam Kumaran: Try to run that setup to see whether it works.
60 00:07:12.250 ⇒ 00:07:22.669 Brylle Girang: Oh yeah, I think I can try that one. Maybe I’ll create another cursor profile and see how it helps, so that it’s entirely a blank slate. But yeah, definitely.
61 00:07:22.670 ⇒ 00:07:23.260 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
62 00:07:24.280 ⇒ 00:07:28.500 Uttam Kumaran: My other question… okay, so on Element, yeah, I think the only other thing on Element…
63 00:07:29.070 ⇒ 00:07:33.469 Uttam Kumaran: I asked about that Omni, dog, right? So you’re gonna work on that next week?
64 00:07:34.030 ⇒ 00:07:37.860 Brylle Girang: Yeah, so I’m actually going to be working on the templates.
65 00:07:38.060 ⇒ 00:07:47.709 Brylle Girang: tomorrow, and then I’m hoping… I’m expecting that there will be division, so that’s why I said next week. But by tomorrow, we should have the first draft.
66 00:07:49.310 ⇒ 00:07:49.850 Brylle Girang: Great, great.
67 00:07:51.020 ⇒ 00:07:58.790 Brylle Girang: And I also… I also have communicated with Hannah and Kayla, so they’re on board with Cursor. Hannah didn’t even.
68 00:07:58.790 ⇒ 00:07:59.720 Uttam Kumaran: Nice.
69 00:07:59.720 ⇒ 00:08:03.140 Brylle Girang: how Cursor works, so it’s… it’s… he… she’s.
70 00:08:03.140 ⇒ 00:08:04.509 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, great job.
71 00:08:05.100 ⇒ 00:08:11.659 Brylle Girang: I told her the agent features, the plan features, and I’m pretty sure that it will help her a lot.
72 00:08:12.850 ⇒ 00:08:17.819 Uttam Kumaran: So, I think your job is, and we can talk about it tomorrow, is to monitor their usage.
73 00:08:18.320 ⇒ 00:08:23.719 Brylle Girang: Yes, yes, exactly. So, the cursor usage review. I have admin access, so I’ll be able to do that now.
74 00:08:24.750 ⇒ 00:08:31.839 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I wonder also, like, maybe you could… maybe Cursor has an API, so you can run, like, a usage report directly in Cursor.
75 00:08:32.130 ⇒ 00:08:32.939 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know.
76 00:08:33.780 ⇒ 00:08:36.579 Brylle Girang: I hope they have an MCP, so…
77 00:08:36.580 ⇒ 00:08:37.630 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
78 00:08:37.630 ⇒ 00:08:40.780 Brylle Girang: It will be… it will be crazy if they don’t have one, but yeah.
79 00:08:40.780 ⇒ 00:08:42.210 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, that’s true, that’s true.
80 00:08:43.090 ⇒ 00:08:45.279 Brylle Girang: Cool, and then my other question is, like.
81 00:08:45.560 ⇒ 00:08:49.840 Uttam Kumaran: What is your… like, what’s… what’s your capacity? Like…
82 00:08:50.750 ⇒ 00:08:53.390 Uttam Kumaran: Like, how much, like, yeah, I guess…
83 00:08:53.630 ⇒ 00:08:57.840 Uttam Kumaran: How much time is each client taking to EP today?
84 00:09:00.510 ⇒ 00:09:16.139 Brylle Girang: So, I’m a really huge fan of time blocking, and what I’m doing is just, I dedicate 30 minutes of my time for each client right now. So, I’m currently, like, handling and managing 5 clients. That’s…
85 00:09:17.240 ⇒ 00:09:32.520 Brylle Girang: maybe 30 minutes of my time every day, if… if it’s just a standard way of auditing them. But I think for Eden OS Remo, and some cases where there are lots of things going on, I’m needing one to two hours.
86 00:09:34.400 ⇒ 00:09:48.710 Brylle Girang: But so far, I think 30 minutes for one client, and that’s just not the audit, that’s me also making sure that the audit is doing well, and the audit is running. So, I would say 15 minutes of those was the actual
87 00:09:49.340 ⇒ 00:09:55.450 Brylle Girang: EP work, and then 15 minutes is another QA work for the AP work that I did.
88 00:09:57.210 ⇒ 00:10:02.810 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so my question to you is, like, we need Amber and Mustafa to get to that level.
89 00:10:04.310 ⇒ 00:10:10.789 Brylle Girang: We will, we will, yeah. I have, I have already met with Mustafa, and I communicated this with him. I had…
90 00:10:10.940 ⇒ 00:10:26.929 Brylle Girang: I had so many good ideas with talking with him, and then I’m going to meet Amber later, and I’m also going to, like, capture what our challenges are, what our fiction points are, and then by next week, I should be able to give you, like, a non-.
91 00:10:26.930 ⇒ 00:10:30.840 Uttam Kumaran: Actually, I’m gonna add one… I’m gonna add one… I’m gonna add one more person to that.
92 00:10:31.170 ⇒ 00:10:36.080 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna add Awash, also.
93 00:10:36.330 ⇒ 00:10:37.120 Brylle Girang: Oh, age. Okay.
94 00:10:37.120 ⇒ 00:10:41.129 Uttam Kumaran: Awash is also one of the most stretched thin.
95 00:10:43.370 ⇒ 00:10:47.650 Uttam Kumaran: I really want you to go call him and just check out, like, how he’s using Kurshare.
96 00:10:48.020 ⇒ 00:10:50.240 Uttam Kumaran: And see if we can enable him as well.
97 00:10:50.240 ⇒ 00:10:51.999 Brylle Girang: Alright. Alright, I’ll do that.
98 00:10:52.000 ⇒ 00:10:59.430 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t… I don’t… I don’t think at this… I think at this point, your EP tasks are, like, I don’t want you to go take another one.
99 00:10:59.960 ⇒ 00:11:04.890 Uttam Kumaran: So, I think at this point, I think, consider that we’re hiring, we’re gonna probably hire another 2-3 people.
100 00:11:05.050 ⇒ 00:11:06.720 Uttam Kumaran: who will start as EP?
101 00:11:06.940 ⇒ 00:11:07.690 Brylle Girang: Oh.
102 00:11:07.910 ⇒ 00:11:09.560 Uttam Kumaran: Probably the next 2-3 weeks.
103 00:11:09.560 ⇒ 00:11:10.040 Brylle Girang: Okay.
104 00:11:10.040 ⇒ 00:11:13.239 Uttam Kumaran: So you’ll be able to actually transition, I think, sum up
105 00:11:13.450 ⇒ 00:11:15.440 Uttam Kumaran: Like, some of the data clients.
106 00:11:15.650 ⇒ 00:11:19.490 Uttam Kumaran: They will, you know, as we talk about in the… In the forging dock.
107 00:11:19.790 ⇒ 00:11:22.430 Uttam Kumaran: Most of the people will start as EPs.
108 00:11:22.650 ⇒ 00:11:23.460 Brylle Girang: Yeah,
109 00:11:23.460 ⇒ 00:11:31.169 Uttam Kumaran: Right? And so I think some of the new people that are coming in, I think we will figure out what’s the… what are the clients that they’re gonna be assigned to.
110 00:11:31.290 ⇒ 00:11:36.049 Uttam Kumaran: And hopefully, like, you can… they can basically shadow you, and then start to take over as EP.
111 00:11:37.590 ⇒ 00:11:42.949 Brylle Girang: That is exciting. Gotcha, gotcha. Yeah. Okay, so I…
112 00:11:42.950 ⇒ 00:11:49.390 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’ll be easy for you to… it’ll be easy for you to, like, handle EP one or two clients, and then… and then basically we can move to, like.
113 00:11:49.860 ⇒ 00:11:51.639 Uttam Kumaran: Talking about CSO stuff.
114 00:11:51.920 ⇒ 00:11:55.870 Brylle Girang: And then I can focus on actually enabling everyone here, yeah.
115 00:11:55.870 ⇒ 00:11:56.819 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
116 00:11:57.450 ⇒ 00:12:02.839 Brylle Girang: Okay, I’ll add the wish, and then I’ll let you know by next week. I can say a specific
117 00:12:03.120 ⇒ 00:12:06.919 Brylle Girang: day for now, but by next week, I’ll be able to, like, provide
118 00:12:07.020 ⇒ 00:12:11.589 Brylle Girang: A detailed summary, and then the action plans that we’re going to take to enable them.
119 00:12:13.100 ⇒ 00:12:14.530 Uttam Kumaran: How did it go with Robert?
120 00:12:15.100 ⇒ 00:12:31.739 Brylle Girang: Oh, it was just me interviewing Robert about his experience, what led him to Brainforge, and at the same time, I also took the opportunity to learn about the previous growth assistant that Robert had, and what his opportunities were.
121 00:12:31.870 ⇒ 00:12:38.929 Brylle Girang: So, it was really… I think Robert, shared a lot, which I… which I love.
122 00:12:39.120 ⇒ 00:12:44.130 Brylle Girang: And then he also gave me praises, which I’m uncomfortable with, but yeah.
123 00:12:45.420 ⇒ 00:12:46.350 Brylle Girang: Was really, was…
124 00:12:49.160 ⇒ 00:12:51.330 Uttam Kumaran: Great, great, great, great, great. Well, yeah.
125 00:12:51.580 ⇒ 00:12:54.479 Uttam Kumaran: Take the praise and cash it out, you know? Keep going.
126 00:12:55.100 ⇒ 00:13:00.180 Brylle Girang: Yeah, and then… don’t let my head go too big, yeah.
127 00:13:00.180 ⇒ 00:13:01.350 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am.
128 00:13:03.630 ⇒ 00:13:12.249 Brylle Girang: I also took the opportunity to meet with the people that you mentioned, Demi, Greg, Sam, I have some…
129 00:13:12.250 ⇒ 00:13:13.720 Uttam Kumaran: Amazing, great, great, great.
130 00:13:13.910 ⇒ 00:13:24.250 Brylle Girang: next week, so I also want to expand, maybe after next week, I’m also going to be reaching out to the other folks, but yeah, it’s really nice actually talking with people.
131 00:13:25.360 ⇒ 00:13:27.320 Uttam Kumaran: No, dude, the people we have is, like…
132 00:13:27.430 ⇒ 00:13:31.700 Uttam Kumaran: That’s our whole product. Everybody here is amazing, so… I’m really glad.
133 00:13:33.670 ⇒ 00:13:39.080 Brylle Girang: They are Yeah, that’s it for me.
134 00:13:40.760 ⇒ 00:13:43.070 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool, yeah, so my time today…
135 00:13:43.180 ⇒ 00:13:45.299 Uttam Kumaran: I have, like, one or two more meetings, and then…
136 00:13:45.440 ⇒ 00:13:51.040 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna also be on the rest of the day, sort of, building some stuff on the platform,
137 00:13:51.370 ⇒ 00:13:56.889 Uttam Kumaran: I’m gonna work a little bit on the Brainforge Assistant, but send me any PRs you need me to review.
138 00:13:57.000 ⇒ 00:14:03.949 Uttam Kumaran: And then… Yeah, I’m trying to think if there’s anything else.
139 00:14:04.160 ⇒ 00:14:08.639 Uttam Kumaran: I think I owe you some time in operating, so I can do that, too, today.
140 00:14:09.070 ⇒ 00:14:26.770 Brylle Girang: Yeah, it’s okay. Yeah, I’m also going to be… well, I think the MCP for operating is going to be a huge help for this, so I asked Rico to give it a shot. Reporting will be a lot easier, but basically, we’re just going to clean up operating, make sure that
141 00:14:27.010 ⇒ 00:14:33.010 Brylle Girang: everyone’s allocation, so that we can have more detailed reports. But yeah, that’s fine.
142 00:14:37.860 ⇒ 00:14:45.680 Brylle Girang: Oh, by the way, I have one question, Otam, I forgot to mention. I saw your… I saw in your calendar that you have a bike posing.
143 00:14:45.960 ⇒ 00:14:49.479 Brylle Girang: session with Mustafa? Okay, what’s that about?
144 00:14:52.570 ⇒ 00:14:55.300 Uttam Kumaran: We just… work on the platform together.
145 00:14:55.650 ⇒ 00:14:56.950 Brylle Girang: Oh…
146 00:14:56.950 ⇒ 00:15:02.609 Uttam Kumaran: That’s it. We just have… we just have fun and, like, try to bang out some features. You can join, you wanna join?
147 00:15:02.610 ⇒ 00:15:04.690 Brylle Girang: Yes, please, is that possible?
148 00:15:04.990 ⇒ 00:15:07.089 Uttam Kumaran: Ask, yeah, ask Mustafa to add you.
149 00:15:07.090 ⇒ 00:15:10.649 Brylle Girang: Okay, gotcha. That’s every, like, Monday, right?
150 00:15:11.370 ⇒ 00:15:19.340 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, like, every Monday or Tuesday. I mean, basically, like, my only time I get to, like, do long blocks of work is, like, on the platform, is that.
151 00:15:19.490 ⇒ 00:15:24.589 Uttam Kumaran: and sometimes… because Mustafa’s way smarter than me, and so I need his help to, like.
152 00:15:24.810 ⇒ 00:15:32.990 Uttam Kumaran: With deployment and some, like, random… random issues. And so it’s really helpful if we’re both just, like.
153 00:15:33.090 ⇒ 00:15:35.060 Uttam Kumaran: On the phone together to, like.
154 00:15:35.250 ⇒ 00:15:42.000 Uttam Kumaran: get through that. So, yeah, ping him and ask him at you. I think a couple people have wanted to join, and so we just hang out and
155 00:15:42.820 ⇒ 00:15:44.610 Uttam Kumaran: And… vibe code.
156 00:15:45.650 ⇒ 00:15:50.460 Brylle Girang: Okay, as Mustafa, I’m just going to watch and see how it goes.
157 00:15:51.050 ⇒ 00:15:54.640 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay. Yeah, it’s nothing crazy, I mean, we just chat, and then, like.
158 00:15:54.960 ⇒ 00:15:58.560 Uttam Kumaran: There’s some… we review PRs and try to, like, push as much code out.
159 00:15:59.670 ⇒ 00:16:03.699 Brylle Girang: Yeah, and I talked with Mustafa, and I’m really amazed at how…
160 00:16:04.250 ⇒ 00:16:09.679 Brylle Girang: he just graduated last year, and then this is the level that he’s at, so I want to learn.
161 00:16:09.680 ⇒ 00:16:12.609 Uttam Kumaran: He is a beast. Yeah, he is the best.
162 00:16:13.100 ⇒ 00:16:16.640 Brylle Girang: I agree, I agree.
163 00:16:21.800 ⇒ 00:16:22.720 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
164 00:16:22.980 ⇒ 00:16:23.330 Brylle Girang: Okay.
165 00:16:23.330 ⇒ 00:16:25.259 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool, dude. Send me…
166 00:16:25.260 ⇒ 00:16:25.720 Brylle Girang: You’re saying?
167 00:16:25.720 ⇒ 00:16:29.389 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, let’s send that CTA thing, out, if we can.
168 00:16:29.390 ⇒ 00:16:32.379 Brylle Girang: Okay. Gotcha. Keep safe, well done, bye-bye.
169 00:16:32.380 ⇒ 00:16:33.400 Uttam Kumaran: Thank you. Bye.