Data Service Standup
Date: February 27, 2026 Source: Granola Meeting ID: 456c0322-b5d3-4632-97d0-6ce55ccdb3d6 URL: https://notes.granola.ai/t/456c0322-b5d3-4632-97d0-6ce55ccdb3d6
Participants:
- Uttam Kumaran (Brainforge)
- Rico Rejoso (Brainforge)
- Awaish Kumar (Brainforge)
- Ashwini Sharma (Brainforge)
- Casie Aviles (Brainforge)
- Robert Tseng (Brainforge)
- Mustafa Raja (Brainforge)
- Zoran Selinger (Brainforge)
- Demilade Agboola (Brainforge)
- Clarence Stone (Brainforge)
- Brylle Girang (Brainforge)
Summary
Project Status Updates
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Eden OS
- All modeling work completed
- Gantt chart document submitted with milestone list
- Blocked on data access for testing and deployment
- Converting Gantt chart to linear tasks for Awaish
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Magic Spoons
- Previous billing issue fixed (won’t affect current cycle)
- Cooldown period removed - next cycle should run smoothly
- Ashwini continuing work on Springs API extraction
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CSO (Demilade)
- SOW finalized for 12-month contract
- Plan to ramp up budget as opportunities arise
- Next steps: extract spins data, finish remaining models
- Reduced scope initially to focus on spins for first few weeks
Client Account Progress
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CTA
- Technical team more accessible than Element - direct Slack communication encouraged
- Missing data in route tables, checking S3 for ingestion
- SQL query model includes all required fields
- 50% of CS modeling work can be completed with current progress
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Element
- Awaish and Amber pairing effectively this week
- Renewal proposal submitted - 30% larger than Eden deal
- Planning to add 3 new team members if deal closes
- Would become largest contract to date
- Adding senior analyst (potentially Jasmine) and another AE
- Focus on completing Phil’s deliverables and responding to Shivani
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Default
- Modeling started, dashboard development in progress
- Clear requirements gathered for metrics
- 3 dashboards planned: financial summary, existing migration, plus one additional
- Team gaining data access and Omni training scheduled
- On track per Gantt chart timeline
Technical Implementation
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Eden For
- GHL integration implemented (NOTand Zanoji GHL)
- Zapier account upgrade needed - awaiting client credit card
- Robert connecting Felicia directly to Coral Data for automation
- New task received from Mustafa yesterday
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General Technical Notes
- Multiple ad hoc client requests ongoing
- Semrush analysis feedback: data directionally good, code complexity too high
- Various API integrations and data pipeline work in progress
Hiring and Team Development
- Final interview process discussion (Awaish, Demilade, Uttam)
- Creating standardized technical exercises:
- Data Engineer task: Airbyte/Airflow setup, CSV to DuckDB/Postgres ingestion, DBT implementation (2-3 hour homework)
- Analytics Engineer task: DBT repo with optimization challenges, intermediate to mart layer development, query performance improvements
- GitHub repos being created for each exercise type
- Kayla managing recruitment pipeline effectively
- Multiple analysts in final rounds, Jasmine showing strong potential
Action Items
- Rico to send SOW to Uttam for signature (Demilade)
- Uttam to create GitHub repos for DE and AE technical exercises
- Awaish to continue CTA data investigation and PR review
- Element team to push Phil’s deliverables and respond to Shivani requests
- Default team to finalize metrics preparation for upcoming dashboards
- Follow up on Eden For Zapier account upgrade once client provides credit card