Meeting Title: Advait <> Amber Day 1 Connect Date: 2026-03-18 Meeting participants: Advait Nandakumar Menon, Amber Lin


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1 00:08:11.930 00:08:14.330 Amber Lin: Hello! Sorry I’m late.

2 00:08:16.970 00:08:19.589 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Hey, I’m, that’s fine, can you hear me?

3 00:08:19.790 00:08:20.930 Amber Lin: Yeah, I can hear you.

4 00:08:21.350 00:08:22.050 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

5 00:08:22.300 00:08:23.770 Amber Lin: What time is it for you?

6 00:08:24.490 00:08:30.480 Advait Nandakumar Menon: It’s… Gonna be 4.45, roughly. Yeah, it’s 4.40pm. Okay, gotcha.

7 00:08:30.480 00:08:37.019 Amber Lin: I will try… I’ll try to not make it too far past 5. I want to get off work on time.

8 00:08:37.450 00:08:43.020 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s… that’s fine, I understand, like, past couple of days can stretch like this, so… yeah.

9 00:08:43.809 00:08:51.169 Amber Lin: Cool. Let’s talk about just overall onboarding, and then if we have some time, we can talk about Element. If not, I’m talking.

10 00:08:51.490 00:08:54.319 Amber Lin: Greg about Element tomorrow.

11 00:08:54.320 00:08:54.670 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

12 00:08:54.670 00:09:00.549 Amber Lin: for 15 minutes, so I’ll invite you there, and then, like, we can… we can keep talking about it.

13 00:09:00.980 00:09:02.710 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, that sounds good.

14 00:09:06.440 00:09:11.459 Amber Lin: Cool. How do you feel about your current, like, your first day?

15 00:09:12.590 00:09:25.799 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So far, so good. Like, I was able to onboard on some of the things, I mean, most of the tools and accesses which I got the emails, so I was able to onboard,

16 00:09:26.270 00:09:32.590 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Then I got into a call with Robert shortly after that meeting, about

17 00:09:32.750 00:09:40.550 Advait Nandakumar Menon: element, so that was good. He was able to give me some context on what, days ahead will look like.

18 00:09:40.900 00:09:48.919 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, yeah, I would say so far, it’s good, and I’m just really trying to do the GitHub and the cursor setup right now, so…

19 00:09:49.020 00:09:49.900 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.

20 00:09:51.130 00:09:52.689 Amber Lin: I see. Okay.

21 00:09:52.840 00:10:00.430 Amber Lin: I’m… I’m reading this doc Kayla sent me on our buddy program and how that works, so I’m trying.

22 00:10:01.850 00:10:03.529 Amber Lin: what they are…

23 00:10:07.140 00:10:09.240 Amber Lin: Okay, since it’s the first day.

24 00:10:09.620 00:10:14.400 Amber Lin: Let’s just both read the doc, if we have time, and then if anything, if any questions.

25 00:10:14.400 00:10:14.870 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

26 00:10:14.870 00:10:30.200 Amber Lin: you, and you’re like, oh, I need this, and just feel free to ask me. I think my… my first question is, did you get your I-9A3 filled out? Like, how… was that… was that smooth? Oh, okay.

27 00:10:30.400 00:10:35.580 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, I haven’t started anything on that, so I thought of checking with you on that in this. Yeah.

28 00:10:35.580 00:10:47.569 Amber Lin: Yeah, let me… here, let me send you my version. My text is honestly AI-generated, and then I edited it, but… Okay. Like, it’s… it’s okay.

29 00:10:47.570 00:10:50.559 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I don’t think that… yeah, I don’t think that matters.

30 00:10:51.190 00:10:56.710 Amber Lin: Yeah. Cool, so… Here, let me drop you this…

31 00:10:57.960 00:11:01.500 Amber Lin: Actually, let me send it to you on Slack so you can have it for later.

32 00:11:02.430 00:11:03.140 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Huh.

33 00:11:03.820 00:11:04.540 Amber Lin: Cool.

34 00:11:04.750 00:11:10.260 Amber Lin: Do you have an onboarding Notion doc that we can work in, so we can…

35 00:11:10.380 00:11:16.500 Amber Lin: like, write down what we need to do, what we thought of. Do you have a doc for that?

36 00:11:17.340 00:11:22.570 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I… I… like, I have some…

37 00:11:22.770 00:11:32.959 Advait Nandakumar Menon: not some, I have one document where I was just noting down all the points from today, so… it, like, it’s a mix of all the stuff I am yet to just organize.

38 00:11:32.960 00:11:33.770 Amber Lin: Cool.

39 00:11:34.200 00:11:38.580 Amber Lin: Yeah. Yeah, okay. Can you share, like, a notion?

40 00:11:38.860 00:11:40.559 Amber Lin: Paige with me?

41 00:11:41.190 00:11:41.910 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Cheap.

42 00:11:41.910 00:11:46.270 Amber Lin: Or maybe it’s in, like, your home… your home page.

43 00:11:46.270 00:11:48.999 Advait Nandakumar Menon: It’s in my private ear, do you want me to share that?

44 00:11:49.500 00:11:55.299 Amber Lin: Yeah, just, like, a new page, anything works, I can also create one, so we can note that we do.

45 00:11:55.300 00:11:57.720 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I can create a new page if that’s… Cool.

46 00:11:57.720 00:11:58.700 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah.

47 00:12:22.830 00:12:24.420 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I just shared it with you.

48 00:12:25.040 00:12:28.370 Amber Lin: Cool. In… oh, I have it.

49 00:12:30.280 00:12:30.610 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.

50 00:12:30.770 00:12:34.639 Amber Lin: Alright, yeah, I can see it. Onboarding day one.

51 00:12:34.740 00:12:36.409 Amber Lin: This is a new dock, right?

52 00:12:36.760 00:12:37.780 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, yep.

53 00:12:37.780 00:12:46.480 Amber Lin: Cool. That was just… I’m gonna say this. Let’s note down March 18th.

54 00:12:52.400 00:12:53.959 Amber Lin: I’m gonna say…

55 00:12:56.980 00:13:03.040 Amber Lin: I, 9, 8, 3… Let’s see…

56 00:13:07.830 00:13:08.620 Amber Lin: Cool.

57 00:13:10.050 00:13:18.190 Amber Lin: And do you have to file… oh, so once you create the I-983, you have to send it to your DSO, right?

58 00:13:19.070 00:13:20.350 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yes, yeah.

59 00:13:21.030 00:13:26.320 Amber Lin: Gotcha. Do you have, like, the… Let me see…

60 00:13:26.880 00:13:31.720 Amber Lin: I think my form should have our E-Verify number.

61 00:13:33.130 00:13:33.769 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Oh, I only have.

62 00:13:33.770 00:13:38.529 Amber Lin: It has the… it only has the EIN. Okay, so there… okay, that’s the EIN.

63 00:13:38.530 00:13:48.430 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I did… I did ask for, like, a documentation, a letter of sorts. I think in that Rico, I had mentioned the E-Verify number, so…

64 00:13:48.430 00:13:50.959 Amber Lin: Yeah, let me send it to you since…

65 00:13:50.960 00:13:51.710 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, but you can…

66 00:13:51.710 00:13:54.289 Amber Lin: I’m already here, so it’s easier.

67 00:13:54.590 00:13:54.940 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.

68 00:14:00.510 00:14:02.750 Amber Lin: Okay, let me try and find it.

69 00:14:13.490 00:14:16.259 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Did yours get approved yet?

70 00:14:16.260 00:14:33.569 Amber Lin: No, it takes so long, and honestly, I’m just… like, I’m just coasting off of the 180 days where… where you don’t… you’re… you can’t work, so, like, it’s 6… 6 months? So, it’s… it’s fine.

71 00:14:34.090 00:14:47.280 Amber Lin: Here, let me copy and paste this page to you, and please, please, please spell the name correctly. I did that wrong on my first I-20, and then I had to go revise it. It was a nightmare.

72 00:14:47.410 00:14:49.399 Amber Lin: Nope, wrong file.

73 00:14:50.220 00:15:04.540 Amber Lin: Okay… Copy image… Okay, there you go. That’s the… E-Verify.

74 00:15:06.160 00:15:06.890 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Oh, okay.

75 00:15:09.580 00:15:10.380 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Cool.

76 00:15:13.070 00:15:14.720 Amber Lin: It’s the company ID.

77 00:15:16.840 00:15:17.520 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

78 00:15:24.150 00:15:39.770 Amber Lin: Cool, okay. So I think that’s mainly all the legal stuff we have to do. I think you’re supposed to fill out a W-8, but they also didn’t make me fill out a W-8, so I think we should make them do that, but…

79 00:15:39.920 00:15:50.840 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, so, I… that just came up on my list of stuff to discuss with you, because I just saw an email from, I think, the finance team and RAMP,

80 00:15:51.060 00:15:55.239 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, they have asked me to fill out the W-9, which…

81 00:15:55.670 00:15:57.690 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I don’t think we can fill it all.

82 00:15:57.690 00:15:58.380 Amber Lin: Yeah.

83 00:15:59.400 00:16:06.899 Advait Nandakumar Menon: People with resident status, so… I think we are supposed to fill out the W8 or the W8…

84 00:16:06.900 00:16:08.160 Amber Lin: Maybe. Yeah.

85 00:16:08.160 00:16:09.410 Advait Nandakumar Menon: something? Yeah.

86 00:16:09.410 00:16:22.080 Amber Lin: Okay, I’m gonna email them right now. Can you forward me that email to my email account, and then I’ll reply and tag the finance team to say we both need a W-8?

87 00:16:23.820 00:16:28.470 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, yeah, I can do that. So, you didn’t film when you started?

88 00:16:28.470 00:16:30.920 Amber Lin: No, because they had no clue what to do.

89 00:16:32.400 00:16:33.200 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

90 00:16:33.810 00:16:34.480 Amber Lin: Yeah.

91 00:16:34.480 00:16:35.780 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, okay.

92 00:16:37.360 00:16:39.389 Amber Lin: So, they only recently…

93 00:16:39.930 00:16:44.659 Amber Lin: Can you do that right now, so I… we can… I can do that and forget about it?

94 00:16:45.030 00:16:48.790 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, for some reason, they sent it to my EDU email, so let’s.

95 00:16:48.790 00:16:50.349 Amber Lin: Oh, okay, okay.

96 00:16:50.580 00:16:51.680 Amber Lin: All good.

97 00:17:17.329 00:17:20.139 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Do you want me to loop you in? I’ll just forward it to you?

98 00:17:20.339 00:17:22.399 Amber Lin: Either works.

99 00:17:23.569 00:17:24.189 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

100 00:18:08.879 00:18:12.039 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Cool. It should be in your inbox, yeah, yeah.

101 00:18:12.040 00:18:20.520 Amber Lin: Yeah. Alright. Let me see… Finance team…

102 00:19:22.790 00:19:23.650 Amber Lin: Cool.

103 00:19:24.740 00:19:28.940 Amber Lin: Alright, I sent it to finance.

104 00:19:31.150 00:19:37.340 Amber Lin: Alright, I’ll say… Ask finance team…

105 00:19:37.600 00:19:43.100 Amber Lin: Did you have a list of things you want to talk about? Would you mind pasting that in the Notion doc?

106 00:19:44.010 00:19:51.400 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sure. I really have only two more things. I mean, one more thing. You already covered the I-93 and the…

107 00:19:51.700 00:20:06.869 Advait Nandakumar Menon: The W9 and W8, so my next question is, like, should I show the EAD to someone, or usually that’s how it goes, like, we have to send a copy or show a physical copy of it to someone, so do they require that from me?

108 00:20:07.150 00:20:08.260 Amber Lin: R-E-A-D.

109 00:20:08.860 00:20:09.630 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.

110 00:20:09.990 00:20:22.489 Amber Lin: Yeah, they didn’t go through… again, they didn’t even know to do a W-8, so they don’t know that yet. I do think maybe that’s something we fill out on a W-8, but I don’t know.

111 00:20:22.790 00:20:24.669 Amber Lin: They don’t have my EAD.

112 00:20:25.330 00:20:27.119 Amber Lin: So, I can…

113 00:20:27.630 00:20:37.050 Amber Lin: I can send, like, if you want, you can send an email to finance and say, hey, this is my EAD, you should keep this on records.

114 00:20:37.050 00:20:38.679 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, to finance.

115 00:20:38.680 00:20:42.510 Amber Lin: Yeah, the finance team. And tag Rico, because he’s operations.

116 00:20:43.600 00:20:44.290 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

117 00:20:56.210 00:20:58.810 Amber Lin: And on the GitHub side.

118 00:20:59.330 00:21:05.640 Amber Lin: Once you’re done doing that, like, on the GitHub side, you said you created a new account to accept the invitation?

119 00:21:06.110 00:21:12.210 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I created a new account specifically for, purpose of brain fraud, but…

120 00:21:12.210 00:21:25.019 Amber Lin: I mean, that’s… that is fine, as long as you log into that account to do work. Like, it doesn’t… like, we’re able to log in on our personal, but if you want a different account, I mean, that’s totally doable as well.

121 00:21:25.370 00:21:29.820 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, so I already did that, but, the thing is, on my…

122 00:21:30.110 00:21:45.289 Advait Nandakumar Menon: local, it’s still the personal one, so now that you said personal is fine, maybe, can another invite be sent to me so that I can open personal, or would you recommend just… because I only joined the repository from the new account I created.

123 00:21:45.290 00:21:55.059 Amber Lin: Gotcha. I mean, Rico handles this, so just let him know, like, hey, I did the wrong count, can you re-invite and maybe delete the old one? So, just let him know, and he can invite you.

124 00:21:55.690 00:21:56.400 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

125 00:21:58.130 00:22:03.789 Amber Lin: Yeah, and once you do that, you should be able to, say, open the repo in Kersher.

126 00:22:04.730 00:22:05.420 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

127 00:22:05.630 00:22:09.659 Amber Lin: Yeah, I can… I think…

128 00:22:10.390 00:22:14.990 Amber Lin: Let me show you real quick of what it looks like. So, for example.

129 00:22:16.020 00:22:18.100 Amber Lin: I have this repo.

130 00:22:18.700 00:22:19.530 Amber Lin: that…

131 00:22:20.030 00:22:28.990 Amber Lin: I opened in the local GitHub desktop. You can also just copy the URL, and you can say here, right-click and open in Kirscher.

132 00:22:29.340 00:22:31.879 Amber Lin: Okay, okay. And then it will open…

133 00:22:32.700 00:22:39.569 Amber Lin: And… Kirscher. I have never worked in GitHub before joining this company, so…

134 00:22:39.570 00:22:39.980 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Never.

135 00:22:39.980 00:22:54.039 Amber Lin: I even know more than I do, but that’s… if you haven’t, like, I also haven’t, so I can tell you what I figured out. Essentially, you’ll open the project, you can try some explorations with the chat.

136 00:22:54.250 00:23:01.759 Amber Lin: And then look through all the files, and just experiment with… With what we have, and…

137 00:23:01.760 00:23:02.360 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

138 00:23:02.360 00:23:07.030 Amber Lin: I think something that will be helpful is, if you don’t know yet.

139 00:23:07.290 00:23:21.719 Amber Lin: what you want to do, you can go into Ask, and this is just, like, ChatGBT, so just ask what you want, and then you can then say switch to agent mode, and say, hey, do this for me. But just be careful.

140 00:23:21.720 00:23:22.460 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

141 00:23:22.930 00:23:23.600 Amber Lin: of…

142 00:23:23.600 00:23:24.120 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Huh.

143 00:23:24.120 00:23:26.630 Amber Lin: not committing… Committing…

144 00:23:26.630 00:23:27.460 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.

145 00:23:27.740 00:23:35.400 Amber Lin: Especially, like, keys or data, just make sure you don’t do that, but if everything’s on your local, it’s whatever.

146 00:23:36.180 00:23:46.830 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay. Yeah, so I… I have used… I’ve used GitHub, obviously, but Cursor is something new, so I’m still…

147 00:23:47.020 00:24:05.909 Advait Nandakumar Menon: learning that, so… yeah, that… what you showed just now really helped. So, I was gonna ask one question related to that, like, during the onboarding, like, Rico mentioned that you guys are transitioning from ChatGPT or whatever AI tool you’re using to fully cursor, so…

148 00:24:06.760 00:24:16.269 Advait Nandakumar Menon: how does that work in the sense that, like, cursor is specific to coding, right? Like, it’s better suited for,

149 00:24:16.510 00:24:24.119 Advait Nandakumar Menon: coding and all that. Yeah. So, you just showed me the ask function over here, is that what you guys rely on now, instead of.

150 00:24:24.120 00:24:28.050 Amber Lin: Yeah, let me… yeah, let me open a…

151 00:24:28.560 00:24:32.040 Amber Lin: Let me close this so I can open up… because…

152 00:24:32.200 00:24:41.220 Amber Lin: You can create your local… if… because we always work kind of, like, in a repo, kind of, but you can create your own local folder, right?

153 00:24:41.220 00:24:41.640 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So.

154 00:24:41.640 00:24:47.550 Amber Lin: For example, I would be in… Nope.

155 00:24:47.770 00:24:50.570 Amber Lin: Not there. Anyways, let me open this.

156 00:24:50.990 00:24:51.840 Amber Lin: Oh.

157 00:24:52.990 00:24:56.110 Amber Lin: Create a new… window.

158 00:24:57.090 00:25:04.479 Amber Lin: This is the new thing you’ll see, and this is, like, my personal stuff that I’m working on. So, for example, you would…

159 00:25:04.800 00:25:07.380 Amber Lin: Open project?

160 00:25:07.690 00:25:17.499 Amber Lin: And you can always, like, create a new folder, whatever, where you want to put it, create a new folder, and then in there,

161 00:25:18.120 00:25:26.150 Amber Lin: Let’s try… and you can clone repo via the URL online. So, let’s say I want to go into…

162 00:25:26.990 00:25:35.150 Amber Lin: GitHub, let’s see… New folder, test… Pass folder.

163 00:25:35.380 00:25:37.060 Amber Lin: And, create…

164 00:25:37.570 00:25:44.329 Amber Lin: Okay, open. That could be, like, your personal holder when you want to ask questions, but you can always just say, hey.

165 00:25:46.310 00:25:51.790 Amber Lin: What can I do with Kusher that’s not coding?

166 00:25:55.260 00:25:55.880 Amber Lin: And all.

167 00:25:55.880 00:25:57.670 Advait Nandakumar Menon: And you can switch the model as well.

168 00:25:57.670 00:26:02.430 Amber Lin: Yeah, you can switch models for different, like, things that’s…

169 00:26:02.860 00:26:11.800 Amber Lin: that’s best at different things. We use it for a lot of non-coding stuff. I would show you our Brainforge

170 00:26:11.980 00:26:23.159 Amber Lin: I think when you meet with Brile, he will show you more on the internal stuff that we created, but you can create… because it’s the same as ChatGPT, because they.

171 00:26:23.160 00:26:23.540 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.

172 00:26:23.540 00:26:25.070 Amber Lin: Same model, so feel free.

173 00:26:25.070 00:26:25.390 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

174 00:26:25.390 00:26:30.900 Amber Lin: you have access to, say, Anthropic’s model, which is better at some things than ChatGPT.

175 00:26:31.230 00:26:38.709 Amber Lin: Or you can go to Gemini, which has, like, bigger… is better for bigger volume issues.

176 00:26:38.890 00:26:43.439 Amber Lin: So this is what you can do, and always, for example.

177 00:26:43.900 00:26:48.800 Amber Lin: If I add our Brainforge platform, Right?

178 00:26:48.800 00:26:49.280 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Huh.

179 00:26:49.280 00:26:57.100 Amber Lin: We have a lot of skills that we created. If you haven’t worked with skills, skills are essentially just…

180 00:26:57.640 00:27:06.329 Amber Lin: SOPs of, hey, do one, and then do two, and then do three, so that you don’t have to type it in every single time. So we have, for example.

181 00:27:06.790 00:27:14.580 Amber Lin: Now, these are all the skills. Once I added this, if you connect to our repo, you’ll be able to add this repo

182 00:27:14.700 00:27:18.489 Amber Lin: In. And then you can say, hey, I want to…

183 00:27:18.880 00:27:24.849 Amber Lin: I want to do this, tell me what this skill is.

184 00:27:25.020 00:27:30.380 Amber Lin: You can ask a lot of, hey, walk me through, I don’t know what this is, and it will tell you.

185 00:27:30.630 00:27:31.930 Amber Lin: what it is.

186 00:27:32.540 00:27:38.490 Amber Lin: So, I recommend the next step is to connect to this folder.

187 00:27:38.640 00:27:51.470 Amber Lin: Or… and then make some… and maybe just chat there using the ask function of, hey, I’m curious about this. And then you can also ask, hey, tell me more…

188 00:27:53.840 00:27:55.630 Amber Lin: about Element.

189 00:27:56.900 00:27:57.710 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

190 00:27:57.710 00:28:04.090 Amber Lin: Because we have, with this, we are connected to all our meeting transcripts.

191 00:28:04.810 00:28:06.940 Amber Lin: our Slack messages and, like, our…

192 00:28:07.290 00:28:08.070 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I noticed that.

193 00:28:08.070 00:28:08.480 Amber Lin: data.

194 00:28:09.120 00:28:10.050 Amber Lin: Yeah.

195 00:28:10.050 00:28:11.540 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

196 00:28:11.760 00:28:16.420 Amber Lin: So, client… element…

197 00:28:24.850 00:28:34.059 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, how does this, in the sense, you have a separate repository for Element also, right? Which I was able to look at, so…

198 00:28:35.530 00:28:43.320 Advait Nandakumar Menon: How does it differ from asking in this BrainForge platform repository versus the Element repository?

199 00:28:43.860 00:28:46.770 Amber Lin: The Element repository is…

200 00:28:46.890 00:28:54.380 Amber Lin: So this is, like, the centralized stuff. This is non-client specific, this is just, like, overall how.

201 00:28:54.380 00:28:54.900 Advait Nandakumar Menon: What do we do?

202 00:28:54.900 00:28:56.200 Amber Lin: things in…

203 00:28:56.200 00:28:56.520 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

204 00:28:56.520 00:29:05.229 Amber Lin: And then internally, we have an element folder, which is… which stores… oh, sorry, I haven’t added it yet. Okay, let me…

205 00:29:05.760 00:29:13.029 Amber Lin: Let me go… for example, I would add folder, I would add element.

206 00:29:13.380 00:29:18.160 Amber Lin: So you see, like, this has meeting notes, transcripts, and stuff. I’ll add this.

207 00:29:19.520 00:29:26.340 Amber Lin: No… Until I’ve added our… Cop.

208 00:29:26.630 00:29:33.589 Amber Lin: Element repo, tell me about this client. I’m a new analyst.

209 00:29:37.070 00:29:39.160 Advait Nandakumar Menon: And all of this is recorded, right?

210 00:29:39.880 00:29:40.500 Amber Lin: Yeah.

211 00:29:40.790 00:29:45.730 Amber Lin: Yeah, and I’ll show you how to look at the recordings on our.

212 00:29:45.730 00:29:51.489 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I… yeah, it’s on the Drainforge platform, like, I think Kayla already showed me this morning, so…

213 00:29:51.490 00:29:52.260 Amber Lin: Awesome.

214 00:29:52.260 00:29:57.530 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That was helpful. I was able to look at the transcript and the recordings and all of that, so…

215 00:29:57.810 00:30:03.239 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, that… So, does that… Happen automatically for all the meetings.

216 00:30:03.710 00:30:11.029 Amber Lin: Yeah, it will take a little bit of time for Zoom to update the recording, but once it’s there, it should be pretty, pretty easy.

217 00:30:11.030 00:30:11.840 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

218 00:30:11.840 00:30:17.060 Amber Lin: Look, like, it has… it has all of this, so I would say I’m gonna add on our to-dos.

219 00:30:17.250 00:30:20.270 Amber Lin: So… cursor… oh.

220 00:30:20.940 00:30:35.709 Amber Lin: Yeah, so many tabs. Add company… Brain Forge… Platform repo, add elementy repo.

221 00:30:36.570 00:30:42.829 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, and for both of these, I’m… first, it should be available in the GitHub local, right? .

222 00:30:44.010 00:30:47.929 Amber Lin: Yeah, let me, actually try and give you…

223 00:30:50.690 00:30:55.119 Amber Lin: I’ll try and put the link there, so it’ll be easier for you.

224 00:30:55.120 00:30:58.939 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I got it, yeah, I do have this, I believe.

225 00:30:59.610 00:31:06.420 Amber Lin: Yeah, I’m just gonna make sure that… So, element…

226 00:31:07.780 00:31:08.240 Amber Lin: I’m good.

227 00:31:08.240 00:31:09.559 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, this is the one I saw.

228 00:31:09.700 00:31:16.920 Amber Lin: Yeah, I’m gonna copy… this… This for you right here, so it’s email.

229 00:31:16.920 00:31:17.750 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Dude.

230 00:31:17.950 00:31:18.750 Amber Lin: And then…

231 00:31:18.750 00:31:19.410 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.

232 00:31:20.610 00:31:24.659 Amber Lin: Our Brainforge platform is right here.

233 00:31:24.980 00:31:31.720 Amber Lin: And then you can… what you can do is look for today, look for your name.

234 00:31:32.330 00:31:32.820 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

235 00:31:32.820 00:31:34.330 Amber Lin: Like, yeah.

236 00:31:34.460 00:31:38.719 Amber Lin: So, copying this for you as well.

237 00:31:41.090 00:31:44.260 Amber Lin: Rainforest.

238 00:31:45.660 00:31:46.600 Amber Lin: Or…

239 00:31:53.920 00:31:54.610 Amber Lin: Cool.

240 00:31:54.750 00:32:05.030 Amber Lin: Alright, yeah, so this is introductions… Where things are right now… And…

241 00:32:05.480 00:32:11.630 Amber Lin: Who’s on these clients? Like, the names that people will drop, so you know what they’re… what there are.

242 00:32:11.880 00:32:17.660 Amber Lin: So you can say, what did we do in the past week?

243 00:32:20.380 00:32:24.749 Amber Lin: What is our main focus right now?

244 00:32:25.470 00:32:30.579 Amber Lin: And this is also helpful for me, because I haven’t tested this out yet, so I think this would be…

245 00:32:30.580 00:32:30.900 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

246 00:32:30.900 00:32:31.620 Amber Lin: Interesting.

247 00:32:35.260 00:32:38.640 Amber Lin: Yeah, so they grab the most recent ones.

248 00:32:38.760 00:32:41.889 Amber Lin: Huh, the transfer’s not the most up-to-date.

249 00:32:42.840 00:32:43.650 Amber Lin: Okay.

250 00:32:45.620 00:32:53.220 Amber Lin: Okay, I am… oh, so here. Here is kind of what we are… Doing…

251 00:33:07.440 00:33:17.350 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I did notice that on the Element repository, if you go and check, it’s what… it was updated, like, 3 months back. I didn’t see any recent comments, so maybe that’s why.

252 00:33:17.540 00:33:30.630 Amber Lin: I know, I was like, that doesn’t look the most right, but I asked it again. I think that’s why I connected our Brainforge platform. I’m not exactly sure, but I do think the transcripts are…

253 00:33:31.730 00:33:49.519 Amber Lin: like, what we have at LMNT is probably what they had when they kicked off the client, and then all the transcripts are through our platform, so it’s not… it’s not stored on GitHub, it’s probably stored in a database, so I think, like, right now…

254 00:33:50.370 00:33:56.009 Amber Lin: they did pull these, so I asked, hey, this is not the most recent transcripts.

255 00:33:56.540 00:34:00.839 Amber Lin: they’re not tagged as Element yet, but…

256 00:34:01.810 00:34:05.589 Amber Lin: Like, these are… This is what you can see.

257 00:34:06.390 00:34:07.760 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, this is.

258 00:34:07.980 00:34:11.630 Amber Lin: Yeah. Yeah, so this helps you to…

259 00:34:12.170 00:34:19.199 Amber Lin: Catch up on what we did. Let me see if we can… did we talk in Slack?

260 00:34:19.320 00:34:23.350 Amber Lin: More linear about this question mark?

261 00:34:23.810 00:34:26.820 Amber Lin: Especially for Omni.

262 00:34:33.370 00:34:34.190 Amber Lin: Cool.

263 00:34:34.199 00:34:47.069 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, do you connect, like, the cursor, Linear, and Slack? And, like, Omni, do you connect all of these applications together with the accounts?

264 00:34:47.400 00:34:52.129 Amber Lin: Oh, yes. So, once you add this repo,

265 00:34:52.130 00:34:52.630 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Huh.

266 00:34:52.730 00:34:55.219 Amber Lin: Let me add a note here.

267 00:34:56.370 00:35:04.259 Amber Lin: Once you connect, go enable MCP connections in.

268 00:35:04.510 00:35:09.330 Amber Lin: So, in cursor Shettings, cursor Shettings.

269 00:35:09.660 00:35:15.539 Amber Lin: you will see tools and MCPs, and all of these… oh, I just switched accounts, so…

270 00:35:15.740 00:35:21.819 Amber Lin: Actually. Okay. You’ll go here, and you’ll click, just click all of these, you don’t have

271 00:35:22.140 00:35:25.340 Amber Lin: Figma, and then you’ll have to log in.

272 00:35:25.840 00:35:28.849 Amber Lin: But, like, just enable these.

273 00:35:29.340 00:35:33.050 Amber Lin: And then… you should be able to…

274 00:35:36.880 00:35:45.329 Amber Lin: asset about, hey, look at Slack, what did we talk about in Slack? Do we have anything in Notion? Yeah, so that will be…

275 00:35:45.620 00:35:47.770 Amber Lin: I think that will be very helpful.

276 00:35:48.600 00:35:49.889 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, basically connect…

277 00:35:50.610 00:35:55.659 Advait Nandakumar Menon: No, that’s completely fine. So, basically, connect all the accounts and enable the NCP and personal, right?

278 00:35:55.830 00:36:05.910 Amber Lin: Yeah, these will automatically pop up when you, add this repo in, I think, or just when you log in with the company.

279 00:36:06.060 00:36:15.560 Amber Lin: cursor account. Mine’s not connected anymore, because I logged into my personal, and then switched back, but if you… if… you’ll just have to…

280 00:36:16.220 00:36:18.889 Amber Lin: Connect and log in on the browser.

281 00:36:20.390 00:36:21.110 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

282 00:36:21.280 00:36:21.940 Amber Lin: Yeah.

283 00:36:22.370 00:36:28.900 Amber Lin: So, that’s mostly it for today. Tomorrow, if you can… if you have some time.

284 00:36:28.900 00:36:33.570 Amber Lin: Today or tomorrow morning, because you’re in EST, if you can

285 00:36:33.570 00:36:50.950 Amber Lin: explore with Kirscher, like, hey, what did we do on this client? What is this? What are they talking about? To get a sense of what… what we have done, and a list of questions that Kurser wasn’t able to answer for you, I think that will make tomorrow’s meeting a lot easier.

286 00:36:52.190 00:36:54.929 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, so I will,

287 00:36:56.000 00:37:04.809 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I mean, install the repositories for my local, and tried to interact with it a little using cursor, and I’ll let you know how it goes.

288 00:37:05.160 00:37:20.369 Amber Lin: Yeah, awesome. And I also invited you to Elements Omni, so tomorrow, I don’t want to make you work too much today. Tomorrow, if you have time, please go look at the dashboards we have currently. I’m going to put the link

289 00:37:20.520 00:37:23.740 Amber Lin: right here. You should have got an invite on your email.

290 00:37:24.230 00:37:26.560 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I did… I did accept that.

291 00:37:26.860 00:37:31.420 Amber Lin: Awesome. So, this would be where the folder is. I’ll send it in.

292 00:37:31.620 00:37:33.540 Amber Lin: Yeah, go ahead. What were you saying?

293 00:37:33.540 00:37:36.780 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sorry about that. So, is there anything about Omni on GitHub?

294 00:37:38.130 00:37:40.669 Amber Lin: Mmm… what do you mean?

295 00:37:40.950 00:37:46.880 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I mean, you did send a message, so that’s… I was a little confused, by it.

296 00:37:47.720 00:37:49.250 Amber Lin: Oh,

297 00:37:50.180 00:37:50.840 Amber Lin: Let me see…

298 00:37:50.840 00:37:51.910 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Am I saying?

299 00:37:52.610 00:37:54.250 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Over here…

300 00:37:54.460 00:38:02.429 Amber Lin: Essentially, what we’re doing on… Omni? Wait, let me… let me check.

301 00:38:04.800 00:38:10.829 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, you said you invited me to own the address, and then said it should be in the Brainforge repo as well.

302 00:38:12.180 00:38:14.890 Amber Lin: Oh, sorry, I think I was replying.

303 00:38:15.000 00:38:16.410 Amber Lin: Wait, what?

304 00:38:22.370 00:38:23.570 Amber Lin: So, oh.

305 00:38:24.460 00:38:25.440 Amber Lin: Yeah.

306 00:38:26.060 00:38:26.720 Amber Lin: Oh.

307 00:38:26.720 00:38:27.179 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I think I’.

308 00:38:27.180 00:38:30.279 Amber Lin: Men should be in our company GitHub.

309 00:38:30.930 00:38:32.540 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay. Okay.

310 00:38:32.550 00:38:33.100 Amber Lin: Okay.

311 00:38:33.100 00:38:33.580 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

312 00:38:33.580 00:38:36.800 Amber Lin: I’m gonna edit that, in the conf…

313 00:38:36.960 00:38:50.610 Amber Lin: Company, get up. Okay, that’s better, thanks. So, take a look at those dashboards, that will give you a sense of where we’re at currently. I’m talking to Jasmine about the next steps.

314 00:38:51.280 00:38:51.600 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Bye.

315 00:38:51.600 00:39:00.120 Amber Lin: Tomorrow, when I do work on Omni, I’ll send you a Zoom link, just in case you want to hop in and see what it’s like.

316 00:39:00.120 00:39:00.760 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sure.

317 00:39:00.760 00:39:05.020 Amber Lin: Yeah, and then… Think…

318 00:39:05.020 00:39:09.229 Advait Nandakumar Menon: And all those dashboards are within Omni, right, not GitHub?

319 00:39:09.790 00:39:11.830 Amber Lin: Yeah, yeah, they’ll be in Omni.

320 00:39:12.210 00:39:13.370 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, okay.

321 00:39:14.450 00:39:15.060 Amber Lin: Cool.

322 00:39:16.230 00:39:20.759 Amber Lin: Yeah, I think that’s all until our next meeting. Hopefully it’s not too.

323 00:39:20.760 00:39:21.120 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Too much.

324 00:39:21.120 00:39:31.520 Amber Lin: Just… just look around, ask cursor questions, and then tomorrow we’ll go into more specifics of, like, what the work actually looks like.

325 00:39:33.210 00:39:46.950 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, that sounds good. With respect, like, really quick, going back to the logistics aspect, like, filling out the I-9A3, so the… I think I saw it in your,

326 00:39:47.280 00:39:53.940 Advait Nandakumar Menon: filled out plan, but the NACS code and the number of employees, all those remain unchanged.

327 00:39:54.490 00:40:03.020 Amber Lin: Nics to call should be the same number of employees, gotta count, because now you’re also an employee, so… I don’t know.

328 00:40:03.560 00:40:05.320 Amber Lin: I think…

329 00:40:05.700 00:40:19.380 Amber Lin: I mean, I think this is still what is on the company E-Verify. To be very honest, you can also log in to E-Verify, you can find it in OnePass, so if you want to do that, you can just do that and check.

330 00:40:20.050 00:40:20.810 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

331 00:40:20.810 00:40:22.310 Amber Lin: Yeah, but I…

332 00:40:23.140 00:40:25.940 Advait Nandakumar Menon: You mean the brain forge E-Verify?

333 00:40:27.300 00:40:35.589 Amber Lin: Because I had to get it set up and reactivated. So, you can find the password in 1Pass.

334 00:40:35.880 00:40:38.570 Amber Lin: So, if you want to check, that will be there.

335 00:40:39.560 00:40:52.090 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay. Yeah, because I would imagine, like, the number of full-time, I guess it should be the same, or it should have changed, because I think full-time is essentially those who are on W2.

336 00:40:52.090 00:40:55.280 Amber Lin: Yeah, that’s… that’s… yeah, makes sense. So it’s just.

337 00:40:55.280 00:40:55.700 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.

338 00:40:56.880 00:40:59.810 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah. Okay.

339 00:40:59.810 00:41:00.210 Amber Lin: Okay.

340 00:41:00.210 00:41:01.010 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s funny.

341 00:41:01.180 00:41:01.510 Amber Lin: Cool.

342 00:41:01.600 00:41:14.570 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yes, and what about the compensation amount and frequency? I, like, I would imagine it’s by the hour, so how should I mention that on the plan?

343 00:41:14.930 00:41:17.110 Advait Nandakumar Menon: You have mentioned it, like, an annual…

344 00:41:17.110 00:41:22.670 Amber Lin: Yeah, mine is on, like, a monthly… Bases?

345 00:41:23.050 00:41:32.469 Amber Lin: But… I’m not too familiar with your compensation structure. Do you get… So, do you get…

346 00:41:32.660 00:41:38.899 Amber Lin: Do you get paid based on the hours you log, or do you get paid, like, a fixed amount monthly?

347 00:41:39.680 00:41:44.210 Advait Nandakumar Menon: based on the hours that’s logged is what Kayla told me, and.

348 00:41:44.210 00:41:45.209 Amber Lin: It’s like a net third.

349 00:41:45.210 00:41:47.589 Advait Nandakumar Menon: cycle is what she said, so…

350 00:41:47.590 00:41:58.350 Amber Lin: Yeah, I… I see. Okay. Okay, because my contract’s slightly different, so I don’t know how… how I can help there. You might need to ask, like, hey, how do I…

351 00:41:58.640 00:41:59.139 Amber Lin: How do I.

352 00:41:59.140 00:41:59.460 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

353 00:41:59.460 00:42:13.129 Amber Lin: that in. But if… if not, you can always just calculate what it… what it would be equal to full-time, because you do get paid monthly, and just put that number in based on, like, your hourly pay.

354 00:42:14.140 00:42:16.220 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, okay, that makes sense.

355 00:42:16.220 00:42:16.760 Amber Lin: Yeah.

356 00:42:19.350 00:42:26.919 Advait Nandakumar Menon: And do you get this signed by… like, so who is your supervisor in this case? It’s Utam?

357 00:42:27.190 00:42:40.339 Amber Lin: Yeah, just… just let Utam do it, because, like, technically, he is the business owner, I don’t want to run into complications, like, hey, your supervisor’s not in the company, blah blah blah. I don’t know. So just… just ask Utam. He’ll be able to sign it for you.

358 00:42:40.750 00:42:50.300 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, because in my, the letter, like, I asked for documentation on the letterhead, it stated that Robert is the…

359 00:42:50.660 00:42:53.010 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Oh. My supervisor, so…

360 00:42:53.010 00:43:02.040 Amber Lin: So, I mean, sure, that works too. Like, if… if that’s the case, then you can put him down, because I don’t think the supervisor needs to be…

361 00:43:03.060 00:43:06.260 Amber Lin: Like, the owner, so it should be fine.

362 00:43:06.800 00:43:08.829 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay. No, I mean…

363 00:43:09.370 00:43:24.779 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I know, like, someone who’s on a visa, like you or myself, or, like, another international person can’t be my supervisor, but, I think it should be a full-time employee, so that’s the reason I’m asking, like, is Robert…

364 00:43:24.970 00:43:27.089 Amber Lin: Robert’s our other CEO, so…

365 00:43:27.460 00:43:28.529 Advait Nandakumar Menon: He’s… Yeah, yeah.

366 00:43:28.530 00:43:31.309 Amber Lin: He… he should be able to supervise you.

367 00:43:31.540 00:43:37.849 Amber Lin: But to be safe, you can always ask, hey, can I put UTOM instead? Like, you can always ask, can they address that?

368 00:43:38.320 00:43:39.260 Amber Lin: Yeah.

369 00:43:39.740 00:43:41.080 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, okay.

370 00:43:41.700 00:43:45.050 Advait Nandakumar Menon: And do I go to him for the sign?

371 00:43:46.780 00:43:52.900 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I mean, do I reach out to him personally for the signature to submit this form?

372 00:43:54.360 00:43:59.640 Amber Lin: Yeah, just fill everything, and I’ll say, Utam, can you sign this for me, and then…

373 00:44:00.580 00:44:05.780 Amber Lin: I think it can’t be an electronics…

374 00:44:06.750 00:44:07.200 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.

375 00:44:07.200 00:44:14.949 Amber Lin: It can’t be a type signature, but research and make sure, like, what type of signature it is. I don’t want it to get rejected.

376 00:44:15.490 00:44:22.449 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I’m sure it can’t be a typed, but it can be a proper digital, like… it shouldn’t be a typed one, yeah. Yeah.

377 00:44:23.730 00:44:24.340 Amber Lin: Cool.

378 00:44:25.510 00:44:26.200 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.

379 00:44:26.600 00:44:31.629 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, this sounds good. I don’t think I have anything else.

380 00:44:31.630 00:44:32.400 Amber Lin: Sounds good!

381 00:44:32.400 00:44:33.529 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Protect with you.

382 00:44:34.070 00:44:35.749 Amber Lin: I hope this has been a…

383 00:44:36.030 00:44:37.909 Amber Lin: Good first day, I’ll talk to you.

384 00:44:37.910 00:44:38.260 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yes.

385 00:44:38.260 00:44:44.899 Amber Lin: Tomorrow morning, I sent you the invite there, and then probably we’ll talk again, like, sometime later tomorrow.

386 00:44:45.330 00:44:46.910 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, sounds good, Amo.

387 00:44:46.910 00:44:47.760 Amber Lin: Awesome!

388 00:44:49.150 00:44:51.140 Amber Lin: Yeah, thanks for the call.

389 00:44:51.560 00:44:54.539 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, thanks for the, introduction, and…

390 00:44:54.540 00:44:54.900 Amber Lin: Of course.

391 00:44:54.900 00:44:57.069 Advait Nandakumar Menon: All this stuff you just showed you, really, huh?

392 00:44:57.070 00:44:58.710 Amber Lin: Yeah, I’m glad to be helpful.

393 00:44:58.850 00:44:59.510 Amber Lin: Alrighty.

394 00:45:00.030 00:45:00.940 Amber Lin: See you tomorrow.

395 00:45:00.940 00:45:01.810 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Talk soon.

396 00:45:01.980 00:45:02.510 Amber Lin: Bye!

397 00:45:02.510 00:45:03.690 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, bye-bye.