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Date: March 19, 2026 Source: Granola Meeting ID: ba2658f8-dba1-4de9-a966-47c28027ffc5 URL: https://notes.granola.ai/t/ba2658f8-dba1-4de9-a966-47c28027ffc5
Participants:
- Uttam Kumaran (note creator) from Brainforge uttam@brainforge.ai
- Amber Siru Lin from Brainforge ambersiru.lin@brainforge.ai
- Gregory Stoutenburg from Brainforge gregory.stoutenburg@brainforge.ai
- Jasmin Multani jasmin.multani@brainforge.ai
Project Documentation Standards
- Working on two key standardization documents
- New team member onboarding for existing clients
- Focus on stakeholder identification and communication patterns
- Less about technical setup, more about relationship dynamics
- Work stream charter standards for project planning
- Defines milestones, deliverables, and client expectations
- Addresses current gaps in project scoping and architecture feedback
- New team member onboarding for existing clients
Element AI Project Issues
- Current challenges with project execution
- Greg delayed on implementation plan before going out of office
- Amber working on e-commerce scope that’s not approved
- Client-facing dashboards contain unpolished work with formatting issues
- Client relationship risks
- Shivani (main stakeholder) has high attention to detail expectations
- Team in middle of renewal process
- Dashboards showing decimal numbers instead of rounded figures
- Work marked as “in development” but still accessible to client
Team Coordination Problems
- Communication breakdown between service lead and CSO roles
- Greg (service lead) responsible for technical execution and effort estimation
- Uttam (CSO) owns client relationship and outcome delivery
- Missing regular check-ins between Greg and Amber
- Proposed solutions
- Explicit “work in progress” labeling on all development dashboards
- Weekly progress documentation filled out Tuesday/Wednesday
- Regular cadence meetings between team members
Data Platform Progress Update
- Major wins on data accuracy
- Found Equals was overstating metrics in their SQL queries
- Brainforge models now more accurate than existing client tools
- Lauren and Ryan now involved in data validation process
- Dashboard completion status
- ARR dashboard: First version complete, matches Equals functionality
- Financial summary dashboard: Done, ready for Laura’s access
- Customer reporting enablement: In progress, models built
- Data modeling infrastructure
- 50-60% of work completed in backend modeling
- All marts running daily in MotherDuck
- Models organized by business area (GTM, Finance, Product, etc.)
Next Steps
- Schedule 15-minute dashboard review calls
- Laura and Ryan for finance/ARR dashboards (Monday proposed)
- Include Caitlyn as observer for context
- Victor connection needed for Supabase read-only access
- Weekly Blobby usage analysis to start
- Lab’s outbound dashboard requirements to be prioritized after current sprint