Meeting Title: Brainforge New Hire Orientation Date: 2026-03-30 Meeting participants: Kaela Gallagher, iPhone, Ruixi Wen
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1 00:01:12.950 ⇒ 00:01:14.640 iPhone: Hi, Cowell.
2 00:01:15.670 ⇒ 00:01:17.530 Kaela Gallagher: Hey, how’s it going?
3 00:01:17.530 ⇒ 00:01:19.620 iPhone: Hi, hi, it’s been good.
4 00:01:19.620 ⇒ 00:01:27.090 Kaela Gallagher: Good! Thanks for, hopping on and joining me for an orientation. Happy first day!
5 00:01:27.090 ⇒ 00:01:30.719 iPhone: Yeah, yeah, of course. Thank you so much for hosting this. This is amazing.
6 00:01:30.720 ⇒ 00:01:33.670 Kaela Gallagher: Of course, of course, yeah, I can walk you through…
7 00:01:33.850 ⇒ 00:01:43.309 Kaela Gallagher: kind of like an intro to Brainforge, and just, help ensure that you have, like, access to everything that you’ll… you’ll need.
8 00:01:43.310 ⇒ 00:01:55.499 Kaela Gallagher: I noticed you had, like, logged on last week, and I’m sure you started, like, looking around at some stuff, but yeah, if you have any questions at all, like, during the presentation, feel free to stop me and ask, and
9 00:01:55.720 ⇒ 00:01:59.720 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, excited to get started, so I’ll share my screen.
10 00:01:59.720 ⇒ 00:02:01.200 iPhone: He sounds amazing, yeah.
11 00:02:01.480 ⇒ 00:02:02.230 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
12 00:02:03.480 ⇒ 00:02:21.489 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, awesome. So yeah, welcome, welcome to Brainforge. So just to get started, we’ll introduce you, kind of, to our mission, our culture, our values, help you understand, like, tools, and just ensure that you’re set up for success.
13 00:02:21.690 ⇒ 00:02:33.779 Kaela Gallagher: So our mission as Brainforge, we help businesses turn chaos into clarity, and use data and AI to drive faster and smarter decisions. So that’s our mission statement.
14 00:02:33.910 ⇒ 00:02:47.059 Kaela Gallagher: Our vision, we believe that everybody eats, so success is shared and we grow together. We also operate like giants, so we like to think big and execute with excellence.
15 00:02:47.460 ⇒ 00:02:58.459 Kaela Gallagher: And then we also like to give back and pay forward, so creating impact beyond the business, and, you know, internally, like, sharing knowledge, opportunities, and values with each other.
16 00:02:59.770 ⇒ 00:03:00.830 iPhone: Awesome.
17 00:03:01.180 ⇒ 00:03:20.469 Kaela Gallagher: In terms of what we do, so our delivery team has 3, kind of, main service lines. So, one is, the data side, data platform and analytics, one is, you know, AI automation, and, the last one is called strategy and analytics.
18 00:03:20.470 ⇒ 00:03:31.489 Kaela Gallagher: partnering with… with our clients in those ways. We’re also looking into, like, building out kind of a training and enablement, delivery arm as well.
19 00:03:31.920 ⇒ 00:03:43.410 Kaela Gallagher: So those are the main, kind of, segments of our delivery team. I know you’re going to be starting on our internal platform, but helpful to know, in case you start any client-facing work.
20 00:03:44.240 ⇒ 00:03:46.140 iPhone: Okay, awesome, awesome, yeah.
21 00:03:46.600 ⇒ 00:03:47.290 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
22 00:03:47.670 ⇒ 00:04:07.010 Kaela Gallagher: And then who we serve, a lot of our partners are, like, directors and heads of, you know, data and analytics at companies. These are our target industries, so we have a lot of e-com and CPG brands as clients. I’m not sure if you’ve, like.
23 00:04:07.140 ⇒ 00:04:22.460 Kaela Gallagher: looked at any of our documentation yet, but, like, Element is a really popular brand that’s in, you know, Target and Walmart. Magic Spoon is, like, a cereal company that we work with, so a lot kind of in the e-com and CPG space.
24 00:04:22.460 ⇒ 00:04:28.159 Kaela Gallagher: But we have other, other clients as well, and I’m always looking to grow, of course.
25 00:04:29.430 ⇒ 00:04:35.289 Kaela Gallagher: So that’s an overview there. Oh, and most of our clients are, like, small to mid-sized companies as well.
26 00:04:36.200 ⇒ 00:04:39.490 iPhone: Awesome. Yeah, I saw, like, Insomniac Cookie.
27 00:04:39.490 ⇒ 00:04:47.180 Kaela Gallagher: It is so… Yeah, cool. And then, in terms of just some, like.
28 00:04:47.400 ⇒ 00:04:55.080 Kaela Gallagher: lingo that we use, OKRs, objective and key results, so, you know, these will be outlined for you.
29 00:05:03.990 ⇒ 00:05:05.030 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, sorry.
30 00:05:05.130 ⇒ 00:05:05.840 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, I agree.
31 00:05:05.840 ⇒ 00:05:07.499 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, can you hear me okay?
32 00:05:07.690 ⇒ 00:05:08.469 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
33 00:05:08.470 ⇒ 00:05:10.400 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, perfect. Awesome.
34 00:05:10.550 ⇒ 00:05:15.649 Kaela Gallagher: And then AORs, we outline these areas of responsibility for each person.
35 00:05:15.650 ⇒ 00:05:31.040 Kaela Gallagher: Another thing to note is, writing first, so, like, we always try to come to meetings with agendas, and in general, we focus on kind of asynchronous work, so, we’re only calling meetings, like, when necessary.
36 00:05:31.040 ⇒ 00:05:35.640 Kaela Gallagher: For those meetings, camera on is important,
37 00:05:35.950 ⇒ 00:05:48.469 Kaela Gallagher: And then, yeah, we like to… we like to fail fast, and we have a culture of being blameless, so you’ll notice, like, our CEOs, Robert and Utam, like, they’ll even say, like, okay, if we…
38 00:05:48.470 ⇒ 00:05:57.949 Kaela Gallagher: if we, you know, didn’t meet a goal on something, like, that’s on… that’s on us as CEOs. Like, they… it’s really like a culture of, you know, learning together, so…
39 00:05:58.900 ⇒ 00:06:00.810 Kaela Gallagher: That’s exciting.
40 00:06:01.390 ⇒ 00:06:11.199 Kaela Gallagher: Going into some logistics here, so our payment schedule is on a net 30 cycle, which I know was mentioned in your contract, but just to go over what that means.
41 00:06:11.430 ⇒ 00:06:19.409 Kaela Gallagher: Basically, the full payment for your monthly invoice will be due within 30 days. So, for example, like.
42 00:06:19.530 ⇒ 00:06:27.710 Kaela Gallagher: payment for the month of March will come at the end of April. And payment for the month of April will come at the end of May.
43 00:06:27.860 ⇒ 00:06:41.010 Kaela Gallagher: So that’s how our payment cycle is structured. If you have any questions, we do have a finance, email here that you can reach out to, but, any questions about payments at all?
44 00:06:41.290 ⇒ 00:06:43.779 Ruixi Wen: No, yeah, that sounds good, yeah.
45 00:06:43.950 ⇒ 00:06:46.150 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, perfect.
46 00:06:46.670 ⇒ 00:06:52.899 Kaela Gallagher: So, moving into Clockify, Clockify is the tool that we use to track hours.
47 00:06:53.060 ⇒ 00:07:02.300 Kaela Gallagher: So there’s a few different ways that you can… you can track your hours. You can do a timesheet where you enter your hours manually.
48 00:07:02.500 ⇒ 00:07:10.819 Kaela Gallagher: You can do a time tracker where you go in and you press start. Say you’re just, like, working heads down on something, and you’re just like, okay, start and stop.
49 00:07:11.120 ⇒ 00:07:20.150 Kaela Gallagher: Or you can import from your calendar. So if you keep your calendar, like, super up-to-date, it might just be easiest to import that into Clockify.
50 00:07:20.450 ⇒ 00:07:23.609 Kaela Gallagher: This is what Clockify looks like.
51 00:07:23.790 ⇒ 00:07:40.610 Kaela Gallagher: So, it’s really important that you do not create your own projects. You should be selecting projects here that already exist. So, for example, the ones that I use the most are going to be, you know, like, one-on-ones, people ops, recruitment, but then we have
52 00:07:41.200 ⇒ 00:07:53.350 Kaela Gallagher: other tasks here, you know, sales, stand-ups, and then, like, our clients as well, to make sure that we’re billing hours to clients. So, feel free to, like, look through those
53 00:07:53.490 ⇒ 00:07:56.730 Kaela Gallagher: projects later, but this is kind of what Clockify
54 00:07:56.850 ⇒ 00:08:00.119 Kaela Gallagher: looks like in general. Were you able to log into this yet?
55 00:08:00.440 ⇒ 00:08:16.040 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, both are logging. Yeah, I haven’t really tried this tool yet, but a quick question, you said, like, if the calendar’s up to date, it can just, like, get imported, but does it mean, like, for example, in my calendar, like, my time block, I should,
56 00:08:16.690 ⇒ 00:08:19.630 Ruixi Wen: I should, like, select the same project name.
57 00:08:19.750 ⇒ 00:08:25.260 Ruixi Wen: As it is, or how does it work? Like, can you go from, like, a Google Calendar? What…
58 00:08:25.360 ⇒ 00:08:28.790 Ruixi Wen: Or, this is just, Underways and clockified.
59 00:08:29.390 ⇒ 00:08:34.659 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, so I believe you can sync… your…
60 00:08:35.070 ⇒ 00:08:52.120 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, interesting. Okay, this was, I think, my week last week. You can sync your Google Calendar… sorry, Google Calendar to it. I don’t think I have mine synced yet, which is why this week is showing blank.
61 00:08:52.120 ⇒ 00:08:52.530 Ruixi Wen: Oh, boy.
62 00:08:52.530 ⇒ 00:08:59.380 Kaela Gallagher: But yes, I believe you should be able to sync… your calendar.
63 00:08:59.760 ⇒ 00:09:08.400 Kaela Gallagher: And then I’m not sure, actually, like, how you should label things in order for it to transfer over. So I can look into that, and
64 00:09:08.640 ⇒ 00:09:25.210 Kaela Gallagher: Rico actually manages, like, all of our hours, so he might know as well. If you’re messing around with this later, and you’re having any struggles, we put you in, like, the Ask New Hires channel on Slack, so feel free to just drop a question there if you have any.
65 00:09:25.710 ⇒ 00:09:28.360 Kaela Gallagher: Any, like, lingering questions once you take a look?
66 00:09:28.690 ⇒ 00:09:30.220 Ruixi Wen: Okay, okay, awesome.
67 00:09:30.220 ⇒ 00:09:31.440 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, cool.
68 00:09:32.460 ⇒ 00:09:37.800 Ruixi Wen: And are we expected to update that on a daily basis or a weekly basis?
69 00:09:38.520 ⇒ 00:09:56.209 Kaela Gallagher: I recommend doing it on a daily basis, like, just at the end of your day, being in that routine. There’ll be, like, a little Slack message that gets sent out every day, too, just to remind you. But, like, the true deadline is end of day on Fridays, to have the week, like, completed, basically.
70 00:09:56.480 ⇒ 00:09:57.670 Ruixi Wen: Gotcha.
71 00:09:57.670 ⇒ 00:10:01.420 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. Awesome!
72 00:10:01.710 ⇒ 00:10:08.759 Kaela Gallagher: Let’s see… okay, yeah, record them daily, and then don’t create your own projects. Friday end of day is the true deadline.
73 00:10:09.170 ⇒ 00:10:10.180 Kaela Gallagher: Perfect.
74 00:10:11.940 ⇒ 00:10:13.690 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
75 00:10:13.940 ⇒ 00:10:21.420 Kaela Gallagher: And then, yeah, feel free to, like, update your LinkedIn. We have a LinkedIn page we would appreciate if you follow. We do post…
76 00:10:21.860 ⇒ 00:10:46.079 Kaela Gallagher: various things on there, but very important to me is we post some, like, recruiting, items and, like, our open roles, and it really helps if, like, our current employees are just interacting, thumbs up, or a little comment, just helps with, like, the visibility of getting our roles out there. So yeah, feel free to follow us, you can update your company information, and then if you want, like, a background
77 00:10:46.170 ⇒ 00:10:49.329 Kaela Gallagher: Like, a banner like this, for example.
78 00:10:49.560 ⇒ 00:10:53.449 Kaela Gallagher: Our marketing team can help with, like, any,
79 00:10:53.910 ⇒ 00:11:02.349 Kaela Gallagher: graphics that you might need, or if you want to make a post saying you started here and you want, like, a little graphic, like, marketing team can totally help out with that.
80 00:11:02.550 ⇒ 00:11:04.420 Ruixi Wen: Okay, awesome, yeah.
81 00:11:04.420 ⇒ 00:11:05.040 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
82 00:11:06.040 ⇒ 00:11:08.290 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome, and then we do have…
83 00:11:08.520 ⇒ 00:11:19.389 Kaela Gallagher: Friday team meetings, so this is bi-weekly, Friday mornings, I think 10 a.m. I can add you to the invite. Let me drop that down, actually.
84 00:11:21.670 ⇒ 00:11:38.780 Kaela Gallagher: But the way it works is every Friday we have a different, like, host to kind of keep things interesting, so they’ll, like, do a little icebreaker, they’ll run us through, like, what we call a lab share, which can be something about themselves, or, like, teaching us about something that they’re, like, really knowledgeable in.
85 00:11:39.120 ⇒ 00:11:54.910 Kaela Gallagher: And then we’ll go through, like, department updates, and maybe, like, some demos, and then some shoutouts. So, this is always a really fun meeting, I think. And, I always learn a lot, especially from, like, our technical team in these, so…
86 00:11:54.950 ⇒ 00:12:00.669 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, camera on as per all our meetings. Any questions about this?
87 00:12:01.510 ⇒ 00:12:07.030 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, yeah, like, what is, like, the spring… recent Spring Forge ritual about?
88 00:12:09.720 ⇒ 00:12:13.190 Kaela Gallagher: Th- oh, this is a link to…
89 00:12:13.390 ⇒ 00:12:25.260 Kaela Gallagher: like, a recent meeting that we had, if you wanted to, take a look, but I can also show you how to find it in our platform in a second as well.
90 00:12:25.460 ⇒ 00:12:27.640 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, I’m super curious about this.
91 00:12:27.640 ⇒ 00:12:29.209 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, cool.
92 00:12:30.040 ⇒ 00:12:34.729 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yeah, so going into each of our…
93 00:12:34.850 ⇒ 00:12:50.779 Kaela Gallagher: tools. This is kind of, like, our overview of our tech stack, so obviously we’re using Slack for communication. Notion is, like, really kind of the hub of all of our information, all of our standard processes and documentation.
94 00:12:51.210 ⇒ 00:12:54.270 Kaela Gallagher: Clockify, we just went through, so for your hours…
95 00:12:54.650 ⇒ 00:13:07.089 Kaela Gallagher: Linear is what we’re using for project management, so similar to, like, a Jira or an MS project, for example. 1password has all of our,
96 00:13:07.090 ⇒ 00:13:19.620 Kaela Gallagher: secure password management. RAMP, if you haven’t received an email from finance already regarding RAMP, that’s where you’re going to register as a vendor, and that’s how we’re going to be able to pay you.
97 00:13:20.320 ⇒ 00:13:36.359 Kaela Gallagher: Cursor is our main AI tool that we’re using, and I know, Bryel put time on your calendar, but he’ll walk you through that. And then we have our Brainforge platform, which is our internal tool, which you are going to be helping, product manage.
98 00:13:36.410 ⇒ 00:13:42.810 Kaela Gallagher: So this is kind of an overview of our stack. So you were able to get into Notion, right?
99 00:13:43.610 ⇒ 00:13:44.410 Ruixi Wen: Yes, yes.
100 00:13:44.410 ⇒ 00:13:50.299 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, cool. And then cursor, B will help you get that set up shortly.
101 00:13:50.830 ⇒ 00:13:51.910 Ruixi Wen: Awesome, yeah.
102 00:13:52.080 ⇒ 00:14:09.129 Kaela Gallagher: Slack, I know you’re already on that. I would say for Slack, like, best practice is if, you know, you’re out of office, or you’re stepping away for lunch, or, you know, whatever it might be, like, try to just keep your Slack status up to date. It’s very helpful because
103 00:14:09.130 ⇒ 00:14:16.050 Kaela Gallagher: We’re working, like, asynchronously, mostly through that tool, so helpful to just have that,
104 00:14:16.670 ⇒ 00:14:20.599 Kaela Gallagher: accurate, and here, I already mentioned.
105 00:14:20.860 ⇒ 00:14:24.559 Kaela Gallagher: Were you able to access Linear yet?
106 00:14:24.860 ⇒ 00:14:26.420 Ruixi Wen: Yes, I am able to, yeah.
107 00:14:26.420 ⇒ 00:14:27.280 Kaela Gallagher: Perfect.
108 00:14:27.530 ⇒ 00:14:28.360 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
109 00:14:28.890 ⇒ 00:14:42.429 Kaela Gallagher: So, the Brainforge platform, when you hear people talk about the Brainforge platform, they could be referencing two things. One thing they could be referencing is, like, our GitHub repo and all of our…
110 00:14:44.050 ⇒ 00:14:49.740 Kaela Gallagher: information that lives there. The other thing that they might be mentioning is our…
111 00:14:50.090 ⇒ 00:14:57.539 Kaela Gallagher: web platform. So, if you haven’t accessed this yet, it’s platform.brainforge.ai.
112 00:14:58.080 ⇒ 00:15:02.499 Kaela Gallagher: And… it’s a super cool tool. On your dashboard.
113 00:15:02.780 ⇒ 00:15:09.480 Kaela Gallagher: you’re going to find all of your previous meetings. So,
114 00:15:09.590 ⇒ 00:15:27.400 Kaela Gallagher: for example, okay, here’s me and be meeting, and I can click into it, I can see the recording, I can see a full transcript, I can see a summary with all my action items, I can ask this, like, AI tool over here to
115 00:15:27.570 ⇒ 00:15:32.360 Kaela Gallagher: you know, build me a to-do list from it, or something like that. So…
116 00:15:32.660 ⇒ 00:15:47.180 Kaela Gallagher: creating a Slack summary, creating an email summary, like, you can create linear tickets from this, meeting here. So you can really do a lot, just accessing your meetings here through the dashboard.
117 00:15:47.970 ⇒ 00:15:59.679 Kaela Gallagher: You can see all, like, the participants, too, so let’s say I wanted to go find a call, like, with you from 2 weeks ago, like, I could type in your name and find that.
118 00:16:00.050 ⇒ 00:16:11.499 Kaela Gallagher: Search by date, you can search by client, so you can see client information. So that’s, like, the dashboard in general, but there’s also, like.
119 00:16:11.880 ⇒ 00:16:29.179 Kaela Gallagher: So, okay, so there’s client section, there’s different agents that are built out, like, one can create SOWs, or one can, be an executive strategy coach. So we have that. Just, like, a lot of cool tools I think are worth, like.
120 00:16:29.250 ⇒ 00:16:35.340 Kaela Gallagher: playing around with here. So, if you haven’t, taken a look in there yet, super cool.
121 00:16:35.860 ⇒ 00:16:45.010 Ruixi Wen: Oh, wow, this is… this looks really amazing, especially the meeting organization part, that… that looks really insane, yeah.
122 00:16:45.010 ⇒ 00:17:00.119 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, I’m obviously not doing anything super technical, but, like, just the meeting portion is really what I use the most, and it’s so insanely helpful, so… especially, like, after doing an interview, or, you know, things like that. So, so useful.
123 00:17:02.190 ⇒ 00:17:09.899 Ruixi Wen: Just a quick question, like, I am not sure if I have been, like… I received that email. I’m not… what does, like, this…
124 00:17:10.010 ⇒ 00:17:12.599 Ruixi Wen: Bringford Platform email looks like now.
125 00:17:12.939 ⇒ 00:17:21.819 Kaela Gallagher: I don’t think it’s going to come through email. Can you just try accessing this website.
126 00:17:22.000 ⇒ 00:17:23.619 Ruixi Wen: Oh, okay, cool.
127 00:17:24.109 ⇒ 00:17:29.859 Ruixi Wen: in the login info, like, it’s just my, company, like, Google info, is that the case?
128 00:17:30.150 ⇒ 00:17:36.250 Kaela Gallagher: it should be… actually, I don’t even know if it’ll request login information.
129 00:17:36.930 ⇒ 00:17:38.370 Ruixi Wen: Oh, okay.
130 00:17:43.220 ⇒ 00:17:44.520 Ruixi Wen: Let me try…
131 00:17:48.520 ⇒ 00:17:51.799 Ruixi Wen: Oh, yeah, I need, I need to sign… sign, yeah.
132 00:17:52.140 ⇒ 00:17:52.970 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
133 00:17:53.470 ⇒ 00:17:57.239 Kaela Gallagher: Does it have a Google sign-in where you can put in your Brainforge information?
134 00:17:57.240 ⇒ 00:17:57.940 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, that’s.
135 00:17:57.940 ⇒ 00:17:58.580 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
136 00:17:58.690 ⇒ 00:17:59.560 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
137 00:17:59.760 ⇒ 00:18:01.020 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, perfect.
138 00:18:01.300 ⇒ 00:18:12.810 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. So yeah, I would say definitely, like, take some time to look through that today. That’ll be, like, one of the tools that you’re, working with as well, so…
139 00:18:13.720 ⇒ 00:18:16.629 Kaela Gallagher: Excited to see what you do with it.
140 00:18:16.630 ⇒ 00:18:17.729 Ruixi Wen: Super cool, yeah.
141 00:18:17.950 ⇒ 00:18:18.680 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome.
142 00:18:19.530 ⇒ 00:18:20.540 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
143 00:18:23.040 ⇒ 00:18:32.180 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, so if you… if you’re going through, like, orientation and setup and everything, and realizing you might need access to other things,
144 00:18:32.180 ⇒ 00:18:46.130 Kaela Gallagher: Feel free to let us know. You can always ask any questions in the Ask New Hires channel on Slack. If you need to request access to a tool, we have, like, a linear integration into Slack.
145 00:18:46.130 ⇒ 00:18:51.879 Kaela Gallagher: And you can just create, it’s called, like, New Tool Request or something.
146 00:18:52.120 ⇒ 00:18:55.579 Kaela Gallagher: Where you can create a request for whatever you’re missing.
147 00:18:56.320 ⇒ 00:19:02.210 Kaela Gallagher: And then, in terms of, like, your…
148 00:19:02.390 ⇒ 00:19:15.189 Kaela Gallagher: first day, I know you have the onboarding guide, so this is probably just repeating a lot of what you have in front of you. But we also made a ramp-up plan for you that goes over, kind of, what your 30, 60, 90 would look like.
149 00:19:15.290 ⇒ 00:19:30.809 Kaela Gallagher: So I shared that with you via Notion, and you and Utam will go through that, like, a little bit further this afternoon, and he actually, like, has a whole roadmap built out for all of the, internal tooling, so…
150 00:19:30.960 ⇒ 00:19:35.220 Kaela Gallagher: He’ll go over that with you this afternoon and kind of dive in a little bit deeper.
151 00:19:36.650 ⇒ 00:19:38.170 Ruixi Wen: Okay, yeah.
152 00:19:38.360 ⇒ 00:19:46.010 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. I think that’s all I have for you for now. Any questions?
153 00:19:46.180 ⇒ 00:19:48.130 Kaela Gallagher: I know that was a lot of information.
154 00:19:48.620 ⇒ 00:20:03.340 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that’s, like, super helpful, I think, on those infrastructure and the tools that I need to be, like, looped into. Quick questions about the Zoom access one? Like, could you go back to that page again? What is that about the UMAC? Do I… does that mean something?
155 00:20:03.340 ⇒ 00:20:03.870 Kaela Gallagher: Yes.
156 00:20:03.870 ⇒ 00:20:10.220 Ruixi Wen: But for me to, like, sign in Zoom with my Bring Forge, what does that mean exactly?
157 00:20:10.250 ⇒ 00:20:20.650 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, so for Zoom, we can issue, like, I guess, more premium accounts to, like, our strategy team members, or team members that might need it.
158 00:20:20.650 ⇒ 00:20:34.920 Kaela Gallagher: But otherwise, like, everybody can just log into Zoom with their Brainforge login, and you should be totally fine, like, it’ll connect to the platform and record your meetings for you. I don’t think you’ll need any, like, crazy upgraded version of it, but…
159 00:20:34.920 ⇒ 00:20:36.289 Kaela Gallagher: If you do, let us know.
160 00:20:36.620 ⇒ 00:20:38.340 Ruixi Wen: Gotcha, gotcha. Okay, cool.
161 00:20:38.530 ⇒ 00:20:39.190 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
162 00:20:39.870 ⇒ 00:20:46.080 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome. Any other questions for me? Anything I can help with at all?
163 00:20:49.060 ⇒ 00:21:03.459 Ruixi Wen: Not really, yeah, I think, like, yeah, I’m very curious about, like, using, like, cursor and linear in work, and I think, like, for our personalized, like, logging and those stuff, like, I think it’s, like, pretty clear to me, yeah.
164 00:21:03.460 ⇒ 00:21:07.380 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, cool. When is your meeting with, Bryel?
165 00:21:08.040 ⇒ 00:21:10.999 Ruixi Wen: I think, like, a new one sometime.
166 00:21:11.000 ⇒ 00:21:15.010 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, it’s today! Okay, awesome. So you’ll get that set up super quickly, too.
167 00:21:15.010 ⇒ 00:21:16.659 Ruixi Wen: I think so, yeah.
168 00:21:16.660 ⇒ 00:21:28.399 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, great. And I would say, like, on your call with Usam, too, like, he’s gonna be the main person you’re partnering with most closely, and he’s gonna be kind of, like, guiding your experience, so feel free to just…
169 00:21:28.520 ⇒ 00:21:44.509 Kaela Gallagher: you know, ask for, like, expectations to be set really clearly, and you know, I know you’re with us part-time, so you can ask about, like, when he expects you to be online, and kind of your hours moving forward, like, he’ll… he’ll guide you through all that.
170 00:21:44.790 ⇒ 00:22:00.939 Ruixi Wen: Got you, got you. And, will he be, like, my, kind of, like, my supervisor and be the one who gave me, like, performance review directly, or how does it work? Where does, like, work with, like, oh, like, Pranav or someone on the team working with me would also give me, like, a review together?
171 00:22:01.100 ⇒ 00:22:11.359 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, I would say Utam is probably going to be the one you’re working with most closely, especially in, like, a manager capacity.
172 00:22:11.360 ⇒ 00:22:24.729 Kaela Gallagher: So, yeah, I would say him. Pranav is there, to be, like, a buddy to you, so he’s not going to be, like, a manager or supervisor in any way. Like, we have a Brainforge buddy program.
173 00:22:24.760 ⇒ 00:22:38.579 Kaela Gallagher: And so, he’s just there if you have any, like, random questions, or, you know, curious about any, like, cultural things about BrainForge, or if you’re like, oh my gosh, like, this Friday meeting just got put on my calendar, like.
174 00:22:38.820 ⇒ 00:22:44.610 Kaela Gallagher: what is it? Like, what am I going into? Do I need to have anything ready? Like, those would be great questions for… for Pranov.
175 00:22:45.050 ⇒ 00:22:46.340 Ruixi Wen: Oh, true, gotcha, okay.
176 00:22:46.740 ⇒ 00:22:47.670 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah.
177 00:22:47.900 ⇒ 00:22:57.389 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. And he’ll do, like, a couple touch points with you over your first few weeks, and then, you can Slack him however much you need outside of that.
178 00:22:57.390 ⇒ 00:23:00.860 Ruixi Wen: Okay, okay, awesome. Thank you so much, Ella, this is really helpful.
179 00:23:00.860 ⇒ 00:23:19.069 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, of course, of course, yeah. If you need anything at all, let us know. You are probably, like, my third person that I’ve onboarded since I’ve started, so this is kind of new to me as well, so if you have any feedback about, like, your onboarding experience or anything like that,
180 00:23:19.070 ⇒ 00:23:24.109 Kaela Gallagher: I’d be happy to hear it and improve our process for future team members.
181 00:23:24.580 ⇒ 00:23:29.830 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, I think Silver, like, it seems, like, really, really well organized to me and clear to me.
182 00:23:29.830 ⇒ 00:23:30.260 Kaela Gallagher: Yay!
183 00:23:30.260 ⇒ 00:23:35.310 Ruixi Wen: Yeah, I’ll let you know if I feel like, oh, there could be something, like, freeing from it, but so far, I feel, like, really great about it.
184 00:23:35.310 ⇒ 00:23:43.310 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, awesome! Well, I’m excited for you to get started, excited to have you on the team, and yeah, just let me know if you need anything.
185 00:23:43.310 ⇒ 00:23:44.850 Ruixi Wen: Okay, thank you so much, Cal.
186 00:23:44.970 ⇒ 00:23:47.569 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, of course! Thanks, Miranda! Have a good one.
187 00:23:47.810 ⇒ 00:23:48.690 Ruixi Wen: Decent.
188 00:23:48.690 ⇒ 00:23:49.920 Kaela Gallagher: Alrighty, bye.