Meeting Title: Brainforge Team Introduction Date: 2026-03-31 Meeting participants: Mustafa Raja, Kaela Gallagher
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1 00:02:09.289 ⇒ 00:02:10.970 Kaela Gallagher: Hey, how’s it going?
2 00:02:14.770 ⇒ 00:02:16.620 Mustafa Raja: Hey, how are you? I’m good.
3 00:02:17.050 ⇒ 00:02:20.760 Kaela Gallagher: Good! Thanks for taking the time to meet with me.
4 00:02:21.020 ⇒ 00:02:27.979 Mustafa Raja: Sorry for not properly following up. You were very diligent on this.
5 00:02:29.070 ⇒ 00:02:32.640 Mustafa Raja: I was just, busy with some, client work.
6 00:02:32.860 ⇒ 00:02:34.410 Mustafa Raja: So, yeah, finally got to…
7 00:02:35.410 ⇒ 00:02:41.740 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, no worries at all. Yeah, again, like, really appreciate you taking the time for me.
8 00:02:41.790 ⇒ 00:02:58.590 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, I joined Brainforge about a month ago to run, like, our people and recruiting efforts, and so, just really wanted to make a point to meet everybody on the team and kind of get to know a little bit more about everybody, and
9 00:02:58.680 ⇒ 00:03:02.989 Kaela Gallagher: I’ve heard, like, a lot of great things about you. I feel like you are always getting…
10 00:03:03.010 ⇒ 00:03:04.380 Mustafa Raja: Thank you. Shoutouts on…
11 00:03:04.380 ⇒ 00:03:08.619 Kaela Gallagher: Slack and stuff, so yeah, excited to chat. Yeah.
12 00:03:08.890 ⇒ 00:03:13.689 Mustafa Raja: So, how has BringForge been to you, so far?
13 00:03:14.030 ⇒ 00:03:17.290 Kaela Gallagher: So, like, so good, honestly, yeah, I’m really…
14 00:03:18.000 ⇒ 00:03:32.310 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, I like the culture here. Everyone is… everyone is so helpful and appreciative, and yeah, I don’t think that, any other company might have the same culture that we have right now here. So I love… I love breakboards for this.
15 00:03:32.890 ⇒ 00:03:41.620 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, I agree, like, not only is everybody just super helpful, but, I think everybody’s just, like, brilliant, like, so smart.
16 00:03:41.620 ⇒ 00:03:41.950 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
17 00:03:41.950 ⇒ 00:03:52.030 Kaela Gallagher: And I’m, like, learning new things every day, so that’s really, really exciting. So yeah, it’s been… it’s been really good. How long have you been with Brainforge now?
18 00:03:52.170 ⇒ 00:04:01.360 Mustafa Raja: I think… yeah, it’s going to be a year in May, so about, 10, 10, 11 months, I believe.
19 00:04:01.980 ⇒ 00:04:09.809 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, exciting, awesome. And, like, what’s… I guess, can you tell me, like, a little bit more about your role, and maybe your.
20 00:04:09.810 ⇒ 00:04:23.609 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so, yeah, yeah. So, I joined as an AI engineer, and, I mostly worked on AI stuff, building internal platform. Have you used internal platform?
21 00:04:24.450 ⇒ 00:04:38.569 Kaela Gallagher: I have, but I will say, like, I’ve only used it at a very basic level, just, like, to go back to my meetings and see the summaries and such, so maybe if we have extra time at the end, would love for you to show me, like, some more features.
22 00:04:38.570 ⇒ 00:04:52.239 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, I believe we, we will be, launching a program where we will be showing off or training, people on how they can use the platform, to, be more AI-enabled.
23 00:04:52.240 ⇒ 00:04:52.620 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah.
24 00:04:52.620 ⇒ 00:05:02.459 Mustafa Raja: their workflows. So, we have that program, we, so we will dig deeper, into that. And apart from that, I work,
25 00:05:02.980 ⇒ 00:05:12.689 Mustafa Raja: I worked on… initially, I worked on, two of our, AI clients. One was, Interlude, and the other one is ABC.
26 00:05:14.830 ⇒ 00:05:24.849 Mustafa Raja: And then later on, I started, getting interested in data work, so I now jumped from AI and data.
27 00:05:26.040 ⇒ 00:05:29.129 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, and who’s your current clients that you’re working with now?
28 00:05:29.540 ⇒ 00:05:34.290 Mustafa Raja: It’s ABC, and Default, and Eden.
29 00:05:34.930 ⇒ 00:05:42.049 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, wow, yeah, so you have a lot on your plate, like, doing the internal stuff and working with 3 clients.
30 00:05:42.050 ⇒ 00:05:53.859 Mustafa Raja: Internal, internal now is, only on Monday. We… me and Utam has a working session, every Monday, and we work on, something for internal teams.
31 00:05:54.410 ⇒ 00:06:03.530 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, cool. That’s awesome you guys have that structure. What’s, like, on the horizon for the internal platform that you’re really excited about?
32 00:06:03.840 ⇒ 00:06:08.740 Mustafa Raja: So we are going to, so we are moving… have you used cursor?
33 00:06:09.250 ⇒ 00:06:09.940 Kaela Gallagher: Yes.
34 00:06:10.140 ⇒ 00:06:22.050 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so we are planning to move off of that. It’s only because we do not get the logs on how people are using it.
35 00:06:22.410 ⇒ 00:06:32.619 Mustafa Raja: And if we have that data, we can, improve people, about how they can, use it more efficiently for sales and.
36 00:06:33.140 ⇒ 00:06:39.419 Mustafa Raja: some other stuff, right? So, we are building, an open source platform.
37 00:06:39.480 ⇒ 00:06:53.899 Mustafa Raja: That is going to be able to, do all… do all of the same things that Cursor does, but also, send back… send us data back on how people are using it. So we can monitor and correct if anyone is…
38 00:06:54.330 ⇒ 00:06:56.550 Mustafa Raja: Not using it correctly.
39 00:06:57.310 ⇒ 00:06:58.480 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
40 00:06:58.480 ⇒ 00:07:00.380 Mustafa Raja: Okay. I’m, excited about.
41 00:07:00.930 ⇒ 00:07:10.169 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, that’s… that’s really cool. Yay, amazing. I guess just, like, a little bit more about you personally, where are you currently based?
42 00:07:10.530 ⇒ 00:07:13.320 Mustafa Raja: I am based in Pakistan. Yeah.
43 00:07:13.320 ⇒ 00:07:15.779 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, got it. Are you…
44 00:07:15.780 ⇒ 00:07:17.040 Mustafa Raja: my first job.
45 00:07:17.860 ⇒ 00:07:22.880 Kaela Gallagher: Oh my gosh, okay, awesome! Are you near Awash at all?
46 00:07:23.330 ⇒ 00:07:31.429 Mustafa Raja: No, we are in different corners of the country. Okay. I wish we were at least in the same city. We could meet, but…
47 00:07:32.830 ⇒ 00:07:39.790 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, I’m, I’m based in LA, and so… Amber is here.
48 00:07:39.790 ⇒ 00:07:42.069 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I see, I see any team needs.
49 00:07:42.490 ⇒ 00:07:49.310 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, Jarrell and Jasmine, and yeah, we have, like, a good, squad that gets together, so it’s fun.
50 00:07:49.310 ⇒ 00:07:50.010 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
51 00:07:50.720 ⇒ 00:07:52.000 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, that looks fine.
52 00:07:52.310 ⇒ 00:07:57.829 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Pakistan, and you’ve lived there your entire life?
53 00:07:58.040 ⇒ 00:07:58.770 Mustafa Raja: Yes.
54 00:07:59.100 ⇒ 00:07:59.680 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
55 00:07:59.680 ⇒ 00:08:00.250 Mustafa Raja: It’s been…
56 00:08:00.920 ⇒ 00:08:06.459 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. What do you… Enjoy doing outside of work.
57 00:08:07.360 ⇒ 00:08:11.359 Mustafa Raja: I love binge-watching movies and shows.
58 00:08:12.100 ⇒ 00:08:15.590 Mustafa Raja: Although I haven’t been able to do that recently.
59 00:08:15.690 ⇒ 00:08:19.280 Mustafa Raja: But yeah, at some point I did.
60 00:08:19.500 ⇒ 00:08:20.020 Mustafa Raja: do that.
61 00:08:20.020 ⇒ 00:08:20.470 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
62 00:08:21.810 ⇒ 00:08:24.659 Kaela Gallagher: What are your, like, what’s your favorite show of all time?
63 00:08:24.660 ⇒ 00:08:34.270 Mustafa Raja: I like thrillers, so something like Interstellar, and… have you, have you watched the show You?
64 00:08:35.590 ⇒ 00:08:40.030 Kaela Gallagher: I… I think I’ve seen an episode or two, but I haven’t seen the whole thing.
65 00:08:40.039 ⇒ 00:08:42.209 Mustafa Raja: Oh yeah, I’ve seen the whole thing, it was super interesting.
66 00:08:42.700 ⇒ 00:08:43.430 Mustafa Raja: to me.
67 00:08:43.950 ⇒ 00:08:48.370 Mustafa Raja: And yeah, stuff like that. There was one show that came out…
68 00:08:51.130 ⇒ 00:08:58.390 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, the Knight of Seven Kingdoms, it’s from the, it’s from…
69 00:08:58.770 ⇒ 00:09:01.279 Mustafa Raja: It’s a prequel to Game of Thrones.
70 00:09:02.060 ⇒ 00:09:02.650 Mustafa Raja: But it’s pretty…
71 00:09:03.160 ⇒ 00:09:03.870 Mustafa Raja: What’s better than that?
72 00:09:04.780 ⇒ 00:09:10.190 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, so it’s also, like, in addition to House of the Dragon, too?
73 00:09:10.190 ⇒ 00:09:20.210 Mustafa Raja: Yes, it’s… I believe it’s pri- not prior to… so it’s between… it’s middle of, House of the Dragon, and then Game of Thrones.
74 00:09:20.890 ⇒ 00:09:21.570 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
75 00:09:21.570 ⇒ 00:09:23.920 Mustafa Raja: It’s somewhere in the middle, in the…
76 00:09:24.330 ⇒ 00:09:27.580 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, I should watch it, because I’ve watched… I’ve watched all.
77 00:09:27.580 ⇒ 00:09:31.850 Mustafa Raja: I didn’t like much… I didn’t like much of House of the Dragon, I don’t know why.
78 00:09:32.310 ⇒ 00:09:33.340 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah.
79 00:09:34.110 ⇒ 00:09:37.870 Mustafa Raja: this, the Knight of Sine… Seven Kingdoms is… Pretty good.
80 00:09:38.410 ⇒ 00:09:46.949 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, okay, I’ll have to watch that. That’s a great recommendation. I just watched, Interstellar for the first time.
81 00:09:46.950 ⇒ 00:09:47.580 Mustafa Raja: Actually…
82 00:09:47.580 ⇒ 00:09:48.830 Kaela Gallagher: It took… I can’t believe it.
83 00:09:48.830 ⇒ 00:10:04.319 Mustafa Raja: So many times. I was actually… I was actually… so, my friends, visited me from other cities, this weekend, right? So, I was asking them if we can watch, re-watch Inter-Zero, but they… they said, we’ll watch it, you know.
84 00:10:04.770 ⇒ 00:10:10.740 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, great, great movie, great music, too.
85 00:10:11.580 ⇒ 00:10:28.959 Kaela Gallagher: Cool, alright, awesome. I guess, like, as I’m diving deeper into, like, people and recruiting for Brainforge, any, like, advice that you have for me as I’m, like, leading those segments, or anything that you’d like to see, like, different?
86 00:10:32.130 ⇒ 00:10:45.789 Mustafa Raja: I think you have a great, great initiative of meeting everyone and getting to know people here. I don’t know if I have any particular advice, but I’d like to say that you’re doing a pretty good job over here.
87 00:10:45.790 ⇒ 00:10:48.269 Kaela Gallagher: Aw, thank you. Okay, cool.
88 00:10:48.400 ⇒ 00:10:56.630 Kaela Gallagher: I… I guess since we have a few minutes left, I’m curious how…
89 00:10:56.800 ⇒ 00:11:11.350 Kaela Gallagher: you would recommend I best utilize, like, the platform, considering I’m, you know, doing mostly, like, people and recruiting efforts? Like, are there any features that you would call out that you think would be helpful to me?
90 00:11:12.750 ⇒ 00:11:20.910 Mustafa Raja: I think… I’m wondering, so…
91 00:11:21.760 ⇒ 00:11:38.590 Mustafa Raja: So, have you, have you used, the, meeting summarizations, and, have you used the Brain4GPT, to sort of, get your answers? And have you used Slack Assistant also? That’s pretty good.
92 00:11:39.440 ⇒ 00:11:43.920 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, so I… I have been able to, like, go into meetings
93 00:11:44.060 ⇒ 00:11:52.099 Kaela Gallagher: look at the summaries, I can ask GPT questions about it, so I have used that, but I haven’t used the Slack integration.
94 00:11:52.100 ⇒ 00:11:55.650 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so, if you go into Slack.
95 00:11:55.860 ⇒ 00:12:03.250 Mustafa Raja: in any channel, you can just tag Slack Assistant. Let me, let me double-check what its name is.
96 00:12:12.620 ⇒ 00:12:13.350 Kaela Gallagher: Hmm.
97 00:12:14.320 ⇒ 00:12:17.010 Mustafa Raja: Give me a moment.
98 00:12:22.160 ⇒ 00:12:24.459 Mustafa Raja: I believe it’s Brain Forge Assistant, yeah.
99 00:12:25.540 ⇒ 00:12:30.480 Mustafa Raja: Ask the research assistant, and then, write some questions, you should be able to…
100 00:12:39.410 ⇒ 00:12:41.080 Kaela Gallagher: Something like this.
101 00:12:41.080 ⇒ 00:12:48.140 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And have you been, using, cursor? Because I think, for me, think,
102 00:12:48.590 ⇒ 00:12:50.309 Mustafa Raja: Questions like this.
103 00:12:50.560 ⇒ 00:12:56.599 Mustafa Raja: Maybe cursor would be a better tool, rather than coming over here, you know?
104 00:12:57.110 ⇒ 00:13:09.490 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I’ve been using Cursor quite a bit. What… what would be something that would be better to ask Brain Forge Assistant rather than, like, going to Cursor?
105 00:13:10.180 ⇒ 00:13:29.010 Mustafa Raja: So, BrainForge Assistant… I think Cursor has, has the most ability, right now, in terms of access to data. Brain Forge Assistant, we’re trying to make it better and better, but right now, Cursor has, most access to our data.
106 00:13:29.120 ⇒ 00:13:36.229 Mustafa Raja: So… Okay. If something Brain Forge Assistant isn’t able to answer, Krisha should be able to catch you there.
107 00:13:36.920 ⇒ 00:13:38.019 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, got it.
108 00:13:38.020 ⇒ 00:13:41.959 Mustafa Raja: It has to be in the channel, you’re doing in your personal chat, right?
109 00:13:42.790 ⇒ 00:13:45.430 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, so it needs to be… okay.
110 00:13:46.930 ⇒ 00:13:49.440 Mustafa Raja: You can do that in platform by platform.
111 00:13:50.510 ⇒ 00:13:51.930 Mustafa Raja: You’re not in platform.
112 00:13:52.370 ⇒ 00:13:54.479 Mustafa Raja: Your NAI team, you can test in there.
113 00:13:57.290 ⇒ 00:13:58.280 Kaela Gallagher: AI team.
114 00:13:58.840 ⇒ 00:13:59.510 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
115 00:14:02.150 ⇒ 00:14:03.150 Kaela Gallagher: Excuse me.
116 00:14:03.390 ⇒ 00:14:08.859 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, so I could just ask. But will it notify everybody else in the channel?
117 00:14:08.860 ⇒ 00:14:10.670 Mustafa Raja: Yes. Okay.
118 00:14:11.990 ⇒ 00:14:13.559 Kaela Gallagher: I’ll do it later, then.
119 00:14:13.730 ⇒ 00:14:14.750 Mustafa Raja: Okay.
120 00:14:15.130 ⇒ 00:14:16.610 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, okay, cool.
121 00:14:16.610 ⇒ 00:14:17.870 Mustafa Raja: How’d you like Kershen?
122 00:14:18.880 ⇒ 00:14:22.640 Kaela Gallagher: It is very, very new to me, so…
123 00:14:22.790 ⇒ 00:14:32.809 Kaela Gallagher: I… I only had experience using, like, ChatGPT or Copilot tools like that, so Cursor being a little bit more…
124 00:14:33.130 ⇒ 00:14:36.610 Kaela Gallagher: Technical, to me, has been,
125 00:14:37.750 ⇒ 00:14:57.520 Kaela Gallagher: a tough, like, learning curve. I also… my cursor was broken for, like, 2 weeks, and me and B spent probably, like, 2 hours trying to fix it, because I’m on, like, Windows, and so the file names were too long, and, like, there was all this stuff with, like, GitHub that was going wrong.
126 00:14:57.520 ⇒ 00:15:02.770 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, so that is… yeah, so that is why we are moving to a new platform.
127 00:15:02.770 ⇒ 00:15:03.250 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah.
128 00:15:03.250 ⇒ 00:15:18.490 Mustafa Raja: that is going to be a less… a lot more… a lot less technical, and a lot more intuitive, right? So, these sort of problems, you shouldn’t… you shouldn’t run into them when we make the transition.
129 00:15:18.870 ⇒ 00:15:21.559 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, that’s super helpful to know.
130 00:15:21.560 ⇒ 00:15:21.890 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
131 00:15:22.190 ⇒ 00:15:23.320 Kaela Gallagher: Well, if you haven’t…
132 00:15:23.320 ⇒ 00:15:30.849 Mustafa Raja: Any issues with cursor, you can reach out to me if you’re unable to resolve those. I should be able to help out there.
133 00:15:31.320 ⇒ 00:15:36.699 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, I think it’s working okay now. Like, before, I would ask it to, like.
134 00:15:36.940 ⇒ 00:15:41.810 Kaela Gallagher: What was I trying to do? I was trying to use a command that, like, Utom had sent out.
135 00:15:41.810 ⇒ 00:15:42.450 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah.
136 00:15:42.450 ⇒ 00:15:49.430 Kaela Gallagher: and it wouldn’t even, like, register the command. Like, it was so broken. But now I think it’s okay, if anything.
137 00:15:49.430 ⇒ 00:15:49.819 Mustafa Raja: It goes away.
138 00:15:49.820 ⇒ 00:15:52.100 Kaela Gallagher: wrong again, though, I’ll let you know.
139 00:15:52.100 ⇒ 00:15:52.860 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
140 00:15:53.290 ⇒ 00:15:54.110 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
141 00:15:54.110 ⇒ 00:15:54.430 Kaela Gallagher: Thank you.
142 00:15:55.730 ⇒ 00:15:58.399 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, excited to work with you in Bring Forge.
143 00:15:58.400 ⇒ 00:16:01.630 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, you too! Thanks so much for your time today, I appreciate it.
144 00:16:01.630 ⇒ 00:16:02.659 Mustafa Raja: Have a good day.
145 00:16:02.660 ⇒ 00:16:04.899 Kaela Gallagher: Alrighty. You too. Bye.
146 00:16:04.900 ⇒ 00:16:05.640 Mustafa Raja: Maine.