Meeting Title: Brainforge New Hire Orientation Date: 2026-04-06 Meeting participants: Garrett Gibson, Kaela Gallagher
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1 00:01:40.330 ⇒ 00:01:41.969 Kaela Gallagher: Hey, Garrett, good morning!
2 00:01:41.970 ⇒ 00:01:44.310 Garrett Gibson: Hey, Kayla, Warren, how you doing?
3 00:01:44.310 ⇒ 00:01:45.360 Kaela Gallagher: Good, how are you?
4 00:01:45.360 ⇒ 00:01:48.990 Garrett Gibson: Good! Thanks for, the orientation.
5 00:01:48.990 ⇒ 00:01:53.710 Kaela Gallagher: Yes! Full circle, this is crazy, we’re here.
6 00:01:53.710 ⇒ 00:01:55.510 Garrett Gibson: Absolutely.
7 00:01:55.510 ⇒ 00:02:07.890 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, I have, like, a little orientation deck that I can run through, but if you have any questions in general, like, happy to use this time to answer them as well.
8 00:02:07.890 ⇒ 00:02:12.160 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, so getting set up, with all the tools, and then.
9 00:02:12.160 ⇒ 00:02:12.820 Kaela Gallagher: Right.
10 00:02:12.820 ⇒ 00:02:15.110 Garrett Gibson: What’s his name? Brio, I think? Right?
11 00:02:15.110 ⇒ 00:02:16.210 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, we call him B.
12 00:02:16.210 ⇒ 00:02:26.329 Garrett Gibson: Or B, he sent me the, kind of, the cursor and stuff. I actually got an error trying to set that up, so I’m gonna… I have a call with him, actually, later to go over stuff, so…
13 00:02:26.330 ⇒ 00:02:27.060 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah.
14 00:02:27.060 ⇒ 00:02:28.560 Garrett Gibson: Watch them then, yeah.
15 00:02:28.560 ⇒ 00:02:33.519 Kaela Gallagher: Feel free to, send him a screenshot of the error ahead of time, too. He likes.
16 00:02:33.520 ⇒ 00:02:34.130 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
17 00:02:34.130 ⇒ 00:02:36.180 Kaela Gallagher: Kind of look into… to stuff.
18 00:02:36.180 ⇒ 00:02:37.209 Garrett Gibson: Okay, cool.
19 00:02:37.290 ⇒ 00:02:45.530 Kaela Gallagher: But yeah, he… so for context, B is building out, like, an entire kind of learning and development department for us.
20 00:02:46.130 ⇒ 00:02:57.579 Kaela Gallagher: And so he’s building out, like, a lot of modules right now, and he wants to build training that makes, you know, AI kind of an expectation for everybody, and, like, really.
21 00:02:57.580 ⇒ 00:02:57.930 Garrett Gibson: fence.
22 00:02:57.930 ⇒ 00:02:59.520 Kaela Gallagher: Everyone to use it, so…
23 00:02:59.520 ⇒ 00:02:59.910 Garrett Gibson: Right.
24 00:02:59.910 ⇒ 00:03:05.709 Kaela Gallagher: he might be, like, testing some of that, content with you. Okay.
25 00:03:05.710 ⇒ 00:03:17.660 Garrett Gibson: is still kind of new to me, like, I’m more used to, like, you know, ChatGBT and Claude and, like, those ones, but, yeah, it’s good to kind of get integrated in the tools and stuff, so…
26 00:03:17.660 ⇒ 00:03:19.040 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
27 00:03:19.450 ⇒ 00:03:26.979 Kaela Gallagher: Cool, awesome. Well, I will share my screen with you really quick.
28 00:03:28.630 ⇒ 00:03:32.340 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, awesome. So welcome to Brain Forge, super excited.
29 00:03:32.340 ⇒ 00:03:32.730 Garrett Gibson: Dear.
30 00:03:34.970 ⇒ 00:03:55.060 Kaela Gallagher: I guess, yeah, just to start off, like, the purpose of this orientation, we’ll introduce you to Brainforge, our mission, culture and values, just help you understand, like, the tools that we’re using, and make sure that you’re, logged into those, and then just help ensure you’re set up for success, being day one.
31 00:03:55.350 ⇒ 00:03:56.270 Garrett Gibson: Awesome.
32 00:03:56.270 ⇒ 00:04:07.399 Kaela Gallagher: So, our mission is to help businesses turn chaos into clarity using data and AI to drive faster and smarter decisions, so I’m sure this is something you’ll be mentioning.
33 00:04:07.740 ⇒ 00:04:08.980 Kaela Gallagher: Clients all the time.
34 00:04:10.050 ⇒ 00:04:29.739 Kaela Gallagher: In terms of our vision, we believe that everybody eats, so we share success and grow together. We operate like giants, so thinking big and executing with excellence, and then also giving back and paying forward, so we want to create a culture where we’re sharing opportunities,
35 00:04:29.740 ⇒ 00:04:30.140 Garrett Gibson: Hmm.
36 00:04:30.140 ⇒ 00:04:32.000 Kaela Gallagher: And knowledge with each other as well.
37 00:04:32.300 ⇒ 00:04:32.910 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
38 00:04:33.250 ⇒ 00:04:34.140 Garrett Gibson: Makes sense.
39 00:04:34.610 ⇒ 00:04:48.409 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. And then what we do, so we have three, kind of, service lines that we’re able to offer our clients. One is, like, on the data side, so, you know, turning messy data stacks into clear, connected systems.
40 00:04:48.410 ⇒ 00:04:58.560 Kaela Gallagher: Second would be on the AI side, so being able to build, you know, co-pilots or chatbots that help speed up work for our clients.
41 00:04:58.560 ⇒ 00:05:17.850 Kaela Gallagher: And then our third arm is strategy and analytics. This is the team that you’re going to be sitting within, just helping clients define, you know, metrics and roadmaps, maybe doing analytics and BI for them, and just helping guide decisions for our clients. Oftentimes, like, our clients will have.
42 00:05:17.850 ⇒ 00:05:24.609 Kaela Gallagher: probably 2 or 3 of these teams, like, supporting that project at once.
43 00:05:24.680 ⇒ 00:05:27.429 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, these teams are super collaborative.
44 00:05:27.780 ⇒ 00:05:28.380 Garrett Gibson: Cool.
45 00:05:28.850 ⇒ 00:05:30.809 Kaela Gallagher: And then in terms of…
46 00:05:30.810 ⇒ 00:05:36.169 Garrett Gibson: working on, like, projects for kind of all three, right? Like, depending on the client, I guess?
47 00:05:36.170 ⇒ 00:05:43.149 Kaela Gallagher: you’ll be interacting with all three. You technically, like, sit within the strategy and analytics.
48 00:05:43.150 ⇒ 00:05:43.510 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
49 00:05:43.510 ⇒ 00:05:47.959 Kaela Gallagher: But yeah, like, we work super closely together.
50 00:05:47.960 ⇒ 00:05:48.549 Garrett Gibson: You’ll be right.
51 00:05:48.550 ⇒ 00:05:50.830 Kaela Gallagher: working with all three teams.
52 00:05:50.970 ⇒ 00:06:00.220 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, cool. And then, in terms of, like, who we serve, who we interact with, oftentimes it’s, like, a director or head of…
53 00:06:00.220 ⇒ 00:06:17.560 Kaela Gallagher: data and analytics, that are kind of championing us, but also, like, working with a lot of, like, division leaders, like a head of marketing, a head of growth, a head of product, that’s oftentimes, like, who we’re engaging with week to week.
54 00:06:17.590 ⇒ 00:06:27.700 Kaela Gallagher: A lot of our clients are going to be, like, CPG, like, you’ll be working on, Element, which is obviously, like, a prominent
55 00:06:27.890 ⇒ 00:06:44.420 Kaela Gallagher: consumer brand, but we have other clients across, like, e-com, SaaS, B2B, we have a healthcare client, so, as you grow with Brainforge, I would expect that you’ll be, you know, eventually touching other clients as well.
56 00:06:44.420 ⇒ 00:06:45.040 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
57 00:06:46.460 ⇒ 00:06:51.900 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. In terms of execution, so OKRs.
58 00:06:51.900 ⇒ 00:07:07.869 Kaela Gallagher: objectives and key results, so I’m sure you’re familiar with those at Disney. Yeah, we outline those for our team, and then also, like, have areas of responsibility, so everybody should be very clear on, like, what they own.
59 00:07:07.900 ⇒ 00:07:16.829 Kaela Gallagher: We like to come to meetings with agendas and kind of document ahead of time. It’s important to have camera on during meetings as well.
60 00:07:17.270 ⇒ 00:07:34.140 Kaela Gallagher: And then just developing a culture of, like, failing fast. We move really quickly, things are always changing, and just, you know, focus on learning from each scenario rather than… than blame. Something that’s, like, really cool about Utom and Robert, too, is they’re always, like.
61 00:07:34.170 ⇒ 00:07:41.419 Kaela Gallagher: you know, the blame’s on us in every situation. Like, everybody needs to learn, and, you know, the blame can be on us, so…
62 00:07:41.420 ⇒ 00:07:50.740 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I think I saw the Notion setting up weekly one-on-one with Robert, so yeah, I’ll do that. That’ll probably be good to, just, like, ensure expectations are set, things like that.
63 00:07:50.950 ⇒ 00:07:51.330 Kaela Gallagher: Yes.
64 00:07:51.330 ⇒ 00:07:53.999 Garrett Gibson: I like my direct manager, just so I have, like…
65 00:07:54.290 ⇒ 00:08:03.350 Kaela Gallagher: Yes, that’s who you’ll be working with closely. I do have one-on-one set up for you, Robert and Utom today, so you’ll.
66 00:08:03.350 ⇒ 00:08:03.870 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
67 00:08:03.870 ⇒ 00:08:06.039 Kaela Gallagher: You’ll be meeting both Robert and Utom today, and they’ll be.
68 00:08:06.040 ⇒ 00:08:08.209 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, yeah, I have those ones on the calendar, yes.
69 00:08:08.210 ⇒ 00:08:09.830 Kaela Gallagher: Expectations, yeah.
70 00:08:10.090 ⇒ 00:08:15.139 Garrett Gibson: Awesome. Yeah, then I’ll just check with them, like, having probably, like, a weekly one-on-one would be good, yeah.
71 00:08:15.350 ⇒ 00:08:16.620 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah. Yep. Cool.
72 00:08:16.780 ⇒ 00:08:23.129 Kaela Gallagher: Perfect. And then we do a lot of things like remote and async.
73 00:08:23.130 ⇒ 00:08:25.300 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, that’s fine, I’m used to that.
74 00:08:25.300 ⇒ 00:08:30.670 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, yeah, and the goal is always going to be, like, you know, does this need a meeting, or is this a.
75 00:08:30.670 ⇒ 00:08:31.190 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
76 00:08:31.190 ⇒ 00:08:33.970 Kaela Gallagher: we can go back and forth on… in Slack on.
77 00:08:33.970 ⇒ 00:08:35.010 Garrett Gibson: Sure, yeah.
78 00:08:35.280 ⇒ 00:08:35.929 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
79 00:08:36.960 ⇒ 00:08:44.679 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, cool. I think we talked about this before, our Net 30 payment schedule, so, basically, like.
80 00:08:44.790 ⇒ 00:08:53.689 Kaela Gallagher: you’re starting in April, so your payment for the month of April is going to come at the end of May. Okay.
81 00:08:53.690 ⇒ 00:08:55.419 Garrett Gibson: The end of Mayor, the end of April?
82 00:08:55.830 ⇒ 00:08:56.969 Kaela Gallagher: At the end of May.
83 00:08:57.050 ⇒ 00:08:58.530 Garrett Gibson: Oh, okay, got it, okay.
84 00:08:58.530 ⇒ 00:09:04.339 Kaela Gallagher: It’s paid on a monthly basis, and then the payment is due to you within 30 days of that period ending.
85 00:09:04.340 ⇒ 00:09:06.019 Garrett Gibson: Okay, got it.
86 00:09:06.350 ⇒ 00:09:25.499 Kaela Gallagher: We do have, an external finance team that supports us with a lot of these things, but we do have an internal, like, finance hub. You can reach out to this finance email if you ever have any questions or things about payments. Did you get an email in regard to setting up your RAMP account?
87 00:09:25.500 ⇒ 00:09:27.770 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I got rep, set up, yeah.
88 00:09:27.770 ⇒ 00:09:30.630 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, perfect, that’s where you’ll get paid. So, awesome.
89 00:09:30.630 ⇒ 00:09:31.240 Garrett Gibson: Perfect.
90 00:09:31.580 ⇒ 00:09:33.480 Garrett Gibson: And that just,
91 00:09:33.600 ⇒ 00:09:42.730 Garrett Gibson: I guess, like, for the first one, maybe we can just go over, like, closer to the date, but I assume it’s just, like, when you enter in your bank information, it just automatically goes there?
92 00:09:43.370 ⇒ 00:09:44.799 Kaela Gallagher: Yes. On that date.
93 00:09:44.800 ⇒ 00:09:45.490 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
94 00:09:45.760 ⇒ 00:09:48.740 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, so you’ll set up all your banking information, like.
95 00:09:48.740 ⇒ 00:09:59.690 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, and just that, just to clarify, it’s like, no taxes, like, withheld, right? So I have to, like, at the end of the quarter, like, submit the form or whatever, right, to the IRS? Yeah.
96 00:09:59.690 ⇒ 00:10:01.050 Kaela Gallagher: Yes, yep.
97 00:10:01.260 ⇒ 00:10:04.889 Kaela Gallagher: And then…
98 00:10:05.220 ⇒ 00:10:12.630 Kaela Gallagher: what was I gonna say? Oh, I’ll go over how you track your hours later, but that will determine what you’re… you’re paid, so…
99 00:10:12.630 ⇒ 00:10:13.260 Garrett Gibson: Okay, got it.
100 00:10:13.260 ⇒ 00:10:14.320 Kaela Gallagher: In a second.
101 00:10:16.190 ⇒ 00:10:35.730 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, in terms of LinkedIn, so we do have a LinkedIn page, feel free to follow us there. If you want any resources, like this background here, anything to, like, make your LinkedIn kind of Brainforge coded, our marketing team is, like, really great at that. They could help you…
102 00:10:35.730 ⇒ 00:10:36.110 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
103 00:10:36.110 ⇒ 00:10:47.030 Kaela Gallagher: draft a post, they can help you find, you know, a background for your LinkedIn, like, all that kind of stuff. So, Hannah would be the one to reach out to if you want any support with that.
104 00:10:47.030 ⇒ 00:10:48.909 Garrett Gibson: Okay. Yeah, that’d be awesome.
105 00:10:49.160 ⇒ 00:10:49.910 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome.
106 00:10:50.310 ⇒ 00:11:03.389 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yeah, so going into some tooling, obviously you’re set up on Slack, our main method of communication. Notion is going to have a bunch of, like, our standard operating procedures, documentation. If you ever have…
107 00:11:03.390 ⇒ 00:11:08.610 Garrett Gibson: Set up the accounts, like, for pretty much all of these so far, like, the initial login, you know?
108 00:11:08.870 ⇒ 00:11:16.390 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, awesome. Yeah, if you ever have a question about something, you could almost just search it in Notion and get a.
109 00:11:16.390 ⇒ 00:11:17.030 Garrett Gibson: Okay, cool.
110 00:11:17.420 ⇒ 00:11:25.640 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome. Or you can go to Cursor, which is, like, the brain of our company has access to everything, and just ask Cursor, and it…
111 00:11:25.790 ⇒ 00:11:34.159 Kaela Gallagher: can almost always provide the answer. Clockify is where you’ll be tracking your hours, which I’ll show you more on that in a second.
112 00:11:34.630 ⇒ 00:11:49.100 Kaela Gallagher: linear, you’ll be using a ton, kind of like Jira. 1Password, is pretty straightforward. You’re already set up on RAMP. Cursor, we will help you with this afternoon. The Brainforge platform…
113 00:11:49.110 ⇒ 00:11:57.749 Kaela Gallagher: Has all of our, like, meeting recordings, AI summaries, AI tools, transcripts, I’ll show you that in a second as well, it’s super cool.
114 00:11:59.440 ⇒ 00:12:06.500 Kaela Gallagher: So, and then NAN, I believe we are moving away from that, so don’t worry about that one. Cool.
115 00:12:06.740 ⇒ 00:12:19.379 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, cool. So, going into Clockify, you can track your hours, a few different ways. This first section here is called Timesheet. That is, like, manually entering your hours each day.
116 00:12:19.380 ⇒ 00:12:29.029 Kaela Gallagher: Okay. You can do a time tracker, this might be helpful for, like, engineers, for example, where they just want to press, like, start and stop and just go into, like, heads-down work.
117 00:12:29.030 ⇒ 00:12:31.460 Kaela Gallagher: Or you can sync it with…
118 00:12:31.460 ⇒ 00:12:39.110 Kaela Gallagher: your calendar, and it will help, like, populate some things from your calendar as well. Got it.
119 00:12:39.580 ⇒ 00:12:47.380 Kaela Gallagher: So, yeah, just be sure to record your hours, daily in this tool. Okay. Do not create your…
120 00:12:47.380 ⇒ 00:12:50.989 Garrett Gibson: Just, like, click Add New Row, is that, like, how I do it? Yes.
121 00:12:50.990 ⇒ 00:12:51.310 Kaela Gallagher: So…
122 00:12:51.390 ⇒ 00:12:52.350 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
123 00:12:52.350 ⇒ 00:12:55.399 Kaela Gallagher: Here’s mine, just to show you, so here’s our…
124 00:12:55.530 ⇒ 00:13:08.110 Kaela Gallagher: like, I just do it through the timesheet section, and, like, most of what I do is gonna fall into these three categories, so that’s why I have them populated. But, like, since you’ll be working on clients.
125 00:13:08.160 ⇒ 00:13:18.419 Kaela Gallagher: Like, you’re gonna want to, probably categorize some of your hours in a client section, obviously, like, a one-on-one.
126 00:13:18.780 ⇒ 00:13:20.689 Kaela Gallagher: I guess maybe for the first…
127 00:13:20.690 ⇒ 00:13:24.809 Garrett Gibson: This week, should I do, like, internal, maybe, mostly? Because it’s… That’s probably what I’m.
128 00:13:24.810 ⇒ 00:13:25.590 Kaela Gallagher: Probably.
129 00:13:25.590 ⇒ 00:13:26.420 Garrett Gibson: I go, yeah.
130 00:13:26.420 ⇒ 00:13:30.310 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, so, like, this, for example, would fall into, like, one-on-ones.
131 00:13:30.310 ⇒ 00:13:30.650 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
132 00:13:30.650 ⇒ 00:13:35.100 Kaela Gallagher: You’ll be meeting with Greg. Yeah. Is that on calendar?
133 00:13:35.100 ⇒ 00:13:38.120 Garrett Gibson: bunch of meetings, I think, why don’t Honestly, today.
134 00:13:38.120 ⇒ 00:13:51.199 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yeah, so whenever you meet with Greg, that’ll be under the BrainForge Buddy category. Like, learning and development, if you’re doing, like, modules that B sends you or something like that, you categorize it here. Okay.
135 00:13:51.200 ⇒ 00:13:55.939 Garrett Gibson: So just add the kind of different categories, and then put in the hours, like, for each one, kind of. Exactly.
136 00:13:55.940 ⇒ 00:14:00.849 Kaela Gallagher: So, like, today, if I spend one hour in internal meetings, I can just walk there.
137 00:14:00.850 ⇒ 00:14:02.750 Garrett Gibson: Total it up to, like, 8, right?
138 00:14:02.940 ⇒ 00:14:04.989 Garrett Gibson: Yep. Yeah. Okay.
139 00:14:05.270 ⇒ 00:14:07.579 Garrett Gibson: And then do you… where do you save.
140 00:14:08.230 ⇒ 00:14:10.360 Kaela Gallagher: So it’s automatically saved.
141 00:14:10.360 ⇒ 00:14:11.390 Garrett Gibson: Okay, cool.
142 00:14:11.390 ⇒ 00:14:23.990 Kaela Gallagher: Yes. So, for example, like, I can go back to last week, and everything’s just, like, still in there. You don’t have to press a save button. Okay. Great. Cool. So that’s the overview.
143 00:14:24.410 ⇒ 00:14:29.700 Kaela Gallagher: Clockify, super important, like, I would recommend just doing it daily, because it’s the easiest.
144 00:14:29.700 ⇒ 00:14:30.720 Garrett Gibson: I do it daily.
145 00:14:30.720 ⇒ 00:14:33.399 Kaela Gallagher: Friday, end of day is really important.
146 00:14:33.400 ⇒ 00:14:33.740 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
147 00:14:33.740 ⇒ 00:14:35.800 Kaela Gallagher: Have everything in there, and then…
148 00:14:35.800 ⇒ 00:14:37.549 Garrett Gibson: Do you summit on Friday, or…
149 00:14:38.610 ⇒ 00:14:44.210 Kaela Gallagher: No, you don’t need to submit, like, it’s automatically… Oh, okay.
150 00:14:44.530 ⇒ 00:14:48.109 Kaela Gallagher: And then you’ll get, like, an email at the end of the month as…
151 00:14:49.120 ⇒ 00:14:49.920 Garrett Gibson: part or something.
152 00:14:49.920 ⇒ 00:14:50.440 Kaela Gallagher: miss, like.
153 00:14:50.440 ⇒ 00:14:50.880 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
154 00:14:50.880 ⇒ 00:14:55.229 Kaela Gallagher: through each of the… the sections. So, if you have any questions.
155 00:14:55.410 ⇒ 00:14:59.279 Kaela Gallagher: About this, or anything pops up, we have an ask.
156 00:14:59.450 ⇒ 00:15:03.739 Kaela Gallagher: new hires thread on Slack. Let me make sure you’re in that.
157 00:15:04.970 ⇒ 00:15:10.349 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yeah, you are. So…
158 00:15:10.350 ⇒ 00:15:11.140 Garrett Gibson: Okay, cool.
159 00:15:11.240 ⇒ 00:15:19.949 Kaela Gallagher: If anything pops up, like, Rico and I are both in that channel, and so it just allows, like, whichever one of us is available first to just help you the quickest.
160 00:15:20.290 ⇒ 00:15:21.120 Garrett Gibson: Awesome.
161 00:15:21.220 ⇒ 00:15:22.290 Garrett Gibson: Okay. Perfect.
162 00:15:22.540 ⇒ 00:15:27.960 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. Okay, so just going through tooling, I just want to confirm you have access to Notion.
163 00:15:27.960 ⇒ 00:15:32.710 Garrett Gibson: Yep. Yeah, I saw that, started looking at the ramp-up plan you created, thanks for,
164 00:15:32.900 ⇒ 00:15:38.510 Garrett Gibson: creating that. So I’ll kind of just focus on the first 30 days, you know, whatever.
165 00:15:38.940 ⇒ 00:15:40.389 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome. Cool.
166 00:15:40.490 ⇒ 00:15:43.379 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yes, you’re in…
167 00:15:43.660 ⇒ 00:15:47.930 Kaela Gallagher: Slack. One thing I would call out about Slack is to just be sure, like.
168 00:15:48.210 ⇒ 00:15:54.719 Kaela Gallagher: Update your status there, like, that’s kind of our source of truth for if people are, like, out of office, or…
169 00:15:55.300 ⇒ 00:16:05.080 Kaela Gallagher: lunch, like, just make sure your status is updated. Like, I was traveling a lot recently, and I was updating my status, like, on a plane right now.
170 00:16:05.080 ⇒ 00:16:06.260 Garrett Gibson: It will not.
171 00:16:06.260 ⇒ 00:16:07.469 Kaela Gallagher: respond as quickly!
172 00:16:08.310 ⇒ 00:16:13.839 Garrett Gibson: Where do you, actually, where do you update that, actually? Oh, here it is, update your status.
173 00:16:14.130 ⇒ 00:16:15.070 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yeah.
174 00:16:15.070 ⇒ 00:16:17.789 Garrett Gibson: Cool. I’ll set it right now in a meeting, yeah.
175 00:16:17.930 ⇒ 00:16:19.000 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, and you can…
176 00:16:19.000 ⇒ 00:16:19.479 Garrett Gibson: There it is.
177 00:16:19.480 ⇒ 00:16:26.210 Kaela Gallagher: In a meeting, actually, it should be synced to your Google Calendar.
178 00:16:26.210 ⇒ 00:16:28.620 Garrett Gibson: Oh, I don’t think I had that set up, actually, yet.
179 00:16:28.620 ⇒ 00:16:35.510 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, so sync it to your Google Calendar, and then if you have a meeting on calendar, it’s automatically gonna just put that on there.
180 00:16:35.510 ⇒ 00:16:35.870 Garrett Gibson: Perfect.
181 00:16:36.600 ⇒ 00:16:37.350 Garrett Gibson: be better.
182 00:16:38.880 ⇒ 00:16:39.260 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah.
183 00:16:39.410 ⇒ 00:16:39.950 Garrett Gibson: Do…
184 00:16:40.490 ⇒ 00:16:41.010 Kaela Gallagher: Here’s the.
185 00:16:41.010 ⇒ 00:16:44.300 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I didn’t set up that integration yet, but I think that’s the way.
186 00:16:44.700 ⇒ 00:16:45.310 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
187 00:16:46.310 ⇒ 00:16:47.070 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
188 00:16:47.350 ⇒ 00:16:50.850 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome.
189 00:16:51.130 ⇒ 00:16:56.939 Kaela Gallagher: And then, yeah, just make sure you have… I think you already have a profile pic on there, and you can have it…
190 00:16:56.940 ⇒ 00:16:57.570 Garrett Gibson: setup.
191 00:16:57.840 ⇒ 00:17:04.190 Kaela Gallagher: On your phone and on your… on your laptop and everything. Cool. And then you got linear set up as well?
192 00:17:04.190 ⇒ 00:17:08.820 Garrett Gibson: Yep, linear setup. I can see, like…
193 00:17:08.990 ⇒ 00:17:12.160 Garrett Gibson: Projects, yeah, I can see issues, all that stuff.
194 00:17:12.369 ⇒ 00:17:15.209 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, cool. I was using.
195 00:17:15.210 ⇒ 00:17:18.419 Garrett Gibson: I don’t think I have it downloaded yet, maybe I should probably download it, too.
196 00:17:18.420 ⇒ 00:17:20.050 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, that’s what I was gonna say, I was using the
197 00:17:20.390 ⇒ 00:17:23.239 Kaela Gallagher: for a while, and I recently got the, like.
198 00:17:23.780 ⇒ 00:17:27.789 Kaela Gallagher: desktop app, and it’s been, like, way nicer, so…
199 00:17:27.790 ⇒ 00:17:30.840 Garrett Gibson: Way better, okay. Yeah, because it’s downloading right now, so…
200 00:17:30.840 ⇒ 00:17:31.500 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
201 00:17:31.730 ⇒ 00:17:41.699 Kaela Gallagher: Perfect. Okay, so the Brainforge platform, if you hear people talk about the platform, they could be referring to it in, like, a couple different ways.
202 00:17:41.700 ⇒ 00:17:54.229 Kaela Gallagher: They might say the platform in reference to, like, our kind of GitHub repo and, like, brain, or they could be referring to our web interface of the platform.
203 00:17:54.380 ⇒ 00:18:08.659 Kaela Gallagher: So I’m going to show you that really quickly, because it’s super cool. So it is platform.brainforge.ai, that’s what you’ll want to type in, and I believe it’ll just have you log in with, like, your Google Brainforge email.
204 00:18:08.800 ⇒ 00:18:10.000 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
205 00:18:11.150 ⇒ 00:18:21.889 Kaela Gallagher: So, here, on your homepage, your dashboard, you can see every single meeting that you’ve had. So for example, like.
206 00:18:22.440 ⇒ 00:18:26.500 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, we did a learning and development kickoff this morning, so I can click into it.
207 00:18:26.640 ⇒ 00:18:37.570 Kaela Gallagher: It’s gonna have the full recording. It’s going to have all the people who were participating in it, so you can search your meetings by… by client or by participant.
208 00:18:37.930 ⇒ 00:18:38.350 Garrett Gibson: Oh, cool.
209 00:18:38.350 ⇒ 00:18:53.950 Kaela Gallagher: super helpful. It has a summary here, so it’s gonna have, like, action items at the bottom, and give you a quick overview. You can pull up the full transcript and maybe, like, pop it into Cursor and ask it to
210 00:18:53.950 ⇒ 00:19:02.850 Kaela Gallagher: analyze the meeting, or you can tell Cursor, hey, I had a meeting this morning with these people about this topic, and now I need
211 00:19:02.850 ⇒ 00:19:06.279 Kaela Gallagher: my action items, or now I need this.
212 00:19:06.280 ⇒ 00:19:22.900 Kaela Gallagher: You can create an email summary, you can create a Slack summary, there’s a meeting assistant over here on the side, so you can ask it questions about the meeting. So, just super helpful. And as you’re onboarding to clients as well, like, Cursor will be able to tell you
213 00:19:22.910 ⇒ 00:19:28.690 Kaela Gallagher: You know, what’s been chatted about in the most recent meetings, and what their biggest pain points are, because we have
214 00:19:28.820 ⇒ 00:19:32.469 Kaela Gallagher: A whole hub of every meeting we’ve got.
215 00:19:32.470 ⇒ 00:19:35.310 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, that’s a great resource.
216 00:19:35.310 ⇒ 00:19:52.420 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, so this is super cool. I would play around with, like, all this stuff on the side, too. Like, for example, we have a section for every client, so this element one would be super relevant to you. We have AI agents built out, so…
217 00:19:52.430 ⇒ 00:19:57.790 Kaela Gallagher: One of them can create SOWs for you, or be an executive strategy coach.
218 00:19:58.010 ⇒ 00:20:03.509 Kaela Gallagher: There’s also, like, some agents built out.
219 00:20:03.920 ⇒ 00:20:19.889 Kaela Gallagher: let’s see, Learning and Development is going to have a whole section on certifications, so we’ll likely be having you get certified, on, like, Omni, maybe Snowflake, so, all those instructions will be here. Cool.
220 00:20:19.890 ⇒ 00:20:22.729 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I just logged into it, looks like I can log in, too.
221 00:20:22.730 ⇒ 00:20:24.440 Kaela Gallagher: Perfect. Perfect. So, yeah.
222 00:20:24.440 ⇒ 00:20:26.760 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I’ll explore this as well, yeah.
223 00:20:26.760 ⇒ 00:20:28.100 Kaela Gallagher: Tools. Awesome.
224 00:20:28.890 ⇒ 00:20:34.929 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. And then Zoom, you should just be able to log in with your Brainforge email.
225 00:20:34.930 ⇒ 00:20:39.499 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I’m all logged. I already set up a one-on-one, I think, with Amber, tomorrow.
226 00:20:39.500 ⇒ 00:20:48.000 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, perfect. And that’ll be, like, automatically synced with our platform, so you’ll be able to see all your transcripts and everything.
227 00:20:48.000 ⇒ 00:20:48.720 Garrett Gibson: Awesome.
228 00:20:48.720 ⇒ 00:20:51.020 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
229 00:20:51.930 ⇒ 00:21:06.900 Kaela Gallagher: And then… awesome. If you need anything, like, department-specific as you’re onboarding, as you’re learning more about clients, and you’re like, oh, I need access to this tool, and I haven’t gotten it yet, feel free to drop it in the Ask New Hires channel.
230 00:21:06.900 ⇒ 00:21:07.620 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
231 00:21:07.620 ⇒ 00:21:08.770 Kaela Gallagher: We can help you out with it.
232 00:21:09.420 ⇒ 00:21:10.240 Garrett Gibson: Awesome.
233 00:21:10.240 ⇒ 00:21:16.719 Kaela Gallagher: Cool. Friday team meetings, you already got to experience one of these. I’m so glad you were able to join last week.
234 00:21:16.720 ⇒ 00:21:17.629 Garrett Gibson: It was fun.
235 00:21:17.630 ⇒ 00:21:32.589 Kaela Gallagher: So, yeah, you already know kind of what these look like, but basically, you know, each lead gets to give a quick update, and we have a different host every time, so… Okay. Somebody different is going to be doing, like, an icebreaker and a lab share, and kind of running us through, so…
236 00:21:32.590 ⇒ 00:21:33.250 Garrett Gibson: Awesome.
237 00:21:33.390 ⇒ 00:21:36.359 Kaela Gallagher: They’re… they’re really fun, and these are bi-weekly.
238 00:21:36.650 ⇒ 00:21:37.340 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
239 00:21:38.200 ⇒ 00:21:38.820 Kaela Gallagher: warm.
240 00:21:39.180 ⇒ 00:21:46.380 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome. So, yeah, today is just gonna be a lot of setup, orientation, intros…
241 00:21:46.380 ⇒ 00:21:46.960 Garrett Gibson: I agree.
242 00:21:46.960 ⇒ 00:21:50.480 Kaela Gallagher: a lot of information thrown at you. Yeah.
243 00:21:51.300 ⇒ 00:22:01.459 Kaela Gallagher: I will say, like, by the end of today, I know it’s on your onboarding guide, but, just shoot over, like, a quick intro to the Brainforge team channel. Okay.
244 00:22:01.800 ⇒ 00:22:04.830 Kaela Gallagher: Introduce yourself there, and then…
245 00:22:04.830 ⇒ 00:22:05.159 Garrett Gibson: So…
246 00:22:05.760 ⇒ 00:22:06.710 Garrett Gibson: that there.
247 00:22:06.710 ⇒ 00:22:09.300 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, week one, like, we have kind of…
248 00:22:09.390 ⇒ 00:22:27.650 Kaela Gallagher: it set up for you on your ramp-up plan, so it should all be outlined, but if you have any questions, I would say, like, really kind of go through that ramp-up plan ahead of your meetings with, Utam and Robert today, so if you have any questions or clarifications, like, those calls would be a great time to just…
249 00:22:27.790 ⇒ 00:22:30.040 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah. Set expectations.
250 00:22:30.360 ⇒ 00:22:31.450 Garrett Gibson: Absolutely, yep.
251 00:22:31.450 ⇒ 00:22:32.120 Kaela Gallagher: Cool.
252 00:22:33.400 ⇒ 00:22:33.940 Garrett Gibson: Great.
253 00:22:34.380 ⇒ 00:22:44.199 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, after… after day 30, like, I know it’s on… on your ramp-up plan, but you’ll become a lot more independent and start to really, like, take, ownership of things, so…
254 00:22:44.200 ⇒ 00:22:48.400 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, it makes sense. It’ll probably take me a couple weeks to get up to speed.
255 00:22:48.400 ⇒ 00:23:02.510 Kaela Gallagher: Yes, and I will say, like, we don’t have a ton of structure in place right now of, like, Robert or Utam taking initiative to put, like, a 30-day check-in on your calendar, so, like.
256 00:23:02.510 ⇒ 00:23:03.020 Garrett Gibson: Right.
257 00:23:03.020 ⇒ 00:23:04.659 Kaela Gallagher: Feel free to take initiative on that, like.
258 00:23:04.660 ⇒ 00:23:05.830 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, absolutely.
259 00:23:05.830 ⇒ 00:23:11.020 Kaela Gallagher: security for me, like, let me ask Robert how I’m doing. Absolutely. Cool.
260 00:23:11.450 ⇒ 00:23:12.530 Garrett Gibson: Awesome.
261 00:23:12.550 ⇒ 00:23:18.170 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, as you’re going through onboarding, like, this is a relatively newer process that I’ve built out.
262 00:23:18.170 ⇒ 00:23:19.070 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
263 00:23:19.070 ⇒ 00:23:29.970 Kaela Gallagher: So, if you have any feedback, even, like, on the onboarding guide, or, oh, I found this out on day 7, but I wish I knew it on day one. Like, if any of that kind of stuff comes up.
264 00:23:29.970 ⇒ 00:23:30.400 Garrett Gibson: Mostly.
265 00:23:30.400 ⇒ 00:23:42.410 Kaela Gallagher: Please, please, let me know. I’ll ask you to fill out, like, a couple onboarding surveys throughout your first 90 days. So, yeah, just super open to, like, any feedback that you might have for us.
266 00:23:42.410 ⇒ 00:23:49.020 Garrett Gibson: No, it’s been really smooth, I appreciate kind of getting everything in the email at once, like, it really kind of helped speed everything up.
267 00:23:49.520 ⇒ 00:23:50.299 Kaela Gallagher: Cool, yeah.
268 00:23:50.300 ⇒ 00:23:50.690 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
269 00:23:50.690 ⇒ 00:23:52.450 Kaela Gallagher: Mail is a newer thing for us, so…
270 00:23:52.450 ⇒ 00:23:53.040 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
271 00:23:53.040 ⇒ 00:23:54.060 Kaela Gallagher: That’s good.
272 00:23:55.380 ⇒ 00:23:56.040 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome!
273 00:23:56.040 ⇒ 00:24:02.740 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, yeah, I really appreciate your help, yeah, getting onboarded, and… Yeah.
274 00:24:03.110 ⇒ 00:24:03.460 Kaela Gallagher: Oh, yeah.
275 00:24:03.460 ⇒ 00:24:06.320 Garrett Gibson: forward to learning more. Of course.
276 00:24:06.320 ⇒ 00:24:11.809 Kaela Gallagher: Is there anything else that you need from me? Any questions that you have?
277 00:24:11.810 ⇒ 00:24:14.750 Garrett Gibson: I don’t think so, not right now.
278 00:24:15.150 ⇒ 00:24:20.670 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I’ll just keep, going through the ramp-up plan, and then, yeah, I’ll have those meetings coming up, so…
279 00:24:20.810 ⇒ 00:24:22.700 Garrett Gibson: Pretty busy day already.
280 00:24:22.700 ⇒ 00:24:23.120 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome.
281 00:24:23.120 ⇒ 00:24:32.619 Garrett Gibson: And I’m already setting up, like, you know, like, other meetings, like I mentioned, I’m gonna have a one-on-one with Amber tomorrow, and then I’m sure, you know, Robert or Utama want me to meet with specific folks, you know, as well.
282 00:24:32.620 ⇒ 00:24:34.029 Kaela Gallagher: Yes. I think you also…
283 00:24:34.030 ⇒ 00:24:36.710 Garrett Gibson: called that out, right, in the ramp-up plan? Like.
284 00:24:37.130 ⇒ 00:24:39.300 Kaela Gallagher: who to… who to meet with.
285 00:24:39.300 ⇒ 00:24:40.319 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, too, yeah.
286 00:24:40.680 ⇒ 00:24:47.970 Kaela Gallagher: Yes, and you should be added to… I think there’s gonna be, like, an element sync today, kind of project planning.
287 00:24:47.970 ⇒ 00:24:51.110 Garrett Gibson: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I saw that at, like, 1.30, right?
288 00:24:51.110 ⇒ 00:24:53.240 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, I don’t know when, but I think.
289 00:24:53.240 ⇒ 00:24:53.710 Garrett Gibson: Okay, cool.
290 00:24:53.710 ⇒ 00:24:54.689 Kaela Gallagher: organizing it, so…
291 00:24:54.690 ⇒ 00:24:57.619 Garrett Gibson: Okay, cool. I’ll join that also. Cool.
292 00:24:57.620 ⇒ 00:25:04.330 Kaela Gallagher: And then I added you to, like, our LA team channel, we call it the LA Crew.
293 00:25:04.460 ⇒ 00:25:08.670 Kaela Gallagher: We usually get together, like, probably once a week, and we just
294 00:25:09.360 ⇒ 00:25:14.270 Kaela Gallagher: get lunch in, like, Culver, and then we just co-work for the afternoon.
295 00:25:14.270 ⇒ 00:25:14.610 Garrett Gibson: Awesome.
296 00:25:14.610 ⇒ 00:25:19.100 Kaela Gallagher: So not, like, a requirement, but.
297 00:25:19.100 ⇒ 00:25:24.339 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I’ll try to make it, I don’t know if I can join in person, but I’ll at least, you know, try to join the Zoom there.
298 00:25:24.750 ⇒ 00:25:25.370 Kaela Gallagher: Okay.
299 00:25:25.370 ⇒ 00:25:26.130 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
300 00:25:26.130 ⇒ 00:25:28.180 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, we won’t have a Zoom.
301 00:25:28.180 ⇒ 00:25:30.370 Garrett Gibson: Oh, I thought there was a Zoom.
302 00:25:31.060 ⇒ 00:25:32.109 Garrett Gibson: For the invite.
303 00:25:32.110 ⇒ 00:25:32.520 Kaela Gallagher: Oh.
304 00:25:33.300 ⇒ 00:25:37.489 Kaela Gallagher: Let me delete… Yeah, let me delete the Zoom, because it’ll be in person.
305 00:25:37.490 ⇒ 00:25:38.290 Garrett Gibson: Got it, okay.
306 00:25:38.290 ⇒ 00:25:40.869 Kaela Gallagher: I’ll just add, like, wherever we go.
307 00:25:40.870 ⇒ 00:25:41.680 Garrett Gibson: Okay, cool.
308 00:25:41.680 ⇒ 00:25:42.910 Kaela Gallagher: lunch there.
309 00:25:43.120 ⇒ 00:25:50.210 Garrett Gibson: I’ll try to make it, yeah, if, yeah, just if you put in the, like, the location there, I’ll, yeah, try to at least swing by.
310 00:25:50.210 ⇒ 00:25:56.879 Kaela Gallagher: Okay, yeah, we usually do downtown Culver, because Amber doesn’t, have a car, and so she can.
311 00:25:56.880 ⇒ 00:25:57.690 Garrett Gibson: Okay, yeah, yeah.
312 00:25:57.690 ⇒ 00:26:04.719 Kaela Gallagher: within downtown Culver, so it’s, like, the easiest, so it’ll be somewhere there. Awesome. I’ll keep you posted.
313 00:26:04.720 ⇒ 00:26:09.710 Garrett Gibson: Sounds good. Now, yeah, that’s great to be able to meet in person, too, so…
314 00:26:09.710 ⇒ 00:26:15.860 Kaela Gallagher: It’s been fun. We have a good… and it’s literally half a day per week, so it’s, like, nothing too crazy.
315 00:26:15.860 ⇒ 00:26:17.840 Garrett Gibson: Perfect.
316 00:26:18.160 ⇒ 00:26:18.710 Kaela Gallagher: Awesome!
317 00:26:18.710 ⇒ 00:26:25.450 Garrett Gibson: Alright, Kayla. Well, yeah, thanks so much, and yeah, I’ll just, you know, I’ll check in with you maybe, like, next week, you know, or something.
318 00:26:25.450 ⇒ 00:26:25.900 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah.
319 00:26:25.900 ⇒ 00:26:27.459 Garrett Gibson: You know, let you know how it’s going.
320 00:26:27.810 ⇒ 00:26:30.500 Kaela Gallagher: Yeah, we’ll do a one-week check-in. I think I already have it on here.
321 00:26:30.500 ⇒ 00:26:32.480 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, you guys have that, never mind.
322 00:26:33.300 ⇒ 00:26:33.690 Garrett Gibson: Alright.
323 00:26:33.690 ⇒ 00:26:34.119 Kaela Gallagher: Let me know.
324 00:26:34.120 ⇒ 00:26:34.530 Garrett Gibson: Thanks so much.
325 00:26:34.530 ⇒ 00:26:35.590 Kaela Gallagher: Perfect.
326 00:26:35.590 ⇒ 00:26:37.239 Garrett Gibson: I’ll talk to you later. Okay, bye.