Meeting Title: Brainforge Onboarding and Project Planning Date: 2026-04-06 Meeting participants: Garrett Gibson, Greg Stoutenburg


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1 00:00:22.790 00:00:23.309 Garrett Gibson: There you go.

2 00:00:24.130 00:00:25.220 Garrett Gibson: How you doing?

3 00:00:25.330 00:00:26.819 Greg Stoutenburg: Welcome to Brainforge!

4 00:00:26.820 00:00:29.420 Garrett Gibson: Thank you. Happy to be here.

5 00:00:29.690 00:00:33.270 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, very cool. So, sorry.

6 00:00:33.270 00:00:40.699 Garrett Gibson: And, yeah, just getting, you know, onboarded a lot, especially with, you know, Cursor and GitHub, stuff like that.

7 00:00:40.700 00:00:43.609 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yup, it’s a lot, and it’s all at once.

8 00:00:43.610 00:00:53.199 Garrett Gibson: Yeah. Yeah. But, actually, making good progress. I think I almost got Cursor, like, desktop connected to the Brainforge platform there. I had a…

9 00:00:53.310 00:00:59.150 Garrett Gibson: snag with the, the GitHub desktop is when I was working with Bryl, I think his name is, right?

10 00:00:59.150 00:01:00.840 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah. Or just B, you can just call it B.

11 00:01:00.840 00:01:06.650 Garrett Gibson: Yeah. So, yeah, I think by tomorrow, I’m gonna meet with them. I should have everything, squared away, so…

12 00:01:06.780 00:01:10.340 Greg Stoutenburg: Sweet. Alright, good for you. Going fast.

13 00:01:10.340 00:01:13.220 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, how’s everything, in your world?

14 00:01:13.220 00:01:19.160 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, good, yeah, good. So we’ll be, we’ll be on the same team, on the, strategy team, so that’s cool.

15 00:01:19.160 00:01:23.960 Garrett Gibson: Awesome. If you think it makes sense for us to also have, like, maybe a weekly one-on-one, like, I can just find…

16 00:01:24.090 00:01:25.860 Garrett Gibson: What time on your calendar, or something like that.

17 00:01:25.860 00:01:26.400 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.

18 00:01:26.400 00:01:26.770 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.

19 00:01:26.770 00:01:28.740 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, and at least for now, like.

20 00:01:28.740 00:01:29.779 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, just to get started.

21 00:01:29.780 00:01:36.909 Greg Stoutenburg: Brainforge Buddy thing is that, like, at least for a month, you know, we’ll talk about, like, it’s not, like, formal onboarding, but it’s just, like, you know.

22 00:01:36.910 00:01:37.679 Garrett Gibson: Just a casual thing.

23 00:01:37.680 00:01:38.410 Greg Stoutenburg: Roman…

24 00:01:38.410 00:01:38.890 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.

25 00:01:38.890 00:01:40.239 Greg Stoutenburg: I use this thing, you know.

26 00:01:40.240 00:01:40.860 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.

27 00:01:41.110 00:01:47.340 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so, yeah, but then, yeah, and then, you know, as we’re working on our projects and stuff, we’ll be in touch.

28 00:01:47.340 00:01:47.880 Garrett Gibson: yet.

29 00:01:47.880 00:01:48.900 Greg Stoutenburg: Often. Yeah.

30 00:01:48.900 00:01:57.220 Garrett Gibson: Exactly, absolutely. Yeah, I’m just, just gonna use the first couple days. I got a lot of, like, back-to-back meetings today, you know, Utam and Robert…

31 00:01:57.220 00:01:57.570 Greg Stoutenburg: of it.

32 00:01:58.600 00:02:04.390 Garrett Gibson: But yeah, tomorrow I’m gonna, you know, get in more of the weeds, you know, cursor and stuff like that, and…

33 00:02:04.610 00:02:15.339 Garrett Gibson: It was nice, Kayla from Recruiting created kind of, like, a ramp-up plan, you know, for me in Notion, so I’m just, you know, going through the details of that, you know, what kind of projects am I gonna touch, you know.

34 00:02:15.340 00:02:15.710 Greg Stoutenburg: Something like that.

35 00:02:15.710 00:02:16.500 Garrett Gibson: but…

36 00:02:16.500 00:02:19.529 Greg Stoutenburg: So what did they say to begin with? So, I mean, I saw your ramp-up plan, it helped edit.

37 00:02:19.530 00:02:20.349 Garrett Gibson: Oh, I used that.

38 00:02:20.350 00:02:25.040 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, what are, like, as far as the conversations that you’ve been having, what are.

39 00:02:25.040 00:02:26.920 Garrett Gibson: I’ve only had one conversation somewhere.

40 00:02:26.920 00:02:27.610 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, alright.

41 00:02:27.610 00:02:37.199 Garrett Gibson: But yeah, I mean, just, you know, looking at the ramp-up plan, I think there’s a kind of a planning meeting this afternoon, it’s called, like, LMNT. I think you’re on that one too, right? Yeah.

42 00:02:37.200 00:02:37.969 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep, yep.

43 00:02:37.970 00:02:38.680 Garrett Gibson: goes…

44 00:02:38.680 00:02:42.949 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, that’s Element, that’s the, that’s the hydration company.

45 00:02:42.950 00:02:48.849 Garrett Gibson: Right, so that’s probably, like, a project, right, that we’ll be… Yep. …working on together. That’s one client. Yep. Yeah.

46 00:02:49.470 00:02:56.250 Garrett Gibson: And then… yeah, I’m gonna meet with Robert, gonna have, like, a weekly one-on-one, with him as well.

47 00:02:56.690 00:03:02.820 Garrett Gibson: And then I see other kind of, like, LMNT project onboarding stuff, like, you know, getting access to Snowflake.

48 00:03:03.030 00:03:08.709 Garrett Gibson: I’ll probably… I have a call with Amber tomorrow, so I’ll probably… I’ll touch base with her, on that.

49 00:03:09.260 00:03:14.950 Garrett Gibson: And, yeah, meeting with Brile tomorrow, maybe I’ll talk to him about, you know, elements.

50 00:03:14.950 00:03:15.410 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.

51 00:03:15.410 00:03:17.180 Garrett Gibson: A little bit more detail also.

52 00:03:17.560 00:03:18.909 Garrett Gibson: Yup. Yup.

53 00:03:19.030 00:03:27.109 Garrett Gibson: I think for the first week, those are the key… the key things, and then just look… peeking ahead to next week, looking more at, like, the Omni dashboards, I think.

54 00:03:27.610 00:03:29.720 Garrett Gibson: Is one thing. Yep.

55 00:03:30.210 00:03:46.060 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep, yeah, cool. Yeah, I’m… so, there are a few work streams running right now for Element. I’m just running the Omni one, so they’ve been getting all the reporting through spreadsheets, and they don’t use a BI tool at all, and so I’m getting them set up with Omni.

56 00:03:46.270 00:03:47.380 Garrett Gibson: Perfect.

57 00:03:47.380 00:03:48.750 Greg Stoutenburg: what that one’s about.

58 00:03:48.750 00:03:51.800 Garrett Gibson: And then, so they’re using Snowflake as their, like, data warehouse?

59 00:03:51.800 00:04:00.319 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so they’ve been getting… we’ve got scripts that pull from Snowflake, and then put stuff into, spreadsheets, and then they just look at spreadsheets.

60 00:04:00.320 00:04:01.330 Garrett Gibson: Okay, got it.

61 00:04:01.660 00:04:06.469 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. So, one… one step ahead of manual pulse.

62 00:04:07.960 00:04:09.890 Garrett Gibson: Better than nothing, right? Yeah.

63 00:04:09.890 00:04:14.450 Greg Stoutenburg: So we’re trying to, like, we’re trying to paint the vision of this, like, amazing, you know.

64 00:04:14.450 00:04:15.330 Garrett Gibson: architecture.

65 00:04:15.330 00:04:17.630 Greg Stoutenburg: officer’s future. Yeah, exactly.

66 00:04:17.630 00:04:18.240 Garrett Gibson: Cool.

67 00:04:18.240 00:04:19.450 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep.

68 00:04:19.459 00:04:26.659 Garrett Gibson: Awesome. So I guess in terms of, like, deliverables for that project, like, where I can kind of help out, maybe, like, with some of the presentations and, like.

69 00:04:27.019 00:04:33.709 Garrett Gibson: Right, materials, right, and things like that around, you know, maybe the data architecture, like system design, stuff like that, maybe?

70 00:04:33.710 00:04:39.439 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so, I mean, so it’s in a pilot phase right now, and, so if we can…

71 00:04:39.440 00:04:41.130 Garrett Gibson: A bit more, maybe, yeah, for the client.

72 00:04:41.350 00:04:48.829 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, if we… if we can… if we can nail retail and wholesale reporting, then the plan is that they’ll then,

73 00:04:49.250 00:04:52.760 Greg Stoutenburg: Actually, I need to make a note. I need the wholesale spec.

74 00:04:53.510 00:04:59.179 Greg Stoutenburg: Then the goal would be that they would expand and do all the reporting through Omni.

75 00:04:59.180 00:04:59.690 Garrett Gibson: Okay.

76 00:04:59.690 00:05:00.230 Greg Stoutenburg: So…

77 00:05:00.230 00:05:00.970 Garrett Gibson: Makes sense.

78 00:05:00.970 00:05:07.990 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, as far as, like, team roles and stuff, I mean, I forget, what… did they say what title?

79 00:05:08.290 00:05:11.780 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I’m like a strategy lead, I think, or something like that.

80 00:05:12.190 00:05:23.260 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, like… client success owner for strategy? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, okay. So, yeah, I wonder,

81 00:05:24.640 00:05:27.090 Garrett Gibson: I guess maybe Robert or Tom could be more information.

82 00:05:27.090 00:05:29.729 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I’ll clarify that, but,

83 00:05:30.510 00:05:33.129 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I’m pulling up your ramp-up plan now.

84 00:05:36.000 00:05:38.449 Garrett Gibson: It was gonna kinda go week by week.

85 00:05:38.450 00:05:39.720 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yep.

86 00:05:40.540 00:05:44.959 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I don’t know, maybe the thought is that you would take over for the element expansion.

87 00:05:45.610 00:05:46.360 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.

88 00:05:47.990 00:05:48.850 Greg Stoutenburg: Possible.

89 00:05:48.850 00:05:49.410 Garrett Gibson: Cool.

90 00:05:51.860 00:05:56.250 Garrett Gibson: Oh, I see, let’s see, exit criteria, 30 days, LMNC onboarding…

91 00:05:57.080 00:06:02.429 Garrett Gibson: Of the gaps you notice from the first 10 days, link documents where you’ve outlined pain points.

92 00:06:03.060 00:06:11.009 Garrett Gibson: Link documents where you’ve outlined solutions? Have you distributed across channels for views? Have you standardized into cursor’s backend?

93 00:06:11.820 00:06:14.580 Garrett Gibson: okay.

94 00:06:16.100 00:06:18.890 Garrett Gibson: Kind of just more like the documentation along…

95 00:06:18.890 00:06:19.370 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.

96 00:06:19.370 00:06:23.639 Garrett Gibson: Like the project, right? Kind of the strategy and things like that.

97 00:06:23.960 00:06:24.660 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.

98 00:06:25.500 00:06:29.230 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I’m not sure… I’m not sure what the goal is for you on Element.

99 00:06:29.230 00:06:29.790 Garrett Gibson: bro.

100 00:06:30.040 00:06:32.770 Greg Stoutenburg: I mean, it might be some other work stream on Element.

101 00:06:32.770 00:06:33.090 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.

102 00:06:33.090 00:06:34.670 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s true.

103 00:06:34.670 00:06:36.229 Garrett Gibson: Find out more details.

104 00:06:36.230 00:06:37.170 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah.

105 00:06:37.170 00:06:41.150 Garrett Gibson: I also see down here, it says, after 30 days, like, Eden onboarding, do you know what Eden is?

106 00:06:42.950 00:06:51.000 Greg Stoutenburg: Eden is a… they’re… They’re… they’re either our longest or our, most valuable client.

107 00:06:51.000 00:06:51.960 Garrett Gibson: Okay.

108 00:06:51.960 00:07:11.639 Greg Stoutenburg: They are… I mean, you can check it out, it’s like Eden.com or TryEden.com. They do, they’re a service that provides various, drugs and peptides. You know, you do an intake, a doctor reviews it, then you can get GLP-1, or you can get, like, testosterone replacement therapies, like, things like that.

109 00:07:11.890 00:07:12.610 Garrett Gibson: Okay.

110 00:07:12.610 00:07:32.010 Greg Stoutenburg: So, we work with them pretty extensively, we do a lot of data stuff for them, we do a lot of marketing stuff for them. Zoran is majorly involved there. It’s been managed by Robert for a long time. He knows all these guys. Yeah, we’re running… at any given time, we’re running several work streams for Eden.

111 00:07:32.200 00:07:33.280 Garrett Gibson: Okay.

112 00:07:33.280 00:07:34.020 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.

113 00:07:34.160 00:07:38.340 Garrett Gibson: Maybe he just wants me to start with Element, and then kind of ramp up to that, or something like that?

114 00:07:38.340 00:07:38.890 Greg Stoutenburg: I think so.

115 00:07:39.910 00:07:47.099 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, and we’ll get more of a sense from Jasmine in, you know, a couple hours here about, like, what the goal or plan is.

116 00:07:47.230 00:07:48.120 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.

117 00:07:48.570 00:07:54.060 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, my guess is that they want, you know… my name is mentioned on your ramp up plan a lot, I think, because…

118 00:07:54.060 00:07:55.599 Garrett Gibson: That’s how I was gonna set up the weekly.

119 00:07:55.600 00:07:56.070 Greg Stoutenburg: stuff.

120 00:07:56.070 00:07:57.250 Garrett Gibson: One-on-one, yeah.

121 00:07:57.250 00:07:58.750 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, exactly, so…

122 00:07:58.750 00:08:02.050 Garrett Gibson: Let me write down some notes here, because so many things…

123 00:08:02.050 00:08:03.849 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, definitely, I know there are some other things.

124 00:08:03.850 00:08:06.499 Garrett Gibson: Like, rescheduling meetings and, you know, stuff like that.

125 00:08:06.840 00:08:08.980 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, how’s your calendar so far?

126 00:08:08.980 00:08:17.199 Garrett Gibson: Not too bad, but trying not to overload it either, because then the meetings… I see meetings, like, they get, you know, scheduled sometimes, too.

127 00:08:17.200 00:08:18.130 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.

128 00:08:18.130 00:08:18.500 Garrett Gibson: I know.

129 00:08:18.500 00:08:19.980 Greg Stoutenburg: A lot of stuff comes in just, like, last minute.

130 00:08:19.980 00:08:22.630 Garrett Gibson: Exactly. Set up.

131 00:08:22.630 00:08:23.169 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, fair.

132 00:08:23.170 00:08:27.399 Garrett Gibson: one-on-one with Greg and Robert, yeah.

133 00:08:27.590 00:08:30.290 Garrett Gibson: So I’ll make sure I do that, and then…

134 00:08:31.590 00:08:36.779 Garrett Gibson: I’ll meet some of these other folks, like… Advaya, is that his name?

135 00:08:36.780 00:08:38.859 Greg Stoutenburg: Advait, yep. Advait, yeah.

136 00:08:38.950 00:08:40.149 Garrett Gibson: Snowflake, yeah.

137 00:08:40.809 00:08:42.200 Garrett Gibson: Stuff like that.

138 00:08:42.330 00:08:47.799 Garrett Gibson: And then Sam Roberts? I don’t think I’ve met him yet.

139 00:08:47.940 00:08:48.820 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep.

140 00:08:49.050 00:08:51.779 Garrett Gibson: Clarence Stone…

141 00:08:53.470 00:08:59.399 Garrett Gibson: Jasmine, she, yeah, set up the meeting later. Yeah, I can just, already set up one-on-ones with a couple of these folks.

142 00:09:00.420 00:09:01.890 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, cool.

143 00:09:02.180 00:09:08.299 Garrett Gibson: Awesome, man. Well, yeah, looking forward to getting started, yeah, just, doing the onboarding, you know, mostly today, so…

144 00:09:08.300 00:09:12.020 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that’s cool.

145 00:09:12.020 00:09:16.549 Garrett Gibson: calendar, does that make sense for kind of a one-on-one?

146 00:09:16.580 00:09:19.579 Greg Stoutenburg: Jess, feel free to just check my calendar. Sounds good.

147 00:09:20.320 00:09:21.880 Greg Stoutenburg: Give me one second…

148 00:09:21.880 00:09:22.400 Garrett Gibson: True.

149 00:09:35.180 00:09:36.949 Greg Stoutenburg: Make sure I’m not, like, missing anything.

150 00:09:37.150 00:09:37.970 Garrett Gibson: Of course.

151 00:09:38.810 00:09:39.570 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.

152 00:09:46.870 00:09:55.640 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, cool. Alright, well, yeah, I’m just sort of just looking over the Brainforge buddy, thing.

153 00:09:55.760 00:10:12.689 Greg Stoutenburg: So yeah, I mean, basically, so aside from anything on, like, project work, you can come to me for onboarding-related things that aren’t, like, official, give me access to this, or what’s the policy on that, more of just, like, how do we do things around here? You know, that’s kind of more the intention of it.

154 00:10:12.690 00:10:13.350 Garrett Gibson: That makes sense.

155 00:10:13.350 00:10:17.009 Greg Stoutenburg: So, yeah, and you can just, you know, any questions you have or anything, you can run it by me.

156 00:10:17.010 00:10:17.390 Garrett Gibson: Yep.

157 00:10:17.390 00:10:20.870 Greg Stoutenburg: But yeah, and then we’ll just basically be in touch, and you know, let’s make sure…

158 00:10:20.930 00:10:23.209 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, we’ll have meetings, you know, together on Thursday.

159 00:10:23.210 00:10:24.079 Greg Stoutenburg: I mean, how things are going.

160 00:10:24.180 00:10:24.700 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.

161 00:10:25.000 00:10:25.950 Greg Stoutenburg: Got it.

162 00:10:26.060 00:10:31.739 Greg Stoutenburg: Cool. Cool, man. Alright, I mean, anything, on day one where you’re like, alright, here’s a thought, here’s a question?

163 00:10:31.740 00:10:48.570 Garrett Gibson: Not really. The things I’m, like, diving into is just more, like, like, B started sending me modules, you know, for, like, cursor setup and, things like that, so just making sure I, like, have everything kind of connected, like, to the company. That’s probably most important, just to start there, and then…

164 00:10:48.570 00:10:48.960 Greg Stoutenburg: Yup.

165 00:10:48.960 00:10:52.720 Garrett Gibson: Then I can get more into, like, the weeds of the projects, yeah, stuff like that.

166 00:10:52.720 00:10:53.379 Greg Stoutenburg: Sounds good.

167 00:10:54.130 00:11:04.350 Greg Stoutenburg: Tell you what, one thing to keep an eye out for is, when you are assigned a project, you’re asked to do work on a project, there’s a very good chance that you’ll have to ask people to add you to stuff.

168 00:11:04.530 00:11:08.030 Greg Stoutenburg: And you might not even know that there’s some resources that you should be using.

169 00:11:08.030 00:11:09.249 Garrett Gibson: Right, right, okay.

170 00:11:09.250 00:11:12.270 Greg Stoutenburg: Because you gotta ask for it. So, that would include things like… Yeah.

171 00:11:12.440 00:11:19.410 Greg Stoutenburg: access to Google Drive folders for a client, or access to,

172 00:11:19.800 00:11:21.920 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I mean… So maybe at that, like, 1.30…

173 00:11:21.920 00:11:24.709 Garrett Gibson: I should probably bring that up there, so that’d be a good…

174 00:11:25.230 00:11:26.130 Greg Stoutenburg: Sorry, what was that?

175 00:11:26.130 00:11:31.800 Garrett Gibson: Sorry, the 1.30 call where we have the, like, Element, I think? It’s, like, Element team call? Yeah. Should I probably bring it up there?

176 00:11:31.800 00:11:42.299 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, that’s a good idea. If there’s… if they want you working on something in Element, then you need access to Google Drive for Element, you need access to anything in Notion that’s relevant to Element.

177 00:11:42.300 00:11:43.220 Garrett Gibson: Great.

178 00:11:43.430 00:11:45.089 Greg Stoutenburg: That kind of stuff, yeah, yep.

179 00:11:45.090 00:11:47.650 Garrett Gibson: Cool. Gotta make sure to bring that up, then.

180 00:11:47.650 00:11:51.240 Greg Stoutenburg: I’ll… Alright, welcome. Yeah.

181 00:11:51.240 00:11:52.419 Garrett Gibson: Glad to be here.

182 00:11:52.420 00:11:55.090 Greg Stoutenburg: Read everything, and watch everything, and .

183 00:11:55.090 00:11:56.140 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, that’s.

184 00:11:56.140 00:11:57.320 Greg Stoutenburg: That’s how you do it. See you in a couple hours.

185 00:11:57.320 00:12:00.570 Garrett Gibson: Sounds good. Alright, I’ll see you then. Have a good one. Thanks. See ya. Bye.