Meeting Title: Payment and OKR Reporting Sync Date: 2026-04-08 Meeting participants: Uttam Kumaran, Rico Rejoso
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1 00:01:52.520 ⇒ 00:01:53.450 Rico Rejoso: Hello?
2 00:01:54.550 ⇒ 00:01:55.439 Uttam Kumaran: Hey, can you hear me?
3 00:01:56.310 ⇒ 00:01:57.269 Rico Rejoso: Yes, sir.
4 00:01:58.130 ⇒ 00:01:59.120 Uttam Kumaran: Jay, how are you?
5 00:01:59.620 ⇒ 00:02:00.799 Rico Rejoso: Good, I’m good, how are you?
6 00:02:01.520 ⇒ 00:02:02.910 Uttam Kumaran: Good, dude. How’s the week going?
7 00:02:04.400 ⇒ 00:02:07.780 Rico Rejoso: I was mainly, there was a lot of requests.
8 00:02:07.930 ⇒ 00:02:14.989 Rico Rejoso: Compared to the previous week, but yeah, all good. I was planning out my, how to do reporting for my OKR this week.
9 00:02:16.960 ⇒ 00:02:28.549 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I saw there’s… I also submitted a lot of requests. I think basically what we’re gonna have to figure out… maybe we can do this at the end, or the end of the week with me and you, but one thing I want you to try is to see, like.
10 00:02:29.120 ⇒ 00:02:34.330 Uttam Kumaran: you can go into Cursor and basically say, look at all the tickets that came in, what are some skills?
11 00:02:34.440 ⇒ 00:02:42.539 Uttam Kumaran: we can create, you know? Like, I think… I think a lot of the things where you’re going into tools, like adding users and stuff, we can try and,
12 00:02:43.490 ⇒ 00:02:45.380 Uttam Kumaran: You know, automate as a skill.
13 00:02:45.660 ⇒ 00:02:49.430 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe it’s something we could… we could work on together.
14 00:02:51.290 ⇒ 00:02:55.360 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I mean, I’m trying to evaluate, because I think I’m just spending the same time
15 00:02:55.590 ⇒ 00:02:59.030 Rico Rejoso: Putting in the skill and, you know, providing access.
16 00:02:59.170 ⇒ 00:02:59.920 Rico Rejoso: It’s the same time.
17 00:02:59.920 ⇒ 00:03:00.560 Uttam Kumaran: Oh.
18 00:03:00.740 ⇒ 00:03:09.600 Rico Rejoso: I think it’s not worth it just creating a skill. But if I were to create a skill, it’s for the metrics that I have for my OKR, which I’m currently exploring since…
19 00:03:09.970 ⇒ 00:03:13.020 Rico Rejoso: Cursor cannot read any update or a status update.
20 00:03:13.130 ⇒ 00:03:19.059 Rico Rejoso: Or coming from triage to other, active status. So I think that’s one issue. Oh, really?
21 00:03:19.560 ⇒ 00:03:29.640 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I wasn’t able to read that off. I was trying to create a scale off that so I can just, you know, use the scalar command to get my reports for my weekly OKRs.
22 00:03:30.160 ⇒ 00:03:33.249 Uttam Kumaran: Wait, I guess, like, can you explain that? What is it not able to do?
23 00:03:34.210 ⇒ 00:03:40.580 Rico Rejoso: I asked Chris for if it can, you know, pray, list down the tickets that came off triage.
24 00:03:40.810 ⇒ 00:03:50.300 Rico Rejoso: from triage than how long it spent in triage before it was changed status, and it says that it cannot read anything that’s coming off triage.
25 00:03:51.580 ⇒ 00:03:53.719 Rico Rejoso: So I wasn’t able to… so right now.
26 00:03:53.720 ⇒ 00:03:54.569 Uttam Kumaran: What I’m doing is just…
27 00:03:54.570 ⇒ 00:04:00.260 Rico Rejoso: really tracking those, like, how many hours that tickets spent in triage before I resolve them or move them from
28 00:04:00.450 ⇒ 00:04:05.049 Rico Rejoso: The triage status to an active status, or in progress status.
29 00:04:07.230 ⇒ 00:04:08.350 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
30 00:04:12.640 ⇒ 00:04:17.210 Uttam Kumaran: Maybe, yeah, I don’t know, maybe can you submit a ticket to the platform team? I can look into it.
31 00:04:17.810 ⇒ 00:04:19.349 Rico Rejoso: Okay, yeah, definitely.
32 00:04:20.959 ⇒ 00:04:25.709 Rico Rejoso: I was trying to resolve it myself, since it’s my OKR, but yeah, I’ll definitely submit one.
33 00:04:26.220 ⇒ 00:04:27.110 Uttam Kumaran: All good.
34 00:04:27.510 ⇒ 00:04:36.060 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I guess I just wanted to, like, call you and see if we can get through any, like, AP. I mean, first… the first most important thing is, like, anyone from the team that… that…
35 00:04:36.210 ⇒ 00:04:39.729 Uttam Kumaran: That we’re… we have outstanding payments from from last month.
36 00:04:41.720 ⇒ 00:04:54.889 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, from last month, we have, like, around 12 remaining folks, remaining outstanding, and a few from the previous months. So, I… I don’t know if you were able to check out the proposed list.
37 00:04:55.040 ⇒ 00:05:02.559 Rico Rejoso: For those folks, but mainly, our highest priority would be the tools that we have, Slackers or Clockify, pay that off.
38 00:05:02.940 ⇒ 00:05:04.959 Rico Rejoso: I’m not sure if you already dealt with it.
39 00:05:05.110 ⇒ 00:05:09.630 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I haven’t seen it on Chase, or if you use a different credit card.
40 00:05:10.510 ⇒ 00:05:13.160 Uttam Kumaran: It’s on the other card, but yeah, but all those are done.
41 00:05:13.630 ⇒ 00:05:14.580 Rico Rejoso: Okay, great.
42 00:05:16.100 ⇒ 00:05:23.190 Rico Rejoso: Alright, mine is in that. So, I proposed a couple. We have around 48,000… 48.6.
43 00:05:23.330 ⇒ 00:05:24.980 Rico Rejoso: of CFP amount.
44 00:05:25.930 ⇒ 00:05:31.359 Rico Rejoso: For our folks, and… Let me just calculate how many totals to…
45 00:05:32.250 ⇒ 00:05:36.119 Rico Rejoso: All of the remaining folks totals to 53.5.
46 00:05:36.550 ⇒ 00:05:42.130 Rico Rejoso: So I have a few proposals. Mainly, I wanted to prior our engineers, if possible.
47 00:05:42.790 ⇒ 00:05:43.630 Rico Rejoso: since…
48 00:05:43.630 ⇒ 00:05:47.489 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I just wanna start, I just wanna start with, like, any active team members.
49 00:05:47.850 ⇒ 00:05:49.320 Uttam Kumaran: from last month.
50 00:05:49.600 ⇒ 00:05:50.240 Rico Rejoso: Yeah.
51 00:05:50.770 ⇒ 00:05:52.630 Rico Rejoso: We have 11.
52 00:05:54.030 ⇒ 00:05:55.250 Uttam Kumaran: Like, who are they?
53 00:05:56.720 ⇒ 00:06:00.410 Rico Rejoso: make, it’s Casey Ann Ashwini.
54 00:06:00.890 ⇒ 00:06:08.280 Rico Rejoso: Jasmine, Raymond, Sam, Zoran, Amber, Hannah, and Sriyam.
55 00:06:11.380 ⇒ 00:06:14.869 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay, okay. Alright, let’s go… I think we can… let’s…
56 00:06:15.240 ⇒ 00:06:19.259 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s pause on Sriram, because he’s okay, for a bit.
57 00:06:19.460 ⇒ 00:06:22.670 Uttam Kumaran: I think everybody else, we can… we can go for it.
58 00:06:24.410 ⇒ 00:06:27.039 Rico Rejoso: Okay, let me just calculate how much would that cost.
59 00:06:27.720 ⇒ 00:06:30.139 Rico Rejoso: And it fits within our budget.
60 00:06:38.350 ⇒ 00:06:40.940 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, that totals around to 46.9.
61 00:06:43.200 ⇒ 00:06:44.189 Uttam Kumaran: Goes too high?
62 00:06:45.270 ⇒ 00:06:49.650 Rico Rejoso: Now, we’re in… I mean, we still have, like, around… 3K.
63 00:06:49.930 ⇒ 00:06:53.430 Rico Rejoso: Remaining if we pay the… we pay everyone off.
64 00:06:54.520 ⇒ 00:06:57.549 Uttam Kumaran: So what about, like, if we pause… if we pause on Jasmine?
65 00:07:01.440 ⇒ 00:07:04.979 Rico Rejoso: Jasmine, let me see… Jasmine is just around 1.7.
66 00:07:06.500 ⇒ 00:07:11.660 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I want to try to keep at least… keep at least, like, 5K to $10K in the cash at any moment.
67 00:07:12.160 ⇒ 00:07:13.510 Rico Rejoso: Okay, got you.
68 00:07:16.380 ⇒ 00:07:22.879 Uttam Kumaran: So, I think we… let’s… let’s, wait on, sriram and Jasmine.
69 00:07:23.310 ⇒ 00:07:28.859 Uttam Kumaran: Everyone else, that’s fine. And then we should have 20 come in.
70 00:07:29.010 ⇒ 00:07:30.470 Uttam Kumaran: Probably tomorrow, right?
71 00:07:31.580 ⇒ 00:07:42.930 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I mean, the 20 is already included in this one. If we exclude 20, that’s around 28,000. But since we’re expecting a pending of 20,000 from Eden, that’s around $48,000.
72 00:07:44.360 ⇒ 00:07:46.050 Rico Rejoso: Minus all the costs.
73 00:07:46.350 ⇒ 00:07:48.190 Rico Rejoso: Credit card reimbursement and stuff.
74 00:07:50.300 ⇒ 00:07:52.679 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, then I think we should go ahead with those folks.
75 00:07:56.860 ⇒ 00:07:59.829 Rico Rejoso: I also recommend not paying, Eliza yet.
76 00:08:00.210 ⇒ 00:08:01.359 Rico Rejoso: I haven’t received.
77 00:08:01.360 ⇒ 00:08:02.920 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah, yeah, I agree.
78 00:08:03.750 ⇒ 00:08:07.000 Rico Rejoso: I haven’t respond… I haven’t gotten any response from her yet.
79 00:08:09.290 ⇒ 00:08:10.010 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
80 00:08:11.010 ⇒ 00:08:11.549 Rico Rejoso: Got it.
81 00:08:11.950 ⇒ 00:08:22.469 Rico Rejoso: So, with our safe-to-pay amount of 48.6, if we try to pay off everyone that’s active, excluding, Eliza, Jasmine, and Sriyam, we have around 5,000 left.
82 00:08:28.670 ⇒ 00:08:40.470 Rico Rejoso: And one thing, even though I, even though if you suggest or propose this one, I think I don’t have any access yet on RAMP to initiate payment. Would you like to give me access so I can do that on your behalf, or would you still be.
83 00:08:40.470 ⇒ 00:08:43.850 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, yeah, I would.
84 00:08:44.059 ⇒ 00:08:48.870 Uttam Kumaran: I’m wondering… I’m driving right now, but maybe I can try to do that in the next hour?
85 00:08:49.340 ⇒ 00:08:51.860 Uttam Kumaran: My ramp stuff, my login isn’t there.
86 00:08:57.770 ⇒ 00:08:59.690 Uttam Kumaran: Do you see my login there, or no?
87 00:09:00.290 ⇒ 00:09:02.320 Rico Rejoso: No, I don’t.
88 00:09:02.630 ⇒ 00:09:06.170 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, I’ll see if I can check my 1Password on my phone and send it to you.
89 00:09:06.900 ⇒ 00:09:07.790 Rico Rejoso: Okay, yeah.
90 00:09:07.950 ⇒ 00:09:08.760 Rico Rejoso: Focus on driving.
91 00:09:10.300 ⇒ 00:09:11.630 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
92 00:09:12.170 ⇒ 00:09:15.320 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
93 00:09:15.850 ⇒ 00:09:17.380 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s fine.
94 00:09:17.730 ⇒ 00:09:21.679 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, we’re still waiting on this Remo and default payment, right?
95 00:09:22.310 ⇒ 00:09:23.120 Rico Rejoso: Yeah.
96 00:09:24.230 ⇒ 00:09:24.820 Rico Rejoso: Default?
97 00:09:24.820 ⇒ 00:09:27.520 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay, and it’s Laura now.
98 00:09:30.110 ⇒ 00:09:36.340 Uttam Kumaran: I got the message from Caitlin. It’s, lauraDefault.com.
99 00:09:36.790 ⇒ 00:09:37.560 Rico Rejoso: Okay.
100 00:09:37.750 ⇒ 00:09:42.329 Rico Rejoso: Let me send that, and let me change our invoices and photos.
101 00:09:43.530 ⇒ 00:09:46.010 Rico Rejoso: It’s L-O-R-A, right?
102 00:09:46.820 ⇒ 00:09:48.650 Uttam Kumaran: L-A-U-R-A.
103 00:09:49.040 ⇒ 00:09:50.669 Rico Rejoso: L-A-U, okay, gotcha.
104 00:09:56.620 ⇒ 00:10:00.089 Rico Rejoso: Okay, let me update that and bring them again, with the invoices.
105 00:10:02.260 ⇒ 00:10:05.399 Rico Rejoso: Maybe we can decide after, once we got those pending invoices.
106 00:10:08.170 ⇒ 00:10:10.870 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I mean, we’re… and did the element invoice go out?
107 00:10:12.130 ⇒ 00:10:18.810 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, Element and CPA are all clear. We’re just… the only pending is the Eden invoice.
108 00:10:18.810 ⇒ 00:10:21.879 Uttam Kumaran: No, no, no, did the new Element one, the 90K one, go out?
109 00:10:21.880 ⇒ 00:10:23.940 Rico Rejoso: No, no, we haven’t got any…
110 00:10:24.900 ⇒ 00:10:31.119 Uttam Kumaran: Can you tell them to send it today? Like, they shouldn’t, like, I don’t care about mapping it. Just tell them to send it right now.
111 00:10:32.610 ⇒ 00:10:37.269 Uttam Kumaran: It’s… Like, it’s 2 days, like, I don’t understand what they’re doing.
112 00:10:38.590 ⇒ 00:10:44.420 Rico Rejoso: Okay, I’m gonna let Finance know. Let me see the invoices we have it on… Hero.
113 00:10:44.420 ⇒ 00:10:50.920 Uttam Kumaran: It’s so clear… it’s so clear on the SOW, right? So I don’t know why they’re debating. It’s, like, $90,000.
114 00:10:51.650 ⇒ 00:10:55.180 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, and also it was already… it’s just 92.6.
115 00:10:55.180 ⇒ 00:10:58.339 Uttam Kumaran: It’s already late, yeah, so tell them it’s, like, super urgent.
116 00:10:58.460 ⇒ 00:11:02.360 Uttam Kumaran: And they should send it, like, immediately. We’ve already lost, like, time.
117 00:11:03.290 ⇒ 00:11:07.090 Rico Rejoso: Gotcha, yeah, definitely. It’s not yet on QuickBooks.
118 00:11:07.950 ⇒ 00:11:10.290 Rico Rejoso: So I’ll ping them about it, let them know.
119 00:11:10.290 ⇒ 00:11:25.049 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, this is where, like, I don’t understand why people are taking days and days, like, it’s so frustrating, dude. I’m like, just do the fucking thing that we said, you know? It’s like… me and you, and all of our… we go fast, and it’s like…
120 00:11:25.210 ⇒ 00:11:28.099 Uttam Kumaran: They’re, like, debating, oh, should we do the… it’s like…
121 00:11:28.280 ⇒ 00:11:31.730 Uttam Kumaran: Figure, close the loop, like, figure it out, you know?
122 00:11:32.190 ⇒ 00:11:33.810 Rico Rejoso: Especially things like this.
123 00:11:33.950 ⇒ 00:11:35.260 Rico Rejoso: It’s affecting a lot.
124 00:11:35.260 ⇒ 00:11:40.250 Uttam Kumaran: It’s their only job. Yeah, it’s their only job, like… You know?
125 00:11:40.350 ⇒ 00:11:43.310 Uttam Kumaran: So… I think that’s where I, like…
126 00:11:43.420 ⇒ 00:11:48.380 Uttam Kumaran: I think if you can just tell them, like, hey, this needs to go out, we’re already, like, late.
127 00:11:49.280 ⇒ 00:11:50.130 Uttam Kumaran: like…
128 00:11:51.650 ⇒ 00:11:56.339 Uttam Kumaran: I just, like, tell them to make the best decision on whatever it is, and then go for it.
129 00:11:57.900 ⇒ 00:12:02.639 Rico Rejoso: Got you. And also, they don’t have to break it down, it’s just one service, to be honest.
130 00:12:03.950 ⇒ 00:12:07.440 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, it’s just… just cares about… the client doesn’t care about that.
131 00:12:09.510 ⇒ 00:12:10.070 Rico Rejoso: Okay.
132 00:12:10.500 ⇒ 00:12:15.659 Rico Rejoso: I’m confirming with them, and also… 92.6, yeah.
133 00:12:18.720 ⇒ 00:12:23.880 Rico Rejoso: based off the LMNT payment patterns, they usually paid off
134 00:12:24.290 ⇒ 00:12:32.309 Rico Rejoso: During the last day of the net 15. So if we send this out, we’ll probably receive it around the end of month, which…
135 00:12:34.400 ⇒ 00:12:36.510 Rico Rejoso: Lots of days to cover, yeah.
136 00:12:37.190 ⇒ 00:12:43.269 Rico Rejoso: And what are your plans once we… once we got that? How much are we off that $92K? How much are we…
137 00:12:43.390 ⇒ 00:12:50.229 Rico Rejoso: Spending for? Are we gonna hire new, new folks to cover up some stuff for, other services that we’re offering?
138 00:12:50.230 ⇒ 00:12:54.800 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, that’s really gonna cover, like, Jasmine, Garrett, An odd fate.
139 00:12:55.730 ⇒ 00:13:03.020 Uttam Kumaran: But we should… we… but it’s probably only… we’re probably only gonna have, like, 50 or 60K of spend associated with that 90K.
140 00:13:04.110 ⇒ 00:13:05.650 Rico Rejoso: Okay, that’s great.
141 00:13:05.850 ⇒ 00:13:12.020 Uttam Kumaran: So it’s a good deal, but that’s why I’m like, Yeah.
142 00:13:12.380 ⇒ 00:13:13.050 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, because I want.
143 00:13:13.050 ⇒ 00:13:13.370 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
144 00:13:13.370 ⇒ 00:13:14.410 Rico Rejoso: like a fortress. Yeah.
145 00:13:14.760 ⇒ 00:13:22.039 Rico Rejoso: If we try to, you know, we try to get two more deals like that, we’ll probably be out of the slump by second quarter of the year.
146 00:13:23.010 ⇒ 00:13:25.929 Uttam Kumaran: I’m trying. I remember trying.
147 00:13:25.960 ⇒ 00:13:26.780 Rico Rejoso: Yeah.
148 00:13:27.000 ⇒ 00:13:29.700 Uttam Kumaran: Trying everything I can, so… yeah.
149 00:13:30.840 ⇒ 00:13:31.410 Rico Rejoso: Okay.
150 00:13:31.880 ⇒ 00:13:42.139 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, I just need the access for RAMP, or if I got to initiate payments, once I do, I’ll proceed and confirm, send confirmation through our stack channel, letting you know about it, okay?
151 00:13:42.840 ⇒ 00:13:44.270 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
152 00:13:44.270 ⇒ 00:13:58.620 Rico Rejoso: Well, then by the way, I forgot to mention, I’ll be out of office. It’s supposed to be Thursday, Friday, but I need to come in Thursday to make my report for our weekly OKR, so I’ll be doing a half-day work on Thursday, but Friday.
153 00:13:58.620 ⇒ 00:13:59.210 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
154 00:13:59.670 ⇒ 00:14:03.659 Rico Rejoso: all day off, so let me know if you need anything that we need to prior, and I’ll work on it ASAP.
155 00:14:04.350 ⇒ 00:14:06.959 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, can you just let people know I can cover for you?
156 00:14:07.960 ⇒ 00:14:09.330 Rico Rejoso: Yeah, definitely, I’ll let them know.
157 00:14:10.080 ⇒ 00:14:16.209 Uttam Kumaran: Or, like, I think me, me or Bea can, like, maybe it’s me or Bea… me, Bea, or Kayla, basically, cover for you.
158 00:14:17.020 ⇒ 00:14:23.810 Rico Rejoso: I’ll try to see, because we’re going to a remote island to celebrate our anniversary, so I’m not sure if I don’t… if I have signaled it.
159 00:14:24.600 ⇒ 00:14:33.719 Uttam Kumaran: No, that’s fine, take your time, take the time off, but, like, I think just, let us know. I would prefer if one of them can cover, but I can also be…
160 00:14:34.280 ⇒ 00:14:35.549 Uttam Kumaran: the other backup.
161 00:14:35.930 ⇒ 00:14:38.410 Rico Rejoso: Okay, I’ll add in one on our Founding Ops channel.
162 00:14:39.430 ⇒ 00:14:40.740 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
163 00:14:41.240 ⇒ 00:14:42.370 Rico Rejoso: Alright, thank you.
164 00:14:42.970 ⇒ 00:14:44.350 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, thank you, bye.
165 00:14:44.350 ⇒ 00:14:45.540 Rico Rejoso: Alright, drive safely.