Meeting Title: Brainforge Weekly Deck Update Sync Date: 2026-04-09 Meeting participants: Greg Stoutenburg, Garrett Gibson
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1 00:00:27.500 ⇒ 00:00:28.570 Garrett Gibson: Probably better.
2 00:00:28.920 ⇒ 00:00:29.950 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, okay.
3 00:00:30.280 ⇒ 00:00:32.830 Garrett Gibson: Let me share my screen…
4 00:00:40.560 ⇒ 00:00:48.919 Garrett Gibson: Okay, so I’m on this window here in Cloud, so it says connect to linear MCP Server, so I go to Connectors page in Cloud Settings.
5 00:00:49.950 ⇒ 00:00:52.760 Garrett Gibson: And then when I go there, it just says GitHub integration.
6 00:00:52.960 ⇒ 00:00:56.449 Greg Stoutenburg: Wait, so, in the middle where it says connectors, hit that plus?
7 00:00:56.990 ⇒ 00:00:57.950 Greg Stoutenburg: I was connected.
8 00:00:58.570 ⇒ 00:00:59.120 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
9 00:00:59.120 ⇒ 00:00:59.700 Garrett Gibson: Linear.
10 00:00:59.700 ⇒ 00:01:00.320 Greg Stoutenburg: right.
11 00:01:02.430 ⇒ 00:01:03.430 Garrett Gibson: Proof.
12 00:01:04.260 ⇒ 00:01:06.539 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so now you should just be able to sign in.
13 00:01:06.540 ⇒ 00:01:08.760 Garrett Gibson: with Google, right? Yep.
14 00:01:08.760 ⇒ 00:01:10.670 Greg Stoutenburg: And just use your brain forge. Yep.
15 00:01:13.860 ⇒ 00:01:15.679 Greg Stoutenburg: Click OK 100 times.
16 00:01:21.430 ⇒ 00:01:41.270 Greg Stoutenburg: And now, over on the right, where it says Tool Permissions, you can sort of decide what you want to do here. So, for read-only tools, you can either just give it full approval, or anytime it’s running something for you, it’ll ask you for permission. Yeah. Okay. That’s what I would do, too. Like, just do it.
17 00:01:41.660 ⇒ 00:01:43.639 Greg Stoutenburg: I want the Just Do It button.
18 00:01:43.940 ⇒ 00:01:44.830 Garrett Gibson: Exactly.
19 00:01:44.830 ⇒ 00:01:49.140 Greg Stoutenburg: There’s a second set down below, though, so collapse the read-only tools, yeah, or scroll.
20 00:01:49.730 ⇒ 00:01:51.689 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, let’s collapse it.
21 00:01:51.690 ⇒ 00:01:52.450 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
22 00:01:53.020 ⇒ 00:01:54.020 Garrett Gibson: Always.
23 00:01:54.470 ⇒ 00:01:56.580 Greg Stoutenburg: Just, just yellow, yeah.
24 00:01:56.580 ⇒ 00:01:57.310 Garrett Gibson: Alright, cool.
25 00:01:57.310 ⇒ 00:01:57.950 Greg Stoutenburg: Yup.
26 00:01:58.100 ⇒ 00:01:58.640 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep.
27 00:01:58.640 ⇒ 00:02:03.740 Garrett Gibson: So the process is, like, go to your deck, download the latest one, right?
28 00:02:03.880 ⇒ 00:02:09.710 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, now, now, yeah, so, so just download the, download the deck.
29 00:02:09.710 ⇒ 00:02:11.549 Garrett Gibson: I go to my.
30 00:02:12.390 ⇒ 00:02:15.010 Greg Stoutenburg: And then go to… go to Claude.
31 00:02:15.010 ⇒ 00:02:17.810 Garrett Gibson: I think he pinged it, Samira, not have it in drive, right?
32 00:02:18.170 ⇒ 00:02:23.459 Greg Stoutenburg: Did I share? I at least invited you to it, but let me grab the link in case I didn’t.
33 00:02:27.490 ⇒ 00:02:28.500 Garrett Gibson: Let’s see…
34 00:02:28.500 ⇒ 00:02:30.779 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, it probably just hasn’t been added yet.
35 00:02:32.250 ⇒ 00:02:32.800 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright.
36 00:02:32.800 ⇒ 00:02:36.439 Garrett Gibson: If you just want to ping me the deck in the chat, or the link to it, I mean, yeah.
37 00:02:36.440 ⇒ 00:02:45.299 Greg Stoutenburg: I dropped it to you in Slack. So, yeah, if you want to take over creation of this one, go for it. So, now I would just download this.
38 00:02:45.300 ⇒ 00:02:46.760 Garrett Gibson: I love this one, right? Yeah.
39 00:02:48.130 ⇒ 00:02:49.070 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep.
40 00:02:53.320 ⇒ 00:02:55.940 Garrett Gibson: And then put it into a cursor, is that what you did?
41 00:02:55.940 ⇒ 00:02:58.119 Greg Stoutenburg: I’d put it that… put it into Claude.
42 00:02:58.600 ⇒ 00:02:59.159 Garrett Gibson: Oh, in a club.
43 00:02:59.160 ⇒ 00:03:03.799 Greg Stoutenburg: Wait, did you just connect Claude to Linear, or did you just connect cursor to Linear?
44 00:03:04.580 ⇒ 00:03:06.420 Greg Stoutenburg: I think you did Quad, yeah.
45 00:03:06.690 ⇒ 00:03:09.990 Garrett Gibson: Yeah. Good. I’m in, I’m in linear right here.
46 00:03:10.390 ⇒ 00:03:15.729 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, so, don’t worry about being in linear, you can just go to Claude for this.
47 00:03:15.730 ⇒ 00:03:16.540 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
48 00:03:16.540 ⇒ 00:03:17.850 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah. 7 clutter.
49 00:03:17.850 ⇒ 00:03:21.489 Garrett Gibson: So that would be the Brainforge account, though, right? I think I’m on a different one.
50 00:03:21.720 ⇒ 00:03:27.260 Greg Stoutenburg: Well, if you’re in your own… I mean, I… I don’t have a…
51 00:03:27.480 ⇒ 00:03:29.800 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t have a Brainforge login for Claude now.
52 00:03:29.800 ⇒ 00:03:31.779 Garrett Gibson: I use different ones, yeah.
53 00:03:31.780 ⇒ 00:03:33.580 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, yeah, I just have my personal.
54 00:03:33.870 ⇒ 00:03:34.810 Greg Stoutenburg: So…
55 00:03:34.810 ⇒ 00:03:39.460 Garrett Gibson: And then this one should be connected to, linear, right?
56 00:03:40.280 ⇒ 00:03:43.159 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, it should be. So.
57 00:03:43.160 ⇒ 00:03:44.550 Garrett Gibson: Under Settings, it would say that.
58 00:03:44.550 ⇒ 00:03:46.429 Greg Stoutenburg: Let’s just make sure. Go to Connectors.
59 00:03:46.430 ⇒ 00:03:47.010 Garrett Gibson: There he goes.
60 00:03:47.010 ⇒ 00:03:48.010 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, there you are.
61 00:03:48.010 ⇒ 00:03:49.409 Garrett Gibson: Configure, it says, right?
62 00:03:49.710 ⇒ 00:03:54.980 Greg Stoutenburg: No. Yeah, okay, let’s see. I mean… Yeah, okay, it’s already there.
63 00:03:54.980 ⇒ 00:03:55.670 Garrett Gibson: Yeah. Okay.
64 00:03:55.670 ⇒ 00:03:59.620 Greg Stoutenburg: So, I’m going to Slack you the prompt that I used.
65 00:03:59.770 ⇒ 00:04:01.300 Garrett Gibson: Okay, great. That’d be good.
66 00:04:02.960 ⇒ 00:04:06.040 Greg Stoutenburg: And… oh, wait, this is for Element.
67 00:04:08.940 ⇒ 00:04:10.229 Garrett Gibson: Load the deck, right?
68 00:04:10.230 ⇒ 00:04:13.960 Greg Stoutenburg: Ignore what I just said. Okay. Let me edit.
69 00:04:19.700 ⇒ 00:04:21.499 Greg Stoutenburg: Linear, and Slack channel.
70 00:04:23.090 ⇒ 00:04:28.739 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, use that prompt, and are you… Add the Slack connector as well.
71 00:04:28.870 ⇒ 00:04:29.730 Greg Stoutenburg: To your closet.
72 00:04:29.730 ⇒ 00:04:30.360 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
73 00:04:40.120 ⇒ 00:04:42.299 Greg Stoutenburg: Claude makes this so much easier than Cursor does.
74 00:04:42.300 ⇒ 00:04:45.580 Garrett Gibson: I like card a lot, yeah.
75 00:04:45.580 ⇒ 00:04:53.269 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, but, like, yeah, the ship has sailed at Brain Forge. We are… this is called Vendor Lock-In.
76 00:04:55.980 ⇒ 00:04:57.650 Garrett Gibson: Alright, and configure as well?
77 00:04:57.650 ⇒ 00:04:59.409 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, yeah, configure that.
78 00:05:00.460 ⇒ 00:05:01.660 Garrett Gibson: You’re always alone.
79 00:05:01.660 ⇒ 00:05:13.339 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, always allow, yeah, YOLO mode. Wait, wait, for this one, I… personally, now, you can. This is your, this is your thing. Personally, I would not give it permission to send a message without approval.
80 00:05:13.550 ⇒ 00:05:14.420 Garrett Gibson: Okay, yeah, that’s…
81 00:05:14.420 ⇒ 00:05:18.410 Greg Stoutenburg: But you can do that if you want to. Okay.
82 00:05:18.410 ⇒ 00:05:20.519 Garrett Gibson: I’m just gonna match whatever you’re doing right now.
83 00:05:20.700 ⇒ 00:05:21.640 Greg Stoutenburg: Cool, yep, sure.
84 00:05:21.680 ⇒ 00:05:23.540 Garrett Gibson: Am I insane. Yeah.
85 00:05:23.540 ⇒ 00:05:26.230 Greg Stoutenburg: Sure. Now, so now go to…
86 00:05:26.230 ⇒ 00:05:26.960 Garrett Gibson: Is that right.
87 00:05:26.960 ⇒ 00:05:28.269 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, go to Cowork.
88 00:05:28.870 ⇒ 00:05:30.509 Greg Stoutenburg: In the cohort tab…
89 00:05:30.960 ⇒ 00:05:32.160 Garrett Gibson: Where’s that?
90 00:05:32.720 ⇒ 00:05:36.020 Greg Stoutenburg: Customized chats… maybe it’s the folder one?
91 00:05:38.970 ⇒ 00:05:41.740 Garrett Gibson: I can just go to, like, new chat, right?
92 00:05:42.540 ⇒ 00:05:46.000 Greg Stoutenburg: So… Here, here’s what mine looks like.
93 00:05:46.440 ⇒ 00:05:46.980 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
94 00:05:46.980 ⇒ 00:05:50.070 Greg Stoutenburg: I will say, I am paying… I am paying 20 a month, so…
95 00:05:50.070 ⇒ 00:05:51.280 Garrett Gibson: No, I’m not doing that.
96 00:05:51.280 ⇒ 00:05:55.020 Greg Stoutenburg: Maybe this isn’t a paid feature. I mean, maybe it’s a paid feature, so…
97 00:05:55.270 ⇒ 00:05:57.400 Greg Stoutenburg: Your co-workers make this for you.
98 00:05:58.600 ⇒ 00:06:02.280 Greg Stoutenburg: I… you know what? Try and chat, though. I mean, why not? Try and chat.
99 00:06:02.280 ⇒ 00:06:04.639 Garrett Gibson: Let me just put in the prompt in the latest, right?
100 00:06:04.640 ⇒ 00:06:06.729 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, so, yeah.
101 00:06:06.940 ⇒ 00:06:11.210 Greg Stoutenburg: And then, yeah, you’ve already told it what to do. Yep.
102 00:06:11.210 ⇒ 00:06:11.950 Garrett Gibson: Sure.
103 00:06:12.390 ⇒ 00:06:13.070 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
104 00:06:13.930 ⇒ 00:06:15.380 Greg Stoutenburg: And then just see what happens.
105 00:06:28.700 ⇒ 00:06:31.110 Greg Stoutenburg: And then if we get stuck, I can just create it.
106 00:06:31.490 ⇒ 00:06:34.399 Garrett Gibson: I like it says linear and select simultaneously.
107 00:06:35.440 ⇒ 00:06:36.510 Greg Stoutenburg: Bruce Wood.
108 00:06:37.340 ⇒ 00:06:38.500 Garrett Gibson: Thousands.
109 00:06:43.000 ⇒ 00:06:56.389 Greg Stoutenburg: And to be clear, we don’t want to overwrite the last slides, we want to just add in a new segment. So basically, if I were doing this manually, I would have selected last week, I’d copy it, I’d duplicate it at the top, and then I would just start changing content.
110 00:06:56.550 ⇒ 00:07:01.079 Garrett Gibson: Okay. So this might give me, like, a new set of slides, but I could probably just, like, copy them in, right?
111 00:07:01.080 ⇒ 00:07:02.559 Greg Stoutenburg: Copy and paste, yeah. Yeah.
112 00:07:04.640 ⇒ 00:07:07.620 Greg Stoutenburg: Portal just give you a new file altogether. Yeah, that’ll be nice.
113 00:07:07.620 ⇒ 00:07:08.060 Garrett Gibson: soon,
114 00:07:08.060 ⇒ 00:07:11.580 Greg Stoutenburg: And edit it on your computer, and then just, you know, replace the old one.
115 00:07:23.050 ⇒ 00:07:26.920 Garrett Gibson: We’ll probably do the same thing for, like, Eden, right? I’m not sure.
116 00:07:26.920 ⇒ 00:07:30.479 Greg Stoutenburg: Shoot. Stop. Stop, stop the, stop the work.
117 00:07:31.210 ⇒ 00:07:32.990 Greg Stoutenburg: Sorry, man, I gave you a bad prompt.
118 00:07:33.290 ⇒ 00:07:34.070 Garrett Gibson: Oh.
119 00:07:34.070 ⇒ 00:07:37.570 Greg Stoutenburg: I didn’t catch… I didn’t catch that the last part said default.
120 00:07:37.570 ⇒ 00:07:38.150 Garrett Gibson: Oh, no worries.
121 00:07:38.150 ⇒ 00:07:38.520 Greg Stoutenburg: God.
122 00:07:39.160 ⇒ 00:07:41.370 Greg Stoutenburg: Sorry, here comes a new prompt.
123 00:07:41.530 ⇒ 00:07:42.580 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
124 00:07:42.580 ⇒ 00:07:43.460 Greg Stoutenburg: Sorry, man.
125 00:07:43.460 ⇒ 00:07:44.310 Garrett Gibson: Alright, good.
126 00:07:44.660 ⇒ 00:07:46.190 Garrett Gibson: At least we stopped it, so.
127 00:07:46.190 ⇒ 00:07:48.160 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah.
128 00:07:48.160 ⇒ 00:07:49.510 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
129 00:07:49.510 ⇒ 00:07:55.190 Greg Stoutenburg: Send Robert into the call at 2 o’clock, he’s giving updates from a different client.
130 00:07:55.190 ⇒ 00:07:57.999 Garrett Gibson: That wouldn’t be good.
131 00:07:58.180 ⇒ 00:08:06.939 Greg Stoutenburg: Nice knowing ya! Okay, yeah, okay. Yeah, sorry. Use that. Use that, give it the file, you should be good to go.
132 00:08:06.940 ⇒ 00:08:08.450 Garrett Gibson: Okay.
133 00:08:17.920 ⇒ 00:08:20.200 Garrett Gibson: Oh, I’ve hit my limit already.
134 00:08:20.200 ⇒ 00:08:21.090 Greg Stoutenburg: But I can’t…
135 00:08:21.090 ⇒ 00:08:24.480 Garrett Gibson: To do this on another account, the integrations should still be there, right?
136 00:08:24.730 ⇒ 00:08:26.200 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I mean, yeah.
137 00:08:26.850 ⇒ 00:08:31.439 Greg Stoutenburg: Do you have, I mean, do you have Claude? I don’t know which tier gives access to.
138 00:08:31.440 ⇒ 00:08:35.159 Garrett Gibson: No, I mean, if I log into another Gmail account, it should… Worker.
139 00:08:35.380 ⇒ 00:08:37.219 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t know. That’s a good question.
140 00:08:38.150 ⇒ 00:08:39.839 Greg Stoutenburg: Are you paying for Claude anywhere?
141 00:08:40.070 ⇒ 00:08:41.360 Garrett Gibson: No, not right now.
142 00:08:41.360 ⇒ 00:08:47.649 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay. Yeah, let’s see, maybe the problem is that we gave it too much work to do, since we had to do it twice.
143 00:08:47.900 ⇒ 00:08:51.370 Garrett Gibson: Yeah. Maybe this’ll work, because it’s a different account.
144 00:08:58.240 ⇒ 00:09:00.729 Greg Stoutenburg: are available, but not connected. No, they are connected.
145 00:09:00.730 ⇒ 00:09:02.580 Garrett Gibson: Oh, but I’m on a different account, though.
146 00:09:02.580 ⇒ 00:09:03.010 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
147 00:09:03.010 ⇒ 00:09:03.630 Garrett Gibson: Yeah.
148 00:09:04.480 ⇒ 00:09:05.530 Garrett Gibson: Connecting.
149 00:09:05.530 ⇒ 00:09:07.080 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, try that stuff again.
150 00:10:25.970 ⇒ 00:10:27.080 Greg Stoutenburg: Hear from him.
151 00:10:42.250 ⇒ 00:10:46.129 Garrett Gibson: They said Slack isn’t connected, but they’re just gonna use linear, is that fine?
152 00:10:46.750 ⇒ 00:10:47.960 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, let’s just see what happens.
153 00:10:49.110 ⇒ 00:10:58.149 Greg Stoutenburg: So, at Brainforge, the way that we’ve done deck updates on every team that I’ve been on, for… just, like, for weekly updates, is,
154 00:10:58.890 ⇒ 00:11:17.540 Greg Stoutenburg: you update the deck, meaning, like, create a new file, copy and paste, whatever, right? So there’s new content in there, you share it into the relevant channel, you know, like, 2 days before the scheduled client call, and then you say, hey, everyone, update the deck on whatever is relevant to your workstream.
155 00:11:17.770 ⇒ 00:11:24.469 Greg Stoutenburg: The reason why we’re doing this step right here is because it just gives people a serious head start on doing that.
156 00:11:24.780 ⇒ 00:11:26.129 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, mostly.
157 00:11:26.130 ⇒ 00:11:33.330 Greg Stoutenburg: So you give a mostly updated deck, but then, you know, if there’s something inaccurate, then, like, you know, it,
158 00:11:33.500 ⇒ 00:11:37.929 Greg Stoutenburg: It gives the person who’s working on the project the opportunity to correct it.
159 00:11:40.740 ⇒ 00:11:42.220 Garrett Gibson: I already ran out of…
160 00:11:43.790 ⇒ 00:11:50.829 Greg Stoutenburg: Really? Okay. Yeah. Alright, well, that’s okay. I mean, so, yeah, like I said, I hopped here after a call from Robert.
161 00:11:51.270 ⇒ 00:11:59.189 Greg Stoutenburg: you know, and his… Robert’s first update in the channel is Greg will handle the weekly update until it can transition to Garrett, so, I don’t know.
162 00:11:59.190 ⇒ 00:12:03.489 Garrett Gibson: try to get the account for Claude, maybe, if that makes it easier.
163 00:12:03.950 ⇒ 00:12:20.029 Greg Stoutenburg: Well, I mean, I’m confident that it’s because, you need co-work to do it. That seems to be what’s getting stuck here, because I was in co-work mode when I ran it, so… I’m happy to just do this one, though, for the sake of time, because I think I’m back-to-back until we see Shivani…
164 00:12:20.410 ⇒ 00:12:23.910 Greg Stoutenburg: Or if you want, I’ll leave it with you.
165 00:12:25.080 ⇒ 00:12:30.279 Garrett Gibson: Yeah, I mean, that’s fine. I don’t know, it says I ran out of tokens again, right? Yeah.
166 00:12:30.280 ⇒ 00:12:38.929 Greg Stoutenburg: I mean, so yeah, so I think either you’re gonna have to start… you’re gonna have to pay 20 bucks, or you’re gonna use… have to use Cursor to do it, and it’s just gonna involve, like, a lot of copy and paste and formatting.
167 00:12:38.930 ⇒ 00:12:43.359 Garrett Gibson: Okay. Yeah, I’ll just look at getting that one in the paid accounts.
168 00:12:43.360 ⇒ 00:12:46.520 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, so do you want to do that right now?
169 00:12:47.040 ⇒ 00:12:49.700 Garrett Gibson: I don’t know if I’ll have enough time to write it right now, but…
170 00:12:49.700 ⇒ 00:12:52.540 Greg Stoutenburg: Let me do it for this week, and then I’ll drop it in the channel.
171 00:12:52.540 ⇒ 00:12:53.630 Garrett Gibson: Okay, that sounds good.
172 00:12:53.970 ⇒ 00:12:57.530 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, cool. Alright, and I’ll just tag you so you see it, okay?
173 00:12:57.530 ⇒ 00:12:58.830 Garrett Gibson: Cool, sounds good.
174 00:12:58.830 ⇒ 00:13:00.530 Greg Stoutenburg: Thanks, Luke.