Meeting Title: Advait - Brylle - L&D Check-In Date: 2026-04-13 Meeting participants: Brylle Girang, Advait Nandakumar Menon
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1 00:00:31.490 ⇒ 00:00:32.650 Brylle Girang: Hello!
2 00:00:34.970 ⇒ 00:00:36.450 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Hey, how’s it going?
3 00:00:37.230 ⇒ 00:00:40.609 Brylle Girang: How’s it going? Good. Happy Monday!
4 00:00:40.610 ⇒ 00:00:42.929 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I’m doing good. Happy Monday.
5 00:00:45.180 ⇒ 00:00:46.210 Brylle Girang: Amazing.
6 00:00:46.330 ⇒ 00:00:51.910 Brylle Girang: Yeah, you have been great so far. How’s it going? How’s it going with our clients?
7 00:00:53.570 ⇒ 00:01:03.790 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, I’m handling, like, default and element now, so… last week we had a couple of dashboards to be delivered, so I was… I got… it was pretty busy, so that’s why I…
8 00:01:03.960 ⇒ 00:01:13.139 Advait Nandakumar Menon: asked you to move this, so sorry for that, but yeah, I’m catching up right now with the Omni learning and everything, so yeah, so far, so good.
9 00:01:13.390 ⇒ 00:01:17.819 Brylle Girang: It’s okay, no problem. Like, our clients are our top priority, and I know how.
10 00:01:17.820 ⇒ 00:01:18.570 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
11 00:01:18.570 ⇒ 00:01:25.740 Brylle Girang: crazy last week has been, so I appreciate you requesting this to be moved, instead of you, like, scrambling.
12 00:01:25.910 ⇒ 00:01:26.840 Brylle Girang: a less price.
13 00:01:26.840 ⇒ 00:01:27.500 Advait Nandakumar Menon: neat.
14 00:01:27.910 ⇒ 00:01:29.890 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
15 00:01:30.520 ⇒ 00:01:44.929 Brylle Girang: So, yeah, this is about, you know, learning and development, and I wanted to check, you know, how you’re doing when it comes to, like, figuring out how Brainforge works, what your responsibilities are, and also we’ll touch upon certifications, you know, the learning part a bit.
16 00:01:45.160 ⇒ 00:01:50.880 Brylle Girang: And I wanted to, you know, lead with… lead with the latter. How’s your Omni certification going?
17 00:01:51.930 ⇒ 00:02:11.079 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, so, Amber has set up a Notion page for each of us in the strategy team. So, she had some of the videos in the document to be completed by last Friday, so I’ve completed that. I was going through it over the weekend as well, so…
18 00:02:11.080 ⇒ 00:02:19.020 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I’ve completed that, so… Right now, for this week, I’m going to start with the permission and
19 00:02:19.140 ⇒ 00:02:25.220 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Content stuff, and then take it through the workbook dashboard and modeling as well.
20 00:02:25.460 ⇒ 00:02:26.190 Brylle Girang: Okay.
21 00:02:26.680 ⇒ 00:02:27.800 Brylle Girang: Gotcha.
22 00:02:28.520 ⇒ 00:02:34.530 Brylle Girang: And, like, are these resources helpful for you when it comes to your Omniwork?
23 00:02:36.220 ⇒ 00:02:39.540 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I would say, like…
24 00:02:39.740 ⇒ 00:02:53.730 Advait Nandakumar Menon: since I have already started working on the dashboards and topics, like, I… when I got onboarded, I went headfirst into all the development, so, I got used to it a little, so this was kind of like a refresher for me, I would say, so… Okay.
25 00:02:53.820 ⇒ 00:03:05.260 Advait Nandakumar Menon: In a sense, it was adding more context to what I already know, so yeah, I would say it’s helpful for someone who’s starting net new or starting from scratch as well, so…
26 00:03:05.390 ⇒ 00:03:06.170 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
27 00:03:06.810 ⇒ 00:03:23.529 Brylle Girang: Okay, okay, great. Because, you know, this learning path is not just meant for us to secure a certification, this is actually meant for us to upskill, so we need to make sure that we’re not just, you know, restarting everything from scratch, and then going through the videos.
28 00:03:23.530 ⇒ 00:03:32.639 Brylle Girang: Without any goal. So that’s okay, that’s amazing. I guess this is not much of a pressure for you, but…
29 00:03:32.860 ⇒ 00:03:44.479 Brylle Girang: I think that you and Amber are the only ones who have not submitted their certification exams yet. It’s crazy… yeah, crazy that Robert,
30 00:03:44.480 ⇒ 00:03:54.450 Brylle Girang: Robert, Utam, I guess Garrett have submitted their exams already, but no pressure. I think we have until the end of the month for this, but…
31 00:03:54.530 ⇒ 00:03:55.210 Brylle Girang: It’s exciting.
32 00:03:55.210 ⇒ 00:04:13.080 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I kind of want… I kind of want to as well give it, like, a one-shot assessment without going through these documents as such to test my knowledge. I also want to do that, but I figured I might as well learn it the proper way, and then give it a good try, so that’s what I am thinking about it.
33 00:04:13.580 ⇒ 00:04:19.640 Brylle Girang: Yeah, yeah, I think that’s a solid plan. It helps you actually learn Omni and not learn about the exam.
34 00:04:19.769 ⇒ 00:04:20.880 Brylle Girang: So, that’s.
35 00:04:20.880 ⇒ 00:04:23.510 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah, that’s a lot. Yeah, yeah.
36 00:04:24.430 ⇒ 00:04:27.929 Brylle Girang: I had a question, it slipped my mind.
37 00:04:31.060 ⇒ 00:04:31.940 Brylle Girang: Oh, damn.
38 00:04:32.300 ⇒ 00:04:33.900 Brylle Girang: I’m trying to remember it.
39 00:04:36.240 ⇒ 00:04:38.189 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I understand that, it happens to me as well.
40 00:04:38.190 ⇒ 00:04:45.379 Brylle Girang: I’m gonna go back to that later, but, you know, how are you faring with our platform? How are you faring with Cursor?
41 00:04:46.520 ⇒ 00:05:02.350 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I would say I’m pretty comfortable with it now, like, I’m using it in all of my work streams. I was just talking to Utam on, I believe it was Friday or Thursday, like, he… since I’m working with OmniCLI now a lot, he wanted to push a playbook
42 00:05:02.410 ⇒ 00:05:20.700 Advait Nandakumar Menon: on how to actually set it up so other people can also follow it and set up for other clients and projects. So that’s something I’m working on right now. In fact, this morning, I was just checking on a few things with him, so I’m planning to push something to our platform documentation so that
43 00:05:20.820 ⇒ 00:05:36.280 Advait Nandakumar Menon: the Omni CLA, people can look at it and install and go through some of the agent skills that a person can use. You can make direct changes within Omni platform without having to download the local files, so…
44 00:05:36.280 ⇒ 00:05:36.830 Brylle Girang: Okay.
45 00:05:36.830 ⇒ 00:05:37.500 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
46 00:05:38.130 ⇒ 00:05:46.689 Brylle Girang: Okay, I think that’s going to be really helpful. You mean that this playbook will also… will not just teach you how to set up Omni, but also teach you, like.
47 00:05:47.200 ⇒ 00:05:52.819 Brylle Girang: what do we have right now in the platform that can help you with Omni? The skills, etc.
48 00:05:54.660 ⇒ 00:06:06.070 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah, so it’ll have, like, it’ll walk you through the… how to set it up on your local device, and it’ll also give you a little bit summary of what skills it has, and
49 00:06:06.070 ⇒ 00:06:29.050 Advait Nandakumar Menon: it is… it’ll directly pull it from the Omni’s GitHub repository, so it’ll just add on a little bit details about it, and for references, I can obviously add the official documentation from Omni and the skills listed out in the repository as well. So that’s what I am planning to do. And also, they released this CLI two weeks back, I want to say, and
50 00:06:29.050 ⇒ 00:06:34.249 Advait Nandakumar Menon: the existing OmniSkills in our platform is based on the REST API connection that
51 00:06:34.250 ⇒ 00:06:45.769 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Which they were on previously, so I am planning to correct that as well within our platform, like, update it to point to the CLI instead of the old REST APIs, which they have
52 00:06:45.870 ⇒ 00:06:50.249 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Removed from their repository, now it’s, like, an outdated version.
53 00:06:50.940 ⇒ 00:06:54.760 Brylle Girang: Okay, okay, gotcha. And how are you planning to, like, create this playbook?
54 00:06:56.230 ⇒ 00:07:05.419 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So that’s one thing I want to check with you, I thought of checking with Utam as well, like, do you have a template when people create something to install, or something?
55 00:07:05.640 ⇒ 00:07:10.209 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Like, do you have a template for that? I kind of want to follow.
56 00:07:10.380 ⇒ 00:07:13.300 Brylle Girang: You know, my best advice here, ask her, sir.
57 00:07:14.530 ⇒ 00:07:15.890 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, okay.
58 00:07:15.890 ⇒ 00:07:17.350 Brylle Girang: Yeah, yeah.
59 00:07:17.350 ⇒ 00:07:22.180 Advait Nandakumar Menon: searching through the platform, but I didn’t find a data search for… yeah.
60 00:07:22.180 ⇒ 00:07:33.920 Brylle Girang: you know, one of the… one of the main things that we need to, like, ingrain into our mind, if you’re trying to look for something, do not search GitHub, do not search the platform, ask for.
61 00:07:33.920 ⇒ 00:07:34.580 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
62 00:07:34.760 ⇒ 00:07:43.089 Brylle Girang: Like, it is… it’s already there, you know? You’re using Omni to, like, get data for our clients.
63 00:07:43.290 ⇒ 00:07:45.349 Brylle Girang: That’s the same, so it lets you screw.
64 00:07:45.350 ⇒ 00:07:46.020 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
65 00:07:46.020 ⇒ 00:07:47.420 Brylle Girang: our own data, okay?
66 00:07:47.420 ⇒ 00:08:00.429 Advait Nandakumar Menon: It was… it was on my mind to do that, like, my last-ditch attempt was to just ask Cursor to pull something up, but I was just wondering if you had, or anyone had a template, but yeah, I can do that.
67 00:08:00.430 ⇒ 00:08:11.240 Brylle Girang: Yeah, I’m saying that there is a template. If I’m wrong, then there are already playbooks right now in the vault, and that should help, you know, format your playbook.
68 00:08:11.240 ⇒ 00:08:13.570 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I can just replicate that format.
69 00:08:13.730 ⇒ 00:08:26.649 Brylle Girang: Exactly, exactly. And, at the same time, it shouldn’t be, like, asking a cursor shouldn’t be, like, a last-ditch approach. It should always be, like, the first stop, because that’s going to be the first.
70 00:08:26.650 ⇒ 00:08:27.090 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I agree.
71 00:08:27.090 ⇒ 00:08:28.480 Brylle Girang: That you could get an answer.
72 00:08:29.220 ⇒ 00:08:31.149 Brylle Girang: Yeah, you know, we…
73 00:08:31.150 ⇒ 00:08:31.750 Advait Nandakumar Menon: that.
74 00:08:31.990 ⇒ 00:08:41.519 Brylle Girang: We can create models and tables in Omni, and then just ask the client, hey, can you search this table to answer your question? That’s blobby!
75 00:08:41.520 ⇒ 00:08:45.879 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I agree with that, so… I agree with that.
76 00:08:45.880 ⇒ 00:08:52.289 Brylle Girang: So, Advait, like, is your… is your role in Brainforge clear enough for you, or are there…
77 00:08:52.610 ⇒ 00:08:57.560 Brylle Girang: Are there things confusing? That’s… that’s… that’s prohibiting you from going all out?
78 00:08:58.800 ⇒ 00:09:12.130 Advait Nandakumar Menon: No, I wouldn’t say so, like, I have a clear set of responsibilities and vision for what I should be doing, so, I’m… I’m doing good on that front, so thanks for asking.
79 00:09:12.590 ⇒ 00:09:13.959 Brylle Girang: Okay, great, great, great.
80 00:09:14.280 ⇒ 00:09:28.590 Brylle Girang: And then, yeah, so I… I want to… I want to, like, dedicate the rest of our time into the playbook that you’re creating, if that’s okay? Because I just want to… I just want to make sure that, you know, we align on how best to approach this.
81 00:09:29.060 ⇒ 00:09:33.840 Brylle Girang: How about this? So, let’s start creating the playbook now, by a cursor.
82 00:09:33.840 ⇒ 00:09:34.630 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
83 00:09:34.630 ⇒ 00:09:39.440 Brylle Girang: And then let’s go through it, so… Can you share your screen and then show me, like, how would you do it?
84 00:09:40.840 ⇒ 00:09:41.490 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
85 00:10:28.340 ⇒ 00:10:29.130 Brylle Girang: Thank you.
86 00:10:29.130 ⇒ 00:10:30.479 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Can you see my screen?
87 00:10:31.270 ⇒ 00:10:32.650 Brylle Girang: It is loading.
88 00:10:42.730 ⇒ 00:10:44.890 Brylle Girang: There we go, yeah, I can see it now.
89 00:10:45.580 ⇒ 00:10:52.290 Brylle Girang: All right, all right. So just treat it as you would… you would… you would do the… you would do the playbook, like.
90 00:10:52.620 ⇒ 00:10:58.189 Brylle Girang: show me how you would do it, and then I’ll… I’ll chime in if I can see any improvement that you get.
91 00:10:58.190 ⇒ 00:10:58.780 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Fuck.
92 00:10:58.780 ⇒ 00:10:59.380 Brylle Girang: Okay?
93 00:11:00.790 ⇒ 00:11:04.669 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, do you want me to actually do it, or just walk you through the steps? I will do it.
94 00:11:05.250 ⇒ 00:11:09.230 Brylle Girang: You can walk me through the steps, that should work.
95 00:11:10.550 ⇒ 00:11:11.390 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
96 00:11:11.920 ⇒ 00:11:23.540 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So how I would go about this is, obviously, since you just mentioned it, I will ask if there is any template I can follow for creating,
97 00:11:24.300 ⇒ 00:11:33.799 Advait Nandakumar Menon: playbook for installing a software, or a CLI, or whatever, and I would see if Cursor is giving me a template. If not, so…
98 00:11:33.980 ⇒ 00:11:37.560 Advait Nandakumar Menon: As we were just discussing…
99 00:12:13.440 ⇒ 00:12:16.659 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, let me just open up what I want to show you.
100 00:12:17.430 ⇒ 00:12:18.490 Brylle Girang: Okay, sure.
101 00:12:33.830 ⇒ 00:12:46.260 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, so I will ask if there’s an existing template, but if not, I will just ask Cursed to replicate this template here. So, this template really is for the local editor.
102 00:12:46.260 ⇒ 00:12:58.850 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, this is for someone who’s developing, and they want to work on the topics, or the view, or whatever files locally, and then sync it back to the Omni platform. So.
103 00:12:58.850 ⇒ 00:12:59.230 Brylle Girang: Okay.
104 00:12:59.230 ⇒ 00:13:15.300 Advait Nandakumar Menon: The CLI, the Omni CLI, it’s a different use case wherein you can directly work from the terminal or through cursor and make changes within Omni itself without having to sync any of the local files to your laptop. So, I will ask
105 00:13:15.390 ⇒ 00:13:28.309 Advait Nandakumar Menon: a cursor to replicate something like this, and there is this documentation from Omni, if I’m not wrong, which they just released a few days back for the new CLI.
106 00:13:36.200 ⇒ 00:13:55.730 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, so there are a whole bunch of documentation, like the overview, the installation, quick start, some of the commands, like, you can run to make use of the agent skills. So I’ll free to cursor this, data, basically, and also the official GitHub repository wherein the agent skills are stored by Omni.
107 00:13:55.950 ⇒ 00:13:57.149 Advait Nandakumar Menon: And that…
108 00:13:57.780 ⇒ 00:14:04.880 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I will ask you to create a playbook, replicating the previous template, and I will take it from there.
109 00:14:05.550 ⇒ 00:14:10.459 Brylle Girang: Okay, oh, like… Let’s say… let’s say you’re creating the paybook now, how would you do it?
110 00:14:14.020 ⇒ 00:14:19.339 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I would, ask it to first look for a template, like I said.
111 00:14:19.870 ⇒ 00:14:20.610 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
112 00:14:20.610 ⇒ 00:14:21.959 Brylle Girang: And are you coming…
113 00:14:21.960 ⇒ 00:14:23.520 Advait Nandakumar Menon: of a template.
114 00:14:24.490 ⇒ 00:14:26.859 Brylle Girang: Are you going to do it via the agent mode?
115 00:14:26.860 ⇒ 00:14:27.820 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sorry, what’s that?
116 00:14:28.110 ⇒ 00:14:29.590 Brylle Girang: Are you going to do it via the HR?
117 00:14:29.590 ⇒ 00:14:31.180 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Do not. I, I am…
118 00:14:32.290 ⇒ 00:14:52.270 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I would ask it, I would do it via the ask mode, because that will save on some of the tokens as well, I believe. But I have sometimes seen that it will say it can’t do certain things through a ask mode, so that time I would switch it to agent mode, so that it can actually go through the GitHub CLI and… or the local repository we have here.
119 00:14:52.350 ⇒ 00:14:56.890 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So that it can actually search for the particular file and give me the result.
120 00:14:57.320 ⇒ 00:14:59.980 Brylle Girang: Alright, great. Have you tried using the plan mode?
121 00:15:01.680 ⇒ 00:15:07.110 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, whenever I’m doing some build or development, I’ll first…
122 00:15:07.220 ⇒ 00:15:13.750 Advait Nandakumar Menon: ask Ursa to plan it so that I don’t want her to… I want it to follow a certain step.
123 00:15:13.880 ⇒ 00:15:21.619 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, when you’re building or developing something, I don’t want it to go derail of something, so I ask you to plan it first, and then
124 00:15:21.800 ⇒ 00:15:23.209 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I switched to it.
125 00:15:25.210 ⇒ 00:15:30.420 Advait Nandakumar Menon: how to build it, so that’s how I go about it, with respect to developing or building something.
126 00:15:31.650 ⇒ 00:15:40.090 Brylle Girang: Okay, great. So I suggest, you know, you can explore, you can experiment, but I suggest that you kick off with the plan mode.
127 00:15:40.350 ⇒ 00:15:45.229 Brylle Girang: And then, you know, prompt the agent to, like, ask you questions.
128 00:15:45.440 ⇒ 00:15:49.220 Brylle Girang: Because the, the main, the main reason for that is because,
129 00:15:49.520 ⇒ 00:15:59.420 Brylle Girang: I’m pretty sure that there are lots of omni-resources right now in our platform, and if we do it via agent mode, there’s a chance that the model, that the AI agent.
130 00:15:59.590 ⇒ 00:16:00.849 Brylle Girang: Might miss it.
131 00:16:00.980 ⇒ 00:16:07.200 Brylle Girang: And plan mode gives, like, the AI agent more freedom to, like, explore our vault.
132 00:16:07.320 ⇒ 00:16:14.720 Brylle Girang: Okay. And at the same time, you, you get, like, you have the final decision on what the AI agent will do.
133 00:16:15.480 ⇒ 00:16:26.549 Brylle Girang: So use plan mode immediately, like, hey, create a playbook for me, focusing on OmniCLI, here’s the link for the Omni resources, make sure that
134 00:16:26.890 ⇒ 00:16:30.930 Brylle Girang: Other resources are updated based on this new playbook, etc.
135 00:16:31.670 ⇒ 00:16:41.609 Brylle Girang: There might be README files, you know, that should be updated once we create a new playbook. There might be skills that we can add, etc. So, plan mode can help you out with that.
136 00:16:42.100 ⇒ 00:16:44.089 Brylle Girang: So that’s, that’s one.
137 00:16:44.190 ⇒ 00:16:49.630 Brylle Girang: And then, have you tried, like, using other AI models for this?
138 00:16:51.140 ⇒ 00:16:52.090 Brylle Girang: Or are you… are you…
139 00:16:52.090 ⇒ 00:16:52.640 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Are you…
140 00:16:52.640 ⇒ 00:16:53.960 Brylle Girang: always using auto.
141 00:16:55.210 ⇒ 00:17:00.939 Advait Nandakumar Menon: No, I mean, I found out that GPT 5.4 is good for
142 00:17:01.240 ⇒ 00:17:06.369 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Creating some plans for the dashboards and whatnot, so… I…
143 00:17:06.510 ⇒ 00:17:21.000 Advait Nandakumar Menon: use GPT-5.4 for that, sometimes I use Sonet from Claude as well, or even Opus, but for tasks that I might not need that much thinking or complex work, I switch to Auto to save on tokens, so…
144 00:17:21.000 ⇒ 00:17:21.390 Brylle Girang: Okay.
145 00:17:21.390 ⇒ 00:17:21.930 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah. Okay.
146 00:17:22.099 ⇒ 00:17:30.160 Brylle Girang: That’s good, so you have the understanding, so that’s great. Maybe, you know, when it comes to, like, our playbooks, our plans, Sonnet works best.
147 00:17:30.420 ⇒ 00:17:45.210 Brylle Girang: It’s a reasoning model, so it can also, you know, actually think about what it will do, and not just execute. Opus, I think, is super overkill for this. It burns a lot of tokens, and…
148 00:17:45.210 ⇒ 00:17:46.090 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah.
149 00:17:46.090 ⇒ 00:17:49.440 Brylle Girang: We don’t need that much brain, but…
150 00:17:50.020 ⇒ 00:17:56.229 Brylle Girang: That’s amazing, so I was, you know, I was asking these questions because I wanted to gauge, like, how well you understand cursor.
151 00:17:56.230 ⇒ 00:17:57.599 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I understand. I understand, yeah.
152 00:17:57.600 ⇒ 00:18:04.560 Brylle Girang: Yeah, and I think you’re… you’re… you’re an 8 out of 10 right now, considering, like, your tenure, so that’s good.
153 00:18:04.730 ⇒ 00:18:05.120 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
154 00:18:05.760 ⇒ 00:18:07.590 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I appreciate all the feedback.
155 00:18:07.590 ⇒ 00:18:24.639 Brylle Girang: Maybe, I’m going to take over, like, the overseeing of this OmniCLA playbooks. You can lean on me when it comes to this instead of Otam, and then I can just, you know, defer to Otam if we need your, if we need his experience.
156 00:18:25.000 ⇒ 00:18:29.270 Brylle Girang: But when do you think can you ship out this playbook?
157 00:18:30.710 ⇒ 00:18:45.550 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I’m thinking of doing it by end of today or tomorrow, but, obviously it depends on the client work as well, because right now, the dashboards I shipped, Jasmine is doing some QA on it, and it’s been sent to Shivani as well.
158 00:18:45.680 ⇒ 00:18:49.740 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, I’m planning to do it by end of today or tomorrow.
159 00:18:50.000 ⇒ 00:18:51.710 Brylle Girang: Okay, that’s good, that’s great.
160 00:18:52.580 ⇒ 00:18:58.589 Brylle Girang: Alright, yeah, so any challenges that you’re experiencing at Wait when it comes to, like.
161 00:18:58.810 ⇒ 00:19:00.519 Brylle Girang: Learning and development.
162 00:19:00.930 ⇒ 00:19:03.030 Brylle Girang: Let’s say, you know, woo.
163 00:19:03.240 ⇒ 00:19:12.730 Brylle Girang: Let’s say we have an update, we ship some items, we ship, you know, skills within the platform. Are you able to, like, understand those skills?
164 00:19:12.920 ⇒ 00:19:14.789 Brylle Girang: Use them, etc.
165 00:19:16.170 ⇒ 00:19:20.840 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I had to read through it, I haven’t used it personally, but…
166 00:19:20.880 ⇒ 00:19:40.880 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I think you have set up the Brainforge platform, I mean, the website as well, with some learning and certification stuff, so I went through that a little, so I think you guys have put it in a place where it’s really accessible, so that’s, one positive feedback I have for you.
167 00:19:41.180 ⇒ 00:19:45.980 Brylle Girang: Okay, great. So any challenges, like, anything that you think we could
168 00:19:46.150 ⇒ 00:19:55.529 Brylle Girang: you know, we could do better. Let’s say in your previous job, what made it easy? What made it super easy for you to learn things that we’re not doing right now?
169 00:20:00.110 ⇒ 00:20:15.280 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I wouldn’t say, like, I had something like this in my previous job, so this is, like, a very positive, like, a good thing that I’m able to use in my current role with Brainford, so I didn’t have something like this in my previous role, if that’s what
170 00:20:15.460 ⇒ 00:20:22.660 Advait Nandakumar Menon: You’re asking. So, this is very much appreciated, and I don’t think I’ve seen something like this before in my previous
171 00:20:23.440 ⇒ 00:20:31.249 Advait Nandakumar Menon: roles as well. So, it’s like, you want to do a certification, then go out, like, whatever, Coursera, Udemy, or…
172 00:20:31.320 ⇒ 00:20:48.659 Advait Nandakumar Menon: whichever you want to go on and just do it, and you get reimbursed. There was not this internal push or structured plan or whatever that was laid out for me personally, so this is something new I’ve seen that I’ve not seen before somewhere else, so this is really nice.
173 00:20:49.180 ⇒ 00:20:54.459 Brylle Girang: Yeah, and do, like, do you have a clear understanding on why we’re pushing for these certifications?
174 00:20:56.980 ⇒ 00:21:04.189 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I would say so. One is, obviously, we are partnered with Omni and Snowflake, so, it…
175 00:21:04.480 ⇒ 00:21:15.529 Advait Nandakumar Menon: In order to sell to clients what are projects, you need to be really, like, efficient and smart and, like, really strong in these platforms, so…
176 00:21:15.650 ⇒ 00:21:30.550 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I would say to strengthen the partnership we have with Snowflake and Omni, and also as well as to get new leads and clients and sell our positioning, our strong positioning on these platforms, and appeal them and get on to do more projects, so…
177 00:21:30.550 ⇒ 00:21:30.880 Brylle Girang: Yeah.
178 00:21:30.880 ⇒ 00:21:32.550 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s my understanding.
179 00:21:32.860 ⇒ 00:21:36.180 Brylle Girang: Yeah, yeah, that’s spot on, but you know, for me.
180 00:21:36.440 ⇒ 00:21:41.770 Brylle Girang: The best thing about this is that it’s literally free money.
181 00:21:41.830 ⇒ 00:21:59.130 Brylle Girang: Dude, like, we have, we have, like, 150 to 250 USD bonus for certifications. Omni platform is, like, on the, on the lower end, because it’s much easier than, let’s say, Snowflake. Snowflake is a bit harder.
182 00:21:59.280 ⇒ 00:22:09.100 Brylle Girang: But again, it’s $150 USD at the minimum that you’ll get from, you know, answering a Google Form for a tool that you have been using for so long.
183 00:22:09.450 ⇒ 00:22:21.210 Brylle Girang: And that’s literally free money, and we’re more than happy to give it out to our people, because at the end of the day, you know, it will… it will… it will… the return… the return on investment is
184 00:22:21.710 ⇒ 00:22:24.060 Brylle Girang: Much bigger, so it’s…
185 00:22:24.520 ⇒ 00:22:38.820 Brylle Girang: That’s… that’s why, you know, I’m pushing everyone to do this, because, again, if we… if we pull this off Omni platform, guess what? We have kick… we have Quick Start as next, and that’s another $150 USD, if you manage to pull that off.
186 00:22:40.010 ⇒ 00:22:42.519 Brylle Girang: So, I have my suggestion to you.
187 00:22:42.520 ⇒ 00:22:43.640 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s…
188 00:22:43.640 ⇒ 00:22:44.310 Brylle Girang: I love you.
189 00:22:45.170 ⇒ 00:22:58.040 Brylle Girang: If you want to get, like, the bonus ASAP, then complete the certification ASAP, get the quick start, the next one, and then maybe you’ll have a 300 USD bonus in one month, if you’re able to pull that off.
190 00:22:58.370 ⇒ 00:23:06.490 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that’s a good goal as well. That’s something I plan to work towards, so… Yeah, no, I really appreciate this.
191 00:23:06.790 ⇒ 00:23:24.469 Brylle Girang: Okay. Yeah, and at the same time, you know, this is a certification that… I’m not saying that you will afford, but let’s say this is a long-term certification. It’s not like, you know, if you’re not with Brainforge, you’re not going to be able to use that. The learnings and the knowledge that you’ll get from it is…
192 00:23:24.750 ⇒ 00:23:32.900 Brylle Girang: Super amazing, but at the same time, you know, it helps you, it helps us, it helps the clients, it makes everything amazing, right?
193 00:23:33.350 ⇒ 00:23:34.230 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, yep.
194 00:23:34.230 ⇒ 00:23:34.860 Brylle Girang: Becky?
195 00:23:34.960 ⇒ 00:23:50.940 Brylle Girang: Great! So, Advaid, we will be launching more L&D resources within this week, and that focus on actually equipping you to, you know, be 100 times better. You’re, you’re, you’re really great right now, and I can only imagine Advaid.
196 00:23:50.940 ⇒ 00:23:55.700 Brylle Girang: With, you know, 100% more advanced cursor skills, and 100%
197 00:23:56.040 ⇒ 00:24:00.450 Brylle Girang: more advanced understanding of Omni, so I’m super excited.
198 00:24:01.470 ⇒ 00:24:05.530 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah, I’m too. So, this is… like I said, this initiative is…
199 00:24:05.790 ⇒ 00:24:12.240 Advait Nandakumar Menon: really nice, and I’m thankful that you guys are pushing this and pushing us to do it, so…
200 00:24:12.370 ⇒ 00:24:13.640 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Air pressure.
201 00:24:14.080 ⇒ 00:24:17.809 Brylle Girang: Great. Okay, yeah, I’m just going to…
202 00:24:18.210 ⇒ 00:24:23.449 Brylle Girang: how do you call this? I will be working with you on the playbooks, so let me know if you need any help there, okay?
203 00:24:23.450 ⇒ 00:24:24.170 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Huh.
204 00:24:25.280 ⇒ 00:24:36.519 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay. Sure. One thing I want to ask you is, have you ever gone about the usage for your, like, plot… not plot, I mean cursor account, like.
205 00:24:36.700 ⇒ 00:24:44.799 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I’m just trying to understand the usage allocation per user. How does that, look like for you?
206 00:24:45.530 ⇒ 00:24:47.720 Brylle Girang: For… for cursor, you mean?
207 00:24:48.390 ⇒ 00:24:49.370 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah.
208 00:24:49.370 ⇒ 00:24:55.469 Brylle Girang: don’t care, like, don’t even care about that. That is Otam’s problem. That is the company’s.
209 00:24:55.470 ⇒ 00:24:55.800 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s.
210 00:24:55.800 ⇒ 00:25:08.009 Brylle Girang: You know, if you want to use cursor, do it. Don’t worry about, hey, our tokens are running out, hey, maybe my usage is running out. Don’t even think about that, you know.
211 00:25:08.010 ⇒ 00:25:15.890 Advait Nandakumar Menon: No, the only… the only reason I’m asking that is because on Friday, while I was working with Gursa, I got a small notification
212 00:25:16.060 ⇒ 00:25:22.580 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, something that said that some invoice was left unpaid or something. That was going on.
213 00:25:22.810 ⇒ 00:25:25.710 Advait Nandakumar Menon: For a couple of… And that’s…
214 00:25:25.980 ⇒ 00:25:44.030 Advait Nandakumar Menon: And when I went to my account and clicked on my usage, it said, like, I’ve hit the $20 limit for usage, and then it’s going to be, I think, on-demand usage, like, per request, you’ll be charged a few cents or dollars or something like that, so I just want to understand about that.
215 00:25:44.460 ⇒ 00:26:03.929 Brylle Girang: Yeah, so, each of our accounts, each of our accounts have, like, a $20 included usage, so it’s, like, free usage from the monthly subscription that we’re paying, and then at the same time, we have this, like, on-demand usage that everyone in the team can use if their included usage turns out.
216 00:26:04.000 ⇒ 00:26:10.070 Brylle Girang: Now, this on-demand usage is, like, a set amount per month that Utama set.
217 00:26:10.300 ⇒ 00:26:14.669 Brylle Girang: And everyone in the team can use from that pool.
218 00:26:15.060 ⇒ 00:26:20.050 Brylle Girang: Now, that is shared, that is, like, a shared limit across the team.
219 00:26:20.050 ⇒ 00:26:20.490 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
220 00:26:20.490 ⇒ 00:26:26.709 Brylle Girang: And when that runs out, everyone in the team is not able to, like, use cursor for a moment.
221 00:26:26.900 ⇒ 00:26:45.039 Brylle Girang: But once that happens, you know, UTAM is the, like, the heaviest cursor user here, and Utam will not accept that we don’t use cursor for the rest of the month, so don’t worry about it. If you encounter that, just think that, hey, UTAM will see this, it should be fixed, you know, within the day.
222 00:26:45.040 ⇒ 00:26:45.490 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
223 00:26:45.490 ⇒ 00:26:47.099 Brylle Girang: And that should be fine.
224 00:26:47.610 ⇒ 00:26:49.920 Brylle Girang: You know, and at the end of the day, you know.
225 00:26:50.040 ⇒ 00:27:00.680 Brylle Girang: We would love it if our tokens just run out and run out, because everyone’s using cursor. We’re more than happy to, like, shut out, you know, an additional 1,000 or 2,000 USD for that.
226 00:27:01.690 ⇒ 00:27:07.319 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s good to know, because I hit that $20 limit, and I was like, what’s this, and…
227 00:27:07.420 ⇒ 00:27:23.059 Advait Nandakumar Menon: it showed the on-demand usage. I think it’s around 2.4K was the, like, the… I wanted to understand it’s a shared, or, like, just for me, or whatever, so yeah, you gave me clarity on it right now, so yeah, that’s completely fine.
228 00:27:23.580 ⇒ 00:27:30.650 Brylle Girang: Okay, great. Thank you, thank you so much for your time, Advait. I will be reaching out to you if I, you know, if we can work together soon.
229 00:27:31.500 ⇒ 00:27:37.409 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sure, I will keep updating you on this playbook and reach out to you if I run into any issues.
230 00:27:37.700 ⇒ 00:27:39.450 Brylle Girang: Great, thank you. Thank you, Advine.
231 00:27:39.840 ⇒ 00:27:41.860 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Thank you, have a good one. Bye-bye.