Meeting Title: Brainforge Weekly Sync Date: 2026-04-28 Meeting participants: Greg Stoutenburg, Demilade Agboola, Advait Nandakumar Menon, Greg Stoutenburg
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1 00:00:08.680 ⇒ 00:00:09.640 Demilade Agboola: Hi, Greg.
2 00:00:33.830 ⇒ 00:00:35.329 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Hey, Demi, how’s it going?
3 00:00:35.680 ⇒ 00:00:37.020 Demilade Agboola: Advert, I’m good, how are you?
4 00:00:37.980 ⇒ 00:00:39.169 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I’m doing good, too.
5 00:00:41.440 ⇒ 00:00:42.360 Greg Stoutenburg: Hey, guys.
6 00:00:43.140 ⇒ 00:00:43.660 Demilade Agboola: Hi, Greg.
7 00:00:43.660 ⇒ 00:00:45.219 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Hey, Greg, how’s it going?
8 00:00:45.220 ⇒ 00:00:45.750 Greg Stoutenburg: Dude.
9 00:00:46.320 ⇒ 00:00:57.260 Greg Stoutenburg: Hey, I’m doing alright. Thanks for, let’s keep video off today if we can. I’m in a funny spot because there’s a contractor running a saw downstairs.
10 00:00:57.260 ⇒ 00:01:10.689 Greg Stoutenburg: upstairs, some people came over to do some work and scared my dog, and he went nuts, so I am taking this from my car on the phone. And then I’ll head back in. Okay, thanks.
11 00:01:10.690 ⇒ 00:01:14.689 Demilade Agboola: I’m having… I’m having lunch, too, so it’s great that we’re off camp.
12 00:01:15.560 ⇒ 00:01:16.220 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
13 00:01:18.070 ⇒ 00:01:19.530 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, can you hear me?
14 00:01:20.090 ⇒ 00:01:22.049 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, it could be.
15 00:01:22.360 ⇒ 00:01:34.959 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, it put me in driving mode. Why? I’m just sitting here. Anyway, weird day. Cool. Okay, so I think, I think for this week, the priority is just making sure
16 00:01:35.160 ⇒ 00:01:40.129 Greg Stoutenburg: I mean, you know, obviously we have things to do on our end. From the client management side,
17 00:01:40.320 ⇒ 00:01:48.410 Greg Stoutenburg: I think the critical piece is just making them feel assured that the handoff is gonna be smooth, and that everything’s gonna be fine.
18 00:01:48.600 ⇒ 00:02:05.520 Greg Stoutenburg: And so to deliver that, you probably saw on the channel, I shared docs on, training for dbt that you shared, Demi, thank you for that. And Advait took your tip for, the Omni stuff, so…
19 00:02:05.560 ⇒ 00:02:08.709 Greg Stoutenburg: I think that’s good, they’ll be happy about that.
20 00:02:08.940 ⇒ 00:02:26.999 Greg Stoutenburg: I’m trying to get someone from Omni to do their training, and Utam suggested a… someone who’s done some work for Brainforge in the past, to… to walk them through some DBT stuff. So, I think it’ll be good for us to just not have to worry about that. So, so that’ll be that piece. And then,
21 00:02:27.600 ⇒ 00:02:41.490 Greg Stoutenburg: I… for the… for the dashboards, maybe, Demi, could you walk through, like, what needs to be deprecated, and what’s, you know, what are the statuses of those various things, just to make sure we’re all on the same page?
22 00:02:43.210 ⇒ 00:02:52.400 Demilade Agboola: So… I know that, like, the old dashboards need to be deprecated, because they contain, like, outdated information.
23 00:02:52.630 ⇒ 00:02:54.679 Demilade Agboola: A lot of them are, like, product dashboards.
24 00:02:55.680 ⇒ 00:02:58.649 Demilade Agboola: some Salesforce, almost another product.
25 00:02:59.010 ⇒ 00:03:01.770 Demilade Agboola: So the idea here is we need to be able to get rid of that.
26 00:03:02.520 ⇒ 00:03:08.019 Demilade Agboola: But I do know, like, Advates saw that some of them had been viewed over the last…
27 00:03:08.660 ⇒ 00:03:13.940 Demilade Agboola: Over this month, like, in this month, and I think what we should just do is give a heads up and say.
28 00:03:14.190 ⇒ 00:03:18.190 Demilade Agboola: Hey, we’re gonna be deprecating all of the… theater sources.
29 00:03:18.300 ⇒ 00:03:26.529 Demilade Agboola: In the raw, and as a result, that would affect these dashboards, and once we’re done, once we delete those dashboards, we will reorganize
30 00:03:26.720 ⇒ 00:03:32.629 Demilade Agboola: the new dashboards that will be left, so that will be the CS dashboard, the financial dashboard, like, all of them.
31 00:03:33.670 ⇒ 00:03:35.739 Demilade Agboola: I will make them available to…
32 00:03:36.030 ⇒ 00:03:37.660 Demilade Agboola: Whoever needs to see them.
33 00:03:39.350 ⇒ 00:03:43.889 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, so, to be clear, are any of the dashboards that we have to deprecate
34 00:03:44.040 ⇒ 00:03:47.069 Greg Stoutenburg: Because they use exports, or…
35 00:03:47.370 ⇒ 00:03:55.720 Greg Stoutenburg: topics that had raw data built in them. Are any of those dashboards ones that are on the dashboard metrics doc that we’ve been executing?
36 00:03:56.940 ⇒ 00:03:57.550 Demilade Agboola: No.
37 00:03:58.350 ⇒ 00:03:59.170 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
38 00:03:59.610 ⇒ 00:04:03.900 Greg Stoutenburg: So they’re just, like, older things from the engagement last year or something?
39 00:04:03.900 ⇒ 00:04:22.229 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, from the engagement last year, where we just were trying to do, like, a proof of concept, and they wanted to, like, roll some things out. So we got exports of their product data, and we’re using it to build our dashboards. A couple of Salesforce data, like, some Salesforce data, too, and that’s also in some other dashboards as well.
40 00:04:22.640 ⇒ 00:04:25.170 Demilade Agboola: Okay. Mostly it was product data.
41 00:04:25.940 ⇒ 00:04:30.760 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, got it. Okay, cool. And then, for the topic…
42 00:04:31.010 ⇒ 00:04:36.619 Greg Stoutenburg: fixing that you’re doing because there’s raw data built into it. That is still ongoing, right?
43 00:04:39.370 ⇒ 00:04:40.920 Demilade Agboola: I’m not sure I got that question.
44 00:04:41.340 ⇒ 00:04:52.329 Greg Stoutenburg: So, Advait, help me make sure that I understand this. So, some of the topics that we set up for Omni use raw data tables, but we’re removing that.
45 00:04:53.190 ⇒ 00:05:07.880 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, so I’m removing the access, to the raw data schema as a whole, and the underlying topics as well that’s using them. So, I already submitted a PR for it, so I’ve asked Demi to review it as well.
46 00:05:08.260 ⇒ 00:05:09.190 Greg Stoutenburg: So… Okay.
47 00:05:09.190 ⇒ 00:05:12.629 Advait Nandakumar Menon: That’s essentially done when it’s March, the PR is March.
48 00:05:13.000 ⇒ 00:05:14.539 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, when will that happen?
49 00:05:17.110 ⇒ 00:05:17.680 Greg Stoutenburg: Bob.
50 00:05:17.680 ⇒ 00:05:18.770 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I have…
51 00:05:19.240 ⇒ 00:05:34.520 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, I have done all the work, I just want Danny to review it once, just to make sure I’m not deleting anything that’s important or whatever, and once that’s done, we can just, switch off the dashboards as well.
52 00:05:35.280 ⇒ 00:05:41.760 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, cool. Alright, that sounds good. So we can just say the PR is in review.
53 00:05:41.760 ⇒ 00:05:48.980 Demilade Agboola: We can just basically do that, like, that shouldn’t take long. My only thing is just, like, I just want us to be able to give a heads up.
54 00:05:49.180 ⇒ 00:05:58.330 Demilade Agboola: That those dashboards will… Basically, be… those dashboards would basically be… what’s it called?
55 00:05:59.800 ⇒ 00:06:00.720 Demilade Agboola: Perfect.
56 00:06:00.930 ⇒ 00:06:01.430 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
57 00:06:02.230 ⇒ 00:06:06.270 Greg Stoutenburg: Well, they’re sort of… those dashboards,
58 00:06:06.770 ⇒ 00:06:13.420 Greg Stoutenburg: Well, I mean, dashboards that we have built this year for them, there are some that rely on the raw data, right?
59 00:06:14.700 ⇒ 00:06:16.020 Demilade Agboola: This year? No.
60 00:06:16.880 ⇒ 00:06:19.390 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, ALL of them are old ones.
61 00:06:20.830 ⇒ 00:06:25.940 Demilade Agboola: Dashboards we built this year, no, it’s all on the new data. That’s why we have, like, polyatomic and all of that.
62 00:06:26.660 ⇒ 00:06:31.240 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, thank you. Okay, cool. I mean, so…
63 00:06:31.240 ⇒ 00:06:37.520 Demilade Agboola: Actually, no, I take that back. Because we were getting blocked with some of the product data, getting that in.
64 00:06:37.930 ⇒ 00:06:40.550 Demilade Agboola: We, for proof of concept, used
65 00:06:41.310 ⇒ 00:06:48.200 Demilade Agboola: some old, like, some data from, like, some exported data to just show what it would look like for the CS stuff.
66 00:06:49.590 ⇒ 00:06:50.210 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
67 00:06:51.400 ⇒ 00:06:52.380 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
68 00:06:53.220 ⇒ 00:06:53.880 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay.
69 00:06:53.880 ⇒ 00:06:54.340 Demilade Agboola: So…
70 00:06:54.340 ⇒ 00:06:58.039 Greg Stoutenburg: So… Oh, sorry, are you checking something?
71 00:06:58.210 ⇒ 00:07:03.699 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, I just need to confirm that, like, the CS stuff comes from, like, where it exists.
72 00:07:04.260 ⇒ 00:07:08.220 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, I’m just trying to anticipate questions that they’re gonna ask, so… .
73 00:07:11.540 ⇒ 00:07:12.110 Demilade Agboola: Actually.
74 00:07:12.110 ⇒ 00:07:14.829 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I did check all the dashboards.
75 00:07:15.300 ⇒ 00:07:16.909 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sorry, Demi, you can go ahead.
76 00:07:17.210 ⇒ 00:07:27.459 Demilade Agboola: Anyways, can you check where the CS… like, some of the… especially, like, the product, like, integration stuff from… in the CS dashboard, where it’s coming from? Like, what… what view?
77 00:07:27.460 ⇒ 00:07:28.660 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
78 00:07:29.280 ⇒ 00:07:39.220 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, so that’s what I was, just gonna say. So, the customer dashboard, we have, so it uses all the topics that we’re gonna delete.
79 00:07:39.390 ⇒ 00:07:50.070 Advait Nandakumar Menon: It’s not using any of the new ones. All the product data or the prod maths we have set up, it’s not using it from there, it’s taking it from the old topic, so…
80 00:07:50.190 ⇒ 00:07:54.399 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Mostly it’s from the raw export is my answer.
81 00:07:55.430 ⇒ 00:07:59.729 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, and that’s the current Customer Success and Performance Metrics dashboard?
82 00:08:00.520 ⇒ 00:08:05.839 Advait Nandakumar Menon: No, the old customer dashboard that’s, present in the…
83 00:08:05.960 ⇒ 00:08:13.320 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I mean, it’s not present in the folder, it’s just when you click on documents, you will be able to see the dashboard. I had shared the links yesterday.
84 00:08:14.330 ⇒ 00:08:16.269 Demilade Agboola: The one we showed to Diana.
85 00:08:17.800 ⇒ 00:08:18.680 Demilade Agboola: Right?
86 00:08:20.000 ⇒ 00:08:23.040 Demilade Agboola: I believe that also uses… that’s what I’m just… I want to skip.
87 00:08:23.040 ⇒ 00:08:33.320 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Oh, you mean the new ones I created? I don’t think those use the raw export. I didn’t see any raw export field or table being used in it.
88 00:08:34.309 ⇒ 00:08:37.429 Demilade Agboola: Okay, give me one second, just…
89 00:08:37.429 ⇒ 00:08:39.929 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, can you verify that, someone?
90 00:08:41.129 ⇒ 00:08:42.229 Greg Stoutenburg: Because I don’t want to tell them…
91 00:08:42.830 ⇒ 00:08:43.530 Advait Nandakumar Menon: that it’s…
92 00:08:43.530 ⇒ 00:08:44.439 Greg Stoutenburg: I don’t wanna tell…
93 00:08:46.040 ⇒ 00:08:49.389 Demilade Agboola: It’s the stuff, like, around, like, workflow…
94 00:08:52.320 ⇒ 00:08:54.910 Demilade Agboola: Let’s see. Workflow stuff, that’s… because that’s.
95 00:08:54.910 ⇒ 00:08:58.420 Greg Stoutenburg: And building off of the metric stock, don’t…
96 00:09:05.380 ⇒ 00:09:06.870 Greg Stoutenburg: Sorry, can you guys still hear me?
97 00:09:07.250 ⇒ 00:09:07.909 Demilade Agboola: Yes, okay, you know.
98 00:09:07.910 ⇒ 00:09:08.440 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
99 00:09:08.760 ⇒ 00:09:13.300 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, cool. Okay. Yeah, so if someone could just verify that, that would be appreciated.
100 00:09:15.630 ⇒ 00:09:29.449 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay, one thing is that how I verify this is, so in the branch I created for the PR, there is something, within Omni called… within the model called Content Validator.
101 00:09:29.570 ⇒ 00:09:40.899 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, if you click on that, it will show you which and all dashboards will be impacted, and I couldn’t see any of the new ones I created being impacted, so I think we should be good.
102 00:09:41.200 ⇒ 00:09:46.760 Greg Stoutenburg: Oh, okay, I’m content with that. Sure, I’m… I’m glad to know that you already did that extra step. So, good, sounds good.
103 00:09:47.740 ⇒ 00:09:48.740 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, yep.
104 00:09:50.740 ⇒ 00:09:54.779 Greg Stoutenburg: Okay, yeah. So, I’m satisfied there. So, okay.
105 00:09:55.780 ⇒ 00:09:58.580 Greg Stoutenburg: Then, other than that, it’s,
106 00:09:58.790 ⇒ 00:10:13.640 Greg Stoutenburg: Demi, you’re… you’re preparing what they’ll need to know about, dbt modeling for handoff, just so we can point to those places where something is coded in, and, and Advait, you’re working on the BDR feedback.
107 00:10:14.300 ⇒ 00:10:15.000 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
108 00:10:17.090 ⇒ 00:10:19.200 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright, sounds good. Anything else, guys?
109 00:10:20.620 ⇒ 00:10:21.190 Demilade Agboola: Wow.
110 00:10:21.190 ⇒ 00:10:26.249 Advait Nandakumar Menon: So, for the BDF feedback, I’m currently working on
111 00:10:26.360 ⇒ 00:10:33.529 Advait Nandakumar Menon: adding, like, definitions for each of the tiles or visuals present on the dashboard. So I know…
112 00:10:33.640 ⇒ 00:10:41.609 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Nandika asked for the raw Salesforce fields that’s being used in each metric. That information is not there.
113 00:10:41.750 ⇒ 00:10:50.310 Advait Nandakumar Menon: In the model, Demi, that’s maybe something we need to add as descriptions to each field. It is there for some, but not for all, I would say.
114 00:10:51.870 ⇒ 00:10:57.259 Demilade Agboola: Sorry, I think… I didn’t… I wasn’t… I was trying to figure… I think… sorry, I would have to…
115 00:10:57.460 ⇒ 00:10:59.150 Demilade Agboola: Two things. One is…
116 00:11:00.050 ⇒ 00:11:06.050 Demilade Agboola: I… I will confirm, but actually, I think, some of the models you’re using for…
117 00:11:08.750 ⇒ 00:11:09.690 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Media?
118 00:11:10.010 ⇒ 00:11:12.929 Demilade Agboola: for the… not BDR, the Gianna dashboard.
119 00:11:13.520 ⇒ 00:11:19.320 Demilade Agboola: they’re not okay. You know what, you can actually delete them, because you’re not directly using them. DBT’s relying on some of them.
120 00:11:19.570 ⇒ 00:11:22.869 Demilade Agboola: But you can’t, like… if you’re deleting the view, that’s fine.
121 00:11:23.210 ⇒ 00:11:32.170 Demilade Agboola: But we’ve been able to merge it and put it in the prod, if you get what I’m trying to say. But if you… but you can’t delete it from Mother Doc, is one… is the… like, the rod itself.
122 00:11:32.170 ⇒ 00:11:35.399 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Oh yeah, I meant with an Omni. With an Omni, it’s not red enough.
123 00:11:35.400 ⇒ 00:11:36.839 Demilade Agboola: I mean, it’s fine. Yeah, that’s fine, that’s fine.
124 00:11:36.840 ⇒ 00:11:41.530 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, yeah, I meant… all of… whatever I mentioned and talked about, it’s all in Omni.
125 00:11:41.530 ⇒ 00:11:48.000 Demilade Agboola: Alright, that’s fine. So I just wanted to just be clear on that, like, so you can’t touch your mother, though, but, I mean, yes, that’s fine, we can get rid of it.
126 00:11:48.570 ⇒ 00:11:49.410 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, yep.
127 00:11:49.610 ⇒ 00:11:50.130 Demilade Agboola: Okay.
128 00:11:50.730 ⇒ 00:11:52.180 Greg Stoutenburg: Cool. Yes, Richard.
129 00:11:52.180 ⇒ 00:11:55.350 Demilade Agboola: What dashboard… what does Anadika need that we don’t have?
130 00:11:57.300 ⇒ 00:12:15.310 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, so one of the feedback is, for the BDA dashboard is for each tile or metric, whatever we are showing, basically, in the form of KPay or the charts. She wants to see, metric definition when you hover over the information tooltip on each of the tiles, so I’m…
131 00:12:15.310 ⇒ 00:12:28.659 Advait Nandakumar Menon: currently populating it, and one of the things she wanted in it is the raw Salesforce field that it’s being indexed on, and it’s available for some of the metrics, but not all of them, so I just wanted to let you know of that.
132 00:12:28.950 ⇒ 00:12:37.380 Demilade Agboola: Alright, that’s fine. So you know what you could do? Can you just do, like, a list? Like, you make a spreadsheet of, like, the things that are missing? Or, like, you don’t have…
133 00:12:37.380 ⇒ 00:12:37.950 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
134 00:12:37.950 ⇒ 00:12:44.679 Demilade Agboola: about, and then just send it to me when you’re done, and I’ll use that, I’ll populate it with the raw, columns.
135 00:12:45.660 ⇒ 00:12:46.290 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Sure.
136 00:12:46.410 ⇒ 00:12:47.280 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
137 00:12:48.200 ⇒ 00:12:48.870 Greg Stoutenburg: Yep. Yeah.
138 00:12:48.870 ⇒ 00:12:57.419 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I can do that. And for some of the other requests for the feedback for the BDR dashboard, I think,
139 00:12:57.810 ⇒ 00:13:03.200 Advait Nandakumar Menon: might need some modeling help from you, Denny, and I think the number one priority is that
140 00:13:03.360 ⇒ 00:13:08.319 Advait Nandakumar Menon: They just don’t want a later snapshot view, they want a historical
141 00:13:08.650 ⇒ 00:13:11.440 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Data for the metrics, so…
142 00:13:13.140 ⇒ 00:13:15.680 Advait Nandakumar Menon: We might need to do something about that.
143 00:13:16.360 ⇒ 00:13:18.699 Demilade Agboola: Yeah, so we don’t change the granularity.
144 00:13:19.670 ⇒ 00:13:20.340 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
145 00:13:25.890 ⇒ 00:13:26.480 Greg Stoutenburg: Cool.
146 00:13:26.790 ⇒ 00:13:29.059 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright, anything else, guys?
147 00:13:31.440 ⇒ 00:13:38.519 Advait Nandakumar Menon: I don’t think so. I think the other thing for me, Greg, is, the posthog, I think you mentioned some dashboard yesterday.
148 00:13:40.040 ⇒ 00:13:42.660 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, let me get spec for that. And actually.
149 00:13:42.660 ⇒ 00:13:43.230 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah.
150 00:13:43.670 ⇒ 00:13:53.409 Greg Stoutenburg: I… I can’t do it right this second, but I’ll re-review a message that Nautica wrote to me. We might be basically just handing over the product analytics stuff, and then we’ll just stop worrying about it.
151 00:13:54.440 ⇒ 00:13:54.970 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Oh, okay.
152 00:13:55.170 ⇒ 00:14:00.969 Greg Stoutenburg: But, so, yeah, so for that, consider anything in posthog just on hold, and that I’m the blocker.
153 00:14:01.970 ⇒ 00:14:02.510 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Okay.
154 00:14:03.150 ⇒ 00:14:22.069 Greg Stoutenburg: Or… okay, so I will, I’d like to just draft the message and put it in the… our internal channel, and get you guys to give it a thumbs up, and then I will just copy and paste it right over to default, and tell them what we’re up to. Hopefully handing off the training just, you know, bought us some time and a little leeway.
155 00:14:22.190 ⇒ 00:14:25.940 Greg Stoutenburg: And, yeah, you guys are crushing it, so thanks for your work.
156 00:14:27.130 ⇒ 00:14:27.800 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep.
157 00:14:27.800 ⇒ 00:14:35.419 Demilade Agboola: Can you also, like, just tell me what, like, dashboard for the BDR stuff, are there any tickets for, like, what you need, or…
158 00:14:35.560 ⇒ 00:14:37.520 Demilade Agboola: Would you want me to sync with you on that?
159 00:14:37.680 ⇒ 00:14:38.820 Demilade Agboola: In terms of, like, quantity.
160 00:14:40.950 ⇒ 00:14:49.820 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yeah, I’m here to look into all the tickets, for which I need modeling help. Once I’m sure of what needs modeling, maybe we can sync.
161 00:14:50.080 ⇒ 00:14:51.160 Demilade Agboola: Alright, sounds good, Ben.
162 00:14:51.600 ⇒ 00:14:52.700 Greg Stoutenburg: Yeah, cool.
163 00:14:53.100 ⇒ 00:14:56.900 Greg Stoutenburg: Awesome. Okay, sounds good, guys. Have a good rest of your day, if I don’t talk to you.
164 00:14:57.710 ⇒ 00:14:58.599 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Yep, talk soon.
165 00:14:58.600 ⇒ 00:14:59.690 Greg Stoutenburg: Alright, see ya. Bye.
166 00:15:00.010 ⇒ 00:15:00.380 Advait Nandakumar Menon: Bye.