Meeting Title: Brainforge Platform Development Sync Date: 2026-05-06 Meeting participants: Uttam Kumaran, Davis Dunham, Mustafa Raja
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1 00:00:11.380 ⇒ 00:00:21.269 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so basically what I… yeah, basically what I was saying is, like, all of these, like, I think someone should see an interface that’s like this, but then they almost, like.
2 00:00:21.720 ⇒ 00:00:24.879 Uttam Kumaran: Can, like, chat with this and edit it without having to, like.
3 00:00:25.900 ⇒ 00:00:29.079 Uttam Kumaran: click on these items. It’s, like, kind of like when we’re looking forward based on.
4 00:00:29.080 ⇒ 00:00:29.850 Davis Dunham: Yes.
5 00:00:30.320 ⇒ 00:00:37.800 Uttam Kumaran: And then, ultimately, I think you take it, like, 90% of the way there, and then somebody can export it to Slides, or export it to Google Slides.
6 00:00:38.340 ⇒ 00:00:40.480 Uttam Kumaran: And go from there. But, like…
7 00:00:40.480 ⇒ 00:00:41.000 Davis Dunham: changes.
8 00:00:41.000 ⇒ 00:00:47.520 Uttam Kumaran: Right now, what people are doing is, like, cop… they’re basically either, like, taking existing decks and changing, like, a couple things.
9 00:00:48.000 ⇒ 00:00:53.250 Uttam Kumaran: Or they’re like, taking it locally, running it with AI, then putting it up.
10 00:00:53.370 ⇒ 00:00:55.979 Uttam Kumaran: Like, either both ways are, like, not so great.
11 00:00:55.980 ⇒ 00:00:56.690 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
12 00:00:58.340 ⇒ 00:01:02.830 Davis Dunham: Because with the AI side of things, you get stuck with stuff that, like, isn’t editable and stuff, right?
13 00:01:03.280 ⇒ 00:01:04.110 Uttam Kumaran: Yes.
14 00:01:04.110 ⇒ 00:01:06.060 Davis Dunham: Like, it just, yeah, herd.
15 00:01:06.260 ⇒ 00:01:08.110 Davis Dunham: Heard, yeah, I will,
16 00:01:08.560 ⇒ 00:01:14.990 Davis Dunham: Alright, the deck builder is just, like, you know, when… while the, the bots were thinking on the,
17 00:01:15.320 ⇒ 00:01:16.840 Davis Dunham: the Slack assistant.
18 00:01:17.180 ⇒ 00:01:26.399 Davis Dunham: But I’m gonna… I’ll keep working on that as well. I think I do see the goal at this point, and I’m pretty confident we can… I can get it… get it.
19 00:01:26.400 ⇒ 00:01:31.180 Uttam Kumaran: I think, but again, I think, like, if on Friday you’re halfway through both, I would say.
20 00:01:32.500 ⇒ 00:01:38.530 Uttam Kumaran: X. Like, I would say, get the, like, folk, get the Slack assistant. I almost would, like.
21 00:01:39.110 ⇒ 00:01:41.980 Uttam Kumaran: Unless you’re, like, really confident, I would just…
22 00:01:42.120 ⇒ 00:02:00.279 Uttam Kumaran: just rip this lack assistant out, and, like, keep going, and get something that we can test, so that I can give you feedback. I think if you end up at Friday with neither fully done, that’s… that’s gonna be rough. So that’s what I’m even trying to tell both of you guys, is like, this is a distraction-heavy team we’re gonna be on.
23 00:02:00.620 ⇒ 00:02:04.090 Uttam Kumaran: To really try to lock in, and…
24 00:02:05.890 ⇒ 00:02:08.429 Uttam Kumaran: Just get one thing out the door.
25 00:02:08.580 ⇒ 00:02:22.310 Uttam Kumaran: see what it was like, because then we’re gonna take on more things, but if you start the day and take on 5 things, just inch forward, you’re gonna be in the same spot I’ve been, which is, like, sort of, like, kind of ladder and take a couple things, versus, like.
26 00:02:22.590 ⇒ 00:02:25.730 Uttam Kumaran: Just take the Slack system all the way, Pot.
27 00:02:26.250 ⇒ 00:02:27.180 Uttam Kumaran: feedback.
28 00:02:27.320 ⇒ 00:02:35.500 Uttam Kumaran: Next thing, all the way feedback. Then, you’ll start to understand, okay, can I… can I actually confidently do two of those per day? Cut?
29 00:02:35.800 ⇒ 00:02:38.139 Uttam Kumaran: And then, if at 3, it’s, like, maxed.
30 00:02:38.440 ⇒ 00:02:43.760 Uttam Kumaran: then you kind of figure that out. Like, but you figure that out after, like, you stack, you stack, you stack, right?
31 00:02:43.760 ⇒ 00:02:45.530 Davis Dunham: Heard? Yeah. I can do that.
32 00:02:46.010 ⇒ 00:02:50.850 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, because the distractions are gonna come your way. Like, this is where I want you to think about
33 00:02:51.020 ⇒ 00:03:02.400 Uttam Kumaran: part of this is, like, there’s nobody else in the company that’s doing this, so it’s gonna feel like everything you’re gonna have an opportunity to work on, but really, the way… the space I’m trying to give you guys is, like.
34 00:03:02.600 ⇒ 00:03:06.729 Uttam Kumaran: 8 hours of uninterrupted, get, like, the mission through.
35 00:03:06.830 ⇒ 00:03:15.340 Uttam Kumaran: and focus, right? Because I’m gonna go handle a lot of the distracting things, and I will send some of them your way, but do you just, like.
36 00:03:15.540 ⇒ 00:03:20.360 Uttam Kumaran: say, yo, I can’t… I can’t handle this, but a lot of them are just gonna be like, what skills should I use?
37 00:03:20.360 ⇒ 00:03:20.690 Davis Dunham: Yeah, exactly.
38 00:03:20.690 ⇒ 00:03:23.309 Uttam Kumaran: So when you’re, like, looking for a distraction.
39 00:03:23.440 ⇒ 00:03:26.750 Uttam Kumaran: just go in Slack and answer some of these, like, questions. That’s it.
40 00:03:26.750 ⇒ 00:03:27.430 Davis Dunham: I’ve heard…
41 00:03:27.430 ⇒ 00:03:30.450 Uttam Kumaran: You know? But those are the main… I would focus like that.
42 00:03:31.590 ⇒ 00:03:32.380 Davis Dunham: Cool.
43 00:03:32.510 ⇒ 00:03:35.349 Davis Dunham: Very cool. Also, speaking of skills, I,
44 00:03:35.530 ⇒ 00:03:53.500 Davis Dunham: what did I do? I opened a PR. I just shipped one skill, it’s called Context to Milestone Tickets, and it just fills Greg and Robert’s, like, use case specifically, because we have, like, a bunch of… all that functionality is built out, but it’s, like, across multiple
45 00:03:53.500 ⇒ 00:03:55.609 Davis Dunham: Skills, at least it was prior.
46 00:03:55.610 ⇒ 00:04:02.330 Davis Dunham: So I kind of just, like, strung it all together, for one big thing. You can just add a transcript or, you know, whatever unstructured.
47 00:04:02.880 ⇒ 00:04:06.899 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, no, I read it, it looks great. So, like, but that’s a perfect thing where I’m like.
48 00:04:07.320 ⇒ 00:04:11.119 Uttam Kumaran: One thing I wanted to push you today is, like, dude, go present on that.
49 00:04:11.230 ⇒ 00:04:15.009 Uttam Kumaran: Like, go, now use the presentation, now people get to meet you.
50 00:04:15.980 ⇒ 00:04:18.680 Uttam Kumaran: They show you that you’re the subject matter expert on skills.
51 00:04:18.680 ⇒ 00:04:19.040 Davis Dunham: Yes, sir.
52 00:04:19.040 ⇒ 00:04:23.020 Uttam Kumaran: when they have questions, now they can come to you, so I’m trying to kind of spread the load.
53 00:04:23.020 ⇒ 00:04:23.460 Davis Dunham: Awesome.
54 00:04:23.460 ⇒ 00:04:26.899 Uttam Kumaran: You’re gonna realize that you’re gonna have a good intuition for who your customer is.
55 00:04:26.900 ⇒ 00:04:27.230 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
56 00:04:27.230 ⇒ 00:04:29.090 Uttam Kumaran: Those people on that call are your customers.
57 00:04:29.090 ⇒ 00:04:29.490 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
58 00:04:29.490 ⇒ 00:04:35.239 Uttam Kumaran: Right? At this point. So, I want you to have these, and Mustafa, I’ll ask you to do the same thing.
59 00:04:35.450 ⇒ 00:04:38.450 Uttam Kumaran: So that when… ultimately, when you ship something.
60 00:04:38.670 ⇒ 00:04:57.460 Uttam Kumaran: you have a relationship. They read your message, they’re like, I know Davis, I should emoji, I should click on the thing he sends. If you come out on Friday, and this is just, like, kind of product management, like, build a relationship with your customer, so on Friday, when you ship your thing, people actually are like, I know Davis, he actually helped me out, let me look at this thing.
61 00:04:57.680 ⇒ 00:05:00.709 Uttam Kumaran: Otherwise, you’re gonna ship it into a ghost zone.
62 00:05:00.710 ⇒ 00:05:01.400 Davis Dunham: Yes.
63 00:05:01.400 ⇒ 00:05:04.090 Uttam Kumaran: And I’m gonna have to come in and be like, ad here, like…
64 00:05:04.310 ⇒ 00:05:04.720 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
65 00:05:04.720 ⇒ 00:05:05.900 Uttam Kumaran: Please look at this, right?
66 00:05:05.900 ⇒ 00:05:06.360 Davis Dunham: Yeah, guys.
67 00:05:06.360 ⇒ 00:05:12.860 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so this is what, you guys, I want you guys to become, like, the ultimate engineer. It’s like, you do a bit of product management.
68 00:05:13.110 ⇒ 00:05:17.930 Uttam Kumaran: You do some prototyping. You then do some… you then ship the first version.
69 00:05:18.020 ⇒ 00:05:36.950 Uttam Kumaran: You get feedback, then you ship the next version. You’re doing the entire cycle. And I’m telling you, like, having a good sense for your user is gonna help you understand my plans a bit better, shape the product, deliver it, get adoption, loop, loop, loop, loop, right? So I’ve been doing that
70 00:05:37.350 ⇒ 00:05:50.689 Uttam Kumaran: alone, and now we’re like, I’m trying to get you guys to come to that journey, but you’re gonna learn a bit of the product management side. But you’re also, really, the thing that I think is gonna be the most challenging for this group is the focus side. Like, how are we taking one
71 00:05:51.080 ⇒ 00:05:55.500 Uttam Kumaran: Surface to the… to the next… thing.
72 00:05:55.960 ⇒ 00:06:05.000 Uttam Kumaran: Because then I can go push adoption, and I can go get us the next thing to work on, you know? So, like, that’s how I want this crew to sort of… to sort of operate, you know? So…
73 00:06:05.540 ⇒ 00:06:06.400 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
74 00:06:07.050 ⇒ 00:06:07.800 Davis Dunham: Cool.
75 00:06:09.570 ⇒ 00:06:13.269 Uttam Kumaran: Should I go ahead and ship this, the assistant PR?
76 00:06:13.700 ⇒ 00:06:19.599 Davis Dunham: Yeah, man, if you’re cool with, you’re cool with, possibly breaking the assistant temporarily.
77 00:06:20.020 ⇒ 00:06:20.960 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I don’t care.
78 00:06:22.400 ⇒ 00:06:26.549 Uttam Kumaran: And then, yeah, I guess, like, In terms of,
79 00:06:27.000 ⇒ 00:06:35.360 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, for LaneFuse and Brain Trust, I guess up to you, like, are we… I guess your point was that we’re making a decision on which to use, or…
80 00:06:35.360 ⇒ 00:06:35.810 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
81 00:06:35.810 ⇒ 00:06:36.810 Uttam Kumaran: Like, okay.
82 00:06:37.650 ⇒ 00:06:52.540 Davis Dunham: I would go for… I think I’d go for Brain Trust. Based off what I read, it’s more, like, tapped into, like, the, automated evaluation, whereas LangFuse is more about, like, you can see the whole toolchain calling and everything, which is great, but I think the goal here is, like.
83 00:06:52.560 ⇒ 00:06:57.940 Davis Dunham: fast, iterative, you know, movement, which it seemed Brain Trust was more set up for.
84 00:06:57.940 ⇒ 00:06:58.650 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
85 00:06:59.520 ⇒ 00:07:01.729 Davis Dunham: And those… those keys aren’t set yet, so I don’t have…
86 00:07:01.730 ⇒ 00:07:02.069 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool.
87 00:07:02.300 ⇒ 00:07:07.629 Davis Dunham: The wiring is there, but until we set the keys for where it’s pointing to, it’s not a…
88 00:07:08.320 ⇒ 00:07:09.509 Davis Dunham: Not going anywhere.
89 00:07:09.680 ⇒ 00:07:13.540 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool. I don’t know why this failed, but maybe let’s see what it is.
90 00:07:13.540 ⇒ 00:07:18.459 Davis Dunham: Yeah, I don’t know either. I looked through it, and I couldn’t… It wasn’t for something…
91 00:07:18.660 ⇒ 00:07:21.589 Uttam Kumaran: I think it’s just a timeout. Okay, that’s fine.
92 00:07:26.760 ⇒ 00:07:28.510 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, what else we got?
93 00:07:30.030 ⇒ 00:07:32.550 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, this is the one you’re…
94 00:07:33.130 ⇒ 00:07:35.140 Davis Dunham: And the same… the same thing failed on.
95 00:07:35.140 ⇒ 00:07:36.610 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, that’s okay.
96 00:07:38.390 ⇒ 00:07:39.769 Uttam Kumaran: Nice, that’s great
97 00:07:40.320 ⇒ 00:07:47.909 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, I mean, ultimately, I think tomorrow, you should have some of those folks try these. Also, as you guys are building skills, do you test them?
98 00:07:48.090 ⇒ 00:07:51.370 Davis Dunham: Yes, I went through and tested and iterated a couple times.
99 00:07:51.370 ⇒ 00:07:54.179 Uttam Kumaran: We tested it, like, on our platform team, basically.
100 00:07:54.790 ⇒ 00:07:57.699 Davis Dunham: wait, what do you mean by that?
101 00:07:57.700 ⇒ 00:08:01.070 Uttam Kumaran: Like, did you test it on our platform team, Linear, basically, or no?
102 00:08:01.230 ⇒ 00:08:03.170 Uttam Kumaran: Or, like, how did you test the, like.
103 00:08:03.170 ⇒ 00:08:06.510 Davis Dunham: I tested it directly in OpenCode and then Cursor.
104 00:08:07.430 ⇒ 00:08:10.330 Uttam Kumaran: But then, like, for the actual ticket creation.
105 00:08:11.090 ⇒ 00:08:21.699 Davis Dunham: Oh, yeah, I just did dry runs, for… for all those, so I just had to essentially explain to me what it would do, and then as long as it has that correct, the MCP is pretty straightforward.
106 00:08:22.180 ⇒ 00:08:25.060 Uttam Kumaran: I think try to do the end-to-end testing.
107 00:08:25.060 ⇒ 00:08:25.470 Davis Dunham: Yeah?
108 00:08:25.470 ⇒ 00:08:30.560 Uttam Kumaran: I think you may be surprised that, this shit just doesn’t work sometimes.
109 00:08:30.560 ⇒ 00:08:31.520 Davis Dunham: Mess it up.
110 00:08:31.740 ⇒ 00:08:32.320 Uttam Kumaran: So…
111 00:08:32.320 ⇒ 00:08:34.249 Davis Dunham: I can do that. Is there a good way to,
112 00:08:34.250 ⇒ 00:08:34.700 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
113 00:08:34.700 ⇒ 00:08:35.779 Davis Dunham: If it, like, goes through and.
114 00:08:35.780 ⇒ 00:08:36.220 Uttam Kumaran: Just use…
115 00:08:36.220 ⇒ 00:08:40.810 Davis Dunham: other tickets that already exist, because I have a whole dedupe thing in there, too.
116 00:08:41.120 ⇒ 00:08:46.049 Uttam Kumaran: Just, like, have it, just tell it up front, like, create a new project for everything.
117 00:08:46.330 ⇒ 00:08:47.030 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
118 00:08:47.030 ⇒ 00:08:52.040 Uttam Kumaran: And just creating our platform. The platform is just the three of us, so… It’s like…
119 00:08:52.510 ⇒ 00:08:56.170 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I don’t know. Like, what’s the worst that could happen?
120 00:08:56.170 ⇒ 00:08:56.949 Davis Dunham: I heard… heard…
121 00:08:57.710 ⇒ 00:08:59.720 Uttam Kumaran: I mean, I could create you a fake team if you want to think.
122 00:08:59.720 ⇒ 00:09:02.260 Davis Dunham: No, no, no, no problem, man. If it’s…
123 00:09:02.260 ⇒ 00:09:04.070 Uttam Kumaran: I just think to do that, yeah.
124 00:09:05.020 ⇒ 00:09:06.789 Davis Dunham: Heard. I can do that, yeah, absolutely.
125 00:09:09.590 ⇒ 00:09:14.910 Davis Dunham: Heard. Well then, yeah, before you PR that, I will, I’ll do some testing today, and then I’ll let you know when I get the testing done.
126 00:09:15.060 ⇒ 00:09:17.000 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, so I’ll just do this.
127 00:09:17.910 ⇒ 00:09:20.320 Uttam Kumaran: to… to…
128 00:09:26.970 ⇒ 00:09:28.560 Uttam Kumaran: Okay…
129 00:09:28.690 ⇒ 00:09:38.880 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, and then on some of these, like, I think we can probably… I don’t know how much, Mustafa, you guys are using comments, but I could start to just leave comments here, so it’s easy for you to basically, like.
130 00:09:39.310 ⇒ 00:09:43.630 Uttam Kumaran: take a look at my comments, and I’ll just try to leave good comments so you can just AI the whole thing.
131 00:09:44.230 ⇒ 00:09:47.330 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, that’s right, that, that, that works.
132 00:09:51.830 ⇒ 00:10:00.240 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, and then I don’t… did you need this PR, Davis? Oh, this is… is this the one? Oh, yeah, did you… I don’t know if you… you used this one, this is from Casey.
133 00:10:00.900 ⇒ 00:10:01.500 Uttam Kumaran: For the slide.
134 00:10:01.500 ⇒ 00:10:10.410 Davis Dunham: Yeah, I just… I just… it updated it, because I think it, like, pulled from Casey’s PR, and then merged it with Maine, or sorry, it merged Maine to it.
135 00:10:10.620 ⇒ 00:10:12.810 Davis Dunham: I’m pretty sure that’s what happened there. So it…
136 00:10:12.810 ⇒ 00:10:13.740 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, okay.
137 00:10:13.740 ⇒ 00:10:15.040 Davis Dunham: reopened it, I guess.
138 00:10:16.090 ⇒ 00:10:17.489 Uttam Kumaran: What do you want to do with this?
139 00:10:17.770 ⇒ 00:10:19.869 Davis Dunham: That one is…
140 00:10:20.680 ⇒ 00:10:24.780 Davis Dunham: I don’t think you have to do anything with that right now. Let me check that one out and just make sure.
141 00:10:25.420 ⇒ 00:10:26.070 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
142 00:10:27.950 ⇒ 00:10:34.280 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, everything else is good, and then…
143 00:10:34.820 ⇒ 00:10:38.709 Uttam Kumaran: Mustafa, you basically said, you’ll let me know when this is ready?
144 00:10:39.490 ⇒ 00:10:40.250 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
145 00:10:42.160 ⇒ 00:10:42.800 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
146 00:10:46.750 ⇒ 00:10:50.779 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. And then on my side today… what did I do?
147 00:10:54.080 ⇒ 00:10:58.560 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, merge some of this stuff in…
148 00:11:05.600 ⇒ 00:11:12.160 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, like, a couple examples of something is, like, where every deal we have come in, we’re creating, like, a folder for it.
149 00:11:12.700 ⇒ 00:11:21.700 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, I actually did a couple things, so I’ll show you guys. So I created a folder for this ResByte deal that’s going on right now. The other thing that I did is,
150 00:11:21.920 ⇒ 00:11:30.779 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t know whether I have it up, let’s see… Where is it?
151 00:11:42.280 ⇒ 00:11:49.820 Uttam Kumaran: I am… Let’s see how it brings up again.
152 00:12:22.930 ⇒ 00:12:24.270 Uttam Kumaran: Hold on.
153 00:13:13.270 ⇒ 00:13:15.590 Uttam Kumaran: Where is it?
154 00:14:08.780 ⇒ 00:14:13.029 Uttam Kumaran: So I worked on this, which is basically, like.
155 00:14:13.320 ⇒ 00:14:30.410 Uttam Kumaran: Mustafi, you’ll be familiar, but it’s kind of like… kind of a view of, like, our entire allocation plan for everybody in the company. So, basically, what it looks like is, like, where is everybody assigned to that’s delivering work for clients? And then you’ll see Davis here down here.
156 00:14:32.160 ⇒ 00:14:40.470 Uttam Kumaran: And what this allows us to do is, like, look at a view of, like, everybody, where people are allocated, also look at, like, our active clients.
157 00:14:40.530 ⇒ 00:14:54.379 Uttam Kumaran: When… the amount of money, when they’re coming in, and then look at a specific breakdown of, like, okay, Robert is spending some time here, Oasis here, Zoran is here, and then I set this limb, like, hey, I need to know how many hours you’re planning on working for this client this month.
158 00:14:54.560 ⇒ 00:14:56.870 Uttam Kumaran: here’s, like, what we worked in April.
159 00:14:57.090 ⇒ 00:15:03.280 Uttam Kumaran: And so, ideally, you shouldn’t have someone with more than 100% allocation, which I’m currently breaking.
160 00:15:03.430 ⇒ 00:15:07.930 Uttam Kumaran: So, ideally, we’re looking for, on average.
161 00:15:08.340 ⇒ 00:15:14.350 Uttam Kumaran: we’re looking for people with 90% allocation to a client. So, for example, but then outside of, sort of.
162 00:15:14.510 ⇒ 00:15:16.060 Uttam Kumaran: The three of us.
163 00:15:16.210 ⇒ 00:15:19.049 Uttam Kumaran: Where I’m looking, like, okay, Jasmine is, like.
164 00:15:19.150 ⇒ 00:15:35.659 Uttam Kumaran: outside of Element, all of our other time is, like, internal meetings, or no meetings, or whatever. So everybody’s, like, we’re looking for 80-90% allocation, and so for the most part, we’re good, but then you also have folks that are like, okay, like, Pranav is working, like, for example, let’s take Demi.
165 00:15:36.050 ⇒ 00:15:39.289 Uttam Kumaran: He’s working on this, this, but then, like.
166 00:15:39.620 ⇒ 00:15:53.780 Uttam Kumaran: in a given month, you should have a hundred… you should have closer to, like, 140 to 160 billable hours. So then I’m like, okay, where’s the rest of this time going? Well, I need to ask him, like, how much time are you spending on Eden? How much time are you spending on…
167 00:15:53.980 ⇒ 00:15:56.359 Uttam Kumaran: Another client,
168 00:15:56.720 ⇒ 00:16:03.360 Uttam Kumaran: And… yeah, so this… this is something that, like, we didn’t have before. I think I’m interested in, like.
169 00:16:04.200 ⇒ 00:16:15.940 Uttam Kumaran: working on this, working on the skills that help me do this, and then potentially having you guys build something that’s like a UI where I can go in and edit these values. Ultimately, these values
170 00:16:16.150 ⇒ 00:16:21.040 Uttam Kumaran: There is a backend application that stores some of these values.
171 00:16:21.400 ⇒ 00:16:25.470 Uttam Kumaran: So, like, I think it could be pretty easy to be like, okay, I actually want to, like.
172 00:16:25.740 ⇒ 00:16:31.569 Uttam Kumaran: Increase someone’s allocation to, like, this client, and see how that, like, rearranges all the numbers.
173 00:16:32.540 ⇒ 00:16:37.899 Uttam Kumaran: But this is how we kind of do our, like, allocation process, like, how do we allocate people to clients?
174 00:16:38.160 ⇒ 00:16:42.729 Uttam Kumaran: So my thought right now is, like, I’m gonna work on a plan
175 00:16:43.490 ⇒ 00:16:54.619 Uttam Kumaran: this loads in from a Markdown file, and then, ultimately, once the plan is set, I then say, cool, go update the backend database with all these values once I’m, like, comfortable with it.
176 00:16:55.440 ⇒ 00:16:56.500 Uttam Kumaran: this plan.
177 00:16:56.620 ⇒ 00:17:00.230 Uttam Kumaran: Versus, like, having to do it every time. So, this is kind of a static dock.
178 00:17:00.540 ⇒ 00:17:10.669 Uttam Kumaran: I’m working on it. As soon as it’s done, I’ll say, cool, all these hours need to end up in operating, which is their allocation tool. There’s a spreadsheet that needs to get updated over here.
179 00:17:10.930 ⇒ 00:17:16.659 Uttam Kumaran: And, like, maybe HubSpot needs to get updated somewhere. And that all happens post-Doc approval.
180 00:17:17.619 ⇒ 00:17:30.829 Uttam Kumaran: So it’s almost like an approved dock, go, a couple other things get updated, and then this is working a doc for now. And then ultimately, like, this doc, the May hours, we should have… these are… these are all, like, May expected hours.
181 00:17:30.970 ⇒ 00:17:36.179 Uttam Kumaran: So then maybe another thing comes up here with, like, the actual hours, as May goes on.
182 00:17:36.290 ⇒ 00:17:42.050 Uttam Kumaran: Because then I want to look like, hey, we’re only supposed to be working 10 hours a week, and someone just built 20. Flag.
183 00:17:42.470 ⇒ 00:17:47.909 Uttam Kumaran: Right? And so on our Monday meetings with the delivery leads, I will be pulling this up.
184 00:17:48.040 ⇒ 00:17:50.310 Uttam Kumaran: I’m looking at, where’s the flag?
185 00:17:50.800 ⇒ 00:17:54.400 Uttam Kumaran: Ideally, we move to a system that, like, hits you in slack, like.
186 00:17:54.660 ⇒ 00:17:56.850 Uttam Kumaran: You tripped a wire, you know.
187 00:17:57.010 ⇒ 00:17:58.950 Uttam Kumaran: So this is something that I worked on.
188 00:18:00.780 ⇒ 00:18:01.850 Uttam Kumaran: Yesterday.
189 00:18:04.050 ⇒ 00:18:04.840 Davis Dunham: Hell yeah.
190 00:18:06.420 ⇒ 00:18:09.969 Uttam Kumaran: So this should be pretty good, I’m gonna try to get this out into the platform.
191 00:18:16.750 ⇒ 00:18:18.940 Davis Dunham: I think building an editor for that wouldn’t be too difficult.
192 00:18:19.120 ⇒ 00:18:19.840 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
193 00:18:20.290 ⇒ 00:18:27.309 Uttam Kumaran: I agree. Yeah, and all of this, like, also in Superbase, there’s a list of all the team members, all the clients.
194 00:18:27.590 ⇒ 00:18:30.549 Uttam Kumaran: Like, a bunch of really good, like.
195 00:18:31.340 ⇒ 00:18:34.270 Uttam Kumaran: Back-end tables that, like, kind of power the business, so…
196 00:18:34.540 ⇒ 00:18:39.630 Davis Dunham: Cool. How… how dependent is the platform currently on Subabase?
197 00:18:39.630 ⇒ 00:18:42.239 Uttam Kumaran: Not very… not very dependent.
198 00:18:42.240 ⇒ 00:18:42.740 Davis Dunham: It just.
199 00:18:42.740 ⇒ 00:18:48.289 Uttam Kumaran: Well, like, I guess this is where, like, the platform of, like, platform.brainforge is dependent on Superbase.
200 00:18:48.290 ⇒ 00:18:49.330 Davis Dunham: Yes, cool.
201 00:18:49.330 ⇒ 00:18:51.200 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah, it is, it is.
202 00:18:55.490 ⇒ 00:19:05.050 Uttam Kumaran: So, again, like, I actually don’t think we should be on SuperBase forever. I’d rather move to our own hosted Postgres, or… I heard about PlanetScale.
203 00:19:05.510 ⇒ 00:19:14.290 Uttam Kumaran: So, maybe we should consider PlanetScale, because they have a pretty generous free tier.
204 00:19:24.150 ⇒ 00:19:24.990 Uttam Kumaran: Blake.
205 00:19:25.510 ⇒ 00:19:31.730 Uttam Kumaran: It’d be nice to do plan scale and Cloudflare, or just Cloudflare, and then… It’s overly.
206 00:19:32.070 ⇒ 00:19:34.120 Uttam Kumaran: I have a strong opinion.
207 00:19:35.240 ⇒ 00:19:35.930 Davis Dunham: heard…
208 00:19:40.760 ⇒ 00:19:43.309 Davis Dunham: Heard. You know, we can do some… some research.
209 00:19:44.350 ⇒ 00:19:46.200 Davis Dunham: A little price comparison, maybe?
210 00:19:46.730 ⇒ 00:19:47.360 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
211 00:19:53.280 ⇒ 00:19:58.870 Davis Dunham: And then, other than that, man, I’ll, I’ll just have you focus. The, Slack Assistant
212 00:19:58.990 ⇒ 00:20:02.699 Davis Dunham: And I just, I won’t worry about the deck creator for now.
213 00:20:03.560 ⇒ 00:20:16.110 Davis Dunham: Yeah, if you’re cool with me doing it, just, like, kind of pushing it to production, and, possibly breaking things, and then fixing them after I realize they’ve been broken, I can get it done pretty fast.
214 00:20:16.870 ⇒ 00:20:18.040 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, okay.
215 00:20:19.500 ⇒ 00:20:22.290 Davis Dunham: And I might have some questions for you about,
216 00:20:24.440 ⇒ 00:20:26.789 Davis Dunham: RAG implementation, because there’s just some, like.
217 00:20:26.980 ⇒ 00:20:28.699 Davis Dunham: You know, in terms of…
218 00:20:29.860 ⇒ 00:20:32.050 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so I want to offer, like, two things.
219 00:20:32.430 ⇒ 00:20:36.279 Uttam Kumaran: I think we should use, like, some grep-based search for the repo.
220 00:20:36.280 ⇒ 00:20:36.940 Davis Dunham: Yes.
221 00:20:36.940 ⇒ 00:20:44.210 Uttam Kumaran: And then also, you should hit turbo puffer for anything that’s, like, like a database, basically.
222 00:20:44.640 ⇒ 00:20:52.200 Uttam Kumaran: like, find me… out of these thousands of Slack messages, find me the three that are relevant. That’s like a turbo puffer versus, like.
223 00:20:52.200 ⇒ 00:20:52.730 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
224 00:20:52.730 ⇒ 00:20:54.569 Uttam Kumaran: give me the SOP for this.
225 00:20:55.040 ⇒ 00:20:59.949 Uttam Kumaran: You can also technically do that in Turpover, but, like, it may just be easy to run a grep over the repo.
226 00:20:59.950 ⇒ 00:21:00.590 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
227 00:21:01.060 ⇒ 00:21:01.420 Uttam Kumaran: You know?
228 00:21:01.420 ⇒ 00:21:03.300 Davis Dunham: So it’s much more contained.
229 00:21:03.300 ⇒ 00:21:09.900 Uttam Kumaran: So that’s also why I wanted to… I want us to get the first versions of everything working, because then we have some metrics to then evaluate.
230 00:21:10.070 ⇒ 00:21:12.540 Uttam Kumaran: If we shop everything in one area or not, you know.
231 00:21:12.740 ⇒ 00:21:13.060 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
232 00:21:13.060 ⇒ 00:21:21.040 Uttam Kumaran: Versus, like, deciding on that, on the… on the, like… Infra first.
233 00:21:21.040 ⇒ 00:21:37.319 Davis Dunham: Yeah, absolutely. Plus, once I get the, like, approval workflow set up, man, that’s, that’s a… you know, we get some data from that over the course of, you know, some arbitrary time period. We can train a little model for both routing and for, auto, you know, like, auto responses.
234 00:21:37.690 ⇒ 00:21:38.660 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, yeah.
235 00:21:41.340 ⇒ 00:21:42.730 Davis Dunham: That’s the fun part.
236 00:21:45.340 ⇒ 00:21:47.420 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, cool guys, I’ll be on…
237 00:21:48.000 ⇒ 00:21:52.649 Uttam Kumaran: I’ll be on. So, let me know what you need.
238 00:21:53.770 ⇒ 00:22:03.649 Uttam Kumaran: So yeah, maybe let’s plan to do some… something in the form of a demo tomorrow, internally, and then I want… I wanna… I wanna set you guys both up to, like.
239 00:22:03.770 ⇒ 00:22:17.650 Uttam Kumaran: do a… do a, like, an announcement in Brainforge team of, like, what you guys are building, and, like, I want to kind of get people rallying behind you guys in terms of taking over, building the platform. So that’s, like, my goal tomorrow is, like.
240 00:22:17.890 ⇒ 00:22:27.209 Uttam Kumaran: To help you set up, like, okay, even as minute as, like, what is a message you’re gonna send? Like, what is supporting documents? Do you guys wanna… you wanna record a video?
241 00:22:27.210 ⇒ 00:22:27.980 Davis Dunham: lying.
242 00:22:28.310 ⇒ 00:22:31.820 Uttam Kumaran: like, I want to help you guys craft that, and just become…
243 00:22:31.960 ⇒ 00:22:37.950 Uttam Kumaran: like, everybody’s just… I want people to be super pumped seeing your message and actually use your shit, so…
244 00:22:38.560 ⇒ 00:22:39.240 Davis Dunham: Cool.
245 00:22:40.640 ⇒ 00:22:48.839 Davis Dunham: Very cool. And I got the, people voting on the… actually, I did have one question for you. People are voting on, when to do the,
246 00:22:49.370 ⇒ 00:22:51.019 Davis Dunham: The, like, linear kind of.
247 00:22:51.020 ⇒ 00:22:51.580 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
248 00:22:51.580 ⇒ 00:23:06.730 Davis Dunham: the linear, demystifying, thing, and I have 3 votes for, 4.30 Eastern Time, but Robert is not on that. Should I prioritize for Robert, or can I just send him a separate message, kind of explaining everything?
249 00:23:07.390 ⇒ 00:23:09.680 Uttam Kumaran: I would have him join.
250 00:23:10.010 ⇒ 00:23:10.760 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
251 00:23:10.760 ⇒ 00:23:15.600 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, Robert, you should become… he should become a fan of you. Yeah.
252 00:23:15.800 ⇒ 00:23:18.750 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I would… I would make sure he joins somehow.
253 00:23:18.750 ⇒ 00:23:20.579 Davis Dunham: Understood. Understood. Yeah.
254 00:23:21.370 ⇒ 00:23:24.930 Davis Dunham: I might… maybe I’ll just do, like, a… I can do a separate one with him.
255 00:23:25.350 ⇒ 00:23:27.209 Uttam Kumaran: No, why? He can’t join? Or what?
256 00:23:27.210 ⇒ 00:23:32.790 Davis Dunham: Yeah, he just said he just… I put, like, a thing where I was like, vote for when works, and I picked a couple times that,
257 00:23:33.090 ⇒ 00:23:40.749 Davis Dunham: were open for Robert and the other people that you said were necessary to be there, and he didn’t vote on the other…
258 00:23:40.750 ⇒ 00:23:43.759 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, so he’s not gonna… yeah, he’s like me, we’re both,
259 00:23:44.110 ⇒ 00:23:50.590 Uttam Kumaran: like, extremely busy, so I would just put it on his calendar and DM him that it’s gonna… that I would like to have you join this.
260 00:23:50.810 ⇒ 00:23:51.650 Davis Dunham: I heard…
261 00:23:51.650 ⇒ 00:24:01.089 Uttam Kumaran: Like, we’re both behind on… like, I have, like, 50 on rents, or there’s no way. Like, so… so… I think for both of us, just, like, just you gotta push.
262 00:24:01.210 ⇒ 00:24:08.259 Uttam Kumaran: Because both of us are, like… I’ve, like… I was in Bee Cave half the day, I came back here, I was in 5 me, like…
263 00:24:09.170 ⇒ 00:24:09.810 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
264 00:24:09.810 ⇒ 00:24:13.160 Uttam Kumaran: Just push. For everybody else, they should come, they have no excuse, but…
265 00:24:13.160 ⇒ 00:24:13.650 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
266 00:24:13.650 ⇒ 00:24:17.510 Uttam Kumaran: For Robert and I, like, ghosting just… you just have to keep going.
267 00:24:17.510 ⇒ 00:24:18.030 Davis Dunham: Yeah.
268 00:24:18.030 ⇒ 00:24:18.610 Uttam Kumaran: mask again.
269 00:24:18.610 ⇒ 00:24:20.280 Davis Dunham: I’ll… I’ll bother him about it.
270 00:24:20.280 ⇒ 00:24:20.860 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
271 00:24:22.100 ⇒ 00:24:33.349 Uttam Kumaran: Especially because he asked for help, so he… he should come there, and he should be like, that was sick, I totally get it now. Cool. I’m like, yeah. If you can shave an hour off of both of our time, that’s a lot of money.
272 00:24:33.730 ⇒ 00:24:34.440 Davis Dunham: Oh, yeah.
273 00:24:34.440 ⇒ 00:24:34.770 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
274 00:24:34.770 ⇒ 00:24:36.220 Davis Dunham: Alright, cool, I can do that.
275 00:24:37.240 ⇒ 00:24:38.280 Uttam Kumaran: Set, okay.
276 00:24:38.680 ⇒ 00:24:40.690 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, thanks guys, I’ll talk to you soon then.
277 00:24:40.690 ⇒ 00:24:41.290 Mustafa Raja: Beautiful.
278 00:24:41.530 ⇒ 00:24:42.100 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
279 00:24:42.540 ⇒ 00:24:43.130 Davis Dunham: Johnny.