Meeting Title: Brainforge AI Team Sync Date: 2025-07-01 Meeting participants: Mustafa Raja, Uttam Kumaran, Jaclyn Tracy, Tiffany Brady
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1 00:02:06.600 ⇒ 00:02:07.500 Mustafa Raja: Hey!
2 00:02:08.039 ⇒ 00:02:08.544 Uttam Kumaran: Hey!
3 00:02:09.050 ⇒ 00:02:09.900 Mustafa Raja: How about you?
4 00:02:10.360 ⇒ 00:02:11.416 Uttam Kumaran: Good! How are you?
5 00:02:11.970 ⇒ 00:02:12.840 Mustafa Raja: Yeah. Good.
6 00:02:21.940 ⇒ 00:02:31.310 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, I’m just gonna thought, I include you just to see sort of how one of these calls go. This is a potential client of ours, but I’ll just be asking them some questions and
7 00:02:31.420 ⇒ 00:02:34.659 Uttam Kumaran: sort of learning a little bit about what they’re interested in.
8 00:02:35.640 ⇒ 00:02:38.940 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m happy to be here.
9 00:02:40.220 ⇒ 00:02:42.350 Mustafa Raja: It’s an opportunity for me to learn. Actually.
10 00:02:43.220 ⇒ 00:02:43.700 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah.
11 00:02:51.670 ⇒ 00:02:55.279 Mustafa Raja: So how how’s how’s your work going so far?
12 00:02:56.670 ⇒ 00:03:05.709 Uttam Kumaran: It’s good this week has been better. Took some time away from slack this morning and got some work done. And
13 00:03:07.380 ⇒ 00:03:10.289 Uttam Kumaran: yeah, looks like we’re gonna have one more client close, hopefully.
14 00:03:10.290 ⇒ 00:03:11.739 Mustafa Raja: Oh, yeah, that’s pretty good.
15 00:03:12.090 ⇒ 00:03:16.550 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah. And next, hopefully, one or 2 days we should have one or 2 more, so
16 00:03:17.150 ⇒ 00:03:18.900 Uttam Kumaran: slowly. Get it, sir.
17 00:03:19.590 ⇒ 00:03:20.250 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
18 00:03:21.530 ⇒ 00:03:22.190 Uttam Kumaran: How about you?
19 00:03:22.190 ⇒ 00:03:31.290 Mustafa Raja: So. So I implement the implemented the strategy that we talked about in slack. Right? So increasing the radius doesn’t give us
20 00:03:32.020 ⇒ 00:03:41.399 Mustafa Raja: the quality, the quality we need. But when we add zapier and make we sort of get the profile that we want
21 00:03:42.115 ⇒ 00:03:45.220 Mustafa Raja: so we would have some Pm’s and some engineers.
22 00:03:45.835 ⇒ 00:03:48.759 Mustafa Raja: And I feel that they would be interesting to look into.
23 00:03:50.193 ⇒ 00:03:50.806 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
24 00:03:51.950 ⇒ 00:03:52.665 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
25 00:03:56.520 ⇒ 00:04:02.940 Mustafa Raja: So so this client that you’re talking about is is there going to be an AI team working on it?
26 00:04:03.980 ⇒ 00:04:09.175 Uttam Kumaran: Yes, this is for AI. It’s like see if they join, but it’s for a
27 00:04:09.800 ⇒ 00:04:11.539 Uttam Kumaran: sustainable health brand.
28 00:04:12.120 ⇒ 00:04:14.650 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I, I looked into the website.
29 00:04:15.140 ⇒ 00:04:18.605 Uttam Kumaran: Cool. Yeah, they’re interested in some automations.
30 00:04:19.560 ⇒ 00:04:25.029 Uttam Kumaran: so kind of learn a little bit about what they’re core problem is. And
31 00:04:28.370 ⇒ 00:04:32.419 Uttam Kumaran: sort of get a sense of like how we could help out, and maybe how much time it’s gonna save.
32 00:04:33.430 ⇒ 00:04:34.080 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
33 00:04:36.960 ⇒ 00:04:38.480 Uttam Kumaran: Let’s see if they join.
34 00:05:53.758 ⇒ 00:06:00.050 Mustafa Raja: One more thing actually. I’m almost done with the tickets that I was assigned, and.
35 00:06:00.050 ⇒ 00:06:03.290 Uttam Kumaran: Oh, yeah, let me find a couple for you. Let me get. Let me get those one second.
36 00:06:03.290 ⇒ 00:06:07.010 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, whenever you have time. No, no rush, actually, because
37 00:06:08.147 ⇒ 00:06:11.459 Mustafa Raja: I might. I might have enough for like
38 00:06:11.560 ⇒ 00:06:13.909 Mustafa Raja: tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
39 00:06:14.760 ⇒ 00:06:19.749 Mustafa Raja: But but still, if I have something in the backlog to look into, I’m bluff that.
40 00:06:20.670 ⇒ 00:06:21.015 Uttam Kumaran: Okay.
41 00:06:38.850 ⇒ 00:06:41.480 Mustafa Raja: How does Brainforge growing impact you?
42 00:06:43.540 ⇒ 00:06:44.370 Uttam Kumaran: Sorry.
43 00:06:44.370 ⇒ 00:06:48.619 Mustafa Raja: How does brain forge growing in terms of clients impact you?
44 00:06:49.720 ⇒ 00:06:51.640 Uttam Kumaran: Impact me as.
45 00:06:51.640 ⇒ 00:06:57.239 Mustafa Raja: And your workload, and and also personally, too, because it’s a good achievement. No.
46 00:06:58.160 ⇒ 00:07:05.807 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, in terms of impacting my workload. I mean, we’re the next we’re trying to hire another project manager.
47 00:07:06.520 ⇒ 00:07:08.409 Uttam Kumaran: That’s the number one role.
48 00:07:10.170 ⇒ 00:07:14.480 Uttam Kumaran: Because Amber is the only project manager right now. So we’re trying to get one more.
49 00:07:15.054 ⇒ 00:07:24.619 Uttam Kumaran: And then we’re we need to probably get one more kind of senior data person. Right now. It’s like, just maybe mainly me, Robert, and a wish
50 00:07:26.760 ⇒ 00:07:31.739 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t. I? I’m you know. I’m also interested in sort of hiring someone who can
51 00:07:31.970 ⇒ 00:07:36.699 Uttam Kumaran: sort of come in and help you guys on the AI side like with project management.
52 00:07:37.150 ⇒ 00:07:42.149 Uttam Kumaran: I don’t wanna sort of leave but I will want to be more involved, like setting the vision
53 00:07:42.370 ⇒ 00:07:49.490 Uttam Kumaran: because it it’s, you know, like it’s tough for me to get all the tickets done and everything prepared for you guys. So that’s.
54 00:07:49.950 ⇒ 00:07:51.220 Mustafa Raja: That’s probably understand.
55 00:07:51.220 ⇒ 00:07:55.000 Uttam Kumaran: And then, you know, one of the big things we want to work on is
56 00:07:55.567 ⇒ 00:07:58.590 Uttam Kumaran: I wanna make sure one is like we’re
57 00:07:58.690 ⇒ 00:08:07.890 Uttam Kumaran: we’re sort of starting to be able to save some money for the company. Second is, I want to work on sort of compensation and incentive plans for everybody. So.
58 00:08:07.890 ⇒ 00:08:08.490 Mustafa Raja: That’s good.
59 00:08:08.900 ⇒ 00:08:30.289 Uttam Kumaran: Yeah, for for you. I wanna understand. I wanna know. Okay, how like, what is. If you stay with us for 6 months, a year, 2 years, 5 years like, what? How do? How do you hold us accountable so that we can grow with you? And how do I get people compensated fairly and motivated, you know. Money is only one of those, but
60 00:08:30.952 ⇒ 00:08:33.877 Uttam Kumaran: sort of something we need to figure out, you know.
61 00:08:34.179 ⇒ 00:08:41.949 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, I feel the work environment that Brainforge currently has is pretty good because I’ve worked with a lot of clients.
62 00:08:42.582 ⇒ 00:08:46.259 Mustafa Raja: And now, and I know how how much of a hassle it is, and
63 00:08:46.800 ⇒ 00:08:51.099 Mustafa Raja: being here working here, I haven’t felt a bit of stress till now.
64 00:08:51.199 ⇒ 00:08:53.299 Mustafa Raja: So that’s the that’s.
65 00:08:53.300 ⇒ 00:08:55.230 Uttam Kumaran: What do you want me to discuss now?
66 00:08:55.230 ⇒ 00:08:57.200 Mustafa Raja: No, I haven’t felt a bit of it.
67 00:08:57.200 ⇒ 00:08:59.079 Uttam Kumaran: Okay. Okay. I don’t know.
68 00:08:59.080 ⇒ 00:09:00.688 Mustafa Raja: Actually, I’ve been chilling.
69 00:09:01.720 ⇒ 00:09:07.450 Uttam Kumaran: Good. Good. Okay, that’s good. I mean, it’s not supposed to be like crazy, you know.
70 00:09:07.450 ⇒ 00:09:15.959 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah, so this this is a big big plus point for me. And I, and another thing is that everyone
71 00:09:16.911 ⇒ 00:09:24.560 Mustafa Raja: is respectful over here, and they talk with, you know, very good attitude, this.
72 00:09:24.560 ⇒ 00:09:32.729 Mustafa Raja: This is something that that has been created in or injected in the brain, forges culture or something.
73 00:09:33.330 ⇒ 00:09:37.150 Mustafa Raja: So so that makes me want to stay for 10 years. Actually.
74 00:09:38.014 ⇒ 00:09:42.409 Uttam Kumaran: I agree. No, I mean, I’m glad to hear that like that’s, but it’s also, like.
75 00:09:42.570 ⇒ 00:09:44.620 Uttam Kumaran: I want to find more people.
76 00:09:44.770 ⇒ 00:09:53.500 Uttam Kumaran: like you have seen sort of what it’s like to work at something like this. And so you know how crazy it can be, you know, cause it’s
77 00:09:54.530 ⇒ 00:09:56.069 Uttam Kumaran: it’s not always easy.
78 00:09:56.360 ⇒ 00:10:03.439 Mustafa Raja: Yeah, yeah. So you so you wouldn’t be around AI team that much. Then, right.
79 00:10:04.910 ⇒ 00:10:14.520 Uttam Kumaran: I feel like this is the only team my age, like one of the few teams I should be really close to, because I’m sort of the only one who sees both sides. The whole company.
80 00:10:15.080 ⇒ 00:10:15.620 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
81 00:10:15.970 ⇒ 00:10:21.920 Uttam Kumaran: But it’s hard like I think I’m good at coming with the ideas and setting the vision.
82 00:10:28.480 ⇒ 00:10:33.299 Uttam Kumaran: But I you know it’s it’s takes a lot of time for me to
83 00:10:33.530 ⇒ 00:10:37.360 Uttam Kumaran: to do to organize everything, so we’ll see. We’ll see kind of what happens.
84 00:10:37.740 ⇒ 00:10:42.090 Uttam Kumaran: I think it may be me plus one person helping like project manage basically.
85 00:10:43.430 ⇒ 00:10:44.260 Mustafa Raja: Yeah.
86 00:11:18.740 ⇒ 00:11:23.519 Uttam Kumaran: Okay, maybe. Okay. I just emailed them. We’ll see if they let’s see if they come.